A 5-year-old girl has fallen into a coma after suffering brain and organ damage following a dental procedure that went wrong.

Doctors say Diamond Brownridge is on life support at Children's Memorial Hospital, yet doctors still have no explanation for why the child reacted poorly to anesthesia after work at the Little Angel Dental office in the Little Village neighborhood

An independent study commission in the UK has confirmed that marriage provides the best environment to raise kids. It said that marriage offers the greatest chance of a stable and nurturing environment for children.

A social justice policy review group, chaired by former Tory leader, Duncan Smith, conducted the survey which found that unmarried parents are five times as likely to have a family breakdown when compared to married ones

Researchers announced on Monday that the risk of autism is higher among children fathered by men who are 40 or above. They say this could be due to mutations or other genetic modifications.

The authors from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, and the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London wrote in the Archives of General Psychiatry, "[The study] provides the first convincing evidence that advanced paternal age is a risk factor for autism spectrum disorder

A study by researchers from Texas A and M University found that the quality and quantity of time parents spent with children can influence a child's weight. The study released on the university's website said the more time a mother spends with her kids, the less likely it is that her children will become obese.

Interestingly enough, the study also found that the more time a father spends with a child, the more likely the child would turn out to be obese

Researchers say they have documented how the "obesity epidemic" can be passed on from one generation to the next. A report on the website Nature stated on Wednesday that overweight mothers in the U.S. have fatter babies.

Harvard Medical School researchers in Boston, Massachusetts, say that the number of overweight babies have increased by approximately two-thirds over the last 20 years - so, 10 percent of babies now fall into this category