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Oh, Brother! Female Twins Less Likely to Have Kids

Blame exposure to testosterone

(Newser) - Female twins with twin brothers are less likely to marry and have kids than those with twin sisters, a new study shows, and those who do reproduce have fewer children. Elevated exposure to testosterone in utero appears to be the culprit, say British scientists who reached back over two centuries...

Safety of Chinese-Made Toys Is Hardly Child's Play

Flood of recalls raises concerns

(Newser) - The latest Chinese products posing safety problems for consumers are children's toys, joining toothpaste, pet food, and drugs on an increasingly worrisome list, the New York Times reports. Last week's recall of Thomas & Friends train toys brought the total number of toys recalled by the US this year to...

Baby Boy for Julia Roberts
Baby Boy for Julia Roberts
Jun 19, 2007 6:10 AM CDT

Baby Boy for Julia Roberts

Pretty woman has something to talk about: a third child

(Newser) - Actress Julia Roberts gave birth to her third child on Monday, a baby boy. Henry Daniel Moder, who weighed in at 8.5 pounds, was born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Us Magazine reports. The 39-year-old Roberts and husband Daniel Moder already have twins, Phinnaeus and Hazel.

Coalition Bombs Kill 7 Afghan Boys
Coalition Bombs Kill 7 Afghan Boys
Jun 18, 2007 12:45 PM CDT

Coalition Bombs Kill 7 Afghan Boys

Police capture suspect in deadly Kabul bus blast as violence worsens

(Newser) - Worsening widespread concerns about civilian deaths in Afghanistan, a U.S.-led coalition bombing killed seven boys yesterday at a compound in the eastern part of the country. The target, which contained a mosque and a school, was suspected of housing Al-Qaeda militants. "We had a misunderstanding," the...

Child Slavery Scandal Blows Up in China

Kids kidnapped, sent to work in brick kilns rescued in giant crackdown

(Newser) - A child labor scandal is rocking rural China as information surfaces on kidnapped children forced to work as slaves in the country's brick factories. In crackdowns this week, nearly 50,000 police in two Chinese provinces have rescued 550 people, including dozens of the thousands of children believed to be...

Kellogg Will Ease Off Ads Aimed at Kids

Cereal giant plans voluntary nutrition, marketing changes

(Newser) - Averting a threatened lawsuit, Kellogg will reformulate its cereals and snack foods to make them more nutritious—or keep them as is and stop targeting advertising at children under 12. The plan affects about half of the company's offerings, meaning that fans of Pop-Tarts and Rice Krispies may be getting...

Rights Groups Pressure US
Rights Groups Pressure US
Jun 8, 2007 9:36 AM CDT

Rights Groups Pressure US

Report urges release of info on "disappeared" terror suspects

(Newser) - Six prominent human rights groups want the US to disclose the whereabouts of 39 terrorism suspects, or "ghost prisoners," believed to have been in government custody. The organizations released a report today charging that children as young as 7 have been detained, invoking the loaded term "disappeared,...

Kids Skate on Heelys to Emergency Room

Skater shoes set off scraped knees epidemic

(Newser) - A new craze has kids gliding across hard surfaces on tiny skate wheels built into their sneakers—but the "heelys" are deceptively unsafe, a new study says. The report claims the skate shoes sent 1,600 youngsters to the emergency room last year.

China to Mandate Booty-Shaking
China to Mandate Booty-Shaking
Jun 5, 2007 1:44 PM CDT

China to Mandate Booty-Shaking

Daily dancing requirement targets childhood obesity

(Newser) - The childhood obesity epidemic has found its way to China—and will stop there, if the government's new dance requirement has the desired effect. Starting in September, mandatory classes will get millions of schoolchildren off their butts and onto the dance floor. Experts are developing routines for the curriculum, which...

Nigeria Sues Pfizer Over Deadly Tests

$7B suit claims drug giant carried out disastrous trials on children

(Newser) - Nigeria is suing pharma giant Pfizer for $7 billion, claiming the company carried out improper trials on children. 200 children in the state of Kano died, and others developed deformities, after Pfizer tested Trovan, an experimental antibiotic, during a 1996 meningitis outbreak. Nigeria claims the tests were unauthorized, but Pfizer...

