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Baby Veronica’s loved ones wait for the Supreme Court to weigh in

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Robert Barnes - Apr. 15 (News Report) - There are two houses, a thousand miles apart, that each contain a child’s play kitchen, a wall of toys and portraits of the same dark-eyed, curly-haired little girl. In one lives a couple named Matt and Melanie Capobianco, who cared for the girl from the time she drew her first breath until 27 months later, when the courts said she must be returned to her biological father. ...

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Fascism in the Church: Ex-Priest On "The Pope's War," Clergy Abuse and Quelling Liberation Theology

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Matthew Fox, Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez - Feb. 28 (Interview) - we turn to a former Catholic priest who was silenced and expelled by the pope, then-Cardinal Ratzinger, in the 1980s. Matthew Fox chronicles his story in the book "The Pope’s War: Why Ratzinger’s Secret Crusade Has Imperiled the Church and How It Can Be Saved." Pope Benedict’s tenure was marked by several scandals, most notably his handling of the widening sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church, including allegations that he ignored at least one case of abuse while serving as a cardinal. Documents show that in 1985 he delayed efforts to defrock a priest convicted of molesting children. "I’ll take the pope at his word here when he says he’s tired. I would be tired, too, if I left as much devastation in my wake as he has," Fox says. "I think that the Catholic Church as we know it, the structure of the Vatican, is passé. We’re moving beyond it. And it’s become a viper’s nest. It’s really sick, what’s going on, obviously — the cover-up of the pedophile priests."

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Toddler Math | New Republic

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

newrepublic.com - By Jonathan Cohn - Feb. 18 (News Analysis) - President Obama's preschool proposal has provoked predictable grousing from some predictable sources. House Speaker John Boehner said last week that getting the federal government involved in early childhood was "a good way to screw it up." But the idea is also picking up some support on the right. "President Obama has taken on a big challenge in a realistic and ambitious way," New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote on Friday. "If Republicans really believe in opportunity and local control, they will get on board." And at least one Republican, Senator Johnny Isakson of Georgia, seems ready to join the cause. On Saturday, while appearing on MSNBC’s "Up with Chris Hayes," Isakson called universal preschool "a great idea."

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Obama to revive populist message in Tuesday speech

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

American Public Media - By Julie Pace - Feb. 12 (News Analysis) - Reviving his populist re-election message, President Barack Obama will press a politically-divided Congress to approve more tax increases and fewer spending cuts during a State of the Union address focused on stabilizing the middle class and repairing the still-wobbly economy.

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Background TV exposure may harm children's development

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Stephanie Hanes - Oct. 02 (Research) - Background TV – the kind young children don’t watch but experience because the television is on – is linked to problems with play, parent-child relationships, and cognitive performance. A new study in the journal “Pediatrics” suggests that kids are exposed to 4 hours of background television a day.

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Stop Panicking About Bullies

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Nick Gillespie, Wall Street Journal - Mar. 31 (Opinion) - Childhood is safer than ever before, but today's parents need to worry about something. Nick Gillespie on why busybodies and bureaucrats have zeroed in on bullying.

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Kony 2012: what's the real story?

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Polly Curtis, John Vidal - Mar. 09 (Breaking News) - A 28-minute long film about the plight of children in Africa has been watched more than 21m times on You Tube. But the charity behind it is facing some criticisms for their Hollywood-style campaigning on the issue. Are the criticisms fair? Polly Curtis and John Vidal , with your help, finds out. Get in touch below the line, Tweet @pollycurtis or email polly.curtis@guardian.co.uk . Since Monday more than 21m people have viewed this film, made by an American charity called Invisible Children , about the plight of children in Uganda at the hands of the warlord Joseph Kony , leader of the guerilla group the Lords Resistance Army. His army is said to have abducted 60,000 children. With its slick Hollywood production values the film has been an almost instant viral success, dominating Twitter worldwide and having one of the fastest ever take-offs on You Tube. The hashtag #stopkony has had hundreds of thousands of Tweets. Millions of people now know something about Uganda and what is happening ...

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Santorum living in stone-age

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Stephanie Coontz - Feb. 14 (Opinion) - Presidential candidate Rick Santorum is unhappy with last week's compromise over whether Catholic institutions should be required to cover contraception for their employees, arguing that birth control "shouldn't be covered by insurance at all."

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Report: Thousands of U.S.-Born Kids Languish in Foster Care As Immigrant Parents Detained, Deported

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez - Nov. 10 (Special Report) - A new report looks at how thousands of U.S.-born children are being sent to foster care when their non-U.S. citizen parents are detained or deported. The Applied Research Center investigation, "Shattered Families: The Perilous Intersection of Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System,” finds there are at least 5,100 children currently living in foster care — who are prevented from uniting with their detained or deported parents. If nothing changes, researchers found some 15,000 more children may end up in foster care in the next five years. We speak with Seth Freed Wessler, the principal investigator of the report. [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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It's the Ads, Stupid: Why TV Leads to Obesity

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Alice Park - Jun. 28 (News) - How much TV do your kids watch? If you don't know, you might want to find out, say experts, since the time children spend in front of a TV or computer screen can have a profound effect on their physical and developmental health.

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The Hardest Cases: When Children Die, Justice Can Be Elusive

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ProPublica - By A.C. Thompson, Chisun Lee, Joe Shapiro, Sandra Bartlet - Jun. 28 (Investigative Report) - If Lopez is ultimately exonerated, his case will not be unique. An investigation by ProPublica, PBS "Frontline" and NPR has found that medical examiners and coroners have repeatedly mishandled cases of infant and child deaths, helping to put innocent people behind bars.

