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Mom Bugs Kid's Teddy Bear to Spy On Ex
Convinced your ex is up to nefarious deeds? If you're thinking about planting a recording device in your preschooler's teddy bear for his next visit to Dad's pad, you might want to REthink your plans.
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Look-Alike Meter's Busting Family Fights
Want to end that age-old argument over who they REALLY look like? The folks at MyHeritage.com have come up with the answer - the mash-up . . . sort of.
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Would You Buy a 9-Year-old a Porsche? Beckham Would
Soccer playing hottie David Beckham and Posh Spice wife Victoria have purchased their oldest child his own Porsche. Don't worry, it's a miniature version of the real thing.
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Vatican to Women: The Pill Pollutes Environment, His Testes
The boys in the Vatican - you know the ones, they don't have sex - have come out with another decree about the woman's body. This time, it's the way our contraceptive pill is harming everyone else, and men worst of all.
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Mom Shoplifts Parenting Book With Kids in Tow
So, you want to know how to be a "great mom?" You could drop some dough on a book called 101 Ways to be a Great Mom. Or you could take your kids out shoplifting and get yourself the five finger discount!
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Should Out-of-Work Parents Get Off Child Support Hook?
I kind of felt bad for the Dad who wrote to the Houston Chronicle law advice columnist, asking if he could get a break on his child support payments while he's out of work. Um, NOT!
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Parents Wait a Decade to Report Missing Child
A child went missing in 1999, and his parents say they feel "very guilty" they didn't report him missing sooner. You know, sooner than the other day . . . ten years after the tween boy went missing.
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Pistol Packing Preschooler Shoots Babysitter
A four-year-old who was angry that his teen babysitter stepped on his foot loaded a shotgun and shot the teen in the arm. Now he's facing possible charges of aggravated assault.
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Mom-to-Be Has Two Vaginas, Two Uteruses
Whoever said it's three times the charm hasn't met Lindsay Hasaj. The British woman said it only took two tries with husband Tony to get pregnant; even though she has two uteruses, two vaginas and two cervixes.
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Kid Woos Prospective Foster Parents With Letters
The seventeen-year-old ward of the state pulled a list of prospective foster parents off of the internet and started writing impassioned letters.
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Thrift Shops Struggle Under New Phthalate, Lead Ban
the places most people go to save a few extra bucks on outfittig their families won't be able to cough up the thousands of dollars necessary for testing every product aimed at kids under twelve.
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Kid and Kangaroo Best of Friends
Eight-year-old Lilly Dyson hit the mom jackpot with a zookeeper mama who has been bringing home a baby kangaroo each day in an incubator designed to act like her mom's pouch.
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500 Lobsters For Cystic Fibrosis Awareness
I'm always amazed with the ways parents will fight for awareness for their kids' diseases. But I've got to give this Dad snaps (you'll forgive me for the bad nineties era reference in a moment).
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Kid Won't Friend You On Facebook? Get a Life
I've got news for you kids, not every mom wants her kid sending her a friend request. If they do, there's a fair amount of us who wouldn't hesitate to hit "deny."
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Georgia Sex Offenders Must Turn Over Passwords "For the Kids"
Georgia has told every registered sex offender to turn over their internet passwords, e-mail addresses and screennames.
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China Detains Dad of Baby Sickened by Tainted Milk
Parents of the babies sickened by melamine in the Chinese tainted milk scandal shot down a $160 million payout, and now they're being punished. Zhao Lianhai, organizer of a parents' news conference slated for yesterday, was picked up by the Chinese government and detained.
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Old Bat Who Kept Kid's Football Sues His Family
Remember the eighty-nine-year-old woman who proved every neighbor kid's worst fears about the cranky lady down the street? You know, Edna Jester, the octogenarian who actually kept the kid's football?
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Freaking and Shrieking: Christmas Morning Video
There's nothing like those wide eyes on Christmas morn, the sweet smile spreading across that little face, the exclamation of "this is what I always wanted!" Warning: this video of a Canadian kid getting a Wii on Christmas morning is nothing like that that.
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Nipple Piercing for Kids? Not So Fast
As of January 1, anyone who performs an intimate body piercing on a minor will face big fines.
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Biggest Loser's Having a Baby, Gaining Weight
They're one of two couples to lose a lot of weight on the Biggest Loser but gain a spouse. Now Marty Wolff and wife Amy Hildreth Wolff are having a baby.
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