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Drunk Dad Lets 8-Year-Old Drive, Say Police

Family was on trip from Mississippi to Texas

(Newser) - And today's Parent of the Year Award goes to: Billy Joe Madden, who allegedly let his 8-year-old drive during a family trip from Mississippi to Texas ... while dear old dad was passed out drunk in the passenger seat. State police arrested Madden after receiving an early morning call yesterday...

Babysitter, Baby Boy Missing
Babysitter,
Baby Boy Missing
Jul 25, 2011 3:42 AM CDT

Babysitter, Baby Boy Missing

Dad left son in care of 'friend of a friend'

(Newser) - Baltimore cops are seeking a 16-year-old babysitter and a baby boy in her charge who have been missing for three days. "Put my baby somewhere safe and call somebody. He's probably hungry," the baby's tearful mom pleaded at a support rally yesterday. "It's a...

Social Networking: Majority of Parents Use Facebook to Spy
 Majority of Parents 
 Use Facebook to Spy 
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Jul 23, 2011 6:50 AM CDT

Majority of Parents Use Facebook to Spy

Some say they're overprotective of kids; others, just nosy

(Newser) - If you’re worried that your mom may be checking out your risqué Facebook photos, odds are you’re right. More than half of parents—some 55%—use social networks to keep tabs on their children, a survey finds. Another 5% would do so if they could figure out how,...

Women Brawl, Baby Rolls Out Subway Door

And what a fight it is...

(Newser) - Things got more than a little chaotic in a New York City subway car this week when a brawl broke out between two women—and the baby of one of them rolled out the door in a stroller. "Yo, the baby, the baby!" one man can be heard...

Kids to Cops: Mom Tried to Kill Us in Car Crash

North Carolina mother is charged with assault with a deadly weapon

(Newser) - Two young sisters have told police that their mom intended to hurt them in a deliberate car wreck because she was "mad at daddy," according to investigators. The girls, ages 7 and 8, were treated for cuts and bruises after mom Teresa Caffrey of North Carolina drove their...

News of the World Scandal: Sun Editor Rebekah Brooks' Call to Gordon Brown About Son Is 'Unforgivable'
Sun's Call to
Gordon Brown
'Unforgivable'
OPINION
Jul 12, 2011 2:38 PM CDT

Sun's Call to Gordon Brown 'Unforgivable'

Rebekah Brooks violated basic decency on former PM's son

(Newser) - Learning that your child has a disability is hard enough—but try getting a phone call saying his illness will be front-page news. That’s what happened to Gordon Brown when his family was still coming to terms with his son’s cystic fibrosis: Then-Sun editor Rebekah Brooks, now CEO...

Lori Gottlieb: Caring Too Much Can Land Kids in Therapy
Too-Perfect Parents Are Landing Kids in Therapy
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Jun 19, 2011 6:45 AM CDT

Too-Perfect Parents Are Landing Kids in Therapy

Loving, supportive parents leave kids ill-equipped for adulthood, Lori Gottlieb writes

(Newser) - Working as a therapist upended everything Lori Gottlieb thought she had learned about parenting, she writes in an Atlantic piece certain to stir a Tiger Mom-sized controversy. Gottlieb found many depressed, anxious patients on her couch—who instead of recounting their horrible childhoods, waxed poetic about their loving parents who...

Introducing: 'Dadchelor Parties'

Expectant dads mark last days of freedom, but not everyone likes the idea

(Newser) - The "dadchelor party"—in which soon-to-be new dads are taken out by the boys for a night of drinking—is officially a trend, declares the Huffington Post . (Other names: daddymoon, dadelor party, man-shower, diaper keg.) "I've been on three or four of them," says...

Americans Having Fewer Kids
 Americans Having Fewer Kids 
Jun 3, 2011 3:00 PM CDT

Americans Having Fewer Kids

Households with dogs outnumber those with kids

(Newser) - Maybe we should call this the Baby Bust. Census data indicates that America’s love affair with children is waning, with the percentage of the population that’s under age 18 falling in 95% of counties between 2000 and 2010, USA Today reports. There are now more households with dogs...

Parents Won't Reveal Gender of 4-Month-Old

Toronto couple hopes to avoid society's stereotypes

(Newser) - A Toronto couple is taking their beliefs about parenting and gender stereotypes to new heights: They refuse to tell people the gender of 4-month-old Storm, reports the Toronto Star . Even the kid's grandparents are in the dark. “In fact, in not telling the gender of my precious baby,...

