Parenting

Infant/Child Response to Grief

Kerry — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 22:26:21 -0600

When a child is placed in foster care or an adoptive home, care and concern must be given to the grief and loss that infant or child is experiencing. It is my belief too many adoptees and foster kids are being sent to psychologists because parents do not understand the grief process of children. Remember, the new child in your life now has lost the only parents he/she has only ever known. Imagine what that must be like.

Signs of a Grieving Child

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Do you really need to buy your infant that patterned 'burp cloth' or Baby Einstein DVD?

Kerry — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:14:06 -0600

No, says Pamela Paul, whose new book exposes the extraordinary commercialisation of parenting

Sally Williams
Saturday May 24, 2008

Guardian

Parenting

What God says about your money

Kerry — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:38:59 -0600

Once you've figured out what Christianity, Judaism or Islam preach about making and spending money, teach your kids early and often.

Published March 14, 2008

Faiths usually offer parents very clear direction on child-rearing. Premarital sex, for instance? That's pretty much a no-no, no matter what deity you worship. Dietary rules can also be pretty straightforward -- no pork for Muslims and Jews, no beef for Hindus.

Parenting

Unmarried fathers

Kerry — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0700

Heritage's FamilyFacts.org draws our attention to its latest featured finding, from the American Sociological Review. The finding concludes that out-of-wedlock fatherhood is problematic for men just as out-of-wedlock motherhood is problematic for women:

Parenting

Stress in pregnancy hits offspring's emotional brain

Kerry — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:50:16 -0700

Stress experienced by a pregnant female can alter the structure of her offspring's brain, particularly regions vital for emotional development, scientists have discovered. Furthermore, in rodents at least, the effects differ in male and female offspring. That might help explain the different susceptibilities of men and women to emotional and psychiatric disorders, says Katharina Braun, from the University of Magdeburg,Germany. Braun presented the work at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies' annual meeting in Vienna, Austria, on Tuesday. Braun and colleagues at the University of Jerusalem in Israel studied the effects of stress on pregnant rats. If they become stressed in last trimester of pregnancy, their offspring developed fewer nerve connections in two brain regions that control emotions - the cingulate cortex and orbitofrontal cortex. In addition, the nerve cells in several other regions show different branching patterns to normal, with different effects on males and females. In the hippocampus, an important region that controls memory and emotion, males show an increase in branching while females show a decrease. In the prefrontal cortex, the males develop shorter nerve branches, while the females do not. Braun has not yet tested the behavioural effects of these changes on adult rats, but the results could reveal a possible mechanism for the development of emotional disorders seen in humans.

Message in a bottle

Is Amsterdam's wild-life going up in smoke and getting bagged for good?

Kerry — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 08:10:39 -0700

New drug policing puts squeeze on Amsterdam

Geraldine Baum, Los Angeles Times
Sunday, January 6, 2008

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - The vacation sort of just flew by.

Bartender !?!

Baby trafficking and other adoption secrets

Kerry — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:59:09 -0600

From Confessions of a Cryokid

Child abuse

Stem-Cell Veto, Snowflake kids, and Christian Eugenics

Niels — Sat, 24 May 2008 10:20:03 -0600

from: barf.org

By Lauren Sabina Kneisly

Ok, so why were there kids as the backdrop setting for Bush's remarks following his veto of the stem cell research bill?

Because these kids are not merely cute props, they are emblematic of, and the end product of one particular corner of the so-called 'culture of life' that Bush and his allies are attempting to remake America into.

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Losing a Parent to Suicide: Reflections of a Brown University Alum

Kerry — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:03:44 -0600

A Daughter's Grief

She learned to cope with her mother’s suicide.
Then everything fell apart.

By Dara Huang '99, '04 MD

My mother hanged herself in the basement of my house. I was 15. This is the most significant event in my life.

The Bleeding Grounds

Homosexual Teen Suicide

Kerry — Thu, 22 May 2008 11:58:43 -0600

Shaun Bourget, M.A.,M.F.T.
GayHealth.com, 2000/05/09

Abuse after childplacement

Living in Limbo: The Non-Divorce

Kerry — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:11:19 -0600

Debbie Mandel

Intimate relationships

Children of no one

Niels — Tue, 20 May 2008 08:53:32 -0600

Once, out of wedlock meant out of luck for kids and parents. That began to change in 1968.
By Nancy Polikoff
May 20, 2008

Parenting

Fatal Attraction? On the Risk of Incest for Children of IVF

Kerry — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:20:05 -0600

[From Physicians For Life]:

As the month of love rolls in, we are inundated with stories of romance on television, in the news, and even in forwarded e-mails.

Parenting

Welcome to Max’s World

Kerry — Sun, 18 May 2008 11:03:28 -0600

Bipolar disorder is a mystery and a subject of medical debate. But for the Blakes, it's just reality.

