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Senior child doctors have called on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to strengthen the laws on smacking as they say 'grey areas' mean parents can defend physical punishment

A 36-year-old Texas mother has been accused of torturing her children and abusing her husband and has been arrested this week

A Florida teenager was adopted just in time before his 18th birthday, by two highly experience adoptive parents. “I was sweating bad. My heart was beating,” Roman Nehemiah said of the moment the adoption was finalised

Sapphire McDougleh, 31, claimed to be a Child Protection worker when she visited a mum on Thursday morning in Canton, Ohio, US. She was wearing a name badge and asking about the child's condition

Joe Paul Wilson, 41, and Jodi Ann Wilson, 38, from North Carolina, US, were arrested after their son Skyler Wilson was rushed to hospital after suffering a "medical emergency"