When Amy Chua’s book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother came out in 2011, it sparked controversy among many people but especially psychologists and experts in child development. The book, they felt, had lodged in the culture certain stereotypes about an Asian parenting style that was not well-studied or well-understood… Original post on slate.com Comments on reddit.com
Accused of perpetrating a “profound evil,” former Pennsylvania judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for illegally accepting money from a juvenile-prison developer while he spent years incarcerating thousands of youn… Original post on allgov.com Comments on reddit.com
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A 25-year-old mother whose two young children starved to death surrounded by rubbish after she locked them in her apartment… Original post on today.com Comments on reddit.com
The results are the first to suggest a trans-generational contributor to the developmental disorder. The study, published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, is the first to examine the potential legacy that a mother’s experience with childhood abuse could have on the health of her own children… Original post on time.com Comments on reddit.com
It’s not exactly news that China is setting itself up as a new global superpower. While Western civilization chokes on its own gluttony like a latter-day Marlon Brando, China continues to buy up Ameri… Original post on vice.com Comments on reddit.com
What if we, as a society, could cut down on the incidence of mental illness by backing away from hitting, grabbing or pushing our children? That’s a prospect raised by a new study in Pediatrics, which finds that harsh physical punishment increases the risk of mental disorders — even when the… Original post on time.com Comments on reddit.com
Study found both victims and bullies can suffer psychological disorders as adults Original post on usnews.com Comments on reddit.com
A father has been ordered to pay child support to his ex-wife despite results of DNA testing that found three of the four children he helped raise are not biologically his, a Quebec Superior Court ruled. Original post on torontosun.com Comments on reddit.com
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From Yahoo! Finance: Wall Street are calling it one of the best letters they have seen. Original post on yahoo.com Comments on reddit.com
LUCKNOW: The girl. who suffered 90% burn injury after allegedly being set on fire by a man at Loharra village in Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh (UP) on December 31, died on Saturday after Original post on indiatimes.com Comments on reddit.com
From the blog Parenting: After almost losing her life to her parent’s poor judgement, a little girl has taken her family to task–and to court. 12-year-old Faith Carberry, of Langford, Ireland, filed a lawsuit against both her parents after sustaining severe injuries from a drunk driving accident caused by her own mother. On Wednesday, the liability suit was settled between her father, the owner of the car, and the Motor Insurance Bureau of Ireland. But the damages caused by her mother’s accident are still being assessed by the judge in the coming weeks. Original post on yahoo.com Comments on reddit.com
Lying in a Beijing military hospital in 1990, General Wang Zhen told a visitor he felt betrayed. Decades after he risked his life fighting for an egalitarian utopia, the ideals he held as one of Communist China’s founding fathers were being undermined by the capitalist ways of his children — business leaders in finance, aviation and computers. Original post on bloomberg.com Comments on reddit.com
Of all the things that happened this year, one of the most important innovations is one you probably didn’t know about. A fifteen-year-old boy named Jack Andraka has developed a cheap, easy and highly accurate paper sensor for the early Original post on crooksandliars.com Comments on reddit.com
Its recent suggestions include imposing armed guards on every school in America and deporting a critic of the Second Amendment. Original post on theatlantic.com Comments on reddit.com
House Republicans passed John Boehner’s DOA Plan B 215-209-1, but what is important is how Republicans tried to fool America into cutting taxes for millionaires by throwing 300,000 kids off food stamps. Original post on politicususa.com Comments on reddit.com
A TOWNSVILLE toddler found a nest of eggs in his yard and took them into his bedroom only to have them hatch out a clutch of one of the world’s most venomous species of snakes. Original post on news.com.au Comments on reddit.com
A soldier sets out to graduate at the top of his class. He succeeds, and he becomes a drone pilot working with a special unit of the United States Air Force in New Mexico. He kills dozens of people. But then, one day, he realizes that he can’t do it anymore. Original post on spiegel.de Comments on reddit.com
Nomadic after-school technology program Pixel Academy is turning to the Internet for help in its quest for a permanent location. Original post on venturebeat.com Comments on reddit.com
The £25 computer invented by a British foundation has turned into a global sensation. Its creators want to use it to teach children how to write code – but will it just end up in the hands of nerds? Miranda… Original post on guardian.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
With 100 million first-grade-aged children worldwide having no access to schooling, the One Laptop Per Child organization is trying something new in tw Original post on mashable.com Comments on reddit.com
He wants other AT&T customers to join him. Original post on businessinsider.com Comments on reddit.com
Research news from leading universities Original post on futurity.org Comments on reddit.com
A talented cook at a school in central Sweden has been told to stop baking fresh bread and to cut back on vegetable buffets because it was unfair that students at other schools didn’t also have access to the unusually tasty offerings. Original post on thelocal.se Comments on reddit.com
‘Special specimen’ among most intact ever to come from Cedar Rapids area Original post on gazette.com Comments on reddit.com
Thai government is planning to offer free health care for children under six. Original post on aljazeera.com Comments on reddit.com
Middletown Police say an ALDI supermarket cashier did so because he couldn’t believe the boy’s parents were allowing him to act so rudely. Original post on patch.com Comments on reddit.com
