April 9, 2008 07:50 PM
In the News--Focus on Kids
I haven't done an In the News roundup lately, so I thought it was about time. As I searched the starred items in my Google Reader, I noticed several had something to do with children, so here there are, news stories that focus on kids:
- For Little Children, Grown-Up Labels As Sexual Harassers--Washington Post: Children as young as four years old are being labeled as sexual harassers in some states.
- Toddlers can no longer get hitched in Arkansas--msnbc.com: No matter how in love they may be, toddlers are no longer permitted to marry in a U.S. state.
- Miss Bimbo game--CNN: Lots of people are up in arms about a Web site targeting young girls with some unhealthy (or at least unbecoming) behaviors.
- Marching into the mommy wars--Salon: YES I HAVE been on both sides of the fence (WAHM and WOHM at different times) and YES I DO GET IT. So I am dying to see how talented novelist Meg Wolitzer tackles this touchy topic.
- My beautiful, drug-addicted boy--Salon: RIght after I finish Wolitzer's book, I am running out to get this one. A journalist chronicles his struggle as the father of an addict. It sounds heartbreaking and brilliant.
