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03/30/12
by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO Healthy Child Healthy World Cleaning used to be a simple thing. You learned what to use from your parents and bought the same products when you moved into your own house. But new reports just emerging may make you rethink choosing some of those...
03/29/12
We are so fed up with bisphenol-A (BPA). It's highly toxic, our families are being exposed to it left and right, and, now we have a chance to help get rid of it! In just two days the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is going to issue a final decision on whether or not BPA should be banned from...
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03/29/12
By Jackie Krasas After a divorce, most people assume that children reside primarily with mothers. However, census data tell us that there are at le­ast 2.5 million households run by single fathers. For most of these fathers, there is a noncustodial mother (NCM). Not that we would know it. NCMs are...
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03/28/12
Did you know kids bre athe up to seven times more air than adults? According to the American Lung Association, when they breathe smog, it’s like getting a sunburn on their airways, and can possibly provoke asthma attacks, stunt their growing lungs , and could even lead to cancer . We have good news...
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03/28/12
With diabetes and obesity rates still on the rise, CPEHN will be tackling one of the leading causes of these chronic conditions at our spring convenings, An Appetite for Equity: Ensuring Access to Healthy Foods . Making healthy foods more available can greatly improve health in California’s low-...
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03/28/12
The fact is that one in eight women suffer from postpartum depression. No mother should ever feel like this is her “dirty little secret.”
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03/28/12
A few weeks ago, the right-wing Daily Caller ran a piece with the sensational headline “Transgender hormone treatments, abortion access for detained illegals irks congressman.” It’s about House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith’s opposition to humane treatment of immigrants detained by our government...
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03/27/12
Recently, a mother in South Carolina reached out to the ACLU for help. She was pregnant, and although she had had two prior cesarean surgeries, she wished to attempt a “trial of labor,” that is, to give birth naturally, rather than having a scheduled cesarean surgery. The mother’s wish made sense...
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03/27/12
Last month, an armed Sanford, FL neighborhood watchman, George Zimmerman followed, confronted and shot Trayon Martin AFTER being told by a 911 dispatcher to stay in his car until police arrive. Trayvon Martin was on his way home from buying candy at a store during halftime of the NBA All-Star game...
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03/27/12
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org Journalist Liza Mundy sees a time, in the very near future, when women will earn more than men and the economic shift will transform our mating, marriage and motherhood patterns. In The...
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