Babble Wrap 21.11.08: Meet Generation Smug

Amber Robinson

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Baby Boomer parents raising a Generation Smug
Baby Boomer parents are raising a Smug Generation of children who expect to succeed in every area of their lives, according to psychologists.
The Telegraph
Our addiction to ‘misery porn’
Misery porn is becoming the literary feast of the decade. Nobody’s childhood is any longer to be recollected through a prism of rosy contentment.
Daily Mail
Babies fat without 10 hours sleep
They are renowned for doing little more than eating and sleeping, but scientists have found the more babies sleep the less likely they are to become obese. Daily Telegraph
Girl lived without heart for 118 days
For a miraculous four months, 14-year-old D’Zhana Simmons lived without a heart.
She was alert, she ate and she walked – surviving all the while on a custom-built artificial blood-pumping device that kept her alive for 118 days while she waited for a lifesaving transplant.
NY Post
Imams’ behaviour condemned
Some Muslim religious leaders are condoning rape within marriage, domestic violence, polygamy, welfare fraud and the exploitation of women, a report on imam training has found.
SMH