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News Articles: family

<em>Radha Devi buys vegetables on her way back from the private educational institute where she has worked as an aide since November 2021. Devi, her husband and their three children all came down with COVID-19 in April of that year. She and the kids recovered; her husband died. Says Devi: "I knew I had to stand up. I had to change myself for the kids, or they too would get left behind."</em>

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  • Family

PHOTOS: The precarious lives of India's COVID widows

No matter how the pandemic proceeds, women who lost a husband — and sole family breadwinner — will lead irrevocably altered lives in the patriarchal society that is India.

March 12, 2022
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By:
  • Text and photos by Ruhani Kaur
New York City officials announced the city will no longer take Social Security checks from children to pay for foster care.

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  • Investigations

New York City will stop collecting Social Security money from children in foster care

New York City officials announced the city will no longer take all Social Security checks from children to pay for foster care. Last year NPR and The Marshall Project investigated the common practice.

March 09, 2022
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By:
  • Joseph Shapiro
Tracy and Nat Bell in their home in Leeds, Maine.

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  • National

The war in Ukraine has derailed one American family's adoption plan

The Bell family has been trying to adopt Vanya and Serogzha from Ukraine for about two years.

March 09, 2022
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By:
  • Susan Sharon
Nova and Deontre Williams-Laster, at their first check up with their midwife since giving birth at home.

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  • Family

Black doulas in Michigan are aiding babies, mothers get a good start in life

In Michigan, and other parts of the country, some people are seeking Black doulas to assist with births.

March 04, 2022
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By:
  • Michelle Jokisch Polo

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  • Economy

A proposed Georgia work credit would help low-income families afford child care, basic necessities

House Bill 510 would create a state earned income tax credit and help moderate- and lower-income Georgians who often have to choose between working and caring for their families. 

March 03, 2022
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Millennial homeowners: Do you have buyer's remorse?

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  • Economy

Millennial homeowners: Do you have buyer's remorse?

Surveys show millennials are experiencing buyer's remorse from houses they purchased during the pandemic. NPR's All Things Considered wants to hear how your homebuying experience went.

March 03, 2022
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By:
  • Jason Fuller
The ACLU of Texas argues that Gov. Greg Abbott's instructions to investigate parents of transgender adolescents were issued without proper authority, in violation of a Texas law and the state constitution and violate the constitutional rights of transgender youth and their parents.

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  • Law

The ACLU sues to block Texas from investigating parents of trans youth

The lawsuit says at least one family is already under investigation for providing their child with medically necessary gender-affirming care.

March 02, 2022
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Colin Kaepernick, co-creator of the Netflix dramatic limited series, <em>Colin in Black and White</em>, attends the series premiere on Oct. 28, 2021. The former NFL quarterback has launched an initiative to offer free second autopsies in police-related deaths.

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  • Race

Colin Kaepernick launches new initiative to offer autopsies for police-related deaths

The new initiative will eliminate concerns from the first autopsy, ensure that it was conducted without any biases or errors.

February 24, 2022
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
A "for sale" sign is posted on a home last month in Philadelphia.

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  • Economy

First-time homebuyers are getting squeezed out by investors

With a historic shortage of homes for sale, investors making cash offers are pushing first-time homebuyers out of the market.

February 18, 2022
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By:
  • Chris Arnold and
  • Anthony Tellez
Similac powdered baby formula with an expiration date on or after April 1, 2022, and a code with first two digits of 22 through 37 and containing K8, SH or Z2 are part of a voluntary recall by its manufacturer, Abbott Nutrition.

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  • Health

Stop using these baby formulas, the FDA says, after 4 infants are hospitalized

Abbott Nutrition voluntarily recalled some powdered formulas sold under the Similac, Alimentum and EleCare brands. The FDA is investigating links to four bacterial infections, one of which was fatal.

February 18, 2022
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  • Rina Torchinsky
Local residents, Cara Baldari and her nine-month-old daughter Evie (L) and Sarah Orrin-Vipond and her eight-month-old son Otto (R), join a rally in front of the U.S. Capitol December 13, 2021 in Washington, DC. The monthly Child Tax Credit payments expired at the end of last year after Congress failed to renew it.

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  • Politics

3.7 million more kids are in poverty without the monthly Child Tax Credit, study says

In one month, the child poverty rate increased from 12.1 to 17 percent, the highest rate seen since Dec. 2020. Black and Latino children experienced an even higher rate of poverty.

February 18, 2022
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
The White House says it is planning to distribute masks for children. The announcement comes as many states have been dropping mask requirements for schoolchildren.

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  • Children's Health

The White House says it will make more high-quality masks available for kids

It is not yet clear what type of masks will be distributed. Standard masks do not always fit small faces well.

February 17, 2022
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By:
  • Laurel Wamsley
Above: Three screengrabs from the video showing a woman chained to a wall in a doorless shed in a rural village in China. It got nearly 2 billion views and has prompted a heated discussion about the trafficking of women.

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  • Global Health

The mystery of the chained woman in China

A video showed her chained inside a shed. It got nearly 2 billion clicks and sparked a national debate over her identity, whether she is mentally ill — and whether she was trafficked as a bride.

February 17, 2022
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By:
  • Aowen Cao and
  • Emily Feng
Myshelle Bey spent a majority of her youth homeless. She had to put school on the back burner.

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  • Family

Homeless youth and children are wildly undercounted, advocates say.

Homeless youth and children are not receiving the resources needed to combat the barriers of not having a stable home. The biggest obstacle is having one federal definition of homelessness.

February 15, 2022
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By:
  • Camila Beiner
A for rent sign in Palo Alto, California. Across the country rents are on the rise, in part due to a historic shortage of homes either to rent or buy.

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  • Economy

It's not just home prices. Rents rise sharply across the U.S.

Renting a place to live is getting a lot more expensive, according to a survey that tracks rental listings across the biggest 50 U.S. cities.

February 14, 2022
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By:
  • Chris Arnold
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