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children stories: 394 news summaries

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 Save the Planet:  
 Use a Condom 

Studies point to environmental toll of each kid

Sep 15, 09 1:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - You’ve got your hybrid, your low-watt bulbs, and your solar panels: what’s the next step to saving the planet? Try a pack of condoms. New studies point to the hefty environmental toll of each child, particularly in America, the Washington Post reports. Every kid born in the US... More »

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climate change • environment • parenting • study • children • birth control • research • population control • carbon emissions

Yemeni Child Bride, 12,
Dies in Childbirth

Girl forced to marry 24-year-old dies after three days in labor

Sep 15, 09 3:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - A pregnant 12-year-old Yemeni girl has died after three days of excruciating labor that also claimed her baby, a human rights group tells CNN. Fawziya Ammodi's poverty-stricken family forced her to drop out of school last year to marry a 24-year-old man. More than half of Yemeni girls are married... More »

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human rights • children • baby • childbirth • Yemen • human rights abuse • child rape • child brides

 Parents Leery 
 About H1N1 
 Vaccine 

'Uncertainty' dominates as families mull shot

Sep 14, 09 10:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Concerned over unforeseen effects and unconvinced that the H1N1 virus is really anything worse than a case of the sniffles, some parents are leaning away from vaccinating their kids against it, the Los Angeles Times reports. “It's a different brand of flu, but it is still the flu,”... More »

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parenting • children • vaccination • vaccine • flu shot • swine flu • H1N1 virus

 Parents Turn to Facebook  
 to Keep Tabs on Junior 

Some kids quick to 'unfriend'; others call it 'sensible'

Sep 8, 09 8:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - For some parents, Facebook has become a window into the lives of their children, a means for mom and dad to monitor—and sometimes admonish—their kids. “It's so much easier to keep track of what they eat and when they pick their nose this way,” notes one... More »

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social networking • Internet • parenting • Facebook • children

ANALYSIS

A Post-Racial Society? Your Toddler Would Beg to Differ

Kids learn racial difference early, and parents aren't helping

Sep 6, 09 1:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Parents, if you think you’re raising color-blind children by avoiding open discussions on race, you’re wrong and could actually be doing the opposite, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman write in a lengthy Newsweek article exposing how babies really learn about racial difference. Many white parents shy away from... More »

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race • children • parents • race relations • racism • post-racial • desegregation • babies

Web Monitoring Firm
Sells Kids' Chatter

Company also notifies parents when kids go astray online

Sep 5, 09 6:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - A company that polices children's Internet chatter is also selling it to companies that want marketing data on the quick, CNET reports. Sentry Parental Control Software, which monitors kids online—and triggers a phone call to parents when kids go astray—is amassing their chatter about products and selling it.... More »

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Internet • children • software • computer • teenager

OPINION

 Back-to-School 
 Speech Anger 
 Rooted 
 in Race 

Right-wingers show 'irrational,' gut antipathy to Obama

Sep 4, 09 10:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - If there’s one thing we should all be cool with, it’s the leader of the free world inspiring kids about education. But somehow the idea of President Obama giving a back-to-school speech has spawned an “outbreak of right-wing crazy,” writes Joan Walsh for Salon—“and... More »

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children • school • racism • back to school • speech • right wingers • Election 2008 • Obama administration • students • President Obama • schoolchildren • birther • kids

Obama School Address Infuriates Critics

Republicans denounce speech as 'socialist' indoctrination

Sep 3, 09 3:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Conservative critics are blasting President Obama’s plan to give a speech on education in Virginia next week as a ploy to brainwash the nation’s children, the Washington Post reports. The address, which the White House is encouraging educators and students to watch, is part of a push to... More »

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education • Barack Obama • Republican • conservative • children • school • Virginia • Republican Party • Obama administration • President Obama • Tommy Vietor • Thaddeus McCotter • House Education and Labor Committee • Jim Greer

Man Charged With Striking Stranger's Child

Annoyed by crying,
Ga. shopper pledged
to 'shut her up for you'

Sep 3, 09 1:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Georgia man is being held on charges of felony cruelty to children after he slapped a stranger’s crying child in Wal-Mart, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Roger Stephens, 61, approached the mother and said, “If you don’t shut that baby up, I will shut her up... More »

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shopping • Georgia • children • child abuse • strangers • crying • Wal-Mart • criminal charges • Roger Stephens • slap

