The new court for violence against children and adolescents in Barcelona has received around 300 cases in its first quarter of operation. This court has been functioning since January 1st in the Catalan capital and among the crimes it has most handled are those related to child abuse and sexual assault on minors, according to judicial sources told ARA. In fact, it is responsible for investigating the case of the baby who remains hospitalized for alleged mistreatment and sexual assault by its parents. mistreatment and sexual assault allegedly by their parents.

The Department of Health has launched an ex officio investigation to gather information on a baby under one month old admitted on March 16 to Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona due to serious injuries and alleged sexual assault, for which his parents have been in provisional prison since Friday. As reported by El Periódico and confirmed by ARA, the ministry will collect information on the minor from birth and review the causes and pathologies he had suffered until then. In parallel, the Prosecutor's Office has asked the judge investigating the case to interrogate all the doctors who treated the infant to specify the symptoms he had and whether they had detected injuries that could be related to abuse. For now, it is known that the child went through at least four healthcare centers – three hospitals and a primary care center (CAP) – days before the child abuse protocol was activated for various reasons and of different severity, such as mild fever and vomiting.

Sleeping well is essential, as sleep allows the body and mind to recover and function correctly. In the case of children, sleep takes on even greater importance because it is key to their knowledge and cognitive development. As explained at the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital's Health School, babies and children need deep and restorative sleep to process what they have learned during the day, consolidate memory, and develop their motor and emotional skills. In adolescence, the hormonal changes typical of this stage can make it difficult for them to maintain adequate sleep schedules, which can have consequences on their mood and academic performance.

Coia Valls (Reus 1960) is an actress, teacher, speech therapist, and writer. In 2010 she won the Néstor Luján prize for historical novels with her first novel, The Jade Princess. She now publishes her tenth, Gaudí's Dream (Rosa dels Vents).

She studied at the Sant Josep school in Reus. “It was a convent school, and my mother started taking me before I was old enough, at two years old, because she had to work and look after my younger sister”. She was a very quiet child. “While my sister would climb everywhere, I was like an artichoke. I would listen, look, play with a toy and could spend hours like that”.

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There are a couple of hours left until a new performance ofThe ferryman At the Teatre Lliure de Montjuïc in Barcelona, ​​eleven-year-old Bruna Luz is restless and starts dancing before going on stage, while she waits for her turn to have her hair done, change, and put on her microphone. Beside her, ten-year-old Bruna Armengol joins in her games and laughs nonstop while waiting for the same. In a little while, they will become Mercy and Honor Carney, and their characters will travel to a rural area of ​​County Armagh in Northern Ireland. It will be a day in late August 1981, and the Carney family will be celebrating Harvest Day. But the festive family day will end in tragedy.

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Having children brought back unresolved wounds from our own childhood. This allowed me to reconnect with the child I once was, reclaim her, and learn to nurture her. I also had the opportunity to understand my own parents. Motherhood places us all in a vulnerable position, but at the same time, it bestows upon us a wisdom that is difficult to find elsewhere. Raising children confronts us with our own shortcomings. During my son's early years, I recovered many memories of when I was a child caring for a younger sibling.

