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In China, an unnamed 9-year-old schoolgirl gave birth by C-section to a 6lb. baby boy. The father has not been identified but authorities are very interested in finding his as sex with those under the age of 14 in the girl’s province comes with an automatic rape conviction.
The girl’s situation seems common in China. A hospital in China’s largest city, Shanghai, recently said that about 30 per cent of abortions were on school-aged girls.
33-year-old Tanya Nareau of Mesa, Arizona was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly attempting to exchange her 2-year-old daughter for a gun. The trade was to be with a family friend who Nareau said would do a better job of raising the child.
It had to be a horrific site, one of those moments that seems to happen in slow-motion:
Nick Harris, 32, was driving his daughter to school when he saw a Mercury sedan back up out of a driveway and run over a six-year-old girl.
Next time a couple announces divorce and their teary-eyed child looks up at them and whimpers, “Is it my fault?” the parents can look them plain in the face and say, “Why yes, yes it is.” And it’s all thanks to science (yay science?)
An eight year study funded by a grant to the University of Denver from the National Institutes of Health showed 90% of couples expressed marital dissatisfaction once the first child was born.
An unrelated study in 2006 showed parents are generally more depressed than non-parents. Researchers hypothesize this may have to do with parents receiving less support now than in early generations.
Channing has a great idea. She’s going to put on a stuffed animal dog show, and when she’s done, she wants all of you to grab your stuffed animals and make your own show. Then she’ll choose the one that’s the best.
This sweet little video probably would have been lost in virtual oblivion had it gone as planned. Only it doesn’t.
Most of us believe parenting is an intuitive thing. So why is it the most well-meaning efforts of parents are royally warping kids everywhere? Right now, you are psychologically destroying your child by teaching them value of individuality.
At least, that’s the position of Cracked writer Cezary Jan Strusiewicz. And before you dismiss Ceazry’s work as some comedian’s hack job, notice he backed every assertion with actuall scientific research. So sit back and discover why praising your kids, teaching them to be themselves and warning them about strangers is only preparing your kids for a life as an anti-social super villain.
Starting their Education Early
Kids cry all the time. I think my son cried this weekend when I screwed up and didn’t call him by his recently chosen name “Grand Master Batman Flash” (I think I called him “Grand Master Batman Fletch“). There might be no mode that comes more naturally to children than crying.
But for Two-year-old Tianna McHugh crying is not an option. When Tianna cries her body seizes and stiffens, her skin turns white, her heart stops beating and she stops breathing.
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