 Inside Jaycee's Tent: 
 a Wii, and Squalor 

Pics show hints of domesticity amid trash and dirt

Sep 2, 09 12:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Photos of the backyard and tents where Jaycee Lee Dugard and her children lived reveal a small slice of normalcy amid appalling squalor, CBS News reports. The yard that Dugard’s meticulously dressed girls emerged from is littered with piles of trash and rusting bikes. But inside, where there was... More »

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backyards • kidnapping • children • sexual abuse • abduction • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido • Nancy Garrido • tent

(Newser) - Families are traveling more often, and recession-battered hotels are ramping up their kid-friendly offerings, the Boston Globe reports. Rooms occupied by families with children accounted for 27% of the total in 2008, up from 25% in 2004, and lodgings are watching the trend. Whether it's free Wii, a dog... More »

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travel • children • parents • recession • promotion • vacation • hotel • hospitality • women's issues • kids • lodging • hotel industry

 25 Car Tunes for 
 Kids and Parents 

Add some Marley, Beach Boys to the Disney playlist

Aug 22, 09 4:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Parents, don’t let Disney's catalog of saccharine tunes ruin any more of your road trips. There are songs that can bridge the generation gap, Lindsay Armstrong writes on Babble:
  • Jackson Five’s “ABC”: School the kids on the alphabet and pop music—all at once.
  • Billy
... More »

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music • children • parents • list • Beatles • Simon and Garfunkel • Jackson Five • Beach Boys • Bob Marley • road trip

Conn. Boarding School Sued Over Molester Dean

Kids at man's apartment at 'all hours': lawyer

Aug 21, 09 7:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Connecticut boarding school has been hit with two lawsuits over a former dean’s alleged sexual abuse of students he is charged with having as "overnight guests" in his apartment, the Danbury News-Times reports. The now-fired dean at The Gunnery School was charged Aug. 5 with sexual assault,... More »

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children • sexual abuse • donation • prep schools • sexual assault • boarding school

(Newser) - San Francisco’s Lombard Street, “the crookedest street in the world,” will tomorrow be shut to traffic and set up as a giant Candy Land game board for sick kids, the Appeal reports. The event, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the kids’ board game, is being hailed... More »

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San Francisco • children • Hasbro • hospital • anniversary • board games • Candy Land • Lombard Street • crooked

 41 Women, Kids Die in 
 Kuwait Wedding Blaze 

Guests stampeded to party tent's only exit

Aug 16, 09 12:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - A fire at a wedding near Kuwait City claimed the lives of 35 women and six children today, the BBC reports. Another 60 women and children were also injured as a tent holding the wedding caught fire and caved in over the course of just 3 minutes, causing a brutal... More »

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women • children • wedding • Kuwait • stampede • fire • injured

(Newser) - Overweight kids eat more when they eat with their overweight friends, Newsweek reports. A new study tested a child's consumption of healthy snacks and junk food while in the company of a friend or stranger who was either fat or lean. Overweight kids eating with a chubby buddy ate more... More »

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obesity • obesity epidemic • fat • children • junk food • obese • overweight • best friend


 Octomom Special Hits Fox 

Suleman feature to air next week

Aug 10, 09 5:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Just when you thought you had seen enough of one mom and her eight kids: Fox will air a 2-hour special on Nadya Suleman, Us Weekly reports. Octomom: The Incredible Unseen Footage—which follows Suleman from the day her octuplets were born through the next 7 months—will run... More »

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children • documentary • Fox • fertility treatment • octuplets • Nadya Suleman • Octomom

 How Playpens Slowly 
 Disappeared 

Once-'ubiquitous' enclosure got a bad rap; was it deserved?

Aug 10, 09 3:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Playpens used to be a standard piece of household furniture—but now, one rarely sees them, notes Tom Vanderbilt in Slate. That sparked him to ponder whether, and why, parents had given up on them. A little digging revealed that while they still exist, some believe them to be dangerous... More »

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parenting • children • toddler • trend • babies • women's issues

(Newser) - Diarrhea kills 1.6 million children under 5 every year—more than AIDS or malaria—and gets a fraction of the funding. But a deceptively simple new treatment may mark a breakthrough, Time reports. Zinc supplements appear to dramatically decrease diarrhea-related deaths—one afflicted village in Mali hasn’t had... More »

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Africa • AIDS • malaria • children • treatment • death • diarrhea • women's issues

(Newser) - Opium is taking a heavy toll on the women and children of Afghanistan, but it's addiction, not production, that's entering the spotlight. Opium is cheaper than a meal, staves off hunger, and brings the family some happiness, one addicted mother tells CBS News as she prepares opium tea for her... More »

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Afghanistan • drug addiction • children • addiction • opium • drug addicts

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