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A partir del domingo, los nuevos solicitantes del Programa de Subsidios para el Cuidado Infantil de Missouri se pondrán en una lista de espera. El departamento de educación del estado informó que el número de familias que reciben asistencia para el cuidado infantil ha aumentado en un 19% desde enero pasado.

Beginning Sunday, new applicants to Missouri’s Child Care Subsidy Program will be placed on a waitlist. The state's education department said the number of families receiving child care assistance has increased by 19% since last January.

Parents around the Kansas City area said it's a challenge finding early education programs that fit their budget, schedules and children's needs.

A Jackson County judge determined the nonprofit did not have standing to sue Missouri over the parental consent law. But she did not draw any conclusions about whether the restriction is unconstitutional under the abortion rights amendment passed by voters last year.

Mother-baby bonding is crucial to a child’s development and leads to decreased recidivism rates, according to research. But prison nurseries aren't the ideal place to grow up. In Nebraska, the nurseries are rarely used.

A female program director and a man convicted of murder fell in love and conceived a child inside an Omaha prison. Now they're trying to successfully co-parent after the state moved the father west.

Missouri’s system for providing legal representation to families ensnared in the foster care system is highly decentralized and has little state oversight. The result is that some parents go without legal help at all, while kids stay in foster care far longer than the national average.

The reproductive health nonprofit Right By You contends that Missouri's parental consent law is unconstitutional under Amendment 3, the abortion rights measure passed by voters last year. It's also challenging Missouri’s ban on aiding or assisting a minor seeking an abortion.

Kansas City Public Schools has goals to increase its numbers of Black and Latino teachers. A parents’ group says that’s race-based hiring and it’s discriminatory.

‘The overarching goal is to make sure they realize their life doesn’t stop just because they’re a teen father,’ said James Hogue, the founder of Dad Prep Academy.

Raising kids is harder now than 10-15 years ago, so much so that the U.S. Surgeon General issued a health advisory about parenting. A Kansas City mental health expert and parent discuss the modern day challenges to raising children.

Chelan David's “Beautiful States of Mind: A Father and Daughters’ Pilgrimage to all 50 States” is both a travel guide and a memoir of David's bonding experiences with his girls. Looming in the pages is David's childhood kidnapping by his own father.