Here’s another sign of your times:
OMAHA — The abandonments began on Sept. 1, when a mother left her 14-year-old son in a police station here.
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By Sept. 23, two more boys and one girl, ages 11 to 14, had been abandoned in hospitals in Omaha and Lincoln. Then a 15-year-old boy and […]

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This story was in our papers yesterday - the degree to which the junk food industry targets kids, spending $1.6 billion in 2006; soda ads alone accounted for $492 million.
And so we have several FTC recommendations, in resposne to the report:

Media and entertainment companies should limit the licensing of characters to healthier foods and drinks.
Schools should adopt […]

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And if you’ve got kids, I’m thinking you’ll just understand.

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You know, I like NewsLanc, I appreciate what they do, but I have to rip into this one full force.
I do so as a dad, the parent of two kids, a boy and a girl. I don’t necessarily think Steven Spiese, the well-known actor convicted now of accessing child pornography, should be doing years in […]

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I’d read about this attack on a 16-year-old girl in Florida, and as the sheriff’s department down there released portions of the video, wouldn’t you know it winds up on YouTube.
Link, but not posted here, too graphic. As a parent, I’d have a hard time watching a video of kids doing this to my own, […]

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Had seen this piece over a Reason Magazine linked a couple of places yesterday, and it resonated. I happen to know, for whatever reason, quite a few couples who don’t have kids and who don’t plan on having kids. One couple, in their 50s, never really tried - nor tried not to. “It just didn’t happen,” […]

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Jeebus. I like to think, or pray, that my own kid would never do anything like this - though I suppose it’s be tough to execute the same maneuver in the type of car he’ll be driving.

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