Children

Iowa officials say the state will not participate in the Center for Disease Control's 2023 Youth Behavior Survey to focus on the state's Iowa Youth Survey.

For the Talk of Iowa book club, host Charity Nebbe discusses the essay collection These Precious Days with author Ann Patchett and two expert readers.

Packers Sanitation Services, based in Wisconsin, paid $1.5 million to the U.S. Department of Labor after an investigation found it employed children in dangerous jobs in eight different states.

Children with sickle cell disease rely on daily doses of penicillin to prevent life-threatening infections. But lately, some are finding it hard to fill their prescriptions.

Similar to the omicron and delta COVID-19 waves last winter that crippled emergency rooms, Nebraska, Iowa and other Midwest hospitals are currently leaning on nearby states to get medical care for patients.

Native communities in western Iowa marched through Sioux City in remembrance of children who have been separated from their families and placed into foster care.

Twenty years ago, Native communities in western Iowa protested the disproportionate number of Natives placed in the child welfare system. They’re still marching today.

As states take steps to tighten abortion laws, conversations have been reignited about how to best support families and babies. Many policy experts point to a permanent Child Tax Credit, made available to low- and no-income families, as one way to do that.

State officials say they have hired an outside company to help overhaul its child welfare system after Iowa has seen several high profile child abuse cases highlighting system failures.

The federal Indian Child Welfare Act protects Native children from being taken from their families, tribe and culture. Challenges to its constitutionality is worrying tribal members throughout Iowa.