Children and Childhood – Page 22

Foster Children Fight to Stop States From Taking Federal Benefits

A longstanding practice of using a child’s federal survivor and disability benefits to defray the cost of foster care is under scrutiny in Congress and statehouses.

By Michael Corkery

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A Night to Remember at the Opera, Complete With a Phantom

About 130 children took part in a sleepover at Rome’s opera house, part of a campaign to make up for a lack of music education by making the theater and the art form more familiar and accessible.

By Elisabetta Povoledo and Alessandro Penso

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Farewell, Chuck E. Cheese Animatronic Band

A mainstay of the pizza and arcade chain, by turns endearing and creepy, will be phased out by year’s end at all but two locations. We visited one of them.

By Jesus Jimenez and Jackie Molloy

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Mocktails Have a New Favorite Customer. Kids.

The many nonalcoholic beverages on the market have attracted a new kind of customer: the (way) under-21 set.

By Alyson Krueger