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...Take England-born Sophie Giraud, a 39-year-old marketing executive in Lyon, for instance. French officials insisted that she obtain official birth certificates for several family members, which they said the government should accept as proof of their citizenship - and, by extension, hers. "I had my expired passport, my identity card and proof of my parents' nationality before their eyes, and they didn't hesitate to become more absurd by asking for proof of my grandparents' citizenship," says Giraud, who had planned a trip abroad and ended up obtaining a British passport by mail in a week...
Like his father before him, French publisher, author and political commentator Eric Naulleau was born into a military family assigned to a temporary foreign posting. But because his birth happened abroad, where his father - himself born in Lebanon to a French army father - was serving France's national interests, Naulleau has had to wage a long and surreal battle with the government to prove that he's actually a French citizen. Naulleau is just one of a growing number of French people born outside France or in the country to foreign parents who are now being told they must present...
...value on my own health, getting out of the house and working some, and getting enough sleep and rest. The brutal combination of isolation and sleep deprivation is a recipe for mental illness for new moms. There have been studies showing that in the first few weeks after giving birth, new mothers are seven times more likely to be hospitalized for mental illness as moms with older children...
...signs are even more encouraging, partly because the trend up until now had been flat-out scary, with obesity rates tripling among school-age children since 1980. The CDC's new study looked at 3,281 subjects in the 2-to-19 age group and 719 subjects in the birth-to-2-years group and found that obesity rates have settled in at 9.5% for infants and toddlers and at 16.9% for 2-to-19-year-olds but have not been climbing. The only kids whose condition deteriorated further were those who were considered extremely obese - at or above...
Norsigian is among those who are not thrilled with the success of the show. "These TLC shows make it look like every birth is a crisis," she says. "We need to create a climate of confidence rather than a climate of doubt...