January 22, 2012
Today is the 39th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the court case that made abortion legal in the USA. In honour of this day we are posting a video that explains some of the facts about who really gets abortions (not teenagers) and why (poverty and already having too many children to look after), in ...
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December 29, 2011
Having a good relationship with your mom may benefit more than your emotional health. Bonding with your mom could actually keep you thin, according to a new study. After tracking 977 children, researchers found that toddlers who lacked strong emotional bonds with their mothers were twice as likely to become obese by the age of ...
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December 20, 2011
Most of us want some extra cash to help out around the house, but few of us turn to the sex industry. But it looks like the phone sex industry might be an exception. A survey says that many stay-at-home moms are turning to phone sex as a career that’s easily manageable with kids and ...
December 15, 2011
Time‘s Person of the Year is “The Protestor.” Fair enough. Nobody can deny it was a year where people expressed dissatisfaction. The protestor can be anyone — man or woman. But when you take the protestor out of the equation to look at other candidates for the Person of the Year title, there’s a notable absence of ...
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December 8, 2011
Celebrities like Brooke Shields and Courteney Cox have done their part to bring the media spotlight on postpartum depression, but just because we’re more aware doesn’t mean we’re no longer confused. Although researchers are attempting to answer questions surrounding postpartum depression, said to affect 13 percent of women, it’s a mental illness that remains shrouded ...
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November 20, 2011
We are constantly told that childhood isn’t what is used to be. We are either being spoiled, or forced to grow-up early. Yet we rarely take the time to look at the mothers whose job has changed substantially in the last few decades. Everyone feels like the other generation has it better, so let’s take ...
October 31, 2011
Women have been giving birth the same way since they were Neanderthals: through good-old natural birth. However, a recent change by the National Health Service (NHS) could make these old-fashioned vaginal births obsolete. The NHS plans to give all women the right to choose caesarean sections even if they are not medically necessary. At first ...
October 21, 2011
Did you ever think a dictionary could be sexist? JennieSue tells us why some words just shouldn’t exist. As of this month, “Mumpreneur” has officially made it into the Collins dictionary. It’s always been a word that makes me really angry, but actually adding it to the dictionary, giving it the official “this is an ...
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September 27, 2011
If you have a problem with MTV’s 16 and Pregnant, it might be even harder to accept the reverse: 61 and pregnant. Although she’s old enough to be a granny, an unnamed 61-year-old Brazilian woman is due with her first child this November. After having “undergone a very thorough medical clearance,” her and her 38-year-old ...
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September 26, 2011
Women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine. ~ Margaret Sanger