North Carolina House Majority Leader Paul 'Skip' Stam on Tuesday said a proposed gay marriage ban would protect children. ?North Carolina House Majority Leader Paul ?Skip? Stam on Tuesday said a proposed gay marriage ban would protect children. The 61-year-old Stam made his remarks during a noontime press conference on a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage in the state. Lawmakers will return to Raleigh on September 12 to begin a special session on constitutional amendments which will consider whether to send three issues, including the marriage amendment, to the ballot box in 2012. Portions of the conference were captured on video and posted on YouTube by the Raleigh-based conservative group Civitas Institute. Not posted were Stam's assertions that a gay marriage ban would protect children and that any argument in favor of gay marriage would support incest and polygamy. When a reporter asked why the amendment was necessary, Stam answered: ?It protects the chil

ROME (Reuters) - The Vatican Saturday rejected accusations from the Irish parliament that it had sought to cover up child sex abuse by its priests and undermine child protection laws.

ROME (Reuters) - The Vatican rejected Saturday accusations from the Irish parliament that it had sought to cover up child sex abuse by its priests and undermine child protection laws.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago's Catholic archdiocese will allow dozens of former priests accused of child sexual abuse to be identified as part of a settlement that moves the church closer to naming all offending clergy, a lawyer for abuse victims said on Monday.

Greenpeace on Monday called on Japan's incoming prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda, to take steps to protect children from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, boost renewable energy and phase out atomic power.

The United Nations children's agency called on Australia Friday to scrap "inhumane" plans to send unaccompanied minors to Malaysia as part of a refugee swap.

More than half of children's car seats sold in the United States contain hazardous chemicals, according to a study published Wednesday by a non-profit environmental group.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When children are involved in a car accident, they are less likely to be injured if grandma or grandpa are driving rather than mom or dad, a new study suggests.

The first nationwide study into the scale of child grooming on Britain's streets has identified more than 2,000 victims.

Social networking sites such as Facebook are not doing enough to protect children from potential dangers such as grooming by paedophiles or online bullying, European authorities said Tuesday.

Japanese parents living near the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant issued an "emergency petition" on Tuesday, demanding the government do more to protect their children from radiation exposure.

Philadelphia (Reuters) - The beleaguered Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia on Thursday named a new head of child protection, hiring her away from the prosecutor's office pursuing charges in a spiraling priest sex abuse case.

Philadelphia (Reuters) - The beleaguered Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia on Thursday named a new head of child protection, hiring her away from the prosecutor's office pursuing charges in a spiraling priest sex abuse case.

Britain should consider putting age ratings on music videos to protect children from raunchy images that may force them to grow up too soon, a government-commissioned report said Monday.

Britain should consider putting age ratings on music videos to protect children from raunchy images that may force them to grow up too soon, a government-commissioned report said on Monday.

Australia's plan to send some child asylum seekers to Malaysia to have their claims for refugee status assessed drew sharp criticism from refugee advocates.

A record number of children in Britain have been rescued from paedophiles preying on them via the Internet in the last year, a specialist police unit said on Tuesday.

Furious parents at the centre of Japan's atomic crisis and hundreds of their supporters rallied in Tokyo Monday against revised nuclear safety standards in schools they say are putting children at risk.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Motor vehicle crash-related deaths, the leading killer of children, teens and young adults, cost an estimated $41 billion in medical and work loss expenses in a year, a study showed on Wednesday.

Tennessee state Senator Stacey Campfield once argued that his 'Don't Say Gay' bill protects kids from things like bestiality. Tennessee state Senator Stacey Campfield once argued that his 'Don't Say Gay' bill protects kids from things like bestiality. With a 6-3 party line vote on Wednesday, the bill, which would prohibit the discussion of sexual minorities in public schools before the ninth grade, won the approval of the Senate Education Committee. It now moves to the full Senate. Supporters say the bill is about promoting age appropriate curriculum. ?If we're talking about homosexuality, we are talking about specific acts that are going to be unhealthy for anybody to engage in outside of marriage,? Matthew Parsons, founder of the socially conservative group Something Better, told the local CBS affiliate. Campfield has argued his measure would give teachers more time to focus on the basics, such as arithmetic. But in a recent rebroadcast of a 2009 interview with SiriusXM's Michelangel