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This is a very weird but sad story. It's kind of hard to explain the whole situation in words, the video does a much better job. In brief form Angel Adams is a homeless mother who has 15 kids from three different fathers and feels like someone should pay. Get more of the story in the words of Angel Adams after the jump.

When he was four, Colton Burpo almost died of a burst appendix. Vivid memories the now 12-year old had of going to Heaven, sitting in Jesus’ lap, and meeting dead family members during this near death experience became the basis for the book ‘Heaven is for Real,’ which has been on the New York Times bestseller list for the past 52 weeks. Now there is an 32-page illustrated children’s edition of ‘H

We never used to think of chubby kids as being anything other than adorable, but researchers are now more concerned about children’s eating habits now that more Americans are being considered obese. According to a new study, 40 percent of American children enter kindergarten with a body mass index (BMI) greater than the 75 percentile. Anything over the 85th percentile is considered “overweight,” a

Ever wonder if some of those ‘X-Men‘ super powers can be duplicated in real life? Well, one little boy inadvertently figured out how to harness the power of Banshee, who can shatter glass with his super-sonic voice.

In a country with a soaring childhood obesity rate, doctors on an expert panel appointed by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics announced Friday that children should be tested for high cholesterol as early as age 9.

Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar have announced they are expecting their 20th child, due in April. The Arkansas couple and stars of TLC’s ’19 Kids and Counting,’ clearly love children, so while they busy themselves sprucing up their nursery yet again, we thought we’d honor their 20th bundle of joy with — what else? — 20 jokes about having such a large family.

Think you’ve seen it all when it comes to a dog playing fetch? Trust us, you haven’t. While playing in a fenced-off yard, a young boy hammers a softball onto his neighbor’s property and his dog retrieves it in a remarkable way.

A study of 20,000 US families found kids with fathers suffering from depression are more likely to have emotional and behavioral problems than other children. Michael Weitzman at the New York University School of Medicine, who authored the study, said these findings are especially important at a time when unemployment is high and some military dads are returning from Afghanistan and Iraq with emot

New research finds autistic children’s brains have far more neurons in the prefrontal cortex than those of kids who don’t have the disease.

A new study from researchers at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City found that pediatricians write more than 10 million prescriptions for unnecessary antibiotics every year. In the two-year study, 65,000 kids were profiled to determine the type of diagnosis they were given during doctor’s visits as well as the type of of drugs, if any, they were prescribed. The research revealed doctors presc

A scuba diver at the New England Aquarium in Boston took a few seconds to interact with Joseph, who appears to be about three-years old. That little bit of extra effort probably made his day. I always appreciated people who took a moment to talk to my boys, and interact with them when they were little. (And waitstaff who did so always got bigger tips!)

What happens when you tell your kids that you ate all of the Halloween candy they collected during the night? As it turns out, lots of crying.