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President Obama was born to a teen mom and you might say, he turned out pretty well.
It’s upsetting that we can barely get through a full month without hearing another story of a mother who has abused her child. The latest I heard of today is the case of 18-year-old Shantaniqua Nykole Scott, a Texas mom who tried to smother her baby to death while in a hospital.
Scott gave birth to a son, Rhaidyn, in March 2010. In July of that year, the baby had to be flown from a Waco hospital to a Fort Worth hospital for a recurring, gastroesophageal reflux which caused him to stop breathing. Doctors soon suspected child abuse and asked for a video monitor was placed in his room. Soon after Scott tried to smother her infant son with a blanket and her own hand. When the breathing monitor alarms went off signaling that the baby had stopped breathing, nurses rushed into the room and saved the little Rhaidyn’s life. The whole scene was caught on videotape.
This past week, the video was played for jurors who would determine if Scott should face life behind bars. In closing arguments, the defense attorney in the case said one phrase that immediately enraged me and was incredibly demeaning to young mothers everywhere.
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.
Some midwives in the U.K. are looking for handcrafted boobs. Ideally, they’d like soft, supple ones that are easy to see and fun to look at. Well what breasts aren’t?
But keep your shirts on. They want fake boobs (sit down, Ms. Anderson, they want single wool ones in fun, surprising colors) and lots of them.
The knitted breasts are used to teach young mothers how to breastfeed. Apparently, plastic dummies have a “sticky sensation to them,” which is less than ideal. Continue reading »
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