Antoni gets a new house mate and things at the Abbott house may never be the same.

Someone has been sleeping in Antoni’s bed and it’s Phyllis! The two of them are cozier than two peas in a pod and looking more and more like the next Y&R supercouple. Read the rest of this entry »

Compared with adolescents in other wealthy Western nations, US teens have the highest birth rate, lowest contraceptive use, least ease of access to reproductive health services and least social support, according to researchers. Read the rest of this entry »

The “purr-fect” inspiration
During her pregnancy, Seymour would go for sonograms, referring to the twins in her stomach as “this one and that one.” “I’d say, ‘How’s this one doing?’ and James would chime in, ‘What about that one?’” she recalls. “After they were born, we thought it would make a great children’s book, so we wrote a story about twin kittens who are named This One and That One.” They turned their idea into two books for Putnam Publishing, a line of children’s clothes and toys, and an animated movie, which is planned for a spring 1999 release. Read the rest of this entry »

Katy Bellow answers the phone slightly frazzled: “Just a second, please, my twins are painting each other again,” she sighs. “What is it they say about the terrible twos?”

On motherhood
But instead of losing her temper, the 47-year-old miniseries queen and former star of “Doctor, Medicine Woman” nurtures her toddlers’ creativity. “Boys will be boys, babies will be babies.” She pauses to mop up a glob of paint that has landed in her lap. “You just have to laugh and love them for the wonderful little individuals they are.” Read the rest of this entry »