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One is a healthy first-grader, the other an honors college student majoring in psychology. Once the tiniest babies ever born, both girls are thriving, despite long odds when they entered the world weighing less than a pound.

As the number of children born through artificial insemination increases, concern is growing about having many children fathered by the same donors.

Natalie Portman has a baby boy to go along with her Oscar....

A sheriff's deputy in New York died Tuesday after being shot at the end of a standoff, and his wife went into labor with their second child upon hearing the news, local media reported.

The share of kids is declining in more counties and it's altering many parts of the quintessential family symbol: suburbia.

Are wealthy women too posh to push? A new British study shows that upper-class women are more likely to get elective C-sections, raising new questions about who get the surgery -- and why.

A new study finds that children conceived in March are significantly more likely to have autism.

With just 71 babies born on average for every 100 deaths, Brooke County, in West Virginia, has the largest such gap in the nation among counties in metropolitan areas.

Deaths from pregnancy-related causes, which usually occur around the time of childbirth, have risen dramatically in the United States in the last decade. In a report released Tuesday, a committee investigating such deaths in California cited an increase in caesarean-section births as a major contributor to the disturbing trend.

Three independent studies released today tracked 400 children. Those who were most heavily exposed to pesticides in utero showed up to a 7-point ...