In this case, Amata said, other than having a weight problem, the boy was a normal elementary school student who was on the honor roll and participated in school activities.
Records show the child’s only current medical problem, sleep apnea, is being treated and that he wears a machine nightly that helps and monitors his breathing.
“They are trying to make it seem like I am unfit, like I don’t love my child,” the boy’s mother said.
“Of course I love him. Of course I want him to lose weight. It’s a lifestyle change, and they are trying to make it seem like I am not embracing that. It is very hard, but I am trying.”
County places obese Cleveland Heights child in foster care
![Harrison County Juvenile Detention Center in Biloxi, Mississippi
Solitary Watch: Children in Lockdown: Richard Ross Photographs Juvenile Detention [via]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3ahn8dBEZ1qzzw8ho1_400.jpg)
Harrison County Juvenile Detention Center in Biloxi, Mississippi
Solitary Watch: Children in Lockdown: Richard Ross Photographs Juvenile Detention [via]
The Daily Dish reader thinks abuse of girls happens less because girls have less sustained contact with priests, and it’s also possible that this lack of contact makes abuse of multiple female victims more difficult. However, the reader’s comments do reveal an interesting dichotomy: the girl-abuser is sad, pathetic, and fucked-up, while the boy-abuser is evil. Might this idea permeate the Church, and might it stem at least in part from the idea that homosexuality is itself a sin, and that gay men are naturally predatory and depraved? One Slate commenter thinks so, writing, “[T]he reason they focus so closely on the male victims is that then the church can (very, very wrongly) claim that homosexuality, not pedophilia, is the true sin in this situation.” But the true sin, of course, is abusing a position of trust to harm children — and this is no less wrong when the victim is female.
— The Forgotten Victims Of Priest Sexual Abuse: Girls - Catholic church sexual abuse
The Democrat-written law has plenty of champions. Yep, like Fidel Castro. Welcome to communism folks.
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The Communist President is Near commenting on Companies must soon provide private space for mothers to pump breast milk: Health Care Fact Check
Obv providing a private room/time to pump is the first step down the road to totalitarian government. I guess really freedom loving women should either stay at home (OBVIOUSLY) or formula-feed.
Or pump in the bathroom, where every good meal is prepared!
Breastfeeding "Non-Compliance" Costs US $13 Billion A Year
A study released last week from the journal Pediatrics points to subpar breastfeeding rates in the US when it comes to first six months of a baby’s life. The consequence is a rash of health problems; the list is long and frightening: necrotizing enterocolitis (tissue death), otitis media (ear infections), gastroenteritis (stomach pain), hospitalization for lower respiratory tract infections, atopic dermatitis, sudden infant death syndrome, childhood asthma, childhood leukemia, type 1 diabetes, and childhood obesity.
…And more than 900 babies die a year as a result of these, and the health care delivery system is beset with $13 billion in cost overruns thanks to formula-feeding. All this because, while three-quarters of new mothers start breastfeeding at birth, only 12% of infants are breastfed exclusively for six months, a far, far cry from the recommended 90%…
The problem often is, mothers operate on such slim margins (of time, energy, resources, sanity) and breastfeeding can be a casualty of that balancing act. So formula is on one side of an unfortunate Sophie’s Choice: sanity or breastfeeding. Which would you choose?
I’m not really sure that it makes sense to frame this as an issue of “compliance” (although to be fair I always have a problem with medical use of compliance) while simultaneously pointing to structural and societal factors (not to mention biological or physiological factors that can also make breast feeding difficult) that make ‘compliance’ difficult/impossible.
Lots of good points about structural and economics barriers to long-term breast feeding here, though!
PBS FRONTLINE: the Medicated Child
In The Medicated Child, FRONTLINE producer Marcela Gaviria confronts psychiatrists, researchers and government regulators about the risks, benefits and many questions surrounding prescription drugs for troubled children. The biggest current controversy surrounds the diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Formerly called manic depression, bipolar disorder was long believed to exist only in adults. But in the mid-1990s, bipolar in children began to be diagnosed at much higher rates, sometimes in kids as young as 4 years old. “The rates of bipolar diagnoses in children have increased markedly in many communities over the last five to seven years,” says Dr. Steven Hyman, a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health. “I think the real question is, are those diagnoses right? And in truth, I don’t think we yet know the answer.”
…We uphold that Haitian children have a right to a family and a history that is their own and that Haitians themselves have a right to determine what happens to their own children. We resist the racist, colonialist mentality that positions the Western nuclear family as superior to other conceptions of family, and we seek to challenge those who abuse the phrase “Every child deserves a family” to rethink how this phrase is used to justify the removal of children from Haiti for the fulfillment of their own needs and desires. Western and Northern desire for ownership of Haitian children directly contributes to the destruction of existing family and community structures in Haiti. This individualistic desire is supported by the historical and global anti-African sentiment which negates the validity of black mothers and fathers and condones the separation of black children from their families, cultures, and countries of origin…
— from the “statement on haiti” from the adoptees of color roundtable. full statement here [via&via]
Baby Bloc
For activists in a family way
Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization. I know. I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.
— Seymour Papert [via]
I’ve read the Supreme Court of California’s decision legalizing gay marriage—all 140 pages of it, twice, QAGM—and I can assure you: There’s not one word in it about your boyfriend’s spunk.
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