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...viability, saving premature babies as young as 25 weeks, 24, 23. Sonograms as clear as Christmas cards let parents see their babies suck their thumbs in utero. Better prenatal testing has built greater awareness of how, and how quickly, a fetus develops--all of which may have fueled the discomfort with abortions that occur when a pregnancy is well along...
...study coordinators admit spanking is a sensitive subject (no pun intended). Many parents are torn between carrying on their own parents? tried-and-true disciplinary practices and their discomfort with the idea of hitting their kids. Fierce opponents of spanking compare it to child abuse - although logically, a quick swat to the rear-end is hardly analogous to the horrors of beating a child. Fair-minded people can disagree on this - as long as we?re actually talking about a quick swat, rather than a "let?s you, me and my belt go out behind the woodshed, son" scenario...
Some child psychologists, on the other hand, believe that children who express discomfort with their birth gender probably have larger problems. "There's a lot of pain in many of these families, and part of the way the child has dealt with the pain is to have this fantasy solution," says Ken Zucker, a psychologist who runs the Child and Adolescent Gender Identity Clinic in Toronto. Zucker also encourages children and parents to recognize that boys and girls don't have to maintain rigid gender roles to remain boys and girls. Zucker says that widening his young patients' conception...
...bump in the reported cases of head lice as kids go back to school. Despite the common misconception that lice can leap tall buildings, like fleas, they're actually crablike crawlers, moving from scalp to scalp. Though lice don't usually transmit disease, they can cause a lot of discomfort, embarrassment and missed school days, so parents should deal with head lice the moment they become aware of an infestation...
Audience member Cliff Killam, a Boston University undergraduate, expressed discomfort at the lack of nuance in Internet democracy polls and the possibility that complexity would be lost...