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Stay-At-Home Dads, Breadwinner Moms And Making It All Work

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - May. 15 (Special Report) - For decades, the role of breadwinner was reserved for men, but today, more than a quarter of American working women earn more than their spouses. That means more fathers are opting to stay home with the kids.

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Pay People to Cook at Home

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By KRISTIN WARTMAN - May. 11 (Opinion) - But how do we get there? For many of us, whether we are full-time workers or full-time parents, this home-cooked meal is a fantasy removed from the reality of everyday life. And so Americans continue to rely on highly processed and refined foods that are

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Obstacles for Pregnant Women Seeking Dental Care

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Catherine Saint Louis - May. 07 (Opinion) - Well: Obstacles for Pregnant Women Seeking Dental Care

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Drug Agency Lowers Age For Next-Day Birth Control

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Pam Belluck - Apr. 30 (News) - The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that it would make the most widely known morning-after pill available without a prescription to girls and women ages 15 and older, and also make the pill available on drugstore shelves, instead of keeping it locked up behind pharmacy counters.

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Girl, 14, forced to become pregnant with donor sperm bought by mother

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Caroline Davies - Apr. 29 (Special Report) - Judge describes 'wicked and selfish' motive of using daughter to provide parent with a fourth child A mother forced her 14-year-old adopted daughter to inseminate herself with donor sperm to provide a baby for her after she was prevented from adopting any more children, it can be revealed. The daughter, a virgin, is believed to have miscarried at 14, but went on to have a baby at 16 after regularly inseminating herself with sperm bought over the internet by her "domineering" mother because she was too scared to refuse. Details of the shocking case have emerged in a previously secret court judgment, which can be reported today for the first time and which raises serious questions over loopholes in international adoptions and the regulation of the global traffic in gametes. The adoptive mother, who cannot be identified for fear of identifying her daughter and grandchild, is now serving a five-year prison sentence after admitting child cruelty. In a high court judgment deciding welfare ...

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Extended Families Would Fare Poorly in New Immigration Law

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New America Media - By Sunita Sohrabji - Apr. 28 (News Analysis) - As business leaders roundly cheered a sweeping immigration proposal released last week by the Senate’s “Gang of Eight,” civil rights organizations voiced concerns about the limitations the new bill would impose on extended family reunification.

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U.S. Ranks Low on Children’s Health

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By CHARLES M. BLOW - Apr. 18 (Opinion) - The United States has done it again — and not in a good way. According to a Unicef report issued last week — “Child Well-Being in Rich Countries” — the United States once again ranked among the worst wealthy countries for children, coming in 26th place o

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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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Op-Ed Columnist: Bold on Both Ends

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 01:12:00 -0700

New York Times - By By DAVID BROOKS - Apr. 12 (Opinion) - It’s time to entertain the possibility that President Obama is a right-wing extremist. After all, look at where he’s taking the country over his second term.

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High Drug Cost Spells Health Risks For Poor And Uninsured: Report

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jeffrey Young - Apr. 09 (Research) - Uninsured people and those with low incomes are the most likely to go with prescription drugs they need because of cost -- and it could be harming their health, according to survey results published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Tuesd

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About the Children

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By BILL KELLER - Apr. 08 (Opinion) - THE defenders of traditional marriage tell us the argument is, first and foremost, about the children. You might not know that from the buzz surrounding the Supreme Court deliberations.

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Teaching the Value of a Dollar - New York Times

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Apr. 02 (Opinion) - Should children receive an allowance? Should parents encourage teenagers to get jobs?

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Family Forced to Abandon The US in Order To Be Together

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New America Media - By Beth Caldwell, Joel Medina - Nov. 27 (Special Report) - Rodrigo Ortega, 35, lives in Rosarito, Mexico with his American wife and two American-citizen children. A little over a year ago, Ortega was deported. Since then, his wife and kids have relocated to Mexico in order to be with him.

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Can Marissa Mayer Really Have It All?

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Magazine - By Lisa Miller - Oct. 07 (Opinion) - Marissa Mayer, as CEO of Yahoo! is living evidence, since her move from Google earlier this year, that fertility, intellect, and ambition can co-exist and be a strong point.

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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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Why Women Still Can’t Have It All

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Anne-Marie Slaughter - Jul. 15 (Opinion) - It’s time to stop fooling ourselves, says a woman who left a position of power: the women who have managed to be both mothers and top professionals are superhuman, rich, or self-employed. If we truly believe in equal opportunity for all women, here’s what has to change.

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How Prison Undoes Family Values

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - Apr. 02 (Special Report) - In the last 30 years or so, the rush to lock people up for ridiculously long sentences even for minor crimes has led to an explosion of the prison population. And as the majority of prisoners are also parents, the population of children with a father or mother in prison has also exploded. Since 1990, the number of children with a parent in prison has increased overall by 82%, and the number of incarcerated mothers has increased at almost twice the rate of incarcerated fathers. There are now an estimated 10 million American children who have had a parent in prison (pdf), on parole or under some kind of probationary supervision. And, as is always the case when you are talking about the prison population, there is a disturbing racial disparity; one in 15 black children have a parent in prison, compared to one in 111 white children.

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Facebook Wants Your Unborn Child

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

TechCrunch - By Alexia Tsotsis - Aug. 03 (Opinion) - Sometime in the past week, Facebook flipped the switch on allowing you to add your unborn baby to your list of family members via the “Expected: Child” option on Facebook profiles. Apparently too many parents were creating "illegal" fake profiles for their yet unhatched offspring -- setting their fake babies' ages to 13 instead of negative whatever, the minimum Facebook allows. Also, you can't ask for a better customer acquisition strategy than getting them hooked while they're still in the womb!

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2 Dads, 2 Daughters, 1 Big Day

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Frank Bruni - Jul. 21 (Opinion) - Even in a city as diverse as New York and a neighborhood as progressive as the West Village, a little kid knows that having two dads is different. Eight-year-old Maeve certainly did.

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Two studies show that drugs used to treat AIDS can be used to prevent HIV infection, too

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

Washington Post - By David Brown - Jul. 13 (News Report) - Two new studies done in three African countries have shown for the first time that AIDS drugs taken daily can cut by more than half a person’s chance of becoming infected with HIV through heterosexual intercourse.

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Justice Dept.: Strike Down DOMA

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Advocate - By Trudy Ring - Jul. 04 (News Report) - The Department of Justice Friday gave pro–marriage equality activists a pleasant surprise by arguing strongly against the Defense of Marriage Act in a brief filed in federal court that acknowledges the history of discrimination against gays and lesbians.

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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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California ban on sale of 'violent' video games to children rejected

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

CNN - By Bill Mears - Jun. 28 (News Report) - The Supreme Court has struck down a California law that would have banned selling "violent" video games to children, a case balancing free speech rights with consumer protection. The 7-2 ruling Monday is a victory for video game makers and sellers, who said the ban -- which had yet to go into effect -- would extend too far. They say the existing nationwide, industry-imposed, voluntary rating system is an adequate screen for parents to judge the appropriateness of computer game content.

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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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National impact from New York marriage law: experts

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Jessica Dye - Jun. 26 (News Analysis) - When New York became the sixth and by far the largest state to legalize same-sex marriage, following a grueling overtime session in the state Legislature on Friday, it immediately transformed the national debate over the issue, legal experts said.

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