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Couple Sells Baby For Mobile Phone Money
I can hear Henny Youngman - “Take my son, please!” - only this is no joke. A young Chinese couple actually sold their six-day-old son for about $400 in order to buy a mobile phone. Now there’s a couple of kids - he’s 21 and she’s 19 - with some mixed up values. I would have held out for enough to buy a laptop at the very least. “I...
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Child Hunger in the U.S. Doubled in 2007
The U.S. Agriculture Department has reported that 700,000 American children went hungry in 2007, up from 430,000 in 2006. Since this sharp increase in the number of kids who are not getting enough to eat came before the economic crisis, it's very likely that 2008 will be an even more difficult year for children in lower income families. Read more...
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Poverty Causes Poor Health, Not Vice-Versa
A new study has found a worrying link between poor health and poverty. Obviously the connection is nothing new - the poor don't always have access to decent health services, for starters. But a new study now suggests that poverty can cause poor health by actually altering a person's genes. The finding, connected to children with asthma, could hel...
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Is Australia Really the Lucky Country?
An international prosperity index published just last week had Australia the number one country in the world for life satisfaction, yet the the health and wellbeing of our children lag behind those of many developed countries. An international comparison of 42 measures of childhood wellbeing to be published for the first time today by the Australi...
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Your Stress Is Making Your Kid Fat
This, this is just kinda sad. Researchers have found that stressed-out parents may be raising fat kids because those kids respond to family stress by turning to food.Awww. More to the point, this affects kids who are raised in poverty because of their parent's money worries, long work hours, health insurance concerns and othe...
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Global Approach to AIDS Overlooks Children
A general consensus that has emerged from the International AIDS conference currently being held in Mexico is that the global approach to fighting AIDS does too little for children. According to health workers at the conference, much of the government money earmarked for combating AIDS in developing countries goes to consultants and overheard cost...
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