Family and parenting

    Commentary: Migrant children are vital to the fabric of our communities
    Maryland must do more to address the educational, health and other urgent needs of migrant children, say a Johns Hopkins primary care pediatrician and a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
    A composite photo of Sarah Polk and Kiara Alvarez.
    ‘Llama Llama’ author lives on in daughter’s Baltimore classroom
    Anna Dewdney's Llama Llama series has delighted children for nearly 20 years. The beloved author died of brain cancer in 2016, but her daughter Berol Dewdney embodies her mother’s message of empathy, compassion and the power of play in a Baltimore City Public Schools pre-K classroom.
    Berol Dewdney, right, leads students in a routine conclusion to class time in her pre-kindergarten class at Commodore John Rodgers Elementary School on Tuesday, May 7, 2024 in Baltimore, MD. (Wesley Lapointe / for the Baltimore Banner)
    Commentary: Shopping for clothes is hard. When you’re pregnant, it’s even worse.
    Affordability, comfort and good quality hardly seem to coexist in clothes for pregnant bodies.
    Illustration of pregnant Black woman standing on a tiny island with a shopping basket, looking through binoculars at clothing racks on islands that surround her.
    It’s never too late to write your mom for Mother’s Day, even when it is.
    Maybe the best I can do on this or any Mother’s Day is to write a little note to her. I know she won’t read it, but it feels good to write it as if she would.
    My mom never liked swimming, but have it a go during a camping trip to her mother's home in New York.
    Unaccompanied migrant children come to Maryland at a higher rate than any other state
    Maryland saw a higher per capita rate of unaccompanied minor children than any other state in the nation between 2015 and 2023. Many of those children are winding up with people other than their parents.
    A new use for a closed school in West Baltimore
    Catholic Charities unveiled plans Thursday for a resource center at a shuttered school in the Franklintown Road neighborhood.
    Catholic Charities is opening an Intergenerational Center in West Baltimore.
    What life is like for children navigating Baltimore’s immigration court
    For the last decade, children have been traveling to the U.S. southwest border in record numbers, with more than 33,000 unaccompanied children arriving in Maryland since October 2014.
    Photo collage of silhouette of young girl with ponytail and backpack next to bright orange stuffed toy rabbit. The background shows on the left a photo of the border wall between the USA and Mexico, and on the right a grayscale photo of a judge in a courtroom.
    Letters: City leaders disregard conditions leading to juvenile crime
    Youth development programs are among the resources needed to address the social and economic causes of juvenile crime, says Lillian Bocquin, a fellow with the Center for Adolescent Health at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
    Lillian Bocquin is a Bloomberg Fellow with the Center for Adolescent Health at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
    Video shows strangers taking cat from Baltimore County convenience store
    Maxine has been missing for 10 days since two girls were seen on video holding the cat.
    Maxine the cat has been missing for just about 10 days. Her owners don’t think she was taken from the shop maliciously.
    Commentary: Let’s do more to prioritize mothers, healthy babies
    Baltimore courthouses are one of the places that need to ensure that breastfeeding mothers have the opportunity and the right kind of environment to feed their babies, says former Baltimore City Councilwoman Shannon Sneed, a current candidate for council president.
    Shown is a guide from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to support breastfeeding in hospitals, worksites and various places in the community. (photo courtesy of Angelie Guibaud)
    Saddle up for safety: Anne Arundel group offers free classes on bike safety for kids
    Bicycle Advocates for Annapolis and Anne Arundel County, or Bike AAA, has launched a bike safety program for youngsters.
    Snow covers a bike in Berwyn Heights, Maryland on January 15, 2024.
    Commentary: Peter Angelos often helped his community without fanfare
    Peter Angelos helped Baltimoreans and Marylanders countless times and in countless ways that he didn't want anybody to know about, Tom Minkin, his friend and longest-serving legal associate, says.
    Peter Angelos helped Baltimoreans and Marylanders countless times and in countless ways without any fanfare, his longest-serving legal associate says.
    Commentary: When the largest asset of low-income Marylanders is held hostage
    Tax debt and other property-related bills can block home title transfers that would be beneficial to low-income Marylanders, says an attorney who works to resolve these “tangled titles.”
    Steven Messmer is an attorney who works to resolve “tangled titles” that can block property transfers.
    Lion dance kings and queens: How tradition has bonded three generations
    For three generations, the Yau/Lam family has brought good fortune to Baltimore and the surrounding areas through lion dancing. At U.S. Jow Ga Martial Arts in Columbia, they have found more family.
    Emily Lam plays the lion head as her mom, Winnie Lam, plays the tail during a performance at Asian Court in Ellicott City on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024.
    Baltimore courts added a room for breastfeeding moms. That made jury duty harder.
    New mothers face a lot of challenges, and in Baltimore one of them is serving jury duty.
    Photo collage shows close up of woman’s face in profile, her eyes look right. On right side of collage are a breast pump and baby bottle with a jury box seats in the background.
    Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott gives $2M awards to Baltimore nonprofits
    MacKenzie Scott’s latest round giving went to several Baltimore organizations, including Marian House and Wide Angle Youth Media.
    Marian House, a Baltimore charity founded in 1982, provides transitional housing for women.
    Commentary: How a soul music purist got hooked on neo-soul, too
    Seeing Tony! Toni! Toné! and then Goapele live in concert in Baltimore, just months apart, means a lifelong soul music lover is now hooked on what has become known as “neo-soul.”
    (l to r) Album covers for the neo-soul artists D’Angelo. Erykah Badu, Goapele and Tony! Toni! Toné!
    13 more sue state, alleging sexual abuse as children while wards of the Maryland agencies
    Identified only by their initials, 11 women, one man, and one person who identified as non-binary, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the state of Maryland and three of its agencies, claiming they were sexually abused as children while residents at the Good Shepherd Services treatment center before the facility was closed in 2017.
    Charles H. Hickey Jr. School, run by the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services.
    Commentary: Maryland’s Blueprint left out free meals for students
    Maryland must make free meals available to all its public school students to promote good health, academic achievement and educational equity, two faculty members at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health say.
    Susan Gross and Erin Hager are faculty members in the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
    Anne Arundel County launches pilot program to connect residents, nonprofits
    Anne Arundel County’s Nonprofit Center has launched an events hub to link residents with nonprofit organizations.
    File photo of downtown Annapolis.
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