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Since the 1960s, when the press discovered the “Battered Child Syndrome,” reported cases of child abuse have increased at an alarming rate. This year, close to two million such incidents will come to the light nationwide. Read the rest of this entry »
How do we decide what is a healthy diet? Numerous inconsistent and contradictory nutritional health messages have left the general public confused and frustrated. Do we watch fat and not calories, fiber and fat, eat high protein or carbohydrates, or fast once a week? So many messages from so many apparently reliable sources have led many people to fad diets or to completely ignoring all dietary suggestions.
Do you only like to listen to a radio when all the lights are off? Perhaps your favorite sandwich is peanut butter with mustard. Maybe you are reading this from the confines of a Hughesian bubble for fear of germs. Does this sound like you? Then you might be normal. Read the rest of this entry »
Fathers-to-be determine the sex of the unborn child in the fertilization process. Each sperm contains either an X or Y chromosome; female eggs contain only the X chromosome. The Y chromosome from the father produces a boy. Two X chromosomes, one from the mother and one from the father, produce a girl.
I woke up on Thursday morning with energy and a motivation that I had not found in months, and it had to do with a simple fact; Thursday morning, at least at the time of this writing, marked our passage into the month of March. Read the rest of this entry »
Divorced non-custodial fathers often feel left out of the picture. They feel that because of the loss of their relationships, for whatever reason, with the children’s mother, they lose their relationship to their children. Most people start a family with the whole complete picture. Unfortunately, about half of all marriages do not make it these days. Large percentages of children live with one parent and have visitation with the other. Read the rest of this entry »