More Women Who Have a PhD or MD Also Have Kids

May 8, 2015, 7:30 am

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Earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention reported that married women in the US are having more children , while unmarried women are having fewer. It may not be a coincidence, then, that a new Pew Research Center analysis of Census data finds that more married women in...

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Mom Flees Burglar, Leaves Kid Inside—and It Ends Well

May 13, 2015, 11:40 am

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What should this 4-year-old be when she grows up? Our suggestion: police officer. The San Francisco Chronicle has the initially frightening story of woman who ran from her Antioch, Calif., home after seeing a man come inside through an unlocked door. She had her baby in her arms—but had...

What 53K Kids Had to Say About Happiness

May 18, 2015, 5:39 am

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Most kids are happy regardless of material wealth, according to a new survey of 53,000 8-year-olds to 12-year-olds in 15 countries (the US wasn't included). Yet the researchers out of Germany's Goethe University write in the 2015 Children's Worlds Report that there are subtle differences across populations. For instance,...

Kid Trips Into $1.5M Painting

August 25, 2015, 8:32 am

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Elsewhere in the world, terrorists threaten art and antiquities , but in Taiwan tween boys holding beverages are the threat. A 12-year-old taking a guided tour with his mom at an art exhibit in Taipei lived out what was probably his (and his mother's) worst nightmare when he tripped next to...

Study: Parents Who Do This Have Better Sex Lives

August 29, 2015, 9:17 am

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Couples who manage to evenly divide child care duties tend to have higher-quality relationships, as well as sex lives. This is the takeaway from a new study being presented to the American Sociological Association in Chicago this week. Researchers interviewed nearly 500 heterosexual couples with kids and found that when...

Instead of Tickets, Cops Give Dad a Much-Needed Gift

October 22, 2015, 10:33 am

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When police officer Justin Gower pulled a truck over Saturday in Cedar Park, Texas, for a faulty light, he wasn't prepared for what he found: three girls, ages 1, 3, and 4, in the back, none in car seats, KVUE reports. "I was upset because it's extremely dangerous," he tells...

Netflix Introduces 5-Minute Bedtime Movies for Kids

November 9, 2015, 3:33 am

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Heeding the pleas of parents around the globe and across the ages who deal with cries of "Just five more minutes!" on a nightly basis, Netflix has introduced five-minute episodes of the popular kids DreamWorks TV show Dinotrux —cut down drastically from their typical 23 minutes. The reason? Kids stall...

Mom's Favorite Kid Is More Prone to Depression

November 10, 2015, 6:33 am

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Always hoped you're mom's favorite? A new study out of Purdue University finds that the favorite child is actually more prone to be depressed as an adult, researchers report in the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences . Looking at 725 adult children from 309 families in the Within-Family Differences Study—a...

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On 3rd Anniversary of Sandy Hook, a Sobering Stat

December 14, 2015, 8:54 am

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Although it's the mass shootings in the US that we see most in the news, they're not what's causing the majority of gun deaths among our youngest citizens. Instead, it's what NBC News calls the "steady drumbeat of deaths in ones and twos" from suicides, homicides, and accidents that has...

6-Year-Olds Prove To Be Awful Drivers During Joyride

April 13, 2016, 4:33 pm

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Police say two 6-year-old boys took a joyride in a pickup truck through a central Kansas town, damaging five other vehicles and two mailboxes along the way. Newton police Sgt. Josh Millspaugh says the boys' three-block journey ended about 4:30pm Tuesday when they rammed another truck. One of the...

Mickey Dee's Yanks 'Brand Ambassador' Out of Schools

May 16, 2016, 7:51 am

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The man who said he once lost lots of pounds eating only McDonald's was such a viral sensation that the fast-food giant actually recruited him to evangelize about nutrition at schools across America. But those days appear to be over, with John Cisna yanked after criticism from parents, teachers, and...

Mom's Voice Really Fires Up a Kid's Brain

May 17, 2016, 8:04 am

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Newborns can pick out their mother's voice in their first days of life, and while the stimulating sound of mom's voice has long been connected to the early emotional and social development of children, little is understood neurologically. Now researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...

Montreal Priests Won't Be Allowed Alone With Kids

June 24, 2016, 5:17 am

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Some Catholic churches in Canada have banned priests from being alone with children—and more are about to start. The Catholic Church of Montreal says it will bar priests, volunteers, educators, and anyone else in "the orbit of the church" from being alone with children at 10 parishes beginning in...

Docs Say iPads Work Like Sedatives for Kids Pre-Surgery

August 30, 2016, 5:00 am

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For kids at least, tablets are as good as sedatives. So report doctors in a press release after presenting their findings at this year’s World Congress of Anaesthesiologists. The team studied 4- to 10-year-olds prior to surgeries and found that the decreased anxiety levels of those given midazolam (a sedative...

Latest Turbulence in the Skies: Kid-Free Zones on Planes

October 13, 2016, 9:40 am

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You can now fly on one of India's largest airlines without fear you'll get stuck in front of a screaming baby or a kid who likes to kick seats. IndiGo is the latest airline to offer "Quiet Zones" on each of its flights, with two sections of four rows each...

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When We Have Kids, How Many May Be Partly Genetic

November 2, 2016, 7:05 am

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For the first time, scientists have identified areas of DNA—specifically, 12—associated with reproductive habits, in this case the age when men and women have their first kid and how many kids they have. Reporting in the journal Nature Genetics , researchers at the University of Oxford analyzed more than...

Kids Under 5 in Nigeria Have 'Just Vanished'

November 16, 2016, 4:59 am

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Thousands of children have died of starvation and disease in Boko Haram-ravaged northeastern Nigeria, Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday, quoting a new survey that's forcing Nigerian officials to stop denying the crisis. The Paris-based group hopes official recognition of the calamity in which "thousands are dying" will help bring urgent...

Childless Couples Can Spark 'Moral Outrage'

March 4, 2017, 12:21 pm

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Be honest: When you see a couple of child-bearing age that doesn't have kids, do you cringe? Get angry? Feel "moral outrage," even? Because apparently some do. Reporting in the journal Sex Roles , researchers at Indiana University say they asked nearly 200 college students to read one of several descriptions...

UN: Syria's Children Are at 'Rock Bottom'

March 13, 2017, 12:03 am

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In Syria, last year was the worst yet for the country's rising generation, with at least 652 children killed in 2016, the United Nations' child relief agency said Monday, warning that the situation has hit "rock bottom." There was no letup to attacks on schools, hospitals, playgrounds, and homes as...

5 Kids' 'Family Wanted' Ad Gets 'Insane' Response

March 15, 2017, 1:03 am

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Meet music lover Bradley, outdoor enthusiast Preston, hip-hop dancer Layla, Pokemon card collector Landon, and Olive, who mainly likes to be snuggled. These are the five siblings the Kansas City Star featured in its "Family Wanted" section on Saturday, and they're looking to all be adopted by the same family....