Autistic Children Often Have Socially Aloof Parents
	A new link between genetics and autism was established in the outcome of a study showing that the parents of autistic children are likely to behave similarly to their young ones when it comes to evaluating people’s facial expressions, although they do not have the disorder themselves. By conducting psychological tests on 42 parents with autistic children, Ralph Adolphs of the California Institute of Technology evaluated 15 of ... [read more >>]
	18 July 2008, 04:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Too Strict Diets Can Harm Your Child
	All of us with an interest in healthy eating can safely say that at the moment, we're facing a health information overload. Which is not necessarily a bad thing – on the contrary, especially since important information connected to various innovations and new research in the field of dieting and healthy eating can now become readily available to a large number of people in a very short time span. However, there's a downside t ... [read more >>]
	25 June 2008, 06:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Korean Children Can Play with LUKID
	Most of you might not be aware of the Daewoo brand, but at some point this company was the second largest conglomerate in Korea after Hyundai and followed by LG and Samsung. Although the company has lost its glory days, it’s still far from becoming a small corporation, which is why their latest release comes as no surprise. Dubbed LUKID, this product has been designed to offer small children a means to interact with the world ... [read more >>]
	23 June 2008, 09:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Virtual Worlds Are Good for Kids
	It has been a while since we last talked about the results of a study about video games and how they affect or improve our lives and now is the perfect time for a change because a new research has been conducted and the results might sound a bit str ... [read more >>]
	27 May 2008, 06:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Underwater Musical Game Educates Youngsters
	Every now and then, it's really helpful to get some outside guidance regarding what you, as a human being, should do in order to keep this old planet alive. Every now and then, a game is released to teach children these things - which is even better, because they are the future and they will probably have the thumbs up or down regarding Earth's future. Anyway... Portugal-based Gameinvest has announced that Aquatic Tales ... [read more >>]
	23 May 2008, 03:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Couch Potato Generation
	In the modern era, our society has been confronted with a variety of terrible epidemics, ranging from AIDS and mad cow disease to Ebola and the infamous bird 'flu. We seem to have found antidotes for the oldest demons that have been plaguing us for centuries, only to find that new, more powerful such afflictions have emerged. However, one of the scariest epidemics of the 20th and 21st century has nothing to do with terrifyin ... [read more >>]
	17 May 2008, 04:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Kids Download Games without Knowing They're Pirated
	A study conducted by media watchdog Ofcom, the Office of Communications, revealed that 77 percent of children in the UK download files from the Internet, including here music and movies, through file sharing applications, but are not aware that, sometimes, such actions are illegal. However, from those kids who do know that this thing may have serious consequences, 50 percent consider that downloading these files should be free fo ... [read more >>]
	16 May 2008, 17:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook Says Yes to Child Safety
	Social networking websites, like Facebook, MySpace, hi5 are a common place for children. Under 18 users who have profiles on the above mentioned sites are susceptible to abuse from adults pretending to be minors. This problem has been reported in the US for quite some time now and legal measures against it have been required by the general public. Regarding this particular issue, Facebook is reported to have reached an agreeme ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 11:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Marvel Super Hero Squad Announced
	Following the recently announced deal with DreamWorks, THQ has revealed another licensing agreement that would probably bring them even closer to the gamers' hearts: Marvel Entertainment agreed to allow the company to create titles using their superheros and ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 03:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Even if They're Worried about Their Kids' Online Safety, Parents Avoid Using the Internet
	Today's kids are quite attracted by the Internet and most of them have already spent a few hours every day surfing the web. Because of that, but mostly because of their early age, kids are very vulnerable while being online, so parents must educate and protect them using all the available solutions. But according to a recent online survey, parents are rarely going online to protect their children, Web User News informs t ... [read more >>]
	05 May 2008, 16:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Doozla, Kids' Drawing Tool Released for Mac
	plasq, a small group of passionate developers responsible for stuff like Comic Life, Skitch and ... [read more >>]
	21 April 2008, 04:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Angelina Feeds Her Kids Ice Cream for Breakfast
	Of all the people in the world, the Jolie-Pitts would be the ones we'd least expect to keep their growing brood on a junk food diet, however, that really seems to be the case. No idea why everyone automatically assumes celebrity kids have better diets than the ones whose parents are not fame-seeking millionaires, but it may have something to do with the fact that we all assume more money equals more expensive, organic food a ... [read more >>]
	16 April 2008, 06:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MySpace, Facebook and Hi5 More Popular than Toys
	It's a well-known fact that the social networking websites out there, including here MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, Bebo and other services, are quite popular among today's Internet users as they record millions of new accounts every day. What's really bad is that an important percentage of the social networking population is actually represented by kids who are always looking to socialize and make new friends. This would ... [read more >>]
