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Washington Teen Fakes Pregnancy as School Project

TOPPENISH, Wash. -- A high school student who faked her pregnancy for six months as a social experiment stunned a student assembly this week by taking off the belly bundle. Only a handful of people knew that 17-year-old Gaby Rodriguez wasn't really pregnant, including her mother, boyfriend and the principal, according to...

Police: Body Found in Md. River Is Missing NC Teen

BALTIMORE -- After months of searches and appeals to the public, authorities confirmed Thursday that a body found in a northeast Maryland river was a North Carolina teen who went missing while visiting relatives in Baltimore over the Christmas holidays. Phylicia Barnes, from the small North Carolina city of Monroe, about...

Teen Charged With Murdering Tourists Had Been Screened for Risk Days Earlier

On April 16, a pair of British tourists were shot down in Newtown, Fla. The next day, 16-year-old Shawn Tyson was arrested on murder charges. It was his second arrest this month. Less than two weeks earlier, he had been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. During both arrests, Tyson was screened by the...

Study: Half of Parents Want Genetic Testing for Kids [VIDEO]

2 Shot Dead, 8 Wounded at Teen Party Near Philadelphia

CHESTER, Pa. - Shots rang out in a suburban Philadelphia social hall where a teenage party was being held, killing two people and sending eight others to hospitals, authorities said Saturday. Police in Chester, where a state of emergency was declared last summer because of crime concerns, said a suspect was taken into...

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05/31/12 Rural children face nutrition gap Source: China Daily A major gap exists between the nutritional status of Chinese children under 5 in rural and urban areas, according to a report issued by the Ministry of Health on Thursday.
05/31/12 Free Family Movies at the Promenade Shops this Summer Source: Emmaus Patch - Emmaus PA The FREE summer movies at the Rave Cinema at the Promenade Shops gets this Mom's seal of approval.
05/31/12 Alabama law group urges more spending for pre-K... Source: The Birmingham News - Birmingham AL Today's report, "Pay Now or Pay Much More Later," details research that followed the fates of children over multiple decades.
05/31/12 â¢ Whitley deputy responds to welfare check, finds... Source: Corbin News Journal - Corbin KY Some may refer to them as nosey neighbors, but Whitley County Sheriff Colan Harrell said a neighbor on Black Diamond Road who requested a welfare check Tuesday afternoon at a home on Black Diamond Road that resulted in three children being removed and their mother and his boyfriend facing criminal abuse charges was being good neighbor.
05/31/12 Marla Sokoloff Blogs: Parenting Is Not a Competition Source: People Our celebrity blogger Marla Sokoloff is a new mama !

Background on Parenting

Parenting (or child rearing) is the process of promoting and supporting the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood.

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