Parenting news: archive
‘Thousands of Britons’ travel abroad for IVF, research finds
The Times (London), 30 June 2009
Hundreds of British couples are travelling abroad for IVF treatment every month, says the first study to evaluate the extent of “fertility tourism” around Europe.
Fifth of women choose career over babies
The Times (London), 26 June 2009
Trend marked among 'women of higher social class, with better qualifications and who were brought up as only children'.
Woman can hold models of their unborn babies
The Times (London), 26 June 2009
Designer develops a method of using data from expectant mothers’ ultrasound scans to create life-size plaster impressions.
Jewish school broke race laws by refusing boy
The Times (London), 26 June 2009
JFS, in Kingsbury, North London, said pupil was not Jewish because his mother had converted at a progressive synagogue.
Woman arrested for drunk breast-feeding
The Times Alphamummy, 25 June 2009
A woman in America pleaded guilty to child neglect for breast-feeding while intoxicated. Neighbours called the police when they say the 26-year-old slurring her speech and feeding her six-week-old baby.
Society letters
Guardian, 24 June 2009
Ofsted report reveals data on very young children excluded from school
The Times (London), 24 June 2009
Very young children are being excluded from primary school because of their aggressive and sexual behaviour, an Ofsted report says.
Number of stillbirths has fallen sharply
The Times (London), 24 June 2009
The incidence of stillbirth has decreased over the past seven years, although the risk remains highest for older mothers.
The idea of a ‘best time’ to have a baby is a joke
The Times Alphamummy, 23 June 2009
By Jennifer Howze.
Worst schools to be forced into mergers
The Times (London), 23 June 2009
Top performing state schools will form academies to raise standards and cut costs at weaker schools, Ed Balls says.
Teenage ‘babysitter beat toddler to death’
The Times (London), 23 June 2009
Demi Leigh Mahon suffered such extensive injuries that the pathologist later identified 68 punches, kicks or bite marks.
Can we ever say a woman can’t choose?
Salon, 21 June 2009
It's hard for pro-choicers to admit sometimes a woman shouldn't be allowed to choose abortion -- but we have to. By Frances Kissling.
My Jamie is not a ‘designer baby’: he has given his brother a new life
Observer, 21 June 2009
The film of Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper is set to reignite the ethical debate over embryo selection. Here one family tell why they chose to have a child whose stem cells have saved his brother from a nightmare existence of transfusions and injections.
Antidepressants soar with recession
Observer, 21 June 2009
Experts warn on 'quick fix' after a 24% increase in the number of prescriptions in 2008.
Pupils coordinating false teacher claims on web
The Times (London), 17 June 2009
Teaching unions claim number of baseless allegations on the rise as hundreds of careers are left in tatters every year.
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