	04 April 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Britney Gets Her Kids Back!
	Now this really is breaking news. After not seeing her two boys for almost two months, Hollywood's most beloved trainwreck, the occasionally-mentally unstable and paparazzi delight Britney Spears finally managed to get permission to meet her kids – in a supervised environment, of course. But nevertheless, this is probably one of the few lucky breaks for the clearly disturbed former pop princess, whose life over the past week ... [read more >>]
	23 February 2008, 06:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

$85 Million P0rn Filter Failing Big Time
	Keeping children away from pornography is a must with the Internet today, everybody agrees on that. Many governments have invested a lot of money into programs that would allow parents to filter out the sites their kids visit and they deem as not safe, the Australian one being among them. 7 months after it was released, officials admitted to have spent the money on nothing. Out of the total AUS $189 million being spent on the ... [read more >>]
	21 February 2008, 15:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Johnny Depp Is the Sexiest Dad Ever!
	Johnny Depp is one of the few actors out there who manage to prove to us time and again that if a celebrity really wants to keep their private life... well, private, it can be done. The extremely talented yet very reclusive father of two recently sat down with In Touch and gave a rather vague but nevertheless sweet interview about marriage and raising children in today's world. Apparently, the former bad boy Depp is gone forever – and ... [read more >>]
	21 February 2008, 10:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Porn Studio Addresses Yahoo! and Google
	Vivid Entertainment’s co-founder Steven Hirsch, in a lecture to be given at Yale’s School of Management on the 16th of February as a part of the Ivy League university’s "Sex Week," plans to tackle the thorny problem of children being able to access pornography online with great ease. He blames Yahoo! and Google in particular for not doing anything to prevent that from happening. "This is not about First Amendmen ... [read more >>]
	15 February 2008, 18:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Reese Witherspoon Is Kinda Dumb?
	Reese Witherspoon is such a charmer – but sometimes, she seems to be taking a leaf out of Jessica Alba's book and is quite keen on talking nonsense. Luckily, we all still love her, she hasn't lost the "cuteness" factor and won't be starting a musical career anytime soon – so we have all the reasons in the world to express nothing but deep sympathy for her. And the occasionally ironic attitude – you know I can' ... [read more >>]
	13 February 2008, 09:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Michael Jackson's Former Wife: "I've done the breeding stage. I don't need the rest"
	I have a feeling Michael Jackson is not a very happy camper right about now. His empire of secrecy, mystery and... well, more secrecy is slowly crumbling to the ground, and what emerges is not pleasant, not nice, not even normal-sounding. It seems that the personal life of one of the world's biggest all-time superstars and best-selling pop artists was in fact a well-hidden pyramid of lies, deception and completely mind-boggling decisi ... [read more >>]
	09 February 2008, 06:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Jessica Alba: Hot, Pregnant and Dumb
	Jessica Alba really is starting to become annoying. OK, I'll be fair – she's beyond annoying, and talking more and more nonsense every day. I really think someone should take her to the hospital and check her hormone level – or maybe just take her to a nice, freshly painted house somewhere in an idyllic scenery in the south of France and keep her there until she gives birth. I'll make it even clearer: a nice, isola ... [read more >>]
	08 February 2008, 10:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Breaking: Michael Jackson's Kids Look Absolutely Adorable
	Michael Jackson is probably one of the planet's most controversial celebrities, and there's no need to start drawing up a list exposing all the motives for this particular assertion, as we'd probably need a whole website especially dedicated to reasons for which Jackson – despite his huge talent and decisive contribution to the development of modern music – can be seen as an increasingly strange, even eerie character. It may ... [read more >>]
	01 February 2008, 09:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MySpace Moving Against Sexual Predators
	This is momentarily not confirmed, but a familiar source with the agreement between News Corp’s MySpace and 45 US states said that, according to it, the social network would include several online protections and also participate in a working group to develop age-verification and other technologies. Some of the things mentioned are not going to make the users of MySpace happy, such as its accepting of independent monitoring, a ... [read more >>]
	14 January 2008, 13:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Brit Brit One Step Away from Canceling Christmas...
