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Alleged FLDS Teen Bride Removed; Back in Foster Care

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:37:57 GMT

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A 14-year-old girl allegedly married to jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs with her parents' blessing at age 12 was removed from her family's home in Converse on Tuesday after a judge ordered her back into foster care.

District Judge Barbara Walther said that there was "uncontroverted evidence of the underage marriage" and that the girl's mother, Barbara Jessop, refused to guarantee the girl's safety. The girl, shown in photographs submitted to the court kissing Jeffs, was taken into custody by Child Protective Services.

In the case of the 14-year-old allegedly married to Jeffs, Walther said she felt she had to place the girl in foster care because Jessop "was unable to provide assurances that she'd be able to protect the child in the future."

On Monday, Jessop, 55, refused to answer roughly 50 questions asked by attorneys for Child Protective Services, including the names of her children, what constituted abuse and whether a parent had an obligation to protect her children.

Tags: flds, polygamy, minor, marriage, religion, belief, teens

Child Abductions Plague China

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:33:58 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: This is so tragic... 200 a day!!

Clip Source: mwcnews.net

China is struggling to cope with a wave of child abductions which sees more than 200 babies and toddlers being stolen every day, according to some estimates.

It is a lucrative business in which an abducted girl child can fetch $1,200 and a boy anything up to $5,000, more than the average annual salary in urban China.

"It's too easy for the gangs. For a little money they can buy a birth certificate and then permanent residency for a child thousands of kilometres away," Sun said.

"The government has created this environment."

One-child policy

"The one-child policy has skewed preference for boys and this is pretty much an undercurrent of this current problem, this current tragedy," Amalee McCoy, a child protection consultant with the UN's chidren's fund Unicef, said.

"Where they end up, it is purely speculation a lot of the times, but a lot the anecdotal evidence seems to show that they go to families who are really wanting to have a boy child.

Other children end up abroad

or into slavery.

Popular Pet Costume Ideas for 2008 for your dog and cat

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:34:21 GMT

clipped by: Tracy Mott

Clip Source: rusway.typepad.com

Popular Pet Costume Ideas for 2008 for your dog and cat

CLICK HERE FOR HUNDREDS OF PET COSTUMES

You could also try some more elaborate Halloween costumes for your pet. So for instance, you could coordinate the costume for the pet with the ones that your children are wearing: if your child is in a puppy costume, how about having your dog dress up as a mommy, nurse or a nanny. Or if the dog is rather small, you could dress it up as a baby in swaddling clothes and make your child play the role of the nurse with a pram. The range of things you could do to make your pet a part of your Halloween festivities are boundless: by your effort, imagination and creativity you are sure to come up with a great Halloween costume for your pet.

Pet Halloween Costume Ideas
By Jane Richardson

Tags: popular, pet, costume, ideas, 2008, dog, cat

DIY silhouette shirts

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:48:36 GMT

clipped by: bignosemousie
clipper's remarks: How sweet. This would be cute with just a head silhouette too.

Clip Source: www.inhabitots.com

Kids grow up quickly; so I’m always looking for new ways to celebrate these fleeting days while my little ones are still small. Recently, I came up with a fun project that captures a moment in a child’s life, and creates a unique fashion statement. Here’s how to make a customized silhouette T-shirt that features your precious tots.

For this project, you’ll need:
1. A child who is willing to cooperate for photo taking
2. Digital Camera
3. Printer
4. Standard computer paper
5. Freezer Paper (found at the grocery store, in the plastic wrap aisle)
6. Pencil or Pen that draws crisp lines
7. Tape
8. X-Acto Knife with sharp blade (found at craft or hardware stores)
9. Old magazine or piece of thick cardboard
10. Iron
11. T-shirt of your choice (Try American Apparel, Alternative Apparel or Article 1 for green blank tees)
12. Fabric Paint of your choice
13. Paintbrush

Tags: crafts

Italians Vote Ugliest English Words

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:46:41 GMT

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Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Italians vote for ugliest English words

For years it was the French who worked themselves into a lather over their native tongue being infected by English.

Now it is their southern neighbours across the Alps who are wringing their hands at the growing incursion of Anglo-Saxon words and phrases into every day use.

From 'il weekend' to 'lo stress' and 'le leadership', Italians increasingly sprinkle their conversations with English terms, some of them comically mangled and bizarre sounding to a native English speaker.

