PROVIDENCE — Three months ago, Minerva Waldron made an excruciating decision. She closed the only two infant rooms at her ...

Child care placed third behind a food and beverage e-delivery program and housing in Breckenridge elected officials’ ranking ...

As infants develop intense, loving attachments with their family members and caregivers at the child care center, two related developments occur: a fear of separating from loved ones and a new ...

Once you’ve decided on the right day care, experts recommend easing you and your baby into the new routine by visiting the day care center with your child before their first day to help them ...

A new Haltom City child care center that launched in September will serve infants and toddlers — a type of care advocates and child care providers say is increasingly expensive and rare ...

Left to right: Chloe Kaye Johnson, Elizabeth Augusta Wiemerslage (Anoka County). Inset: Small World Learning Center (Google Maps). Two day care workers in Minnesota have been arrested after they ...

The parents of an infant who died while in the care of a former day care provider have completed a wrongful death settlement against the state of Vermont to the tune of nearly $200,000.

More than one in 10 infants worldwide are born preterm, many with complications: Nearly 1 million die each year. This is the single largest cause of death in children around the world before their ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Preparing for a baby means preparing for child care costs. Child Care Aware of America estimates the average cost of full-time center-based care for one infant in the U.S. was $ ...

Kate Gibson is a reporter for CBS MoneyWatch in New York, where she covers business and consumer finance. The soaring cost of child care in the U.S. can now exceed what families pay for housing or ...