	No day is complete without news of the Britney trainwreck. And I'm not even joking on that one – or maybe I simply developed some sort of weird addiction to this lunatic who seems to think the world is made up of herself, paparazzi and Starbucks frappuccinos. Or maybe I'm just thinking of the fact that Britney is universally acclaimed as the biggest celebrity disaster of the year. And honestly, we can't deny th ... [read more >>]
	28 December 2007, 09:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

YouTube Chosen as an Appeal Mode to Combat the Sexualization of Children
	It’s interesting to watch the way history repeats itself over and over again, the only differences between the loops coming from the means of expression of those involved. What went on during the Roman Empire expansion couldn’t have been covered by the "media" of the time at the extent the Internet allows us to do nowadays. The best way to reach somebody and to get him top listen to you is using audio-visual means of communic ... [read more >>]
	19 December 2007, 10:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

3G Mobile Phone for Kids
	While in India the government doesn't allow children under 16 to use mobile phones at all, Japan kids are gifted with handsets specially created for them, as NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile operator in the country, will launch the new FOMA F801i. After ... [read more >>]
	12 December 2007, 07:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Children Lying about Their Age on the Internet
	Kids are often lying about their age when it comes to registering on certain websites on the Internet, a study conducted by the National Consumer Council revealed. According to the research, numerous kids are exposed to advertisements supposed to be displayed by adults, such as gambling or dating services. More importantly, 73 percent of the commercials are not labeled as adverts and are included in the website's content, w ... [read more >>]
	07 December 2007, 09:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Parents Worried About Pornographic Websites
	The children's online security has always been a problem, even if their computers were protected with all sorts of software solutions. And nobody can guarantee 100 percent that the kids are secure, since dangerous websites appear every day and new threats rise up every hour. But even so, the parents are not able to monitor their children's online activity, a recent survey conducted by MoneySupermarket.com revealed, acco ... [read more >>]
	01 December 2007, 03:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Children Rights Organization: 'Kids In Danger Due To Fingerprint Scanning!”
	ARCH, Action on Rights for Children, released a public report concerning the biometrics in schools, revealing that using high-tech solutions might harm children's right and what's more important, may have serious consequences. Using a fingerprint scanning technology, the kids might provide several details which can be used by any malicious person in the world. But the Minister of Schools and some other officials defended themselv ... [read more >>]
	21 November 2007, 15:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Britney Banned from Driving Her Kids Around
	Well, the inevitable finally happened, and we can all finally sleep a little more peacefully now. I mean, sleep is never an easy affair if Brit is on the loose, but nevertheless, the streets of Los Angeles are a little safer now, if not for all of us then at least for the popwreck’s two boys. Britney Spears, everyone, is not allowed to drive with her sons in her car anymore out of fear for their safety. Anyone out there surprised about thi ... [read more >>]
	18 November 2007, 15:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A More Secure Internet only for Your Kids
	Verizon and Inner-City Scholarship Fund today announced a partnership to join forces for a more secure Internet to allow children to browse the web without any threat. The two companies are the two sponsors of the "Be Wise: Don't Trust Who You Don't Know" campaign which is supposed to help the kids, teachers and parents educate the young users to remain secure while browsing the web. "It's all of ... [read more >>]
