London: A parliamentarian in Britain is urging Prime Minister David Cameron to allow parents to smack their kids as he maintains that state interference in family life is damaging home discipline. Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming has said parental authority had been undermined by years of legislation including confusion over smacking children, Daily Express reported. With riots proving discipline had broken down, Hemming said, it was time for the government...
12:24 PM, Aug 22, 2011
Beijing: In a bid to offer sex education to primary school students for the first time, China has introduced a text book that has gone overboard with controversial illustrations and descriptions that has left parents fuming. The textbook titled 'Growing Steps' has many controversial passages and appears with illustrations for students aged six to seven years old. There was widespread concern among parents over such blatant description bordering on pornography,...
12:23 PM, Aug 20, 2011
Chaturburj Ameta tells how miserable his life has become after his son left him. ...
10:49 PM, Aug 14, 2011
Washington: Parents who try to keep track of their kid's online activities seem to be just wasting their time. "If you feel that you have to use some sort of computer programme to surreptitiously monitor your child's social networking, you are wasting your time. Your child will find a workaround in a matter of minutes," said Larry D. Rosen, who led the study. "Communication is the crux of parenting. You...
07:20 PM, Aug 07, 2011
Los Angeles: A TV watchdog group on Wednesday accused NBC of glamorizing the porn industry in its upcoming new drama series 'The Playboy Club' and urged NBC affiliates around the United States not to air it. In letters to NBC's local TV stations, the 1.3 million member Parents Television Council said the drama "glorifies and glamorizes this insidious industry" and that pornography destroys families and exploits women. 'The Playboy Club',...
12:49 PM, Jul 28, 2011
London: They not only pamper their grandchildren with cuddles and cakes, and offer good advice, but grandparents are also the key to the evolution of human civilisation, say researchers. A number of recent studies have highlighted how helpful it was to have older people around during early human development - in fact, grandparents are able to babysit, make tools, teach skills and most importantly pass on vital wisdom on human...
01:55 PM, Jul 25, 2011
Chicago: Kids may be safest in cars when grandma or grandpa are driving instead of mom or dad, according to study results that even made the researchers do a double-take. "We were surprised to discover that the injury rate was considerably lower in crashes where grandparents were the drivers," said Dr. Fred Henretig, an emergency medicine specialist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the study's lead author. Previous evidence indicates...
12:31 PM, Jul 19, 2011
West Palm Beach: A 17-year-old boy is accused of bludgeoning his parents with a hammer, then hosting dozens of friends for a party while their bodies lay in the bedroom, police said. Tyler Hadley of Florida is charged with twin counts of first-degree murder in the deaths, which authorities say happened Saturday. He is being held without bond at a juvenile detention center and it's not immediately known whether he...
12:28 PM, Jul 19, 2011
Tonight at 10, Smitha Nair asks a panel of experts whether or not single men and live-in couples should be banned from adopting children.
02:38 PM, Jun 15, 2011
The exam schedule has been delayed due to leak out of entrance exam question paper. ...
01:27 PM, May 01, 2011
New York: For harried young parents, this will come as no surprise -- a study has found that having small children can make it tougher to keep up healthy diet and exercise habits. More than 1,500 young US adults were surveyed for the study, published in "Pediatrics," which found that parents of children aged 5 or younger generally exercised less often than people without children, while mothers in particular had...
11:00 AM, Apr 14, 2011
On World Down Syndrome Day, watch a special report on a mother of an eight-year-old patient, who is helping her own family deal with the condition. ...
09:31 AM, Mar 21, 2011
Citizen Journalist Gaurav Bakshi was asked to pay a bribe to get his name registered as his adopted child's legal father. Gaurav protested only to be beaten up and intimidated by the authorities. ...
08:12 AM, Mar 05, 2011
Islamabad: Five handicapped siblings, suffering from a degenerative disease, put up their old parents for auction in Pakistan's Punjab province as the family had nothing to eat and had been starving for the past two days. The auction of the parents was organised outside the district coordination officer (DCO) office in Khanewal town, Express Tribune reported Friday. The disabled brothers and sisters invited bids to sell their parents, saying that...
11:49 AM, Feb 11, 2011
New York: Having a parent with a history of heart disease almost doubles a person's risk of also getting heart disease, regardless of ethnicity or country, according to an international study. The study, which involved patients in 52 countries and appeared in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, also suggested that if your parents had a heart attack, changing your behavior to more healthy patterns, while helpful, isn't...
10:31 AM, Jan 27, 2011
London: Driving has always been synonymous with teenage independence. But not anymore, as an insurance company is offering parents the chance to place a video camera in cars driven by their children. The tiny two-way camera, which also records audio, is placed on the rear-view mirror at the centre of the windshield. It tapes both the driver and his view of the road ahead. Should a driver violently swerve or...
07:15 AM, Jan 27, 2011
Washington: Environmental influences, including diet, that a father experiences can be transmitted to his offspring, "reprogramming" the latter's genes. A study has thrown up new evidence that environmental cues influence genes in mammals from one generation to the next. These insights, coupled with previous human studies, suggest that paternal environmental effects may play a more important role in complex diseases such as diabetes and heart disease than previously believed, the...
03:02 PM, Dec 24, 2010
New York: No TV for a week, the time-honored punishment for misbehaving children, has been enhanced. Now, parents are also withholding Internet access to punish their kids, further sign that the Web has become as important to families as television. As the two mediums converge, parents are quickly coming to see TV and the Internet in similar ways and are seeking to limit their kids' access to both, according to...
02:59 PM, Dec 20, 2010
Singapore: Parents may soon be able to find out if their unborn child is prone to any inherited diseases, researchers said on Thursday, after developing a non-invasive technique to draw the entire gene map of the human fetus. By analyzing a sample of the mother's blood, which contains DNA from the fetus, scientists in Hong Kong and the United States were able to identify all the DNA strands that belong...
12:17 PM, Dec 10, 2010
