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Coping With An Elder With Alzheimer's
When my nana started getting a little confused during the day we started suspecting there may be a sinister problem at work. We decided to have her evaluated where the prognosis was Alzheimer's. Nana's got a long way to go still, she's not confined to a wheelchair or bed yet. So how can we make her life and grandpa's (her primary caregiver) lives easier? Read nana's story and what we as family do to help here.
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Grandfather Writes AMAZING Letter To Daughter After She Kicks Out Gay Grandson
This man may deserve to win "Grandfather Of The Year." In this incredible letter, a grandfather passionately addresses his daughter's decision to kick her gay son out of the house after he decided to come out of the closet.
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Everyone Talks About Maternal Instinct…What About Paternal Instinct?
Linda F. Palmer, DC, author of the book Bonding Matters, argues that the concept of paternal instinct is biologically indisputable. There is such a thing as paternal instinct, and it is driven by the same hormone that drives the mother’s famous and well-documented maternal instinct: oxytocin.
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10 Famous Actors Who Have a Less-Famous Twin
Although the lives of celebrities are certainly in the public eye, there are a few personal things about famous actors that are virtually unknown to the general public—including who they've shared a womb with.
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The Grandparent Scam
Every day, phones are ringing in homes across the country. Maybe yours. On the line: organized teams of con artists trying to bilk you out of thousands of dollars by impersonating your loved ones. One especially lucrative scam targets the supposedly vulnerable demographic of grandparents. A journalist and grandmother sets out to discover who’s calling—and the real reason why the “grandparent scam” works so damn well.
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With genetic testing, I gave my parents the gift of divorce
I'm a stem cell and reproductive biologist. I fell in love with biology when I was in high school. It was the realization that every cell in my body has the same genome and DNA, but each cell is different. A stomach cell is not a brain cell is not a skin cell. But they're reading from the same book of instructions. With 23andMe, you get your personal genome book, your story. Unless you have an identical twin somewhere, that genetic makeup is unique to you.
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Meet George Zimmerman's Family
Soon after George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin more than two years ago, George's loyal family learned that sharing his name meant sharing the blame. It also meant a surreal new life filled with constant paranoia, get- rich-quick schemes, and lots and lots of guns. Amanda Robb meets the Zimmerman family and finds out what it's like being related to the most hated free man in America
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Families win €1.8m compensation after babies switched at birth
Like most young mothers, Sophie Serrano was happy, but bewildered and exhausted after the birth of her first baby. When the child, whom she had named Manon, who was suffering with jaundice, was returned to her after a spell in an incubator, she did notice the baby’s hair seemed to have grown remarkably fast, but the nurse said not to worry. “That’s what happens under the lights,” the woman told her.
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Mom loses custody for alienating dad
In a stunning and unusual family law decision, a Toronto judge has stripped a mother of custody of her three children after the woman spent more than a decade trying to alienate them from their father. The mother's "consistent and overwhelming" campaign to brainwash the children into thinking their father was a bad person was nothing short of emotional abuse, Justice Faye McWatt of the Superior Court of Justice wrote in her decision.
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Couple married 67 years dies holding hands
Floyd and Violet Hartwig died holding hands at the end of a marriage lasting 67 years. Their daughter, Donna Scharton, said Thursday that once the family sensed the couple was close to death, they pushed their two hospice beds together, gently joining their hands. Floyd went first, followed by Violet five hours later. They died Feb. 11 at home in Central California, as they had wished.
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On Longer Lives and Longer Deaths
America has many open secrets. The nursing home is one of them. We try not to think too hard or too long about its residents or its low-wage staff. We’ll confront its smell, its humiliations, its totality, its bleakness, only once we need it. Or maybe we never will...
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Why this family of 5 is moving into a 300-square-foot home
Nathan Monk knows how it feels to be homeless. "We lost our original house, and then we began bouncing back and forth between friends' houses, hotels, and cars," he told TODAY.com about his childhood. "A mythical promise had been built up by our parents that once everything was okay and we were out of poverty, we'd get to go on an epic vacation to Disney World."
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San Diego Couple Dies in Each Other’s Arms After Nearly 75 Years of Marriage
Alexander and Jeannette Toczko had a dying wish as longtime husband and wife: The two ninetysomethings wanted to spend their final days together. Their children helped fulfill that request...
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IBM Will Ship Working Mothers’ Breast Milk To Their Babies
Although IBM is yet to chalk out further details of the program, it plans to create a smartphone app for the shipping service.
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Hiding in Plain Sight
Upscale white supremacists built our world. We have to uncover their legacy to dismantle it. By David Neal.
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Tracking Family History | RelicRecord
Lately, I’ve had the unfortunate opportunity to witness families being tasked with having to decide on what to do with all the “stuff” their parents have collected over the years. While a large majority of the furniture, dining sets, glassware and the like, might have little or no significance on family history, there are going to be items parents want their children to keep in the family.
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Inside the Family Battle for the Newman’s Own Brand Name
When Paul Newman died, in 2008, he left his Newman's Own food empire, and the charitable foundation it supports, in the hands of his adviser Robert Forrester. But, his eldest daughter says the family believes their father's principles are being betrayed. By Mark Seal.
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On Our Fascination with Twins
A Literary History of the Pair. By Nick Ripatrazone.
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What’s in a name?
This is not a typical blog piece, though nothing about me is typical, so it fits appropriately. I have been hesitant to write anything about my life that is deeply personal, because that requires an incredible willingness on behalf of the writer to be vulnerable and honest. However, I am always up for a challenge....
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House of Fire
Can India’s Parsis survive their own success? By Nell Freudenberger.
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