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They Say: Tell The Kids You Did Drugs
Should Whitney Houston have disclosed all the dirty details of her freebasing past? Was it a necessary cautionary tale, or would the revelation make her teen daughter, Bobbi Kristina, want to pick up the pipe? A new study says blab away. Conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs on behalf of the Hazelden Foundation, the survey discovered that the majori...
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Nine-Year-Old Goes To Rehab
A Scottish centre where alcoholics go to dry out says its patient list has almost forty kids under sixteen. The youngest boozers are nine years old. The centre in Aberdeen has told the Scottish Sun that this year alone there have been six kids under ten admitted to help them fight their alcoholic tendencies - and they think the drinking epidemic...
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Hitting The Bottle
This autumn, writer Stefanie Wilder-Taylor dropped a bombshell: she had quit drinking. A mother of three daughters — 4-year-old Elby and twin toddlers, Matilda and Sadie — Wilder-Taylor wrote on her personal blog Baby on Bored: "I really like to drink. I like the way wine softens the edges, smoothes out the line between &qu...
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Alcohol – Would You Let Your Tot Try It?
It’s a common debate among parents of older teens: Let them drink at home or make them wait until they’re legal? But what about when they’re younger — even as young as five? That’s the question being asked right now over at Motherlode. Should a younger child be allowed to sip Dad’s drink? Here’s...
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Store Won’t Sell Alcohol To Dad Because Daughter’s Present
A new policy at a number of British grocery store could force parents to carry ID whenever they want to buy alcohol - ID for their kids that is. The Brits are upping their efforts not to sell alcohol to minors, but it’s pissing off the parents who say they want to be able to walk into a store with their kids and simply buy a bottle of wine....
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Pre-natal Nutrient Could Protect Babies If Mums Drink
According to the American Center for Disease Control the number of women who drink during pregnancy has not changed substantially since 1991, despite aggressive health campaigns about the adverse affects of alcohol on foetuses. So researchers are hoping they may be able to protect babies from Mum’s drinking with pre-natal treatments, rather than...
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Telling Pregnant Women To Abstain From Alcohol “Unethical?”
A new article in the Journal of Medical Ethics suggests that given the lack of conclusive eveidence that light to moderate alcohol consumption during pregnancy poses any harm to a fetus, telling expectant women to completely abstain from drinking is unethical behaviour on the part of doctors. I thought the label of "unethical" was intriguing. Th...
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Babble Wrap: Women Who Drink During Pregnancy ‘Could Have A Weaker Bond With Child’
Women Who Drink During Pregnancy 'Could Have A Weaker Bond With Child' Women who drink in pregnancy find it harder to bond with their babies, scientists have discovered. Mail Online Cancer Campaigner Was A Fighter, Dreamer and Doer When Annie Robinson was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1999 she was four months pregnant with her first, and muc...
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Boy Calls 911 When Mum Drives Drunk
File this under "I may not be perfect but I'm a better parent than this lady." 36-year-old Belinda Leighton of Boca Raton, Florida was arrested this week and charged with driving drunk. With her kids, ages 9 and 13, in the car. After spending "the morning drinking wine and beer", Leighton got in her car with children in tow. She told the kids...
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