'Baby parking', for example, is a strange conflation which means child care centre or nursery.

A 'baby gang', on the other hand, is a more sinister construct. It means a group of young criminals or hoodlums.

As with the French and their use of Franglais, Italians sometimes throw in English words to appear worldly and cosmopolitan, and at other times to describe things slightly alien to the Italian mindset, from 'il fitness' to 'il full immersion training'.

More than just supporting abortion

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:18:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Killing alive unborn children in females’ bodies is bad enough, but Barack Obama went even further, to defend the killing via neglect of alive BORN children. It is downright ghoulish that he is proud of that record and is still trying to spin his deceit in the Saddleback interview."

Clip Source: www.freerepublic.com

While Barack Obama was in the Illinois legislature, on three separate occasions he worked hard to prevent a bill to come into law that would extend medical attention to infants already born as survivors of abortion attempt. The reality is that abortionists had begun causing premature births to terminate pregnancies.

There are several reasons, not the least of which is th efetal tissue industry which pays top dollar for pristine baby parts, the sort of parts resulting from allowing a whole alive premature infant to die unattended after being purposely delivered prematurely.

It is also less dangerous to the female from whose body the baby is delivered because no sharp instruments are used to stab into the alive partially born baby’s skull to suck out their brains. And no extremely concentrated salt solution is put into the female’s body to kill the alive unborn child. And no dismemberment is done to the alive unborn child in order to remove them piece by piece

Tags: obama

Musim father burns Christian daughter alive

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:54:17 GMT

clipped by: Antara
clipper's remarks: what can you say?

Clip Source: www.worldnetdaily.com

Muslim father burns Christian daughter alive

Man slices out girl's tongue, ignites her after 'heated debate on religion'

A Saudi Arabian Muslim father cut out his daughter's tongue and lit her on fire upon learning that she had become a Christian.

The child became curious about Jesus Christ after she read Christian material online, the Gulf News reported.

Her father read of her Internet conversation, detached her tongue and burned her to death "following a heated debate on religion," according to an International Christian Concern report.

The father is employed by the muwateen, or Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. The muwateen are police tasked by the government with enforcing religious purity. The man has been taken into custody, and his identity has not been released.

Tags: religion, islam, christianity, another dead girl

Collective village offers new hope to Russian orphans

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:56:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: In our mission congregation at Klipfontein View one woman has been trained in caring for abandoned children, of whom there are plenty in the vicinity, and it would be good to have something like Kitezh village... unfortunately there isn't enough money to set it up.

Clip Source: www.iht.com

Work and play often commingle in Kitezh, an experimental orphan community about 190 miles southwest of Moscow that combines features of an orphanage with those of foster care. With its colorful wooden cottages, Kitezh appears as distant from the cruelty of the children's frequently alcoholic and abusive parents as it is from the stale, often crowded government institutions where many Russian orphans still live.

The founders of Kitezh hope that their village can be a model of reform for Russia's decrepit child welfare system, little changed since Soviet days. Though perhaps hard to replicate on a large scale, Kitezh still stands as one of the few largely successful alternatives here to institutional care for orphans.

Dmitri Morozov, a former radio talk-show host, founded Kitezh in 1992 as a kind of orphan collective

Today, there are about half a dozen houses built in Russian-folk style, a school, a communal dining hall and a small Orthodox church.

Tags: orphanages, child welfare, russia, children's village

Sarah Palin: If My Daughter Were Raped, I Would Make Her Bear Her Rapist's Child

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:51:02 GMT

clipped by: dulios
clipper's remarks: No abortion for victims of rape or incest, not even her own daughter. She's a wingnut. Jerry Falwell in a skirt.

Clip Source: dwb.adn.com

The candidates were pressed on their stances on abortion and were even asked what they would do if their own daughters were raped and became pregnant.

Palin said she would support abortion only if the mother's life was in danger. When it came to her daughter, she said, "I would choose life."

Tags: palin, extremist, lightweight, stay home

The meaning of "white privilege" in 2008

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:05:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Tim Wise's take on what it means to be white today, in the context of the 2008 presidential campaign.