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Parents and children draw a moment, a story, or an anecdote that happened at home. They put down on a piece of paper what they think, feel, or don't dare to say out loud; perhaps out of fear, perhaps due to a lack of trust, or insecurity. It's a simple activity, but it has helped dozens of families, in one way or another, to strengthen their bond, weakened by the hardships of economic difficulties or by a migration process that diminishes parenting skills. "Now my children tell me how they feel, and that has helped me a lot," explains Najam Ul Huda. She is one of the mothers who have come to the Poblenou socio-educational center to improve communication with their children within a program that seeks to strengthen mother-child relationships as a tool for preventing the institutionalization of minors—that is, to avoid the administration having to intervene and separate children from their parents by assuming their custody. Ul Huda says that the various activities they have carried out in this program, launched in 2022 jointly by the Pere Tarrés Foundation and the state coordinator of Salesian Social Platforms, with the collaboration of educational professionals, have helped improve the atmosphere within her family, with her children: she says they spend quality time together. Brenda Hernández nods beside her and recalls that before, in her parents' time, everything was very different. "Now, this interest in dealing with emotions makes the bond with the family stronger," she affirms. Cases like those of Ul Huda and Hernández are indicators that a new pedagogical model that involves children and families can contribute to strengthening family relationships and participation in community activities, argues the Pere Tarrés Foundation. The organization emphasizes that a shift in focus towards building bonds between parents and children can reduce the risk of institutionalizing children, a situation to be avoided as much as possible, underlines the Foundation's deputy director, Rafael Ruiz de Gauna. "The goal is for children not to be in institutions, but to be able to live independently with the best possible abilities," he explains. With the aim of minimizing these cases—prioritizing support for families to ensure children can stay and grow up in their family environment—the Som Veu project was launched in 2022, funded by the European Union's Next Generation fund and the Ministry of Social Rights. The initiative aims to develop a model for preventing institutionalization with proposals for psychological and socio-educational support for the entire family. The model was tested with nearly 600 children and young people and a hundred educational professionals from 39 socio-educational centers in nine regions across Spain.

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Where is the line drawn between rights? Between the legitimate and shared right of teachers to demand decent working conditions and the right of children to fully enjoy their educational process, including outside the classroom? When these two rights conflict, the answer cannot be that one is left hanging. Children's rights are non-negotiable, nor can they be used as leverage in a conflict they did not create and over which they have no power.

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One of the most shameful statistics for a developed country is the percentage of children living at risk of poverty. And at the same time, child poverty is a bad investment for the future. Few long-term investments have a greater return than a happy childhood. This return is not only emotional but also economic. For decades, psychology and empirical evidence have demonstrated that growing up with significant material deprivation has individual and family consequences, extending beyond a single generation, and also impacts social cohesion and a country's future.

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Those of us who work with children in the early stages of education celebrate and applaud the fact that the latest curriculum reform of 2023 affirmed from the outset that "the early childhood education curriculum integrates the first and second cycles into a single educational stage with its own identity." This is a demand that has been made by the educational reform movements, with the journal CHILDHOOD As a keynote speaker, he has championed and defended his position for decades. The problem is that these good intentions, when they come down to earth, end up being just wishful thinking, because the reality is that we have a completely fragmented political landscape.

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It took three years for the courts to recognize that Gambian Saynei Kanteh was indeed a minor, after the Juvenile Prosecutor's Office ruled that he was over eighteen and therefore no longer entitled to public protection. He was immediately removed from the guardianship of the Directorate General for Child Welfare (DGAIA, now the DGPPIA) and expelled from the center where he lived. "I knew he wasn't lying, that I was seventeen, and I trusted that sooner or later..." I would have the papers"," he states.

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In the wake of Greenland, Ukraine, and the future of NATO, there is much talk these days about the foreign policy differences between the United States and Europe. But we cannot overlook the widening gap that exists in domestic politics. At the beginning of the year, the Heritage Foundation, one of thethink tanksone of the most influential people in the US, published areport to "save America by saving the family"Meanwhile, the Trump administration announced a temporary freeze on federal funding for childcare services and family assistance. The time and cost of raising children are presented as a responsibility primarily borne within households, often by women, with increasingly limited public support.

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At the beginning of the century, the Casal dels InfantsCasal, a well-established institution in the metropolitan area, recognized the need to have eyes and hands in Morocco to work in collaboration with local organizations, children intending to emigrate, and their families. Claire Trichot, from France, heads the Casal delegation in the North African country, based in Tangier.

