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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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? ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Usually getting fired is a bad thing. But, somehow, this woman is happy about it. Can you imagine...
My attention was drawn this week to an article on the resurgence of the market for men’s underwear. It...
