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...children, visiting Santa Claus is the highlight of the year; for parents, it can be a complicated, stressful nightmare. What if your child notices that his beard isn't real? Or asks what Santa's doing in a shopping mall? (This year you have an easy out: just say he's working a second job because of the recession.) What do you do if your child starts to cry? Or won't sit still? What if he yawns or sneezes or drools just as Santa's elflike assistant snaps the photo? You just waited in line for over an hour...
...Just Cause” with Sean Connery and Lawrence Fishburne. It was after a seven-year run on “L.A. Law” playing a good guy basically. That character, I played a serial killer pedophile who was on death row for the murder of a child...
...Apparently me wanting to totally abandon his program was equivalent to me telling him I had killed his firstborn child. He simply could not handle such insubordination...
...contrast to 20 years ago, when the average age for marriage for women was 26. Many more men have also been marrying women from other Asian countries like China and Vietnam, both countries where women are statistically inclined to have more children. China, even with the government's one-child policy, still has a birthrate of 1.6, compared with Taiwan's 1.0 (Vietnam's is 2.1). Today, 1 in 8 babies in Taiwan is born to a non-Taiwanese mother...
...chief of Taiwan's Child Welfare Bureau, Chen Kung-huang, says lowering housing prices for families with children and other related goals - like helping singles date and mate - are all items on the government's to-do list to try to boost the number of babies being born in Taiwan's delivery rooms. But underlying factors behind the low birthrate may be beyond the grasp of government policy. When asked if she wanted to have children, happily married broadcast journalist Huang Shih-han replied, "I like reading and, well, you can't read if there are children wailing." Why does...