Raising Ourselves
…On July 25, the Food and Drug Administration signed a contract to acquire "fresh" tissue from aborted babies so it could transplant that tissue into mice.
On Monday, the Trump administration canceled that contract.…
…Experts often tell us that actions are a product of our genetics and environment. Happiness, health, and success correlate with biological or external realities. We can’t escape them, but we must cope with them. Turns out, that’s only part of the story. We have a secret weapon to take back ownership of our fates.
Self-control. …
…"Isoflavones, according to the American Cancer Society, can have weak estrogen-like activity…"
That’s right boys and “boys”, “estrogen-like activity” is a euphemism for you will soon be playing with Barbies, but Ken will make your loins moist.
The next soy side-effect? Decreased Sperm Production…
The Justice Department has launched a federal investigation into Planned Parenthood’s practices and the sale of fetal tissue. … Justice Department Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Stephen Boyd formally requested unredacted documents from the Senate Judiciary Committee, the same panel that led the congressional probe into the women’s health organization.…
Hilarious moment Southern mom SHOOTS her ‘disobedient’ children’s iPhones to smithereens…then pounds them with a sledgehammer to finish the job.…
The American College of Pediatricians has released an in-depth report stating that the move to indoctrinate children with the idea that they can pick their gender amounts to child abuse. They are urging legislators and educators to reject all policies that would condition children to accept chemical and surgical distortions allowing people to impersonate the opposite sex.…
…Although there’s no gainsaying their ubiquitous popularity. Individuals, medicos, public schools and scores of government agencies aggressively push counseling sessions and “evaluations,” recommended drugs, support groups and other metal health therapies. And as far as I can understand they do so in the smug assurance that what they’re advocating is a modern science. After all everybody knows we’ve come light years in managing a child’s adjustment to life from the “dark ages” of only a hundred or a hundred and fifty years ago when mental professionals and their programs and treatments did not exist.
Really? Let’s look at a few lives from those years.…
…My parents had no choice in the genetic gifts they bestowed upon me, but, those other things, they worked their fingers to the bone to see that I and my two sisters had them. Any parent of any ethnicity can bestow those same gifts on their children. …
Early childhood "education"? There's no such thing. Content is everything. The question is, what content are we going to transmit?
Why do so many of us not only permit our teenage daughters to dress like this—like prostitutes, if we're being honest with ourselves—but pay for them to do it with our AmEx cards? ... I have a ... theory. It has to do with how conflicted my own generation of women is about our own past, when many of us behaved in ways that we now regret. A woman I know, with two mature daughters, said, "If I could do it again, I wouldn't even have slept with my own husband before marriage. Sex is the most powerful thing there is, and our generation, what did we know?"
A growing number of teens and young adults say they've never had sexual contact with another person, according to the largest and most in-depth federal report to date on sexual behavior, sexual attraction and sexual identity.
...individuals physically abused in childhood are more likely to develop cancer than those who have not been abused. Childhood physical abuse is associated with 49 per cent higher odds of cancer in adulthood....
Soothing anxiety and helping with behaviors linked to obsessive-compulsive disorder could lead to more severe symptoms in children.
The "Brain Deads" is a new technique for talking to your kids. Dr. Julie Powell-Thomas explains Brain Deads is a communicate tool that can be used to respond to another's comments while remaining emotionally detached from the issue.
The proportion of infants arriving at school not knowing whether they are right or left-handed has trebled in the past decade, researchers say. The situation has been made worse by excessive parental fears, driven by cot death, about letting them lie or crawl on their front. Children of four and five are struggling to make advances in writing because of their stunted dexterity, made worse by shortening attention spans.
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