child

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We sent an undercover researcher, posing as a migrant trying to cross the Channel illegally with his child, into a migrant camp in Dunkirk.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

Why deny a child access to high-quality education and withhold the opportunities that could change his future?

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

But, as André explains, “I was obsessed with music since I was a child, like since kindergarten. I only pivoted to comedy because I didn’t know really how to make money making music.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

As a result, the South has remained our problem child for a century and a half, roughly as the Balkans are to the rest of Europe.

From Salon • May 18, 2026

“Don’t talk nonsense, silly girl. What would the king say were he to learn that you never really spun the gold, but bargained his child to this … creature? This little demon?”

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff