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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: child care

child care stories: 11 news summaries

Home Daycare Turns Kids Into Couch Potatoes

Child-care centers do far better at restricting boob tube time

Nov 23, 09 5:35 PM CST
(Newser) - Children in home-based daycare watch far more TV than kids in formal child-care centers, with preschoolers averaging as much as 3.4 hours a day. The numbers in a new survey haven't changed much from stats recorded in previous years, which the researchers say they find "disconcerting, given the... More »

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obesity • television • parenting • child care • childhood obesity • obesity epidemic • daycare • television watching • couch potato • preschool

Recession Squeezes 'Grandfamilies'

Layoffs sting rising number of people raising grandkids

Apr 4, 09 11:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - The recession is putting a serious strain on the safety net millions of American grandparents provide for their grandkids, the Wall Street Journal reports. The number of children who live in a household headed by a grandparent has been rising for decades, but older workers are finding it tough to... More »

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families • child care • children • recession • grandparents • grandmother • foster care

 Octu-Mom Takes 
 Free Child Care, 
 Bigger House 

Nursing charity to provide care for octuplets worth up to $135K per month

Mar 10, 09 2:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Octuplet mom Nadya Suleman has agreed to accept free round-the-clock nursing and child care from the nonprofit group Angels In Waiting, the Los Angeles Times reports. The babies, expected to leave the hospital within weeks, will also have a bigger home to go to. Suleman's father has bought a four-bedroom... More »

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California • child care • multiple births • octuplets • Nadya Suleman • Ed Doud

Octuplet Mom Turns Down
Free, 24-Hour Child Care

Starts video diary to explain her side of story

Mar 2, 09 1:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Nadya Suleman has rejected an offer from a nonprofit group for free, 24-hour care for her 14 kids, the Los Angeles Times reports. The group’s founder says Suleman lost interest when it vetoed a reality show based around their care, but Suleman disputes that in a video diary for... More »

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child care • Oprah Winfrey • blog • octuplets • Nadya Suleman

Squeezed Parents Dump Daycare 

Kids often home alone, but cost 'ludicrous' if 'you can't afford rent'

Dec 21, 08 2:43 PM CST
(Newser) - As the tanking economy squeezes parents with skyrocketing unemployment and foreclosures, experts are noticing that it's the little children who suffer—in the form of fast-emptying daycare centers. As the Washington Post reports, strapped families desperate to cut costs are pulling their kids out of programs that can cost hundreds... More »

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child care • unemployment • daycare • co-pays • economy • financial crisis • fiscal crisis

Nebraska Closes Loophole on Abandoning Unruly Kids

Lawmakers could set age limitation today

Nov 21, 08 10:09 AM CST
(Newser) - Nebraska lawmakers today closed a loophole that allowed parents to abandon their unruly teenagers and leave them in state custody, the Omaha World-Herald reports. The original law was meant to allow unwanted infants to be left at hospitals without penalty, but it lacked an age restriction. Since September, 35 children,... More »

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parenting • child care • hospitals • Nebraska • abandonment

5-Year-Old Ditches Day Care for Hooters

Preschooler walks half a mile, probably for the wings

Jul 25, 08 4:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Texas day-care provider has some explaining to do after losing track of a 5-year-old boy who took off on his own and walked half a mile to the local Hooters, WFAA of Dallas reports. The child asked to use the bathroom and skipped out through an emergency exit shortly... More »

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child care • Texas • Hooters • daycare

opinion

 A Call for Dads to Step Up  

Fatherless upbringing can help doom kids

Jun 14, 08 2:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - As Father’s Day approaches, it’s important to recognize that alarming numbers of America’s youth don’t know their fathers, leaving them feeling like “throwaway people,” writes Juan Williams in the Wall Street Journal. The lack of a dad “to push them, discipline them,”... More »

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parenting • child care • family • father • single parenting • Father's Day

 Cost of Bringing Up Baby: $204K 

And that doesn't include college

Mar 25, 08 9:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Raising that little bundle of joy will come with a not-so-cute $204,060 price tag for middle-income families, according to a new government study. Factoring in inflation, the parents of a child born in 2007 can expect to spend $269,040 by the time that baby turns 18. Actual costs... More »

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food • education • child care • children • parents • housing • USDA • child-rearing • household expenses • urban West • urban Midwest

House Dems Call for Expanded Health Care Bill

Calls for both children's coverage and shoring up Medicare

Jul 23, 07 9:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Senate reached a rare bipartisan agreement to beef up insurance coverage for low-income kids, and now House Democrats are proposing a health care plan with an even wider scope. Their plan yokes the children's coverage to big changes in Medicare, and is sure to heat up the confrontation between... More »

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health care • health care costs • health insurance • insurance companies • child care • medical costs

Day Care Kids Learn to Act Up

Study finds preschoolers in day care

Mar 26, 07 10:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Day care centers enlarge kids' vocabularies--and teach them how to act up, too, says a study that’s followed 1,300 children from birth through 6th grade. Although parental guidance and genes were the strongest predictor of behavior, who attended day care as preschoolers were slightly more likely to be... More »

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education • child care • children • behavior • school • learning • daycare

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