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All the information that I place on the Alliance website is there to make it available for advocates of children’s wellbeing, so they are easily able to access any information they may need. If you use this service, it would be helpful if you acknowledged the Alliance for Childhood website as your source. We would also welcome any additional information, news items or research. This is the news that came in during the last 6 months. Any older items are in the archive.
Christopher Clouder
Une première expertise collective met en garde contre les dangers de l'addiction au jeu
Tuesday 22. of July 2008By: Le Monde
Le jeu, nouvelle toxicomanie du XXIe siècle ? "Le chemin a été long de l'ivrognerie et du mythe du bon vivant à la reconnaissance de l'alcoolo-dépendant. Une démarche comparable s'engage autour du jeu", résume le professeur de...
Children of conflict: stress takes its toll on both sides of border
Tuesday 15. of July 2008By: The Guardian
On the Gaza-Israel frontline violence is traumatising a whole generation.
Children, 12 and 13, treated for addiction to mobile phones
Friday 13. of June 2008By: The Guardian
Two Spanish children are being treated for addiction to mobile phones, in what is thought to be first case of its kind in the country. The children, 12 and 13, were admitted to a mental health clinic by their parents because they...
Boy wanders New York alone
Thursday 12. of June 2008By: CBBC Newsround
A row's broken out in America because a nine-year-old boy was allowed to travel the city of New York all by himself.
Despite damage, many schools reopen in Myanmar
Monday 02. of June 2008By: Yahoo News
As students filed into Middle School No. 1 on Monday for the first day of classes since the cyclone hit Myanmar a month ago, all eyes stared skyward — at the gaping hole in the roof.
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