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A toddler got meningitis. His anti-vac parents gave him an herbal remedy. The toddler died. Now his parents are on trial
“There’s nothing in the world that will bring him back,” David Stephan said of his late son, Ezekiel. “What good could possibly come out of this?” By Michael E. Miller.
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Kids Of Gay Parents Speak Out To Show What Family Really Means
The Right still likes to cling to the idea that children of same-sex parents somehow suffer compared to nuclear families with a traditional mother and father. But they never seem to want to hear from the children themselves. Below, kids of gay p...
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Positive parenting gets “under the skin”, showing up years later in the cortisol response
Adolescence is when values and relationships are formed and things happen that leave their sticky fingerprints on the life that follows. Even, it seems, in the everyday functioning of brain systems. New research published in Developmental Science shows that when teenagers have a positive relationship with their parents, then as adults their brains and bodies respond to stress in a way that helps them better engage with the world.
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Guess What Ruined the Only Smart Parenting Group on Facebook
It wasn't the "mommy wars" that shuttered the group — it was more general concerns, like race and social-justice issues. In its rise and fall, Longest Shortest Time Mamas was a reminder of how hard it is to find smart, nontoxic parenting communities online, and how crucial it is that those communities exist. By Laura June.
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