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Adoptions in Greece increased by 77 percent increase in 2017 compared to the previous year, the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) announced on Thursday. This increase is largely attributed to remarriage. Of the 393 adoptions which were recorded, 198 were girls...

A family in Thessaloniki’s Oreokastro is growing...even after 11 children. Zacharias and Demetra Veltsios have a happy family of 12 children, as Demetra is expecting their 12th child in the coming months. The couple says that they are happy, as the...

Brazilian journalist Debora de Pina Castiglione and her sister, illustrator Beatriz, recorded eight tales in a collection of modern myths and fables invented by Syrian and Kurdish children living in Thessaloniki. They worked with designers and translators to create a...

Two boys aged two and four were abandoned outside the church of Aghios Panteleimon in Thessaloniki’s Kalamaria area on Tuesday. People who saw them standing outside the church alerted police who transferred them to the local Greek police station. The...

Greece's children pay the price of the prolonged economic crisis, as a shelter for abused children is now taking in those whose parents are unable to provide food for them, a Reuters report says. As one fourth of the country's...

  Greek women are having fewer babies and later in life compared to their counterparts in the EU. This is the main conclusion drawn by a Eurostat survey on Tuesday, based on a fertility survey in the EU which compiled the...

The Economy Ministry of Greece has issued a ban on marketing offensive products to young children under the age of 14, sources have reported. According to the reports, a deciding factor forcing the ministry to take this action was the...

Reporters recently discovered the birth of Zach Galifianakis' second child with wife Quinn Lundberg on November 7 of this year! Why the delay in the news? Galifianakis is extremely private about his personal life and wishes to keep his children and...

Greece's National Organization for Medicines on Friday issued a temporary ban of parallel exports, stockpiling or intra-Community trade of five brands of children's vaccines guarding against hepatitis and whooping cough, in order to ensure an adequate domestic supply. The ban...

The U.N. refugee agency estimates nearly 4,200 people have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean Sea since Alan Kurdi’s lifeless body washed ashore on a Turkish beach one year ago. During the first eight months of this year,...