In 2015 negligent killing of children rose by 51 percent, while the overall number of victims also rose on 2014, figures published by federal investigators on Wednesday showed.
A German court Thursday sentenced a paediatrician to more than 13 years in jail followed by indefinite preventive detention for sexually abusing 21 boys as young as four.
A vicious spat is cleaving Germany society in two, and politicians seem helpless to do anything about it - but two nine-year-olds from Bavaria reckon they have found the answer.
Government officials have told the Frankfurter Rundschau that nearly 5,000 children and teens were reported as missing from refugee homes as of January 1st.
A new book called “Homework, no thanks!” has caused a storm among parents and teachers in Germany due to its claim that giving children homework is an exercise in pointlessness.
Are firstborns more intelligent? Are the babies of the family the rebels? It's a theory that's dominated psychology since the 1990s. But new research by Leipzig and Mainz universities suggests there's little to support it.
Police in Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, have warned parents in the town not to post pictures of their children online where they can be seen by anyone – sparking massive debate among social media users.
Small children in Germany could be taking in dangerous chemicals when they put toys in their mouths, the German Environment and Conservation Association (BUND) warned on Friday.
It might not be as glamorous as "Brooklyn" or "Milan" - names the Beckhams and the Tysons picked for their children - but Freiberg has a special meaning for Huixian Yang and Hong Shen, who have named their two children Frei and Berg.
Children are a blessing? Only for parents over a certain age, and then only up to a certain number, a study published by a German research institute shows.
A decision to ban children from a riverside beer garden in DĂĽsseldorf has sparked a heated debate between drinkers happy to be left in peace and parents angry at being excluded.
Horst Brandstätter, considered the father of Playmobil figures, has died at the age of 81, after having built the middle sized company into one of the biggest toy manufacturers in Germany.
A court in Kassel sentenced a man to three years in jail on Monday after his children died in the bath while he was checking train times at the station.
A quarter of a million Germans were fathered by Allied soldiers after the Second World War. Many have spent their lives not knowing their fathers and stigmatized by their own society.
A two and a half year-old toddler was found wandering through the streets of Munich by police in the early hours of Monday morning. Luckily he was return unharmed to his relieved parents.
