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...Social workers say that, besides being vigilant, parents need to teach children how to react to sexual advances. That's harder than it may seem. When my elder daughter was 7, I told her that no man was allowed to touch any part of her body except her hands. "Not even Daddy?" she asked. I paused. No strange man, I amended; or woman for that matter. Then I thought of a lecherous relative and told her the rule applied to extended family and friends, too. My daughter looked at me quizzically, picked up her ball, and ran away. "If anyone...
...younger daughter views the world with a sanguinity that is heartbreaking. Every morning, as she goes to school, various people twirl her around and lift her into the school bus. When she plays in the park, other parents smile and pinch her cheek; they push her swing and point out birds and butterflies. I watch these strangers with an eye that is both benign and blighted. On the one hand, I wish that my children will be fortunate enough never to be exposed to the darker side of human nature. Yet I know that as a protective parent, I probably...
Lindsay Lohan may be facing time for alleged DUI and drug possession, but help is on the way. Sort of. Errant father Michael Lohan told the New York POST: "I'm meeting with my parole officer tomorrow to ask permission to go ... have a heart-to-heart with my daughter. Who else is going to step to the plate?" SCORE...
When May began, Rakhat Aliyev, Kazakhstan's ambassador to Vienna, was the crown prince of the energy-abundant central Asian nation. He was married to the favorite daughter of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, whom the country's newly rewritten constitution now allows to stay on as President for life if he so chooses. Aliyev had the crown squarely in his sights. As May ends, however, Aliyev's political, business and media empire is being unraveled; and he is a fugitive, placed on a criminal wanted list by his vindictive father...
...Thompson hasn't had to overcome many personal hardships - a marriage while in high school after conceiving a child with his teenage girlfriend, a subsequent divorce, a diagnosis of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma 2 1/2 years ago and, perhaps most traumatic, the sudden death of his daughter Betsy in 2002 from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs. He is now married to a Republican political strategist and has two small children...