Message in a bottle

More than 2 million U.S. teens depressed

Kerry — Sat, 17 May 2008 11:39:09 -0600

13 percent of girls and 5 percent of boys affected, federal study says

Reuters

updated 1:50 p.m. ET, Tues., May. 13, 2008

Message in a bottle

Misunderstandings plague African adoptions

Niels — Sun, 11 May 2008 13:15:57 -0600

from: latimes.com

Traditional ways of helping poor children clash with Western concepts.

By Katharine Houreld, Associated Press
May 11, 2008

Parenting

1 in 3 U.S. parents lacks knowledge about babies

Kerry — Mon, 05 May 2008 06:56:50 -0600

Many have little understanding of infant development, study finds

Reuters
updated 3:13 p.m. ET, Sun., May. 4, 2008

CHICAGO - Nearly a third of U.S. parents know surprisingly little about typical infant development, and this lack of understanding can rob their babies of much-needed mental stimulation, researchers said on Sunday.

"There are numerous parenting books telling people what to expect when they're pregnant," said Dr. Heather Paradis of the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York.

Parenting

Learning Styles and Personality Types

Kerry — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:37:34 -0600

And Implications in the Classroom

http://www.wnc.edu/studentservices/counseling/styles_types/3_personality_types_and_learning.html

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Why Kids Kill Parents

Kerry — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:54:43 -0600

Tragedy in the family: When kids murder their parents.

By: Kathleen M. Heide

A father is gunned down... a mother is bludgeoned to death... a family of four-mother, father, and two small children-is butchered alive... by a son... a daughter... a son and daughter acting together.

Child abuse

Famously Bad Parenting

Kerry — Sun, 22 Dec 2002 00:00:00 -0700

12 celebrities who may be victims—or perpetrators—of questionable child-raising techniques.

By Kristopher Kaiyala & Matthew Cooke

Contrary to what you may have heard, celebrities are, in fact, just like you and me. They walk, talk, eat, sleep—all the usual stuff. And just like us, they don't always do the greatest job raising their kids.

Parenting

The problem with ‘embryo adoption’

Niels — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0600

from: msn.com

Why is the government giving money to ‘Snowflakes?’

COMMENTARY
By Arthur Caplan, Ph.D.

Child placement

Single-Mom Diaries: And Baby Makes Two

Kerry — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:53:43 -0600

http://www.marieclaire.com/life/sex/advice/single-mother-stories?click=main_sr

Parenting

Tiny Tyrants: How to Really Change Your Kid's Behavior

Kerry — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:02:43 -0600

By Alan E. Kazdin
Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008, at 2:20 PM ET

Picture an explosive parent who responds to a child's misbehavior by ranting, screaming, and perhaps hitting. Now picture a calm, patient, gentle parent who responds to the same misbehavior—no matter how provokingly awful—by reasoning and explaining. The rage-ball goes ballistic; the patient explainer works hard to see what's going on inside the child in order to get the child to understand why the behavior must change.

Parenting

The Globalization of Baby-Making

Kerry — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:16:54 -0600

By Ellen Goodman

By now we all have a story about a job outsourced beyond our reach in the global economy. My favorite is about the California publisher who hired two reporters in India to cover the Pasadena city government. Really.

There are times as well when the offshoring of jobs takes on a quite literal meaning. When the labor we are talking about is, well, labor.

Bartender !?!

Adoption Disruption Indicators

Kerry — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:45:10 -0600

http://www.achildswaiting.com/adoptive_parents/adoption_disruption/adopt_disrupt_ind.php

Parenting

How adopting an angelic five-year-old blew our family apart

Kerry — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:44:58 -0600

By MELANIE ALLEN

When Melanie Allen and her husband Rob, a quantity surveyor, adopted a five-year-old called Alex, they couldn't believe their good fortune. Heartbreakingly beautiful, as well as affectionate, she seemed to be a dream child. But as the months passed, Melanie and Rob, both now 44, began to see a very different side of their 'perfect' daughter - and found themselves sucked into a nightmare in which they faced losing everything ...

Jumping out of the car, I could just make out the small, lone figure waiting at the front door.

Child placement

Teen Issues -- Is this really a big secret?

Kerry — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:47:56 -0600

From The Oprah Winfrey Show "The Secret Lives of Teenage Girls"

From relationship abuse to peer pressure to drink, teen girls are dealing with more than they can handle. Dr. Robin Smith has some answers.

Parenting

Does this surprise you: "17 percent of 6th graders have tried alcohol "?

Kerry — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:20:43 -0600

Alcohol education should start in grade school, says study of 4,000 students

Reuters
updated 4:59 p.m. ET, Tues., March. 11, 2008

A significant number of children are already drinking by middle school, suggesting that prevention needs to start in the elementary grades, researchers conclude in a new report.

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