Sex education — comprehensive or abstinence-only — doesn’t do much to change the behavior of adolescents, writes Jonathan Zimmerman in the San Francisco Chronicle. Poverty is the key factor determining whether teens get pregnant, give birth, quit school and raise their children in poverty.
Last year, an exhaustive five-year study confirmed that kids [...]
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How do you build a “better baby?” Flash cards, apparently. From the Philly Inquirer:
Angelo Calafati munches a fistful of Cheerios. Directly across from him, his mother, Dana, coos and smiles. She holds up a stack of 10 large cards with pictures of exotic flowers, and like a gunner who has found her target, she rattles [...]
Tony Woodlief wants to develop his four sons’ work ethic “Humans need work, and they need to see that their work has a purpose,” he writes in the Wall Street Journal.
One summer I installed stairs and flooring in our stifling-hot attic. My oldest son, 4 at the time, insisted on donning his little [...]
DNA could determine whether children learn from mistakes or cope with abuse, some scientists now believe. About 30 percent of people are born with few dopamine receptors, which “is linked to an inability to avoid self-destructive behavior such as illicit drug use,” Newsweek reports.
But the effects spill beyond such extremes. Children with the [...]
Pricey summer camps now hire parent liasons to cope with the demands of anxious parents who can’t let go for a few weeks. From the New York Times:
The liaisons are emblematic of what sleep-away camp experts say is an increasing emphasis on catering to increasingly high-maintenance parents, including those who make unsolicited bunk placement requests, [...]
Wealthy two-career couples can hire a night nanny to get up at 2 am with a crying baby, reports the New York Times.
Anie Roche of Los Altos, Calif., hired a night nanny through Craigslist last November after she had her second child. Both Ms. Roche and her husband have high-pressure jobs: he is an [...]
In response to helicopter parenting, New York Sun columnist Lenore Skenazy has started Free Range Kids for parents who think their children should be able to bike to the library, walk to school and ride a bus.
At Free Range, we believe in safe kids. We believe in helmets, car seats and safety belts. [...]
All adult mothers from a polygamous Mormon sect will be separated from their children once genetic testing to determine parentage is complete, say Texas officials. That includes mothers breastfeeding infants. More than 400 children will go into foster care.
What grounds are sufficient to terminate parental rights? Laura asks the question on 11D.
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It’s tough when parents don’t agree about their child’s future. For example, Which gang is right for a four-year-old son? In Commerce City, Colorado, 19-year-old Joseph Manzanares was arrested for threatening to kill his girlfriend and knocking over displays at the video rental store where she works.
His girlfriend told police that they had been [...]
Boston social workers are showing poorly educated parents how to talk to their babies and toddlers so they’ll develop the language skills they’ll need when they start learning to read. From the Boston Globe:
Literacy coaches have begun fanning out among housing developments in the city, urging parents of infants and toddlers to embrace the unnatural [...]
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