Clip Source: www.redroom.com

This is Your Nation on White Privilege

By Tim Wise

White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and the work they do--like, among other things, fight for the right of women to vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end to child labor--and people think you’re being pithy and tough, but if you merely question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month governor with no foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in college--you’re somehow being mean, or even sexist. 

White privilege is when you can call yourself a “fuckin’ redneck,” like Bristol Palin’s boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with you, you'll “kick their fuckin' ass,” and talk about how you like to “shoot shit” for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.

White privilege is, in short, the problem.

Tags: commentary, opinion, race, presidential_campaign_2008, mccain, obama, palin, via:facebook

How to tell if your child is gifted

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:20:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Steps to tell if your child is gifted.

Clip Source: www.helium.com

There are 13 articles on this title. You are reading the article ranked and rated #10 by Helium's members.

Education >

Special Education

How to tell if your child is gifted

our 2- to 4-year-old may be gifted if he:

Has a specific talent, such as artistic ability or an unusual facility for numbers. For example, children who draw unusually realistic pictures or who can manipulate numbers in their head may be gifted.

Reaches developmental milestones well ahead of peers.

Has advanced language development, such as an extensive vocabulary or the ability to speak in sentences much earlier than other children his age.

Is relentlessly curious and never seems to stop asking questions.

Is unusually active, though not hyperactive. While hyperactive children often have a short attention span, gifted children can concentrate on one task for long periods of time and are passionate about their interests.

Tags: children, child, smart, gifted, intelligence, iq, parenting

Accused Murderer Too Big For Trial

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:54:44 GMT

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Clip Source: www.news.com.au

Murder accused Mayra Rosales too big for courtroom

A 400KG woman accused of crushing her toddler nephew to death is too big to fit in the court room that will try her, her lawyer says.

Texas woman Mayra Rosales, who suffers from a rare thyroid condition, is charged with the murder of Eliseo Gonzalez, 18 months, at her home.

A post-mortem examination on the toddler, who died in March, showed his skull was crushed.

Ms Rosales, 27, who is bedridden, says she accidentally fell on the child.

The boy's mother - Ms Rosales' sister - believes Ms Rosales rolled on Eliseo and killed him, while her lawyer says her arms are too big to have moved enough to kill him.

Jamie Rosales is charged with injury to a child for leaving her son in the care of his aunt.

A lawyer for Jamie Rosales said she believed the death was possibly caused by the morbidly obese woman rolling onto the toddler.

“She doesn’t believe her sister intentionally did anything to her child."

“It was an accident,”

She is not physically capable

Safety Tattoos for kids

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:40:36 GMT

clipped by: bignosemousie
clipper's remarks: Great idea! They also have allergy alert tattoos.

Clip Source: www.safetytat.com

It can happen anywhere—at an amusement park, zoo, school field trip, or even your local shopping mall. Your attention shifts for a moment, and suddenly your child or loved one has wandered out of sight.

So put the odds in your favor for a safe return, with SafetyTat. Designed by a Mom of three kids, SafetyTat is a fun and colorful kids temporary safety tattoo that’s uniquely offered either customized or blank so you can customize. When applied to the arm of your child or loved one, SafetyTat provides an immediate, highly visible form of identification that stays in place even when wet!

Clip Source: store.safetytat.com

Tags: safety first, kids

every child needs ... pic

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:49:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: really something...

Clip Source: www.amazingposts.com

Amazing Ad From UNICEF - Very Touching

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Child bodies found in freezer

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:15:54 GMT

clipped by: kkcapricorn
clipper's remarks: What kind of comment can I possibly make about such an obscene tragedy?
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She is going to jail for a long time and will live with women, many of whom likely have children of their own -- in foster care(?). That about sums it up.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Police in the US state of Maryland say they have found the frozen bodies of two children in the freezer of a house in Calvert County.

A 43-year-old woman told police the children were her adopted daughters and had been frozen since February

The authorities visited the house, in Lusby, on Saturday to investigate reports of abuse against a third child, a seven-year-old girl, who showed "signs of extreme abuse and neglect", the sheriff's department said.

When police arrived at her house to look for evidence of the alleged abuse, they found the children's remains in a chest-style freezer.

Police confirmed that the woman had adopted three children but that they had not yet been able to examine and identify the bodies.

The woman has been charged with first degree child abuse and is being held in a county jail without bail.

Tags: child abuse