Children

By Walter Brasch The Schuylkill County, Pa., justice system managed to do something that insurance actuaries do with mixed results–it determined not only the penalty for threats to a human life, but also the value of a human life. Norman E. Nickle, 54, who lived in Pottsville, the county seat, was sentenced in April...
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Early-Life Nutrition May Be Associated With Adult Intellectual Functioning Media Contact: Ashante Dobbs adobbs2@emory.edu (404) 727-5692 Adults who had improved nutrition in early childhood may score better on intellectual tests, regardless of the number of years they attended school, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine,...
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Maybe they won’t notice when they’ve got one… The word “scrotum” does not often appear in polite conversation. Or children’s literature, for that matter. Continue reading
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“She had to go that entire night with her ear infection with no medicine because he has his policy,” Tasha Childress said.
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“I didn’t see any harm in toughening them up” –A defendant Go to original on BBC.A jury at Plymouth Magistrates’ Court was shown the footage Footage of four women goading toddlers to fight has “stunned” police and social services in Devon. The seven-minute footage, filmed at a house by one woman, was shown in...
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