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Revealed: How Many More Times You'll See Mom, Dad

Jul 23, 2013 9:17 AM CDT

Revealed: How Many More Times You'll See Mom, Dad

Break out the tissues

(Newser) - The Daily Mail calls it guilt-inducing . We'll go with tears-inducing. New website See Your Folks is the somewhat morbid creation of four British designers, who used World Health Organization data on life expectancy to calculate the answer to a pretty depressing question: How many times will you see Mom...

Dear DC:
Kids Aren't Just
for the Rich

OPINION

Jul 22, 2013 1:04 PM CDT

Dear DC: Kids Aren't Just for the Rich

It's time we started enacting policies that help parents: Kelly Diels

(Newser) - All of us, rich or poor, got here because our parents had children—yet these days, having kids is seen as a luxury to be enjoyed by the wealthy only, writes Kelly Diels on Salon . Celebrities are touted for wanting big broods, and rich people seem to parade their children...

Paying Kids' Tuition
May Backfire on Parents

study says

Jan 19, 2013 12:35 PM CST

Paying Kids' Tuition May Backfire on Parents

Students who pay their own way get better grades, says study

(Newser) - Parents who pay for their kid's college tuition may think they're doing junior a big favor: He'll be able to skip a part-time job and focus on academics, right? Not so much, suggests a new study picked up by Forbes . Sociologists found that students who paid their...

The Wrenching Truth About Having an Older Mom

OPINION

Jan 16, 2013 10:31 AM CST

The Wrenching Truth About Having an Older Mom

Dvora Meyers on her experience being born to a 42-year-old

(Newser) - There's no question whether Dvora Meyers loves her mom. The Brooklyn-based writer calls her near-daily, accompanies her on doctors' visits, maintains a spreadsheet of her medications, and worries—constantly, it seems—about the seventysomething's failing heath. But she didn't expect to be dealing or coming to terms...

Cops: Girl
Drugs Parents'
Milkshakes
to Go Online

Cops: Girl Drugs Parents' Milkshakes to Go Online

They passed out, and she logged on

(Newser) - A teenager who thought her parents' 10pm cutoff of the Internet was too strict spiked their milkshakes with prescription sleeping meds so she could go online, police say. It worked. When her parents passed out, the 15-year-old girl and a 16-year-old friend were able to log on, reports the Sacramento ...

China to Citizens: Visit Your Elderly Parents, or Get Sued

Dec 28, 2012 10:40 AM CST

China to Citizens: Visit Your Elderly Parents, or Get Sued

Those who feel neglected can now take their kids to court

(Newser) - Visit your parents. That's an order. So says China, whose national legislature today amended its law on the elderly to require that adult children visit their aged parents "often" —or risk being sued by them. The amendment does not specify how frequently such visits should occur. State...

France May Ban Words 'Mother,' 'Father' in
Legal Records

Sep 25, 2012 5:26 PM CDT

France May Ban Words 'Mother,' 'Father' in Legal Records

They'd say 'parents' in nod to gay rights

(Newser) - France is not only poised to make gay marriage legal , it plans to expunge the words "mother" and "father" from all legal documents, reports the Telegraph . The words would be replaced by "parents" in all instances so as not to discriminate against same-sex couples. Catholic groups are...

'3-Parent Babies'
Could Soon Be
Legal in UK

Sep 17, 2012 4:45 AM CDT

'3-Parent Babies' Could Soon Be Legal in UK

Health secretary investigating risks, benefits

(Newser) - As the US continues to grapple with gay marriage, the British may be a step closer to legalizing three-parent babies. It's part of a scientific strategy to help eliminate debilitating genetic problems. The three-parent technique would involve using some healthy DNA from a third party who's not the...

Trendy Brooklyn Babies
Learning French

Aug 22, 2012 5:05 PM CDT

Trendy Brooklyn Babies Learning French

Little ones taking in second language before they can speak

(Newser) - Despite the fact they can barely talk, some cosmopolitan babies in Brooklyn are studying French. The mommies of the tots are heeding the results of various studies suggesting that exposure to a second language when very young will improve the learning of new languages later on in life, reports DNAinfo....

California Senator: Let Kids Have 3 Parents—or More

Jul 3, 2012 11:58 AM CDT

California Senator: Let Kids Have 3 Parents—or More

Mark Leno says 'there are more than Ozzie and Harriet families today'

(Newser) - Meet Mom, Dad, and Dad? Maybe, if California state Sen. Mark Leno has his way. He has introduced a bill that would do away with the law that says kids can have a maximum of two legal parents, reports the Sacramento Bee . So if a lesbian couple conceived a baby...