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The details of the journey that brought them from home to Catalonia are not topics that unaccompanied migrant children like to discuss. It is difficult for them to recall the beatings, the robberies, the violence inflicted upon them along the way, and in many cases, this silence extends to the human rights violations they suffer upon arrival in Europe. "Don't ask me about the boat," many of these young people plead, often admitting they had no idea of all the difficulties they would encounter along the way. Data and reports on these situations are scarce, but the Ficat Foundation and Pompeu Fabra University, together with the Casal dels Infants (Children's Home), offer a snapshot of how they have been treated on their journey.

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Amid the avalanche of pink gifts and gifts to "feel like princesses", influencers Or actresses, makeup for 3-year-old girls shines brightly. "Fun and family-friendly" makeup for before school, according to retailers. So the answer to the question that heads this article is YeahMany mothers and fathers will be giving a gift this holiday season. kit of makeup to their three-year-old daughters... perhaps without realizing that, with that seemingly innocent gift, they are also giving them a critical view of their own bodies from ages when they should be able to live freely, without pressure, without aesthetic self-censorship and without the feeling that they must "improve" themselves to be good enough.

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The first Catalan baby of the year is named Ander Muñoz Adan and was born this Thursday, January 1st, 38 minutes after the New Year's chimes announced the arrival of 2026. The birth took place at the Parc Taulí Hospital in Sabadell, the city in the Vallès region where the baby's parents live. In 2026, the first babies weren't early risers and arrived many minutes after the traditional twelve grapes. Shortly after Ander, at 12:41 a.m., Sira was born at the San Juan de Dios Hospital in Manresa, the daughter of a couple from Sant Fruitós de Bages. At 12:49 a.m., Thais, a future resident of L'Hospitalet, arrived, weighing 3.4 kilos. She was born at the Bellvitge Hospital.

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The Three Kings' Day parade in the city of Lleida will affect, albeit in different ways, the three central bridges that cross the Segre River during the five hours the event lasts on January 5th. Although the parade doesn't officially start until 6:00 PM, the three central bridges will be closed to traffic from 4:00 PM. The parade on the eve of Three Kings' Day will cover a two-kilometer route. The Three Kings, who as always will arrive by train at the Lleida-Pirineus station, will set foot in the city at 5:30 PM. However, the parade itself won't begin until 6:00 PM, and will proceed along Plaça Ramon Berenguer IV; Rambla Ferran; Avinguda Francesc Macià, Avinguda Blondel, and Avinguda Madrid; Plaça Espanya; and again Avinguda Blondel, until reaching the Paeria building around 8:00 PM.

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They all arrive at daycare by car, driven by their father, mother, sometimes grandparent, or sometimes another parent. All of them, securely strapped into their car seats, carry beloved toys and often a bottle or juice they sip through a straw. On the back of the passenger seat, they have a holder for their mobile phone or tablet. During the journey, they watch cartoons. When the broadcast stops because there's no signal, they let someone know. And when an advertisement comes on, they babble, "Announcement," because they know their parents have the power, from the seat in front, to reach out and skip it. Those who travel by subway or bus hold a tablet or their mother's mobile phone in their little hands and also watch cartoons and also let someone know when the broadcast stops, for example, because they're going through a tunnel with no signal. And then the mothers or fathers or the babysitter who brings them explain, in a pedagogical way, that "There's no signal" and that the cartoons will be back on shortly. And sometimes, they babble: "...chura," which means "no signal" in children's language.

]]> I gaze at the bay of Sant Feliu from a balcony of the house where I was born. I remember myself here in front of me, on the sand, when I was six years old, running to the water's edge with Daina, a playful German Shepherd, at the exact same time of sunset, leaving school, just before nightfall.

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A young woman who was formerly under the guardianship of the Generalitat (Catalan government) has had to wait up to five years to receive her orphan's pension payments in her account.former DGAIA –currently converted into DGPPIA– saved until reaching the age of majority. The young woman is now twenty-three and has suddenly received 15,000 euros, but hers is not the only case of unjustified delays in this group of young people.

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