Breaking News: CA Supreme Court Will Hear Prop. 8 Challenges (1)
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In case your post-election elation is starting to wear off, here's some good news in the fight for constitutional protections. The California Supreme Court agreed today to hear the case against Proposition 8 brought by the ACLU, the City of San Francisco, and gay rights organizations. This is the same court that unwittingly brought about the Prop. 8 firestorm after they ruled that banning gay marriage violates both the fundamental right to marry and the ...
Breaking News: CA Supreme Court Will Hear Prop. 8 Challenges (1)
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In case your post-election elation is starting to wear off, here's some good news in the fight for constitutional protections. The California Supreme Court agreed today to hear the case against Proposition 8 brought by the ACLU, the City of San Francisco, and gay rights organizations. This is the same court that unwittingly brought about the Prop. 8 firestorm after they ruled that banning gay marriage violates both the fundamental right to marry and the ...
Loss of Playtime the Next Global Warming? (1)
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Childhood Experts are feeling a wee bit troubled. They are worried about a generation of kids who aren’t getting enough of good old-fashioned playtime. The AP reported that this was the hot topic at the Wonderplay conference last week in New York City, a gathering that included 900 early childhood educators from 22 states. During his keynote speech, the psychologist and author Michael Thompson declared "We have to fight back. We're going to fight for ...
Child Hunger in the U.S. Doubled in 2007 (1)
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The Agriculture Department has reported that 700,000 American children went hungry in 2007, up from 430,000 in 2006. Since this sharp increase in the number of kids who are not getting enough to eat came before the economic crisis, it’s very likely that 2008 will be an even more difficult year for children in lower income families.As if the president-elect didn’t have enough world crises to combat, these new figures make Obama’s promise to expand ...
Will Libraries Go the Way of Video Stores? (2)
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Anyone who has both used Netflix and had an overdue library book knew it was only a matter of time until the same model was used for books. And in fact, there are a few companies out there who have been sailing in those waters, like Booksfree and Book Swim. Book Swim is now specifically promoting itself to pregnant women ("It costs a lot to buy all those pregnancy books only to discover that most ...
The Trouble with Safe Haven Laws: Some Thoughts for National Adoption Month (1)
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The recent spate of older child and even teen abandonments in Nebraska under its non-age-specific (but soon to be made age-specific) "safe haven" law has called such laws into question among people who had not previously given them much thought. The abandonments have also raised serious questions about the quality and availability of assistance to families in trouble.In some quarters, there has long been opposition to safe haven laws, regardless of the age limits they ...
WTFof the Day: Baby Food Tasting Bar (1)
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Are rich parents thoroughly insane?That’s the only remotely possible explanation for this: there is now, in Newport Beach. Cailifornia, a “tasting bar and lounge” exclusively for babies. Pomme Bebe sells baby food at its bebe bar and bebe lounge – which allow their drooly customers to try all the store’s offerings.But this isn’t just any baby food, the kind that people who push – gasp – Graco strollers or whose children wear – quelle horreur ...
Journalist Suing for Sperm-Donor Dad's Identity (1)
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Oliva Pratten knows her dad was stocky. He had brown hair like her and blue eyes. She even knows his blood type. What she doesn't know is who his or how he came to deposit a cup of sperm at a bank in her native Canada. Now she's suing to find out. Pratten, a twenty-six-year-old journalist who now lives and works in New York, is suing on behalf of the spawn of all sperm donors ...
Journalist Suing for Sperm-Donor Dad's Identity (1)
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Oliva Pratten knows her dad was stocky. He had brown hair like her and blue eyes. She even knows his blood type. What she doesn't know is who his or how he came to deposit a cup of sperm at a bank in her native Canada. Now she's suing to find out. Pratten, a twenty-six-year-old journalist who now lives and works in New York, is suing on behalf of the spawn of all sperm donors ...
Kids at an Obama Rally: Photos to Make Your Day (1)
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I'm going to be irritatingly positive for the first in my life and point out the tiny silver lining to the Obama election pushback (KKK cross burnings, Idaho schoolchildren chanting, "Assassinate Obama," nooses hung from trees in Maine). It's no longer possible to deny that racism is alive and well in the U.S.--which means that we're all being forced to talk and think about the monumental impact of race relations in this country. Perhaps some ...