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The military children left behind: Decrepit schools, broken promises

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

iWatch News - By Kristen Lombardi - Jun. 27 (Special Report) - The nation’s reliance on a limited pool of volunteers to safeguard U.S. interests and wage two wars has had ripple effects on the home front. Altogether, parents of 220,000 children — including 116,000 of school-age — are currently doing the work the nation expects of them and that sends them far from home.

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China shuts battery factories due to lead poisoning

Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - May. 30 (News) - Battery factories across China have been closed amid fears about poisoning from metals used by the industry. About 74 people have been detained after reports that more than 100 people, including children, were effected [sic] by lead and cadmium poisoning.

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Circumcision Ban to Appear on San Francisco Ballot

Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Staff writers - May. 18 (News) - An initiative that would ban the circumcision of males younger than 18 in San Francisco has received enough signatures to appear on the ballot. The practice would become a misdemeanor.

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Iraq's abandoned children

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - By Jane Arraf - May. 10 (Special Report) - there are just four small orphanages in the capital, Baghdad - none of them filled to capacity. The Iraqi government says that relatives would rather abandon children they are unable to take care of than bear the shame of bringing them to an orphanage.

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Do Girl Scout Cookies Harm the Environment?

Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Tara Kelly - May. 05 (Special Report) - Girl Scout cookie lovers, beware. Because of palm oil, a key ingredient, those delicious and addictive treats may not be as innocent as they seem. Not only is the ingredient linked to child labor in Indonesia, but it also allegedly contributes to rainforest deforestation.

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Roger Vangheluwe, Child-Abusing Former Belgian Bishop, Reveals All In Shocking Interview

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Apr. 16 (News Report) - A former bishop's televised admission that he sexually abused two of his nephews caused an uproar in Belgium on Friday, with the prime minister, senior clergy and a prosecutor expressing shock at the way the ex-prelate made light of his offenses. In an interview that aired Thursday Roger Vangheluwe, the former bishop of Bruges, spoke of his sexual abuse as "a little game," that involved fondling, but no "rough sex."

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Budget Cuts Funds for Poor, Police, Environment and Health Care

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Lisa Mascaro - Apr. 13 (News Report) - The previously undisclosed reductions stunned advocates for community health centers, foreign aid and climate change research. Among the cuts is a $500-million reduction in funding for the federal health and nutrition program for women, infants and children, known as WIC.

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'Best' Places to Live With Autism All in Major Metro Areas: Survey

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

U.S. News & World Report - By Jenifer Goodwin - Apr. 13 (News) - Even so, three-fourths of families polled nationwide said they had difficulty accessing needed services

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Nuclear Catastrophe in Japan “Not Equal to Chernobyl, But Way Worse”

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Thomas Breuer, Amy Goodman - Apr. 12 (News Analysis) - Japan has raised the severity rating of its nuclear crisis from 5 to 7, the highest level, matching the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. We go to Tokyo for an update from Thomas Breuer, head of the Climate and Energy Unit for Greenpeace Germany and part of a field of radiation monitors in Japan. He notes that unlike Chernobyl, the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is in a densely populated area. “We warned the government that there are a lot of cities and villages outside the 20-kilometers evacuation zone where the radiation levels are so high that people need urgently to be evacuated, especially children and pregnant women, because they are the most vulnerable part of the population to radiation,” says Breuer. [includes rush transcript]

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China says milk was tainted with nitrite intentionally

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Apr. 11 (News) - Investigators have found that a tainted milk incident in north-west China which killed three children appears to be a case of intentional poisoning and have detained a suspect, state media said.

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Why Fire Teachers?

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Atlantic Monthly - By Megan McArdle - Mar. 08 (Opinion) - I think there are some jobs that are too important to let any consideration intrude other than the best way to get the job done. Nuclear power plants, firefighters, poison control--I don't want to let other social goals, no matter how laudable, hamper their mission. Teaching is one of those jobs.

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The New Normal

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By David Brooks - Mar. 01 (Opinion) - Since we have to cut the deficit, we might as well learn to do it wisely. Starting with education.

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In Defense of the Western Mom

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Ayelet Waldman - Jan. 15 (Opinion) - Here are some of the things that my four children of a Jewish mother were always allowed to do: • Quit the piano and the violin, especially if their defeatist attitude coincided with a recital, thus saving me from the torture of listening to other people's precious children soldier through hackneyed pieces of the juvenile repertoire, plink after ever more unbearable plonk. • Sleep over at their friends' houses, especially on New Year's Eve or our anniversary, thus saving us the cost of a babysitter. • Play on the computer and surf the Internet, so long as they paid for their Neopet Usuki dolls and World of Warcraft abomination cleavers out of their own allowances. • Participate in any extracurricular activity they wanted, so long as I was never required to drive farther than 10 minutes to get them there, or to sit on a field in a folding chair in anything but the balmiest weather for any longer than 60 minutes. • Quit said extracurricular activities, especially if their quitting coincided with league finals that might have demanded participation on my part exceeding the requirements stated above. In the days since this newspaper published Amy Chua's simultaneously entertaining and infuriating excerpt from her new book, "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," my two elder children, 16 and 13, have devoted a remarkable amount of time to raging against the essay and crafting compelling and bombastic rebuttals to be delivered to Ms. Chua herself, should they ever encounter her.

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At Victim's School, Shock, Sorrow and Nightmares

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jennifer Medina - Jan. 11 (News) - As classes at Mesa Verde resumed for the first time since the shooting on Saturday that killed six people, including 9-year-old Christina, the school grappled with how to talk about the tragedy with the young students here.

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