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A new University of Michigan survey finds most parents want stronger online protections for children under 13.The poll shows two-thirds of parents say a…

Economic mobility for Americans at the bottom of the income scale seems to be fading. Today more than 40 percent of children born into poverty stay in…

Having lots of money does not make somebody a better parent, but a child with wealthy parents is more likely to go to college, and more likely to have…

This week, Michigan Radio's State of Opportunity reporter Dustin Dwyer delved into one of the uncomfortable truths of the Great Recession: that kids were…

Nearly a quarter of all kids in Michigan live in poverty. We want to believe these kids have an equal shot at success in life, but there’s a pile of…

According to the 2011 Expenditures on Children by Families annual report released by the USDA today, raising a baby born in 2011 will cost a middle-class…

A little more than a year ago, there were four people in the Reynolds family. Today, there are three—parents Angela and Ryan Reynolds—and their…

Two weekends ago, I went to something called the Bow-Wow brunch, at an upscale hotel in suburban Detroit. The purpose was to raise money to support the…

Three hundred and forty-one thousand. That’s the number of children in our state living in what is officially known these days as “areas of concentrated…

The Super Bowl this weekend in Indianapolis will attract thousands of football fans and people who like a big party.It will also lure human traffickers…