	15 November 2007, 10:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Warning! Dangerous Toys Online!
	With the holiday shopping season about to start, the online merchants are trying to do anything is possible to obtain higher revenues and sell their products. Web User News today informs about the risk of buying toys which were actually recalled by manufacturers due to some dangerous features which could harm the safety of the children. Moreover, MarkMonitor reports that many of these products are promoted through online adverts ... [read more >>]
	13 November 2007, 14:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook: 'Kids Now Safe On Our Website!'
	Facebook is one of the top online social networks and since it has millions of users, it's pretty obvious it has to protect them somehow. Recently, the New York authorities investigated Facebook's security features by creating an account, posting as a young girl looking for friends. The investigators revealed that an impressive number of sex offenders contacted the girl in a very short period asking for pictures and pr ... [read more >>]
	17 October 2007, 09:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Free Mobile Phones from Firefly Mobile
	Firefly Mobile, the first pay-as-you-go service provider to create handsets designed specially for kids and tweens, just announced an attractive offer for Disney Mobile subscribers. Anyone who switches to Firefly Mobile until October 31st the latest will be ... [read more >>]
	17 October 2007, 03:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Brit Brit Wants More. Give Her More!
	The fact is, I'm officially confused. Really – what's going on inside Brit's head right now? It must be the biggest confrontation ever since World War II ended. On the one hand, I'm sure that she was not very much upset to lose her boys and know they are safely with K-Fed for a while. Why should she miss having them around, since they've only been a constant source of trouble for her, what with the press ... [read more >>]
	11 October 2007, 05:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Britney Spears - Not On Drugs or Alcohol for a Whole Weekend!
	This is just unbelievable – out of this world – too good to be true – amazing...should we dare trust it? Should we dare get our hopes up again? Well, what the hell...but better have a stash of alcohol at hand in case it turns out to be just as big a hoax as every other good Britney news over the past...well, years. The fact is, Brit Brit seems to be struggling valiantly to make things work with her kids, and she finally consented to having ... [read more >>]
	10 October 2007, 07:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Ignore Your Kids - the Britney Edition
	TMZ is reporting that Brit Brit has finally managed to meet up with her kids – that is, she finally conceded to open the front gates and let them in. Well, this in itself is progress. I mean, she's finally in the same room – well, house – with them, which is encouraging. Now all we have to do is teach her how to talk to them in normal, every day language, hold them, feed them, dress them, brush their teeth and all those pesky, annoyin ... [read more >>]
	09 October 2007, 08:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Kids Exposed to Sexual Content
	Harris Interactive conducted a new survey, codename Parenting Moves Online: Parents’ Internet Actions and Attitudes, 2007, which revealed that 85 percent of the parents talked with their kids about the web's influence while 93 percent of the respondents already took attitude to improve their security on the Internet. But what's more interesting is that a lot of 'cyberkids' are exposed to dangerous content such ... [read more >>]
	27 September 2007, 05:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Britney Doesn't Know How to Care for Her Kids
	Us magazine takes the Britney craze up a notch – and again, I find my power of imagination defeated by reality in the neverending Popwreck saga. This time, it's no more secret lovers, midnight romps in the pool with college students or drugs and alcohol, but an account on how the Britney madness is affecting her boys, under the heading "Britney's Darkest Hour". And while for about two years now Britney's ... [read more >>]
	20 September 2007, 11:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

YouTube for Kids Goes Live
	A new YouTube-like service was officially rolled out some time ago, providing a different perspective over the video sharing industry. Basically, KidVideos works exactly like the Google video technology with a single main difference: it allows only kid content such as cartoons or other educational videos so there's no chance to find here the ... [read more >>]
	13 September 2007, 15:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Indian Government Bans Mobile Phone Use for Children under 16
	Mobile phones are a negative distraction for children, considers the Karnataka government. Children aged under 16 and living in this Indian southern state will be banned to use handsets from now on, in the attempt of protecting their health. Karnataka's government also addressed cell phone companies not to sell handsets to children. It sounds like the same prohibition that is applied in the case of cigarettes and booze an ... [read more >>]
	12 September 2007, 10:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Firefly glowPhone R100 Looks Cute and Childish