Kids at an Obama Rally: Photos to Make Your Day (1)
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I'm going to be irritatingly positive for the first in my life and point out the tiny silver lining to the Obama election pushback (KKK cross burnings, Idaho schoolchildren chanting, "Assassinate Obama," nooses hung from trees in Maine). It's no longer possible to deny that racism is alive and well in the U.S.--which means that we're all being forced to talk and think about the monumental impact of race relations in this country. Perhaps some ...
Maternal Killings in Japan Linked to Social Changes (1)
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This is one of the saddest stories I've ever read. Apparently there's been a steep rise in cases of child abuse, including and leading up to maternal filicide -- that's mothers killing their children -- over the past few years in Japan. Most alarmingly, more than 100 cases of maternal murder have occured since the end of 2005. Experts there blame a variety of factors, but say that through the cases runs a persistent theme: ...
Maternal Killings in Japan Linked to Social Changes (1)
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This is one of the saddest stories I've ever read. Apparently there's been a steep rise in cases of child abuse, including and leading up to maternal filicide -- that's mothers killing their children -- over the past few years in Japan. Most alarmingly, more than 100 cases of maternal murder have occured since the end of 2005. Experts there blame a variety of factors, but say that through the cases runs a persistent theme: ...
Not Jackie, Hillary or Laura: Michelle Breaks the Mold of Political Wife (1)
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In the wake of the Obamas' visit to the White House, I've been wondering: what kind of First Lady will Michelle Obama be? Ever since Barack announced his candidacy, I have been at least as excited about his wife and daughters as I have been about him.A big part of this is personal for me, as my own daughters are African American and over the years I have tried to collect images of beautiful Black ...
Not Jackie, Hillary or Laura: Michelle Breaks the Mold of Political Wife (1)
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In the wake of the Obamas' visit to the White House, I've been wondering: what kind of First Lady will Michelle Obama be? Ever since Barack announced his candidacy, I have been at least as excited about his wife and daughters as I have been about him.A big part of this is personal for me, as my own daughters are African American and over the years I have tried to collect images of beautiful Black ...
Bite Into A Fetus! (1)
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Are you planning a Pro-life bake sale, a OB-GYN potluck or just a baby shower with a questionable taste level? Well, then this is for you. A perfect way to delicously celebrate the not-yet-born is with this oh-so-odd fetus cookie cutter. Now, I like a cookie as much as the next person, but even me and my cookie monsteresque ways would refrain from biting into one of these creepy concoctions. On the Broadstreet blog over ...
Amy Poehler Wants You to Know 'Smart Girls' (1)
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It has only been a couple of weeks since Amy Poehler had baby Archie and left her brilliant rapping, "Palin" interviewing and Hillary helmet hair behind. You miss her, don't you?She's back with a new show, but this one's not exactly for you. It's for your daughter (OK, fine, you can watch it too. Here's a preview.). It's call "Smart Girls at the Party," and it's part of ON Networks online webcasts. The first episode ...
Amy Poehler Wants You to Know 'Smart Girls' (1)
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It has only been a couple of weeks since Amy Poehler had baby Archie and left her brilliant rapping, "Palin" interviewing and Hillary helmet hair behind. You miss her, don't you?She's back with a new show, but this one's not exactly for you. It's for your daughter (OK, fine, you can watch it too. Here's a preview.). It's call "Smart Girls at the Party," and it's part of ON Networks online webcasts. The first episode ...
Book Reviewers Take Kid Books Too Seriously (1)
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Sometimes a book for kids is just a book for kids. There is no existentialist reason for being hidden within the words. There is no parallel to the White House's poor handling of the economy in a parent denying their child a toy on the trip to the store. There is just a mom and a kid learning that sometimes you can't always get what you want (although, in the immortal words of Jagger, "you ...
25 Things You Don't Know About Barack Obama (1)
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Who is this president-elect, Barack Obama? "Oh, now you ask," bleat the GOP strategists who couldn't get that whole "we don't reeeeeally know him" strategy to work. It's never too late to ask. Here are 50 things you might not know about him yet. Sure, they're pretty trivial, but fun to know anyway. Like, did you know he could bench press 200 lbs.? Not bad for a skinny dude, not bad. Also, he collects Spider-Man ...
