Swedish women take around 80 percent of both paid and unpaid parental leave, according to a new report by the National Social Insurance Agency, which shows that the situation affects how other household chores are divided.
As the first country to outlaw hitting children to discipline them, Sweden has long been considered as a role model for good parenting, but some now wonder if children wield too much power, the AFPs <b>Tom Sullivan</b> discovers.
Children who pick a 1,000-kronor payout in five years' time do better later in life than their peers who chose a tenth of that sum straight away, a new Swedish study into delayed gratification has revealed.
The traditional nuclear family has made a recovery in the past decade, according to Statistics Sweden (SCB), with fewer children experiencing divorce and more being born with only full siblings.
Stockholm's recently opened Abba musuem has come under fire over its entrance fees for toddlers after a woman was forced to pay admission for an infant she was carrying in her arms.
Nearly 100 convicted sex criminals work in schools across Sweden, according to a new report, which found many sex offenders have kept their jobs despite having committed their crimes while employed at a school.
Roughly 12 percent of asylum seekers who arrived in Sweden this year claiming to be children may actually be over 18-years-old, migration authorities have revealed using a new assessment that has prompted criticism from children's rights groups.
The Swedish Migration Board (Migrationsverket) is holding talks with Afghani authorities about opening a centre in Kabul for unaccompanied children and young people whose asylum applications have been rejected in Sweden.
More young Swedes are depressed than ever before, a new mental health report has shown, with socio-economic factors upping the chance of dangerous risk-taking and suicide.
The living conditions of most Swedes have improved in recent decades, but income inequality is growing rapidly, according to a new OECD report, which saw Sweden drop 14 spots from its first place ranking in 1995.
Over half of Swedish one-year-olds attended daycare in 2012, a 17 percent increase in comparison with 2005, according to new figures from the National Agency for Education (Skolverket).
The International English School in Uppsala is awaiting a reply from the Swedish Schools Inspectorate (Skolinspektionen) after being forced to defend its "tough love" teaching against an anonymous accusation that it was breaking the law.
Statistics Sweden has predicted that eleven percent of girls born in 2012 will live to be older than 100, with about six percent of boys reaching the same age.
A Swedish café owner who told parents to keep their kids away from his shop stands by his decision, despite losing a fair chunk of his "latte parent" customers and complaints about discrimination.
In the wake of a medical ethics council recommendation to allow surrogacy in Sweden, new father through surrogacy <b>Christoffer Lindén</b> argues that rubber-stamping a practice already in use but fraught with legal hazards is not enough.
Children in Sweden detained on criminal suspicions are rarely afforded any human contact and subject to isolation akin to torture, according to a new report.
Lifting Sweden's ban on surrogate motherhood would facilitate the trade in women and children, argue <b>Mia Fahlén</b> of the Swedish Women Doctors Association and <b>Gertrud Åström</b> of the Swedish Women's Lobby.
The Royal Philharmonic percussionists skipped to a Södertälje beat this week on a visit to one of Sweden's more diverse areas where grade-school children are learning to play music in a band.
Sweden is set to split two siblings from their younger sister as they are deported to Serbia along with their mother who left them in such a state of neglect that child services intervened in 2009.
Do we still have to define adulthood as wanting to have children, asks freelance writer <b>Tomas Hemstad</b> who fled Stockholm's middle class offspring boom for Berlin where childless adults are treated with respect.
For the second year in a row, the most common names given to Swedish babies were William and Alice, while a stack of new names managed to sneak into the ranks of 2012's most popular monikers.
