Blog tagged as Children

Diapers, bottles, child seats, breast milk pumps and other baby/toddler care items would be exempt from Michigan’s sales tax under bills introduced by three House Republicans as part of three family-centered cost-saving proposals.

An assistant county prosecutor asked the Michigan Supreme Court not to expand the eligibility of “juvenile lifers” to seek possible parole to 19- and 20-year-olds.

Sex education in public schools would move away from the "no-sex-before-marriage" morality message to one stressing medical realities, affirmative consent and inclusiveness of those of different sexual orientations and identities, under bills introduced last week.

Rep. Graham Filler (R-St. Johns) introduced a House bill that would add missing children with special needs to the reasons to be able to send out an America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response, or AMBER, Alert.

A Detroit judge who ordered a teenager to be handcuffed and detained for appearing to fall asleep in his courtroom has been temporarily removed from his docket.