Kentucky Father Runs 48 Miles for Child Care Safety
Tyler Smith will run four miles every four hours for 48 hours on November 6 to honor his son and raise awareness of child care safety.
Kentucky Family News
Family life in Kentucky runs on parenting, caregiving, child care and the strain of looking after aging relatives, and coverage here follows all of it. Reporting takes in parenting approaches, family policy changes and the household trends that shape how families live across the state.
Child Care
Kentucky Chamber Launches New Childcare Employer Initiative
The state program aims to help parents reenter the workforce by providing businesses with matching grants for childcare costs.
Pregnancy
Live Poll
Should Kentucky mandate that jails report medical care statistics for pregnant inmates?
Kentucky Lawmaker Proposes Pregnancy Care Reporting
Proposed legislation seeks to standardize the tracking of prenatal and postpartum care for incarcerated women.
Babies
Live Poll
Do you believe mandatory child abuse reporting requirements are effective at keeping children safe?
Kentucky Will Observe TEN-4 Day on October 4
State officials aim to increase child abuse awareness by highlighting early physical signs of infant mistreatment.
Eldercare
Kentucky Appeals Court Limits Probate Court Authority
The court ruled that only circuit courts may decide contested probate cases, halting a lower court investigation.
Teens
Live Poll
Is your state doing enough to ensure the safety of teen drivers on the road?
Kentucky Ranked 14th for Teen Driver Support
A new WalletHub study assessed states based on safety, economic factors, and driving laws.
Coverage takes in child care availability, school-age and adolescent wellbeing, caregiving for aging parents and relatives with disabilities, and state policies that affect households. It reaches from Louisville and Lexington to the rural counties of the Appalachian and western regions. Rural families often face different caregiving and child care gaps than those in the state's metro areas, and reporting keeps those distinctions visible. Caregiving burdens and the cost of child care are the two pressures that recur most often in Kentucky family stories.