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Resident Evil star Mila Jovovich welcomes a baby girl
Congrats, Mila!
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How Walmart's New Car Seat Will Save Babies' Lives
Hoping to stop the fatal phenomenon of kids left alone in hot cars, Walmart just began selling Evenflo’s “smart” new car seat, which reminds drivers there’s a child in the backseat by sounding an alarm when the ignition turns off. In the wake of yet another child tragically left locked alone inside a hot car — a 2-year-old in Kansas, rescued Saturday by a group of strangers after her 23- year-old cousin admitted that “it just slipped [his] mind” that she was asleep...
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Sex trafficking: Lifelong struggle of exploited children
In the US, poverty, deprivation and exploitation draw thousands of its own children down into a dark underworld that offers few ways out. It is a world few Americans are aware of. But tens of thousands of American children are thought to be sexually exploited every year. It's believed that every night hundreds are sold for sex.
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The Caveman Guide to Parenting
Every evening as the sun sets, Robb Wolf begins his nightly ritual: While his two daughters play, he slowly dims the lights, just a few lumens every 20 to 30 minutes, until the house, in Reno, Nevada, is dark. The family is asleep before 8 p.m. and awake before dawn, as Wolf imagines our ancestors were millennia ago, before artificial light interrupted our “normal circadian rhythms.”
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The life and times of Strider Wolf
He has traveled so far, from near-fatal abuse to here, invisible among Maine’s poorest, in the care of grandparents who have little left to give but love - and just enough of that. Yet somehow Strider is climbing. How high? How far? By Sarah Schweitzer.
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Still in a Crib, Yet Being Given Antipsychotics
Many doctors worry that these drugs are used despite no published research into their effectiveness and potential health risks for children so young. By Alan Schwarz.
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China rubberstamps two-child policy
It's official. From January 1, 2016 China will allow two children for every couple. Chinese lawmakers rubber-stamped the new legislation Sunday during a session of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, which governs the country's laws, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. "The state advocates that one couple shall be allowed to have two children," according to the newly revised Law on Population and Family Planning.
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Children who 'sext' to be spared from child pornography charges
Children who share sexual images of themselves will avoid being charged with child pornography offences under legislation being drafted by the South Australian Government. Under current laws, minors who 'sext' could face child porn pornography charges. But under the changes, a new filming and sexting offence would be created for those under the age of 17 to prevent minors from potentially being listed on the Child Sex Offender Register.
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Baby Doe
Government agencies have been trying to protect children for nearly two hundred years. Why have they failed? A political history of tragedy. By Jill Lepore.
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What every dictator knows: young men are natural fanatics
“A young male’s hormonal constitution and the way his brain matures together increase his susceptibility to fanaticism, an extreme instance of bonding, and make him prone to taking risk-laden actions on behalf of his group.” By Joe Herbert.
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Boy in Tennessee sentenced in shotgun murder of girl, 8
An 11-year-old boy in Jefferson County, Tennessee, has been sentenced to spend the next eight years in juvenile prison for the murder of an 8-year-old girl, according to a court document. The boy was found guilty of first-degree murder for shooting MaKayla Dyer in the chest with a shotgun after she refused to let him play with her puppy, according to a sentencing document obtained by The Newport Plain Talk and posted online by CNN affiliate WATE in Knoxville.
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Children of the PKK: The Growing Intensity of Turkey’s Civil War
The civil war is escalating in southeastern Turkey, with the government pledging to stamp out militant Kurds. Young Kurds, who used to hurl stones and Molotov cocktails, are now fighting on the front lines in several cities. By Katrin Kuntz.
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PBS Is Creating a Channel Exclusively for Children
PBS is starting a new 24-hour channel dedicated solely to children’s programming. The channel, which will be called PBS Kids and will be announced on Tuesday, will be free. It is expected to debut later this year — most likely in the fall. PBS Kids will also be available online with a live stream. More children’s programming is available than ever, much of it being watched through streaming services and on-demand.
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St. Paul’s Before and After the Owen Labrie Rape Trial
There are two very different accounts of what happened the evening of May 30, 2014, at the elite prep school between 18-year-old scholar-athlete Owen Labrie and a 15-year-old freshman girl. By Todd S. Purdum.
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Babies Are More Reflective Than We Thought
They know when they know—and when they don't, they ask for help. By Ed Yong.
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Who’s Looking Out for L.A.’s Endangered Children?
On the road with the emergency response team of the Department of Children and Family Services. By Miles Corwin. (Feb. 22)
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Tennessee law that punishes mothers of drug-dependent babies to end
Bill would have extended the law beyond its July 1 sunset date.
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Are picky eaters born or made?
To break the cycle of the mealtime stress fest, parents must face some bitter truths. By Alyssa Giacobbe. (Feb. 24)
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Why I Bought Four Syrian Children Off a Beirut Street
I confess to having recently purchased four children near Ramlet el Baida beach from a stressed-out Syrian woman. I am not sure if she was what she said or if she was a member of one of the human trafficking gangs that operate widely these days in Lebanon selling Syrian children or vulnerable adult women... By Franklin Lamb.
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Religious exemptions kill: Church day care deaths and injuries show the dangers of expanding the privileges into law
Many red states use "religious freedom" to exempt church day cares from regulation, and kids are dying from it. By Amanda Marcotte.
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