Natalee's Mom, JonBenet's Dad Hook Up

Parents in tabloid tragedies now an item, Fox reports

(Newser) - The father of slain pre-teen beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey is dating the mother of missing Aruba tourist Natalee Holloway. Fox News broke the romance today, offering its detail-hungry viewers only that the bereaved pair met at a fundraiser and have "been spotted openly holding hands and kissing" in Alabama.

Publisher Fights Lefty Bias in Kids' Lit

Is this rabbit a communist?

(Newser) - A California publishing exec is doing his darnedest to combat the insidious leftward tilt of most children's books. Fed up with gay penguins and anti-business Loraxes, Eric Jackson started his own publishing house. His first release, "Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!"—about a kids'...

Hospitals Build 'Womb Rooms' for Preemies

Environments are designed to replicate qualities of the womb

(Newser) - With preterm births soaring—and tinier preemies surviving—many hospitals are redesigning their neonatal units to provide environments closer to those babies experience in utero, the New York Times reports. The new rooms are darker and quieter, and provide space for skin-to-skin contact with parents (not to speak of places...

Racial Generation Gap Opens
Racial Generation Gap Opens
May 17, 2007 2:54 PM CDT

Racial Generation Gap Opens

Whites are older, minorities are younger

(Newser) - The number of non-white Americans has passed 100 million—a third of the current population—for the first time, the Census Bureau reports, and the growing minority population is creating a new racial generation gap. Hispanics had the lowest median age at 27.4, while the median age of whites,...

School Bullying Victim Awarded $800K

(Newser) - An 18-year-old Australian is over $800,000 richer today after a court ruled that his life was "all but destroyed" by school bullying. Australia's Supreme Court said the public school system "grossly failed" Ben Cox when it didn't stop an older student from repeatedly physically and verbally abusing...

Use of Antipsychotics For Kids Soars
Use of Antipsychotics
For Kids Soars
May 10, 2007 10:23 AM CDT

Use of Antipsychotics For Kids Soars

Payments to psychiatrists from the drugs' makers soar at the same time

(Newser) - The Times tackles the growing use of antipsychotic drugs in children, contentious because the drugs are risky and have no approved use for minors. But the trend is also questionable because it coincides with increasing payments to psychiatrists by the companies that market the drugs. In Minnesota, these payments rose...

Preschool Kids Get Socked In the Mouth

Cavities are on the rise for the first time in 40 years

(Newser) - Young children are developing more cavities in their baby teeth than kids were a decade ago, the CDC reported yesterday, a worrisome development that reverses a 40-year trend. Preschool children—"thousands and thousands of kids," in the words of one researcher—were the only age group in which...

Researchers Fight Fat With Baby Formula

Introducing hormone in infancy trims down rats, sparks controversy

(Newser) - The battle to keep pounds off may start with a baby bottle, say a team of British scientists who found that feeding large doses of the appetite-controlling hormone leptin to baby rats led to svelte adult rats. If those results translate to humans, a baby formula that chemically alters metabolism...

Blair Blames Crime Wave on Black Culture

Stop 'pretending it's not young black kids doing it,' PM says

(Newser) - Black culture is responsible for a recent rash of teenage murders in Britain, Tony Blair said yesterday in a burst of un-PC criminology that outraged black leaders. The violence, which has killed seven teens in recent weeks, won't let up unless Britons stop “pretending it is not young black...

States Battle Over Stillborn Babies
States Battle Over Stillborn Babies
Apr 10, 2007 8:33 AM CDT

States Battle Over Stillborn Babies

Grieving parents are pitted against pro-choice advocates

(Newser) - Parents of stillborn babies are pitted against pro-choice advocates in an emotional battle over initiatives in seven states to issue birth certificates for their children, reports the Chronicle. Parents want recognition of their loss; abortion advocates want to avoid a precedent that might be used to claim an unborn fetus...

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