Cost of Raising a Kid: $235K

Jun 15, 2012 12:24 PM CDT

Cost of Raising a Kid: $235K

Assuming you're a middle-income family, and said kid was born in 2011

(Newser) - For $235,000, you could indulge in a shiny new Ferrari—or raise a child for 17 years. A government report released yesterday found that a middle-income family with a child born last year will spend about that much in child-related expenses from birth through age 17. That's a...

Grown Kids Returning
Home? Celebrate It

OPINION

May 31, 2012 9:22 AM CDT

Grown Kids Returning Home? Celebrate It

Trend can be great for both generations, say researchers

(Newser) - Here's a familiar story line: More grown kids are moving back home with the folks, delaying their own maturity and causing misery for their parents. Except this "nightmare scenario" isn't so, write two experts in the New York Times . Young adults who get financial or other kinds...

A 'Bullying
Crisis'? Come On

opinion

Apr 1, 2012 5:12 PM CDT

A 'Bullying Crisis'? Come On

Nick Gillespie: American children have it better than ever

(Newser) - With the documentary Bully coming out this weekend and stories of online bullying increasingly common, we must be in the midst of a "bullying crisis"—right? "I don't see it," Nick Gillespie writes in the Wall Street Journal . "I also suspect that our fears...

Tombstone of
Hitler's Parents
Comes Down

Mar 30, 2012 6:13 PM CDT

Tombstone of Hitler's Parents Comes Down

Austrian site had become shrine for neo-Nazis

(Newser) - Neo-Nazis have lost a familiar haunting ground: The tombstone identifying the burial site of Hitler's parents, Alois and Klara, has been removed from an Austrian cemetery, reports AP . The marker was taken away at the request of a relative, in part because it had become a shrine for extremists....

3 out of 10
Young Adults
Moving Home

Mar 16, 2012 7:17 PM CDT

3 out of 10 Young Adults Moving Home

'Boomerang kids' have trouble finding well-paying work

(Newser) - As many as three out of 10 young adults are moving back in with their parents—resulting in the highest share of 18- to 34-year-olds living with multiple generations since the 1950s—after finding themselves unable to find lucrative employment in this dismal economy. They're dubbed "boomerang kids"...

California Parents
Prepare to Fire School

Jan 12, 2012 4:51 AM CST

California Parents Prepare to Fire School

Group plans to use state's Parent Trigger law

(Newser) - The Parent Trigger is cocked and ready to fire at an underperforming elementary school in California. A 2010 state law gives parents the power to take over schools, and a parents group at Desert Trails Elementary outside Los Angeles plans to do so if the district doesn't overhaul the...

Teen Tweeter Is No Hero

Ruth Marcus

Nov 30, 2011 11:19 AM CST

Teen Tweeter Is No Hero

It's up to parents to insist on civil disagreement: Ruth Marcus

(Newser) - There's something wrong with a world in which Emma Sullivan , the 18-year-old high school student who refused to apologize to Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback after tweeting that he "sucked," is turned into a "heroine of the liberal blogosphere," writes Ruth Marcus in the Washington Post...

Another Drunk Dad
Has 9-Year-Old
Drive: Cops

Oct 26, 2011 11:23 AM CDT

Another Drunk Dad Has 9-Year-Old Drive: Cops

Parents: If your kid can count his age on his hands, he's not a designated driver

(Newser) - A few weeks ago, a boozed-up father had his daughter climb on a booster seat and take him shopping ; now childhood designated-driving is turning into a quasi-epidemic. A Wyoming man visiting Orlando felt he and his wife had had a few too many on Saturday, so he instructed his son,...

Boozing Dad's Designated Driver: His 9-Year-Old

Oct 18, 2011 9:10 AM CDT

Boozing Dad's Designated Driver: His 9-Year-Old

...who needed a booster seat to reach the steering wheel

(Newser) - Before you applaud a boozing guy for getting a designated driver to take him to the store around 2am on a Saturday, know this: said alternate chauffeur was his 9-year-old daughter ... who was sitting on a booster seat. The Detroit News reports that Shawn Weimer, 39, bought her a candy...

Parents in Italy
Fight to Evict Son

Sep 21, 2011 6:45 PM CDT

Parents in Italy Fight to Evict Son

They're now threatening 41-year-old with legal action

(Newser) - An exasperated couple in Italy has turned to the law to try to get their 41-year-old son to leave home, reports the AFP . The son "has a good job but still lives at home," says dad. "He demands that his clothes be washed and ironed and his...