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...Being caught between such choices - allowing your kid to be brainwashed, teaching him otherwise at possible risk - is a grotesque dilemma and perhaps at the heart of why so many hundreds of thousands of young Iranian parents emigrate each year once they are on the cusp of parenthood. They can take up the East-West divide in cities like Toronto and Los Angeles, but at least be spared the Iran-Iran divide inside their own country...
...hospital in southeast England, weighing 3 kg. His mother, Dr. Patricia Rashbrook, 62 years old at the time, described him as "adorable"; her critics called her "selfish," noting that Rashbrook statistically is unlikely to see her son through university. But even as the age horizon of traditional parenthood expands, many other options are now available. Some 13% of Europeans live alone, and every year the proportion of solo dwellers rises. So too do the ranks of heterosexual and single-sex couples living without children who now - at 49% of households - represent the most common form of family unit across Europe...
...drug: patients under 18 must still have a prescription to get the drug, even though the FDA's own scientific advisers never recommended such a policy. "They have been playing politics with this issue for 40 months," says Jackie Payne, director of government relations for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, of FDA leadership. "They're continuing to play politics with teens...
...begins at conception, consider the contraceptive tantamount to abortion, and social conservatives fear that emergency contraceptives will encourage promiscuity. (A California study published in 2005 in Obstetrics and Gynecology found no link between the availability of the morning-after pill and sexual activity.) Meanwhile, even as groups like Planned Parenthood are heralding yesterday's decision as a victory for reproductive rights, they are angered that teens still face obstacles to getting emergency contraceptives. Perhaps the one thing they all agree on is that Plan B could have been handled better...
...most delicate questions arising from a marriage like this one concern sexuality and parenthood. Women and especially men with Down syndrome have low rates of fertility, but pregnancy is possible. Carrie reluctantly ruled it out, even before she met Suj, when her mother told her, correctly, that she would have a high risk of bearing a child with DS. "I just burst into tears," she recalls, "and then I said I would not have any children." A tubal ligation ensured the decision. But she says she and her new husband have other dreams to sustain them: "To continue with...