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02/10/09
"New research suggests that simply providing women who have reported engaging in unprotected sex with home pregnancy tests can have a substantial impact on the health of potential newborns."
Is it the grammar I'm not getting? The concept?
02/10/09
'The top reason women do not seek prenatal care is they do not realize they are pregnant," said Nettleman, chairperson of the College of Human Medicine's Department of Medicine. "In addition, women who do not realize they are pregnant will not change harmful behaviors such as drinking and smoking, which can lead to developmental problems in newborns.'"
02/10/09
But also he speaks to a lot of different issues and problems with marketing to kids, and does so sounding like a very reasonable and concerned adult to whom it seems only natural that adults would TAKE CARE OF CHILDREN. And further, he suggests that boys might have a problem after being sexualized too early, too, a thing I've really been waiting to hear someone say. Girls may be the primary target of all this, but boys need a chance to grow up, too!
02/10/09
It's bad enough growing up constantly obsessed with your appearance as a budding young woma (or man). Leave the children out of this insane adult obsession with unattainable "perfection." LET THEM BE CHILDREN!
I was just telling my husband tonight how EXHAUSTING it is just to be perceived as a "decent-looking" female while we are told by culture that our primary value as women is in our beauty. The make-up, the shaving, the dressing sexy but not too sexy, the f-ing heels. Now models are photoshopped to death and we can't even have fucking pores. Gah. It just makes me sick.
/rant
02/10/09
After a minute, I said "What do you think of that?" He said "Of what?" I said "The fact that some people are saying that in this picture [pointing] she looks fat." He laughed. "Anyone who says that is just stupid." Then I said "Which is a worse insult? Stupid, fat, or annoying?" He said "Well, I think it would be 'stupid'."
I do love my boy.
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Lonely otter, on the other hand, is totes awesome.
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i actually agree with this ruling. I think the agreement was only consensual on the basis that the man was willing to marry the woman. if he states he will marry her, knowing that he, in fact, will not marry her, then the agreement is no longer consensual. Although very hard to prove, I agree with the ruling 100%.
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sorry to ramble.
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Fer pete's sake, people. Let's worry about the myriad truly harmful influences in kids' lives, shall we?
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Shame on you, Scholastic. Video games and jewellery have no place within a book club. The book club is for getting new Babysitter's Club books.
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Really, its Northern Ireland. There aren't a lot of Jews/Muslims/etc. even today. Pre-80s the number would have been even smaller.