The Swedish children’s rights organization Bris has abandoned its use of the term “child poverty” after an investigative news report sparked scathing and celebratory feedback in the ensuing debate.
Sweden could entice preschools to employ more men with a one-off bonus, similar to a system in neighbouring Norway that aimed to bump up men’s representation in the profession to 20 percent.
More than 120 children in Sweden have had their mothers killed by their fathers in the last decade, with the dads nevertheless retaining custody of their children in four out of ten cases, according to a new review.
Swedish boys are less likely to get into scraps than boys in other countries but are still more aggressive than the girls, according to an international study into different parenting styles.
Sweden's largest toy chain said Friday that its toys are "gender neutral" after picturing boys holding baby dolls and banishing girls from the dolls pages of its Christmas catalogue.
A nine-year-old boy with appendicitis was made to wait more than 20 hours for surgery at the emergency ward of a Stockholm-area children's hospital before his appendix finally burst.
Staff at a preschool in Nyköping south of Stockholm on Wednesday left a 3-year-old child alone in the forest for 45 minutes after failing to count him when they were returning to the school.
More than 150 children, most of them foreign-born and some as young as three years old, have been victims of human trafficking in Sweden, according to a report released on Tuesday.
Many Swedish parents have concerns about leaving their children in after-school programmes, a new survey has found, with fears about kids being bullied or ignored by staff chief among parents' worries.
A school portrait photography company that offers to “retouch” the children’s photos has come under fire in northern Sweden, leaving the photographers surprised and several parents fuming.
A Swedish man has been ordered held on remand after authorities discovered that he was paying women in the Philippines to sexually assault children in front of a webcam while he watched on his computer in Sweden.
Advertisement posters for a new children’s film have been pulled down over concerns that one of the pictured characters has stereotypical "racist" undertones.
Two toddlers disappeared from a suburban Stockholm pre-school on Friday, and while they were soon found again it remains unclear how they managed to leave the playground unnoticed.
Over the course of 2012 a record number of childcare facilities catering for inconvenient hours will be opened across Sweden, according to a new survey carried out by news agency TT.
Swedish high street fashion chain Lindex has been hit by an online storm after a woman’s complaint about their “hooker-like” clothing range for young girls went viral.
A Norwegian boy participating in a football tournament in Örebro, in central Sweden, is suspected of rape, while two teammates are suspected of sexually harassing three girls.
A 29-year-old old Swedish man recently came home from the maternity ward with his newborn daughter and was surprised to learn that he was the father of not one, but two, children, according to records with Swedish authorities.
Anna Mollel of Tanzania was Monday awarded a children's rights prize for her work to help thousands of Maasai children with disabilities to live a dignified life, organisers said.
Children in Sweden diagnosed with attention deficit disorders like ADHD may simply be immature in comparison to their peers, according to new statistics.
