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An All-Grown-Up Elizabeth Smart Testifies in Captor’s Trial
I have never been a big television person, mostly because … well, there are so many great books to be read. Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, though, my coping mechanism was to watch the news with...
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Mother Leaves Child Alone So She Can Make a Five-Hour Beer Run
As a single mother (two separate times—I must be cursed or something), I can recall many occasions when, after my kiddo was asleep, I found there was really something I needed at the store. It was...
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Researcher Says Allowing Child Porn Could Reduce Molestation
Milton Diamond, a researcher at the University of Hawaii, says that making child porn legal could help to reduce sex crimes against children. Diamond cites findings from other countries showing that...
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Chad Evans, Convicted of Murdering Toddler in 2000, is Looking For Sympathy
When I became a mother at the age of seventeen, I could suddenly relate to news stories. The Oklahoma City bombing. Susan Smith drowning her little boys. Everything suddenly touched me on an...
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Charlie Sheen’s Disposable Goddesses
It’s wasn’t Charlie Sheen’s possibly deranged, potentially BS and certainly attention-seeking behavior that has disturbed me over the last week or so. It’s been the way in which this behavior has been...
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Color Me Jaded: More Scumbags Neglect Their Kid
Am I naïve to think that two-year-old children should be concerned with fingerpainting, “Yo Gabba Gabba”, and discovering shells and seaglass on a beach … and that parents should be encouraging these...
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It’s Okay, Everyone – Courtney Stodden Just Has Daddy Issues
Earlier this week, the interwebs were abuzz with the news that little-known character actor Doug Hutchison – who played small roles in The Green Mile, Lost and 24 – married a 16-year-old aspiring...
View ArticleAbuse vs Art: Is There a Line?
Eva Ionesco is a French model and actress but she’s making headlines for something other than her career. When Eva was eleven, she made her American modeling debut—in Playboy. Eva is the youngest...
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Another Day in Obvious: Don’t Shake Babies
Definition: Shaken Baby Syndrome is a serious form of child abuse in which an adult violently shakes a baby or young child, leading to serious injury or death. Also known as Shaken Impact Syndrome....
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What Happened To Dexter (And Other Shopping Horrors)
I’m uncertain as to how to properly trigger warn the story to which I refer in this post. Aggressive anti-gay sentiment and action on the part of a burly stranger against a toddler, and it could be so...
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