A Spanish mother at the heart of a bruising public custody battle agreed Monday to hand her sons over to her ex-partner, closing a case that has sparked fierce debate in Spain.
A new report reveals that Spain is among the worst developed countries for childhood inequality, with more than a third of children at risk of poverty.
Spain's children are bearing the brunt of the country's crisis with 2.5 million kids at risk of poverty. Many can't even afford the cheap lunches being put on their school canteens.
The charity Save the Children launched a petition on Tuesday urging Spain to do more for deprived children in the crisis-hit country, where one in three minors lives at risk of poverty.
Welfare cuts ordered in the wake of Europe's economic crisis are hitting Spain's poor disproportionately hard, with child poverty rising and people's health at risk, a leading Catholic charity warned on Thursday.
Police in Spain's Catalonia region have arrested the parents of a nine-year-old boy after they allegedly whipped the child for his bad marks at school.
The Spanish production company behind 'Pocoyo', a children television's show screened internationally and starring an animated toddler and his animal friends, said Wednesday it had filed for bankruptcy protection.
A kids' news programme which featured interviews with Catalan children who supported last week's human chain for independence has been highly criticized by Spanish politicians for its "shameful" exploitation of minors for political ends.
Spanish police have arrested eight people involved in an online child pornography network whose members were allegedly planning to kidnap, torture and murder their victims.
A Barcelona fertility clinic is collecting signatures with the goal of forcing changes to a Spanish law that prevents would-be parents from undergoing treatment to select the sex of their baby.
A new report which puts Spain near the foot of the table of developed countries for the promotion of successful breastfeeding has rekindled the breastfeeding versus bottle-feeding debate.
The regional government of Catalonia said on Thursday it will draw up a list of schoolchildren suffering from severe food shortages to target them for aid as it deals with the effects of Spain's economic downturn.