Should kids grow up behind bars? That's the reality facing offenders as young as 14 under Victoria's proposed changes to dealing with youth crime.

But what do the experts say? And how does the rest of Australia deal with young offenders?

Plus, we dive into the other major parental debate: the uproar over tweens and skincare, celebrity-backed kids' beauty brands, and why we're maybe focused on the wrong things in the bathroom cabinet.

And in headlines today, The Liberals are preparing to unveil their new climate change and energy policy after a marathon meeting of MPs and senators in Canberra yesterday; A new batch of email correspondence from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, suggests that President Donald Trump knew about the abuse of his young victims' Another push to change South Australia’s abortion laws have been voted down in the Upper House; A crowd of 374 bagpipers in Melbourne's Federation Square have smashed a bagpiping world record in honour of Aussie band ACDC

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