My colleague Tom Diemer last week described a study that may show Americans are having fewer children due to the recession: “Taking into account the population, which grew, the birth rate in 2009 was 13.5 for every 1,000 people, the Associated Press said. That marked a second straight year of fall-off and a drop from [...]
Are Americans holding off on having kids because of the bad economy? It sure looks that way. The National Center for Health Statistics reports the U.S. birth rate fell by 2.7 percent last year to the lowest level in a century. Taking into account the population, which grew, the birth rate in 2009 was 13.5 [...]
Joy Szabo must be overjoyed. Szabo is the Arizona mother whose hospital insisted she would have to have a Cesarean section at the end of her fourth pregnancy, rather than a vaginal birth (VBAC or vaginal birth after Cesarean) — even though she had already, successfully, had natural childbirth after a previous C-section. Not only [...]
This is kind of a “Tale of Two Georgia Farmers,” although, admittedly, the one on the left hasn’t been in the business for years. When we saw the photo of Roger Spooner, the Iron City, Ga., man who came to the defense of Shirley Sherrod and credited her with helping him to save his farm, [...]
"’Molly’ and Developmental Psychologist Dr. Kenneth Ives come on Today Now! to talk about her upbringing as a half-human, half-Wolf Blitzer.
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