A mother was been suspended from her job for 18 months and given a police caution for leaving her 14-year-old son in charge of her three-year-old son while she went shopping. For half an hour. With no incidents or injuries during that time. She was even banned from working with children for ten years, but after ...
Many women are forcibly sterilized in South Africa and other parts of the continent when it is found out they are HIV-positive. This might be done by coercion or even without their consent. One woman quoted in this article only found out she had been sterilized when she and her husband were unable to conceive. ...
All gloves are off in the fight between the medical establishment and parents concerning home birth. Mothers who want a home birth, or who want to reduce their chances of having a c-section, are being called unfit parents for putting their children at risk. In an editorial, The Lancet took aim at the practice of ...
The World Health Organization has withdrawn its recommendation that no more than 10 to 15 per cent of babies be born by Caesarean section. Is this a silent acknowledgment that c-sections are a legitimate alternative to a natural birth? I certainly hope not. The number of Caesarean sections in the world is climbing, and in ...
Men in Manchester and Edinburgh are taking part in a two-year trial for an injectable male contraceptive. Comments by readers on this article talk of an end to men being tricked into supporting children who are not theirs.
Michelle Duggar gave birth to her nineteenth child on Thursday. The premature baby was born at only one pound, six ounces and the mother is still recovering from the emergency c-section. While we wish them both health, it begs the question, how many babies is too much? Where I live, women are basically baby making ...
Mike raised a daughter who wasn’t his own for four years. When it was discovered he divorced the mother but still continued to see the girl and pay child support as the biological father was out of the picture. When his ex-wife and the biological father got married he tried to stop child support. But ...
Crisis pregnancy centres are pressuring new moms into giving their babies up for adoption. An article in The Nation looks at how these organizations lure new mothers in, persuade them against abortion, and then bully them into giving their kids up to “better” families. Such enthusiasm for Christians to adopt en masse begins to seem ...
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Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
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