Family MattersParenting
Why Jenny McCarthy Doesn’t Matter
The former Playmate is posing nude again for Playboy. Will McCarthy’s fee bolster the cause of Generation Rescue, her autism research organization that rejects vaccines as dangerous?
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Family MattersParenting
Are Vaccines Safe? A Major Media Outlet’s Specious Story Fans the Debate
The Learning Channel’s website yanked a story that was riddled with mistruths and flat-out errors — but only after major medical organizations complained.
Family MattersChildhood
Nearly 1 in 4 U.S. Teens Has Diabetes or Prediabetes
In less than a decade, the proportion of kids ages 12 to 19 with diabetes or prediabetes has jumped from 9% in 1999-2000 to 23% in 2007-2008.
Family MattersChildhood
Are Your Kids Safe Alone at the Park?
Lenore Skenazy, an advocate of “free-range parenting” is proclaiming Saturday a self-declared international holiday: “Take Our Children to the Park…And Leave Them There Day.”
Family MattersChildhood
Young Cancer Patients May Get a Boost — and a Visit — from Kelly Clarkson
The original American Idol was so starstruck by a video of children with cancer lip-synching to her song, “Stronger,” that she intends to swing by Seattle Children’s Hospital to meet them in person.
Family MattersPregnancy
Should Pregnant Women Be Accommodated in the Workplace?
Not all companies are eager to oblige the needs of expectant workers. The newly proposed Pregnant Workers Fairness Act aims to force employers’ hand.
Family MattersBreast-Feeding
Extended Breast-Feeding: Is It More Common than We Think?
Why I (quietly) nursed my three kids well past their first birthdays, and why this doesn’t automatically mean I believe in attachment parenting
Family MattersChildhood
Why Maurice Sendak Insisted He Didn’t Write for Children
The famed author and illustrator — who died Tuesday — was among the first writers to capture the intense emotions of childhood, drawing heavily on imaginary worlds. Why, he wondered, do adults stop playing make-believe?
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My Sister, My Surrogate: After Battling Cancer, One Woman Receives the Ultimate Mother’s Day Gift
Melissa Brown survived breast cancer at 26. Advised not to get pregnant afterward, she accepted with joy and trepidation her sister’s offer to be her gestational surrogate.
Family MattersParenting
Dying Mom with Cancer Makes Final Effort to Stay with Her Kids
Alaina Giordano, the mother with breast cancer who has been fighting a public battle for custody of her children, is on the verge of entering hospice. She is asking her estranged husband to allow their children to relocate with her to Pennsylvania, where her extended family lives.
Family MattersParenting
Why Kids and Tanning Salons Don’t Mix
Vermont and California are the only two states that ban kids under 18 from using tanning salons. Is it time for more states to follow their lead?
Family MattersParenting
No Mother’s Day? Why Model Christy Turlington Burns Wants a Boycott
Turlington Burns is calling on mothers to honor “No Mother’s Day” instead, to raise awareness of the 358,000 mothers who die worldwide from pregnancy or childbirth complications each year.
Family MattersPregnancy
The Cost of Premature Birth: For One Family, More than $2 Million
A new report released Wednesday finds that 15 million babies worldwide are born prematurely each year. For any hope of prevention, preterm birth needs to raise its PR profile.