In fact, a UNICEF analysis illustrated that across 31 countries in sub-Saharan Africa less than a third of children in the poorest 20 percent of the population receive appropriate treatment for diarrhoea, compared to almost half of children in the wealthiest 20 percent.
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The children were driven for around half a mile before being abandoned at the roadside in Mere Road.
Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, was heavily criticised for his slow reaction to the Beslan siege and for the botched storming of the school, where 331 people died, half of them children.
Mrs Fertnig said parents had been told to buy commercially-produced test revision books for their children to complete during the half-term holiday next week.
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The researchers assessed children at the age of three-and-a-half for signs of emotion problems, such as worry and sadness, and behavioural problems, such as hyperactivity.
It is the most dangerous for children, accounting for about half of child worker deaths annually.
Yesterday two-hundred-thousand came for the children's carnival and the police think about half-a-million people are here today.
She fed approximately 1, 200 children every day for three and a half years, until the businesses she depended on for donations shut down in 1999.
They range from a simple ger (a felt tent) that acts as a half-way house, to the well-organised home for 130 children run by Father Gilbert.
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Even in Europe, fewer than half of the drugs administered to children have been tested and authorised for their use.
In addition, less than half of school-age children -- the population mainly responsible for spreading the flu virus -- got the flu shot, experts said.
Children aged four to nine, meanwhile, travel for half-price and the under-threes ride for free.
As recently as five years ago, Putnam City Schools offered half-day preschool to 900 children, largely because the district lacked space for full day, according to district officials.
Only 15% are for highly skilled immigrants based on employment, and half of those go to the workers' spouses and children.
Similarly, UNESCO noted that the net enrolment ratio (NER) in pre-primary education in 2005 for children aged 3 to 5 years was 46 per cent which suggest that well over half the pre-school aged population has no access to ECE.
Crossbencher the Earl of Listowel claimed that "half of children in the juvenile estate" had experience of local authority care, and called for a review of "services for looked-after children" including those in children's homes.
Half of all adoption orders are now accounted for by step-parents formally assuming the care of their partners' children.
Nearly three-quarters of adults (74%) say the increasing number of women working for pay has made it harder for parents to raise children, and half say that it has made marriages harder to succeed.
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After steadily rising for five decades, the share of children born to unmarried women crossed a threshold in 2009, when more than half of all births to women under 30 occurred outside of marriage.
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