In case you were hoping to see it, writer Joel Stein, who mocked his wife for placenta eating in Time magazine, documented the process of placenta gastronomy. So if you ever wanted a cooking class in making a tasty placenta, here it is:

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I had officially heard it all folks. And then I found this: an Israeli couple is divorcing after dad started using the services of call girls.

How’d the wife find out? One of the call girls who showed up was their daughter.

Ooops!

In a story that sounds like it’s straight of the soaps, but is instead straight out of BBC News, a businessman from Haifa was on a company-sponsored trip in Eilat when he decided to call in a hooker for a little… well, you know what he called a hooker for. Only when the door opened, dad recognised the call girl as none other than his bouncing baby girl… and he started having chest pains (wouldn’t you?)
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I may not agree with its message, but a California school’s in trouble for forcing a teen to take off the pro-life tee she was wearing in honour of “pro-life t-shirt day.”

Her mum says they violated her rights to free speech, and she’s taking them the court.

I hope she wins. Yes, I said it.

It’s not that I think the shirt has merit or even that a teenage girl should be putting that kind of pressure on other teen girls. But as long as I have the right to BE pro-choice, Anna Amador’s daughter has the right not to agree with me. And the right to say it out loud, or, in this case, wear it on her chest. If she doesn’t, my right to fight for women everywhere will be at risk.
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A week after reports circulated that Michael Jackson’s dermatologist and close friend, Arnold Klein, is the biological father of Jackson’s kids Prince and Paris, Klein spoke out against the rumour on “Good Morning America” today. The claim that Klein served as the sperm donor for Debbie Rowe, who briefly worked for Klein, was first reported by US Weekly and attributed to “anonymous sources.”

Klein’s denial of paternity was almost equally murky. He told ABC, “To the best of my knowledge, I am not the father of these children. I can’t answer it in any other way. I don’t want to feed any of this insanity that is going around.”
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I have never been a “real” nanny–one who works full or even part-time over the long haul of a family’s life with small children.  I have never employed such a nanny either.  But having both been a semi-regular baby sitter and having employed several of same since I started working part-time when my first child was about a year old, I am just connected enough to the industry to appreciate the stories of real nannies in Tasha Blaine’s revealing profile of the job, Just Like Family: Inside the Lives of Nannies, the Parents They Work for and the Children They Love.

Blaine worked as a nanny herself, for a year after finishing grad school and she found the job excessively difficult and demanding.  Whether it’s due to high drama family dysfunction or just the same monotony that mothers everywhere face, but with more reward, nannies are under constant pressure.
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In a world first, scientists have succeed in creating human sperm from embryonic stem cells.

The research is aimed at understanding and overcoming male fertility, but the project has much wider implications. Will two women be able to have their own biological daughter one day?

One of the male tweeters I follow is already scared, heralding the news as sign his species is finished. But there’s no reason to assumepanic stations yet — the team has succeeded only in producing sperm from male embryonic stem cells and producing a baby with the new sperm is illegal in some countries, including Britain.

More practical applications of the artificial sperm are to analyse it for the effect of toxins, such as cancer treatments, which can often cause infertility.

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Same-sex couples should be allowed to adopt children, a State Government parliamentary inquiry has narrowly recommended. SMH

Sleeping Out: More Families Losing Home
The number of Australian families sleeping in cars, on couches or in motels jumped significantly in the latest Census data, but homelessness charities have warned that the figures are already out of date. ABC News

Drop Off The Kids To Play Pokies? Zero Chance
When Loretta Bennetts had grandchildren, she quickly remembered some old favourites. SMH
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If you’re a reader of this blog, you’re likely familiar with placentophagy…you know, the art of placenta consumption. Apparently the practice is brand new to Time writer Joel Stein who spent an entire article mocking his wife for to consume her own placenta for its many benefits.

“when Cassandra told me that for $US275, a woman would come to our house, cook Cassandra’s placenta, freeze-dry it and turn it into capsules to help ward off postpartum depression and increase milk supply, I said, “$275 is a bargain compared with the $US20,000 I’ll have to spend to tear out our kitchen immediately afterward.”
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Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci (from comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates) have a few home truths for pregnant women.

We’re smug, self important and have no life. Oops, are we really that bad? I must admit I was probably one of those annoying mother-earth types in my first pregnancy.

Whether you agree or not, it’s pretty damn funny. Let me know what you think.

When my friend told me her sister-in-law didn’t want her husband at the birth of their first child, I thought she was kidding. You do realise he’s seen it all before, right?

But according to a LilSugar survey this week, only sixty-three percent of women are adament that dad be there for the big moment. I’m not sure if the other thirty-seven are just aware their partners might have extenuating circumstances or really don’t want them there at all.

I think most of us are well aware it’s not always POSSIBLE for your partner to be there. Life gets in the way. Or in the case of a lot of military families these days, an ocean.
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