February 9, 2012
We often hear about women’s rights and human rights, but what about babies’ rights? No, I’m not talking about “fetus rights” or any of the crap that pro-lifers come out with; I mean the basic rights that babies should be entitled to have once they have been born into the world. The UK-based charity NSPCC ...
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 ...
Tags: bonding,
brain,
bullying,
emotional health,
emotional support,
feelings,
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motherhood,
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obesity,
parenting,
physical health,
preventative measures,
relationships,
security,
self-esteem,
sensitive parenting,
sleep patterns,
stability,
stress response,
study,
teenagers,
weight
December 22, 2011
About seven percent of teen girls are having group sex, according to a recent study conducted by the New York Academy of Medicine. They looked at any sexual experience from a modest threesome to the more advanced orgy. Of the 328 14 to 20-year-olds surveyed, over half said they were pressured and 43 percent claim ...
Tags: age of first sex,
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forced sex,
group sex,
how to talk to kids about sex,
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sexual assault,
sexual health education,
sexually transmitted infections,
teen sex,
threesomes,
underage sex,
unsafe sex,
unwanted pregnancy
December 8, 2011
Not planning to have a baby? There’s a pill for that. Not planning to have a baby ever, or to die from ovarian cancer? There’s also a pill for that. The same one, actually. As well as helping you to not become pregnant when you don’t want to be, that pill can also decrease your ...
Tags: birth control pill,
blood clots,
cancer,
cancer prevention,
cancer protection,
cancer reduction,
Catholic Church,
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children,
contraceptive pill,
hormones,
nuns risk of cancer,
ovarian cancer,
parenting,
uterine cancer,
women's health
December 7, 2011
A woman who was fired an hour after revealing she was pregnant to her boss has been told that her pregnancy was not a factor in her losing her job. The case is currently being heard by the Human Rights Commission in Canada. Her bosses say that she was already earmarked for dismissal because they ...
November 30, 2011
The behavioural psychology masterminds at the University of British Columbia have been conducting an intensive study on a group of intelligent infants. They are determined to discover what to stance babies take on anti-social behaviour. Their sophisticated research began with a puppet show. Separate groups of five- and eight-month-olds were forced to sit through amateur puppet productions by ...
November 25, 2011
For women who have had a child before, giving birth is just as safe in a hospital, at home, or with a midwife, according to a new study. The research looked at 64,500 births in England and concluded that low-risk mothers should have the right to choose where they give birth. Who is low risk? ...
Tags: benefits of home birth,
complications of birth,
health,
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hospital birth,
labour,
midwife,
midwifery,
parenting,
pregnancy,
problems with home birth,
reproductive choice
November 22, 2011
Have you changed your name to your husband’s? Kept yours? Hyphenated? That’s fine and dandy, but how do you decide what to call the kids?! Here Reservoir Dad takes a look at this thorny issue. When I first started thinking about the “name change” issue — whether or not women and children should adopt their ...
Tags: changing your name,
feminism,
hyphenated last names,
maiden name,
marriage,
name changes,
names,
naming children,
parenting,
reservoir dad,
sexism,
social conditioning,
wife as property
November 17, 2011
Despite occasionally smoking cigars, I’m not a board member. Is that because I don’t want to be, or because the boys won’t let me have my own leather chair? According to the Canadian Board Diversity Council (CBDC) report released yesterday, women account for only 6.6 to 20 percent of board members in Canada. The CBDC ...
Tags: board members,
business women,
Canadian Board Diversity Council,
career women,
family benefits,
female executives,
glass ceiling,
maternal leave,
parental leave,
parenting,
SAHD,
stay-at-home-dads
November 16, 2011
When women are pregnant all the attention seems to go to them, which is fair enough, but we need to remember that fathers are just as important and should be just as involved in health care and hospital appointments. Midwives have had to be told that they aren’t paying enough attention to male partners and ...
Tags: antenatal care,
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midwives,
parenting,
postnatal care,
pregnancy