	Firefly has just brought out a new mobile phone especially designed for children. This one looks just as colorful and childish that you'd expect for this target, although the company has recently surprised us with a more evolved handset. Firefly has gone back to th ... [read more >>]
	12 September 2007, 03:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Paris Hilton Wants to Procreate
	Everybody, run for cover! It's the horny heiress and she's on a mission. I personally think Paris simply wants to make sure her pal Nicole doesn't have one over her – or maybe she's just jealous of all the attention Miss Richie has been getting lately. The fact is, Paris Hilton declared in an interview that she is preparing for having a kid. And the fact that the starlet is currently single doesn't seem t ... [read more >>]
	08 September 2007, 07:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Children Like to Surf the Web Instead of Playing Outside
	A recent study revealed that most of the Chinese children prefer to spend their holidays by surfing the Internet instead of doing educational activities such as playing outside, reading or going in camps. The survey included 103 children with ages between 4-14. According to Reuters, 13 percent of the entire Chinese Internet population under 18 year old is described as addicted to the Internet as they spend several hours per day o ... [read more >>]
	04 September 2007, 08:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Domain Names for Kids – Today's Best Offer
	A new trend tends to become more popular as the parents from all around the world are buying domain names for their kids in a move meant to reserve the website for a later time. CNN reports that the domain sellers are recording an impressive increase in clients as a lot of parents are buying domains even before their kids are born. It seems like most of them are trying to avoid the famous Britney Spears case when someone register ... [read more >>]
	29 August 2007, 04:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Meet the Best Stud of Our Times: 15 Wives, 80 Children now and 100 by 2015! And Just One Leg!
	We struggle to pay the cost of living and study taxes for one or two kids (when it comes to the third, we already have an odd case) and look what a 60-years-old "daddy" with only one leg was able to do: he had 15 wives, now has 78 children (80 if the count the two on the way). But his target in less than 10 years is to have 100 children. "In 2015 I will be 68 years old and will have 100 children," Daad Moh ... [read more >>]
	21 August 2007, 15:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Kids Trick Their Parents to Surf the Internet
	Simple discussion between father and son: "Billy, you should really go to sleep now!". Thinking at a Yahoo Messenger chat, Billy replies: "OK dad!". He steps into his room and, although he should sleep, he opens his computer and browses the Internet. This is what a recently conducted press release sustains. According to the research, most parents said that their children access the Internet only six hours a we ... [read more >>]
	14 August 2007, 08:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

No More Kids on YouTube
	YouTube has a very strict policy when it comes to the users looking for an account on the popular online video sharing service. If you didn't know, you're not allowed to register an account on YouTube if you're not over 13 years old. However, the parent company Google allows the persons with ages between 13 and 17 to register for an account if their parents allow them to do this. The interesting fact is that YouTub ... [read more >>]
	11 July 2007, 04:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mass Child Sacrifice Made by the Aztecs' Predecessors
	The sanguinary side of the ancient Mexican civilizations did not spare even the children. 24 skeletons belonging to children murdered in an ancient mass sacrifice have been accidentally discovered in a tomb at a construction site in Mexico near the town of Tula, 50 miles (80 km) north of Mexico City. Here was the site of the ancient capital of the Toltecs, one of the most advanced Mexican civilizations, which predated the Aztecs, and t ... [read more >>]
	14 June 2007, 05:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mommy, May I Use the High-Definition TV with 16:9 Aspect Ratio, Please?
	A recent market research reveals that most of the kids are tending to become tech-addicted because their lives are based only on new generation devices. According to The NPD Group, as children use electronic devices at approximately 7 years, the televisions and the PCs are tried since the early age of 4 while the digital media players and the satellite radios are used by 9 year-old kids. It seems like the non-portable televisions ... [read more >>]
	06 June 2007, 06:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Fame, Money and Sex: Oscar Winning Actors Father More Children
	An Academy Award is a guarantee of an actor’s fame, money, roles and ...sex! An Oscar seems to boost the evolutionary success: these actors have more children than the national average, as found by a new research. Does this golden statue, just like a lion's mane, signal the best male in the pack? In the end, the reproductive success of people – whether rich or poor, famous or anonymous – is determined by the same ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2007, 08:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia