 Abuse report: 10,440 children died 2001-07 : Everyday in the U.S. 5 children die from abuse or neglect; more than 10,000 children died from abuse or neglect in the U.S. from 2001 through 2007, three quarters of them younger than 4, said a report based on data from the Department of Health and Human Services...read more
- Over the Top ($10,000 for a Child's) Birthday Party : Two years ago, Stephanie Kaster of Manhattan set out to plan the birthday party of a lifetime for her daughter, (almost) 3-year-old Sophie. The $5000 price tag included...read more
- Study: Preschool education beneficial : A three year study, funded by The Heinz Endowments, of over 10,000 preschoolers from low-income families has shown a good preschool education dramatically improves a child’s ability to learn....read more
- Steep rise in Down's pregnancies in England : The number of Down’s syndrome pregnancies has increased by more than 70 percent in the last 20 years....read more
- Walls of Gated Communities Spread Round the World : In the United States the wealthy can choose to shelter their children behind the walls of a gated community isolating them from the perceived threats to their safety and well being. In California alone nearly one-third of all new communities in southern California are gate....read more
- Build a waffle ball field and lawyers will come : Greenwich, CT. A group of adolescents put three weeks of effort, cleaning, clearing of brush and weeds, and painting, into a waffle ball field in an empty lot; a great place to spend their afternoons and a constructive use of their time and available space. Or so they thought...read more
- Working Dad: Hit-or-Miss Times for Striking a Balance : More and more fathers are becoming involved in child rearing though not yet 50/50 more dads are running the school car pool or caring for sick children. This means that dads too, now are looking for...read more
- Circumcision: Fact, Fiction, and Hype : The controversial subject of male circumcision recently has been debated at the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada. Presenters at the conference suggested that male circumcision could be considered similar to a high-quality vaccine which could help in prevention and spread of the HIV virus....read more
- Goth Subculture May Protect Vulnerable Children : In a study published in the British Medical Journal, researchers claim that about half of the teenagers who considered themselves part of the gothic subcultures had either deliberately harmed themselves or attempted suicide. The researchers say that the gothic culture may protect these vulnerable children from committing suicide....read more
- Genital Cutting Shows Signs of Losing Favor in Africa : In Africa, the widespread and common practice of female genital mutilation is slowly losing its popularity. Many parliaments are passing laws that forbid this practice, which causes disfigurement and even death for many girls. Some girls are leaving their homes to avoid this procedure. A few of those women who are performing this procedure are discontinuing their services as genital cutters....read more
- Cases of Forced Abortions surface in China : According to an NPR broadcast, recently in China there have been dozens of women forced to have abortions. For more than twenty years, the Chinese government has had a strict one child policy. This policy permits couples to have only one child and in the Guangxi Province many women claim that they were forced into having abortions which they did not want....read more
- Indian Teens Have World’s Highest Suicide Rate : In a study conducted by the Christian Medical College in Vellore researchers concluded that the world’s highest suicide rate is found in South India, especially among the adolescent girls....read more
- Painful Memories for China’s Footbinding Survivors : Footbinding was practiced in China for nearly 2000 years. Many women who had their feet bound when they were younger are now regretting this decision....read more
- ‘Daddying’ Drive Redefines Man's Child-Raising Role : Forty or fifty years ago fathers were not expected to provide childcare for their children. Today we commonly see men in birthing and parenting classes, carrying their infants in slings and backpacks, pushing them in strollers, playing on playgrounds, attending conferences and school events and requesting family Leave....read more
- Cost of Raising a Child in the United States Increases : ...In the lowest income group the cost of raising a child can total $196,010, in the middle income group $269,040, and in the highest income group $393,230 (Lino, 2008). “These amounts reflect a tenfold increase in the cost of raising a child in the last 50 years since the department began its annual study in 1960, when raising a kid costs a mere $25,229”....read more
- Babes in Arms : Ishmael Beah wrote a memoir entitled A Long Way Gone. He recounts the horrors and monstrosities that he experienced as a child soldier. Beah was 12 when he was tangled in the civil war....readwar....read more
- Kids in America now pack on pounds compared to 1950's : In the 1950s, kids had three cups of milk for every cup of soda. Today that ratio is reversed, meaning they get all the calories and none of the nutrients ..... read more
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- Growth in Rural America fueled by Hispanic Births : Births, not immigration, now account for most of the growth in the nation’s Hispanic population, a distinct reversal of trends of the past 30 years..... read more
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- Child Jockies race along the Stepps of Central Asia : Genghis Khan and his army once rode their horses across the steppes of Central Asia. Once again, horses race, literally, across those same steppes..... read more
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- African Crucible cast as Witches, and cast out : Domingos Pedro was only 12 years old when his father died. The passing was sudden; the cause was a mystery to doctors. ..... read more
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- Manufacturers Expand Market from Teens to Tots : Growing concern about childrens overuse of cell phones and their saftey is propmting Jappanese officials to concider an initiative to govern cell phones..... read more
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- 12% of Schools are 'Dropout Factories': More than one in 10 high schools across America can now be called “Dropout Factories”—high schools which graduate no more than 60 percent of the students..... read more
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- "Wombs for Rent": Birth is latest job to be outsourced in India: ..Modern Americans and Europeans often want children even when they don’t want to go through the pain and/or hassle of pregnancy...read more
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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
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- 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. |
