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...Christia Murdaugh sounds like a typically proud mother when she talks about her little girl Sydney Grace-Louise. "She loves school. She loves to sing. She loves to run and play." But Sydney is hardly your typical 4-year-old. And Christia, 33, is only slightly exaggerating when she calls Sydney her "miracle baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eggs on Ice | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

...Infertility and IVF Center leads the world with an impressive 27 frozen-egg babies. But with more than 600 women each year undergoing the egg-freezing procedure there, the center's past success rates have been as low as 1%. Even Reproductive Biology Associates, the Atlanta clinic where Christia Murdaugh froze her eggs back in 1997, has all but dropped out of the field. Of 30 patients, only two delivered healthy babies. A third had a miscarriage, and the other 27 never got pregnant at all. "There is a lot of hype about this," says Dr. Hilton Kort, co-founder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eggs on Ice | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

...course, our life-changing decisions are rarely that rational. For some women, even a small chance of having their own baby may be worth all the risks and uncertainties in the world. "When you so desperately want a child, you are willing to take a chance," says Christia Murdaugh. She, for one, is glad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eggs on Ice | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

...tiny, only 24 sq. ft., but then so were its prospective inmates, boys from five to 17. The compound in Walterboro, S.C., is not a prison but a Dickensian boarding school called the New Bethany Baptist Church Home for Boys. Police raided the place last week. Said Prosecutor Randolph Murdaugh: "I've never seen kids beaten as badly as they were beaten by those allegedly Christian people." School Superintendent Olin King and two employees were charged with child neglect and, for keeping a boy in the cell, kidnaping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Child Abuse: The Rod of Correction | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

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