Family Patterns
People recreate photos of their grandparents…
…I don't care how old a "boy" gets, when some men get sick they need some mom and some hot soup.…
…A month later Charlie was born. Charlie changed my world. From the moment i found out about him, he began to save me. Charlie transformed me from a directionless fuck up to a man with a purpose…
An Oklahoma man is hoping to change the law after he was ordered to pay child support for a baby that’s not his. … When Thomas' high school girlfriend got pregnant, he married her. Five months later she had a little boy and he believed he had a son, but, as happens to a lot of young marriages, theirs fell apart. The boy was three when Thomas decided to take a paternity test.… At first, the judge ruled Thomas was off the hook financially, but then reversed that decision because Oklahoma law says men must question paternity within two years of the child's birth.…
A study finds an unborn baby’s first heartbeat occurs as early as 16 days after conception.…
Scientists say the first baby has been born from a new technique that combines DNA from three people.
The goal is to prevent the child from inheriting a fatal genetic disease from the mother.…
Police in Oklahoma say that at least five people have been arrested in association with sexual crimes against children. Fox 23 News reports that among those people arrested, four mothers were taken into police custody.… Authorities say that three of the four mothers were aware of the sexual abuse… one of the women… allegedly joined in…
The New York Post reported Wednesday that New York City’s child services have opened an investigation into former Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner.…
Mom defends her son’s right to wear a tutu after a stranger publicly confronts her… The stranger asked questions about why she was “doing this” to her son and told her son that she was a “bad mommy."…
Police in Arkansas were shocked by the physical condition of an abused four-year-old girl but they soon found that the child’s physical condition wasn’t the only damage the girl had sustained. There was mental abuse, too. The little one had withstood so much abuse she told police she thought her name was “idiot.”…
An Ottawa-area woman is appealing an Ontario Human Rights Tribunal ruling that Mount Sinai Hospital did not discriminate against her when it refused last May to abort one of her healthy twins.…
Jenna and Jillian were born in a 'one in 10,000 monoamniotic birth'. At the time when they were delivered, the twins immediately reached out to hold each other's hands…
…1. The court’s interpretation of “undue burden” is confusing as hell.
Today’s opinion does resemble Casey in one respect: After disregarding significant aspects of the Court’s prior jurisprudence, the majority applies the undue-burden standard in a way that will surely mystify lower courts for years to come.…
On Saturday, at about 2 p.m., a woman went into a Kroger store in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, to pick up a custom-made "Batman v Superman" birthday cake she had ordered for her 7-year-old. …told the bakery employees she wasn't satisfied with how it turned out. …went behind the counter and attempted to fix the cake herself… employees told her she wasn't allowed… she brought the cake to the front of the counter and drop kicked it, sending cake debris across the whole bakery section.…
Which poses a bigger threat to black communities: Racism? Or the absence of fathers? Drawing on a sea of official data and his own upbringing, talk-show host Larry Elder shows just how important black fathers are in turning boys into responsible and happy men--and how their absence has had a tragic impact on millions of black Americans.…
A Tennessee man has been sentenced to life in prison for selling his three young daughters to a child pornographer and for years of sexual abuse in what the judge in the case said was one of the most horrific crimes he had ever seen.… children had been raped repeatedly by the 63-year-old father and were sexually exploited for at least two years… wife… was also sentenced in the case. She was given a 216-month sentence,…
…Oklahoma Wesleyan University (OKWU), which evolved out of the Wesleyan Church, is holding the course ‘Pro-Life Training and Applied Bioethics’ which, according to its site, hopes to equip students with the tools “to answer pro-choice arguments compellingly and winsomely in any setting.”…
…Japanese boy who was found after being lost in a bear-inhabited forest for six days… parents made him get out of their car as punishment for misbehaving, leaving him behind in a wooded area on Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island.…
What liberals would eliminate completely, they label as offensive. Per Bill O’Sullivan, Senior Managing Editor of the Washingtonian, that now includes the term “start a family”…
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) has signed into law a bill that will ban most abortions in the state after 20 weeks of pregnancy.… only exceptions to the law are in the rare situation in which the mother’s life is in jeopardy and if a physician determines the baby cannot survive outside the womb…
Tulsa …left her four young children in an apartment alone Thursday morning so she could use meth … Maintenance workers discovered the children alone in an apartment littered with trash and food and called police… was given a five-year deferred sentence for child neglect in 2013…
For years Donald Heathfield, Tracey Foley and their two children lived the American dream. Then an FBI raid revealed the truth: they were agents of Putin’s Russia. Their sons tell their story…
…Andrea's friends, the baby's future parents, were no longer excited. They didn't want the hassle and potential heartbreak that accompanied this child, and even told her to terminate the pregnancy. It took a lot of soul-searching for her, but ultimately, she decided that she was going to keep the baby and raise it herself.…
…video has emerged showing George Mason University students… signing a petition to legalize abortion after birth. … demanded that lawmakers legalize "fourth trimester" abortions.… One concerned student asked if the procedure would "cause harm to the child."
"Well the child wouldn't be there anymore," responded Joseph. "It's abortion."
The student then happily signed the petition.…
Video: MRCTV .org, YouTube, 5:06
…A mother has been banned from naming her baby Cyanide after the poison. The woman, from Powys, Wales, also chose the name Preacher for the girl’s twin brother, saying she had a human right to name her own children. She said Cyanide was a “lovely, pretty name” with positive connotations as it was taken by Hitler before he shot himself.…
A sperm bank is facing legal action from three families after it was alleged that the facility had lied to them about the health and background of a donor. The families, all from Canada, were allegedly told that the donor was a "genius", but the donor had a history of mental health issues and a criminal record.… some of at least 36 women to have used the donor's sperm to become pregnant. …
Mississippi is the latest state to approve legislation that would ban dismemberment abortions tearing unborn babies limb from limb. Today, pro-life Governor Phil Bryant signed the bill into law.…
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky and the ACLU are suing the state of Indiana over its new law that bans abortions sought for genetic abnormalities such as Down syndrome, or for undesirable sex or race. …
Friday, Florida became another state to cut abortion funding when Governor Rick Scott signed into law a bill that would cut state funding to clinics that perform abortion.…
…How the hell does this make any sense? I understand how it might be preferable for someone of a certain ethnicity to be raised with that same culture, but that’s only when everything else is equal. Lexi has found a great home where she is flourishing, and the government just can’t have that.
But you can do something about it.
Please sign this petition and spread this story to make sure Lexi stays home…
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