Silence may feel like space, but it often creates more distance than understanding.

It always feels easier to talk about war when it is someone else’s child on the frontlines, but the moment a familiar name is mentioned, suddenly the conversation becomes a lot more personal.

What teens see at home often becomes what they believe love should feel like.

A displaced Lebanese woman sits with a child, overseeing his online studies on a mobile phone, at a public school converted into a shelter in the town of Dekwaneh, north of Beirut.

You learned to appear strong even when you felt small.

The challenge lies in protecting children online while ensuring that solutions remain fair, coordinated and realistic for the long term.

In some cases, parents are no longer able to work due to ill health; in others, they have been retrenched, retired on modest pensions, or face a combination of setbacks.