Children who are born late run a greater risk of being damaged neurologically than children who are born after a normal pregnancy, according to a Swedish study.
The deadly tuberculosis virus has struck a daycare centre in a Stockholm suburb, prompting checkups for more than 50 young children, employees and parents.
The government has decided to grant permanent residency in Sweden to a so-called 'apathetic' child and his family. The case concerning a thirteen year old boy from Uzbekistan could set an important precedent.
Police in the Swedish town of Västerås are investigating reports that a girl has been kidnapped, after a ten-year old girl reported on Tuesday seeing a man leading a four-year old away from a playground.
Two boys have died during football practice in Sweden, bringing the number of youths killed while playing sports in the country to six this year alone, police said on Tuesday.
Former South-African president Nelson Mandela and his wife Graca Machel were on Wednesday awarded the Global Friends Award by Swedish organization Children's World for their defence of children's rights.
The strapping, outdoors-loving Swede is a dying breed. According to a study by Karolinska university hospital, obesity among seven year olds in Stockholm has increased from 8.5% to 21% over the last fifteen years.
The police in Trollhättan has reported that a woman is suspected for kidnapping her own son, taking him out of his nursery school and disappearing with him in the back of her car, reported Expressen, after it emerged that the boy's father has sole custody.
The Swedish parliament is pushing for better and more efficient treatment of children who have arrived alone in Sweden to seek asylum, reported DN on Wednesday.
Aftonbladet's headline could well have caused initial alarm in some quarters - and thrown animal rights groups into confusion - but this week's papers agree that a new EU law demanding proper clinical trials for paediatric medicine is good news.
Several sources have reported on the Stockholm politician who was arrested last Monday on suspicion of having "sexually exploited an under-age boy". The man has admitted he had sex with several young men in his flat on various occasions, but said he believed they were all over 15 years of age.
Two parents in Piteå have reported Piteå Council to the Department of Education because they believe nursery staff at the council run school maltreated their child. The parents noticed that things were "not as they should be" after their son started to display mood swings and wet his bed.
Dagens Media reported on Thursday that the publishing company Albinsson & Sjöberg are putting the finishing touches to a motor magazine for children. A new magazine called "Bilsport Junior" is going to be launched in December.
Ten men convicted of incest since 1991 have been given leave to appeal by the Supreme Court. The decision follows sensational revelations made by SVT's investigative programme 'Uppdrag granskning' about methods used by a therapist at a children's home in Småland. The first appeal, the case of 'Mats', has started in Malmö.
Police in Bro, northwest of Stockholm, are investigating the death of a baby found by a footpath near the town's station. Investigators are awaiting DNA results which they could show whether the baby is related to another dead child found in the area two years ago.
Plans to build a new district in Stockholm's Kungsholmen have been strongly criticised by both researchers and city developers, according to DN on Sunday.