Mom Offers to Sell Daughter's Virginity for $10K

Boyfriend turns Felicia Rae McClure in as she arranges deal for 13-year-old girl

(Newser) - A Salt Lake City mom has been arrested after investigators say she offered her 13-year-old daughter's virginity to a man for $10,000. Felicia Rae McClure was turned in by her boyfriend, who noticed a series of troubling texts about the pending transaction on her cellphone, say cops. McClure,...

Why Parents' Fave New Book is Go the F*** to Sleep
Why Parents' Fave New
Book Is Go the F*** to Sleep
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May 21, 2011 6:43 AM CDT

Why Parents' Fave New Book Is Go the F*** to Sleep

...even though it won't be published until June 14

(Newser) - Go the F*** to Sleep snagged the No. 1 spot on Amazon's best-seller list this week—almost a month before it hits bookshelves—and Rebekah Denn thinks she knows why. The 32-page book blends soothing rhymes with sleep-deprivation-induced obscenity, and the Internet-savvy attribute its early success to a viral...

Botox Girl Taken From California Mom

Authorities remove 8-year-old after series of injections for pageants

(Newser) - A California mom who admitted giving her 8-year-old daughter Botox injections has lost custody of the girl. San Francisco authorities launched an investigation last week after mom Kerry Campbell discussed the injections as part of their preparation for little girl beauty pageants on Good Morning America. "I just, like,...

Hoarders' Kids Grapple With Messy Pasts

Some rarely return to childhood homes, face rifts with parents

(Newser) - Growing up with parents who hoard can mark a child for life—whether they’re compulsively neat, embarrassed to have friends over, or end up hoarders themselves. It can also lead to rifts between kids and parents, the New York Times learns in a series of interviews. “They grew...

Tiger Mom Amy Chua: Parents in East and West Can Learn From Each Other
Tiger Mom: East-West Combo May Be Best for Kids
OPINION
May 11, 2011 1:49 PM CDT

Tiger Mom: East-West Combo May Be Best for Kids

Asia teaches discipline, America creativity: Let's combine

(Newser) - Tiger Mom Amy Chua, no stranger to how nasty the mommy wars can be , thinks her fellow Americans are "strangely close-minded" when it comes to parenting, she writes in USA Today . Everyone gets hyper-defensive whenever a new philosophy of child-raising is mentioned, which is "odd because anyone can...

Best Place to Be a Mom Is ...
 Best Place to Be a Mom Is... 
May 3, 2011 5:05 AM CDT

Best Place to Be a Mom Is...

...Norway, says index that considers maternity leave, mortality rates

(Newser) - Moms who want the good life should consider heading north. That's because Norway is the best place in the world to be a mother, according to new survey. Why? Norway has great health benefits, an average year-long maternity leave from work, and low child mortality rates, along with a...

Freeze Tag, Kickball Unsafe: New York State

Games added to 'significant risk' list for summer camps

(Newser) - It’s not just fun and games: Freeze tag, kickball, and Wiffleball all come with a “significant risk of injury,” say New York state authorities. Even Red Rover and Capture the Flag have been labeled dangerous on a new risky activities list, the New York Daily News reports....

Suicide Mom to Kids: You're All Dying With Me

'I've made a mistake,' she says seconds before drowning

(Newser) - "If I'm going to die, you're all going to die with me," a distraught mom told her four children before plunging her minivan into the Hudson River. But seconds before Lashanda Armstrong drowned with her three youngest kids, she told 10-year-old son Lashaun: "I've made a mistake....

Parents, Stop Working So Hard at ... Parenting

Lighten up, you matter less than you think: Bryan Caplan

(Newser) - Economics professor Bryan Caplan has advice for all those stressed-out parents in the world: Lighten up, you don't matter that much. As the father of twins, Caplan has immersed himself in twin research, which imparts this lesson: "With a few exceptions, the effect of parenting on adult outcomes ranges ...

School Bans Lunches Packed at Home

Chicago principal wants healthier eating; some kids grossed out

(Newser) - The healthiness of school lunches is quite the hot topic these days, and the Chicago Tribune takes a timely look at a public school that, aiming for better student nutrition, banned lunches brought from home. Six years ago. And many parents and kids are still voicing their outrage. “Who...

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