New Zealand Herald: Judge says problem children need school
--"Judge Becroft, an advocate of keeping boys at school to avert criminal behaviour later, said mainstream schools were best for such children."

chron.com: Children's Internet Hit by SEC Lawsuit
--"The Children's Internet Inc., a company that promises to protect children from inappropriate Internet content, bilked more than $5 million from investors and used their money to pay gambling debts, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by the Securities and Exchange Commission."

VOA News: South Korean 'Goose Dads' Face Sacrifice, Loneliness for Children's Sake
--"Despite the hardship, goose dads have a better situation than the men Koreans refer to as "penguin dads." As the nicknames imply, goose dads can fly, because they can afford the occasional plane ticket to visit their families. Penguin fathers, who work in lower income jobs, remain grounded - and often go for many years at a time without seeing their wives and children."

BBC News: Congo's child miners start school
-- Children in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have begun attending school this week instead of sifting for minerals in a vast open-cast mine.

The Australian: Catholic youth in danger, warns Pell
--"Cardinal George Pell will warn the National Catholic Education Commission's annual conference today that young members of the church seem to regard life as a "smorgasbord of options from which they choose items that best suit their passing fancies"."

allAfrica.com: Kenya: Youth Plan Gets Sh146m WB Grant
--"Kenya Community Development Foundation (KCDF), a non-governmental organisation, would disburse the funds to youth programmes on behalf of Ministry of Youth Affairs. The bank is the administrator of the fund, which has been secured from the Japanese government under the Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF). Mr Collin Bruce, the bank's Country Director said the grant would target 1.5 million youths, especially the vulnerable and marginalised."

Reuters: Nepal: National health programmes reduce child deaths
--"It is a simple step to save a child in a country like Nepal where, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), 65,000 children under five die every year mostly from preventable diseases such as diarrhoea, acute respiratory infections (ARI), pneumonia, measles and undernutrition."

Scotsman.com: Children's toy guns spark rise in armed police operations
--"There have been times when armed response units have rushed out only to find a kid with a BB [ball bearing] gun" - Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland spokesman

BBC News: Children 'order alcohol on phone'
--Children as young as 12 buy alcohol by ordering it over the phone with takeaways, a government adviser says.

Reuters: House again backs abortion restriction for youth
--"The House of Representatives easily passed legislation on Tuesday that would make it a crime to take a minor across state lines for an abortion."

San Francisco Chronicle: On No Child Left Behind Is the feds' lesson plan working? NO: Funding falls short -- some kids left behind
--"Education is one of those issues where everyone thinks they have "the answer" to the problem because they once were a student."