How to protect your kids from identity theft, and more

Here are this week's top pieces of financial news and advice: Protecting kids from fraudIdentify theft is a big problem, said Ron Lieber at The New York Times, even for little kids. And because youngsters don't normally check their credit reports, "thieves may not get caught for years or even decades." A 2011 study revealed that up to 10 percent of U.S. children may have had their Social Security number used by someone else. One way to protect your kids is to "put a freeze on their credit report...