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 Helicopter Parents ...the named earned by parents whose involvement in their child’s lives has extended past the adolescent years...read more |
- Keeping babies alive: Battling an entrenched infant mortality problem in Memphis..there are places today in the United States where babies die at rates higher than in Third World countries...read more
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- Guatemala adoption rules tying up U.S. couples...no one knows how many of the children were legally given up by their mothers...read more
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- Maine middle school to offer birth control...King Middle School in Portland Maine will begin to offer birth control pills to middle schoolers...read more
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- Mom of boy who planned school shooting arrested: The mother of a boy, who planned a school shooting, was arrested and subsequently charged with unlawful transfer of a firearm.... read more
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- Boy, 15, is electrocuted scaling a transformer: Nye and his four friends called themselves the Fruit HeightsCrew.... read more
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- 60-Year-Old Woman Proud New Mom of Twins: Frieda Birnbaum age 60 and the oldest woman in the United States to give birth.... read more
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- Leave those kids alone:
The idea that adults should be playing with their kids is a modern invention -- and not necessarily a good one.... read more
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- Birth Rate Harms Poverty Goals: “no country has ever raised itself out of poverty without stabilizing population growth.” Over the last century, the global population rose from about 2 billion to 6 billion. The majority of the world’s growth has come from developing nations.... read more
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- Cameroon girls battle ‘breast ironing' Breast ironing happens to young girls during puberty to slow down their breast development. Mothers take their daughters...read more
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- No need to share legal custody ...long awaited results for the paternity test of Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter Dannielynn, were revealed. Smith’s former boyfriend...read more
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- 139,000 H.I.V. babies in 6 months...139,000 babies born in Mozambique were infected with H.I.V...read more
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- Amazon Children Spontaneously Understand Geometry... they have a seemingly natural ability to understand the meanings of the shapes...read more
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- Rural Ethiopia Ignores Law against Child Brides...some girls are married as young as three....read more
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- Iraq Bombers Blow up 2 Children Used as Decoys... The children were used as decoys to get insurgents past the American military checkpoints. The car was stopped...read more
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- Report Ranks Well Being of British, U.S. Children As Last in the Industrialized World...six categories include the material well-being of children, health and safety, education, family and peer relationships...read more
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- India is Missing 10 Million Daughters...female fetuses have been aborted following the results of ultrasounds...read more
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| These news reviews were written and compiled by JeriAnn Lukens & Annette Grove, students at USU. |
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