children

I was thinking about this the other day, maybe someone can explain this to me. A child who has attention deficit disorder (ADD) is supposed take drugs like Ritalin, which is much like methamphetamine. Now I have never had any drugs like Cocaine or methamphetamine, but I have read that it is...

Finding The Porn In Harry Potter Text Of Bill P.S. Don't tell the libertarians. :D :D :D P.P.S. Children Suing Children???

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If California State Senator John Vasconcellos has his way, 14, 15, 16, and 17 year olds will be voting in California elections by 2006. Read the proposed bill by clicking here: Proposed Amendment Personally, I have no problem with this idea, except with the 1/4 and 1/2 vote part. If they...

When I was a kid, there was no question that the "women and children first in the lifeboats" attitude was correct. These days I suspect that a significant portion of the population would question the "women" part. On the otherhand I can see that an arguement could also be made that an adult...

There is one thing that I really do not understand. Why is it that these folks think that it is OK to put their kids in harms way? I mean, would anyone not here think twice about letting their kids toss rocks at armed soldiers? Does this not qualify as child abuse? Would a parent in any...

Measles deaths drop dramatically as vaccine reaches world's poorest children On a sidenote: In 1986, there were 23,490 reported cases of measles in Denmark. In 1987, kids began to be vaccinated routinely. In the first half of 2003 (most current figures), there were exactly 0 reported cases of...

Maybe it's the margarita talkin.

With all this FCC decency talk you always hear the old Mrs. Lovejoy line "wont somone think of the children." It appears that decency depends on whether kids are watching or not. Should that matter?? Why are things indecent at 4:00pm but not at 10:00pm? If there is enough warning before a...

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Southwest/04/01/children.slain.ap/index.html "TYLER, Texas (AP) -- A housewife said the first sign that God wanted her to kill her three boys came Mother's Day weekend when she saw her 14-month-old playing with a toy spear. Deanna Laney said she resisted at first...

I was wondering if anyone here has any experience with bi-racial children (especially if they have white parents). My boyfriend's brother has a black father that he doesn't know about, and at almost 8 years old just thinks he's a white person that's "really tan". Do you think its okay not to...

Its like Mrs. Lovejoy is stuck in my head with her "wont someone think of the children" line. Ya know what, I dont have kids and Im sick of hearing how we need to protect them from Janet Jackson, sex and bad words. F*%K the children !!! Let mom n dad worry about them. I tire of everyone...

Did anyone catch the Mike Jackson interview on 60 minutes last week. Jacko continued with his belief that its ok to sleep with kids in the same bed or in the same bedroom. This really upset people. Morely Safer kept asking the same question about how he coudl think its ok for kids to sleep in...

Does anyone know of any online skeptical analyses of either the holographic universe theory or the indigo children?

While driving in to work this morning, I was thinking about the up-coming Christmas and New years Holidays. I got thinking about what a bummer it is that my parents are teetotalers. Other families have get togethers where they bring out the booze, and have at it. Then I started to think this...

I'm posting this here because I think it's an important social issue that does generate quite a lot of intense discussion. "Celebrity" lawyer Gloria Allred is demanding that Michael Jackson's children be taken into state custody...

I am currently spending my last few weeks as an exchange student in Spain. I often do English classes with the students here, with mixed results. It has been fun trying to explain Cricket and AFL to them, but trying to do standard lesson work has been more difficult. Today I did a class with 5...

I was listening to Mike Gallagher the other day on the radio, rag about David lettermen, how he and his girlfriend, Regina Lasko, will be bringing into this world, an illegitame child, unless they get married first. This got me wondering about when the institution of marriage began, in our...

From The New York Times What? Huh? I stopped the tape right there because I don't see any contradiction. Does anyone think you need to be "religious" to know that you should feed the kids? Does anyone think that to be "religous" precludes sick, sadistic, bizarre treatment of children, rather...

(This is on philosophy and not science because I am discussing the philosophy of science) There is a big problem in today's world. People are taught scientific facts, maybe they do a little bit of experimenting, but there is little time spent on teaching what science is. Take the number one...

Terminology warning: What this Californian is calling "soft drinks" might be called soda or coke in other parts of the country/world. I was at an airport a few months ago, and saw a little kid who could not have been more than 4 years old or so drinking a soft drink. I personally find this...

Hmmm...there's just GOT to be one example of a harmess and effective government safety regulation, right? It's just a matter of looking hard and long enough, right? I've got it—child safety caps! You don't want the little kiddies taking too much medicine, and the only way to make sure that...

I'm an only child. The main reason being that my parent's could barely afford one child, let alone two or more. Also, my mother was intent to give me an excellent education, something she herself was denied. So it had to be one, at most. Speculations abounded. Some said she had become...

I saw an episode a while back of the show "Unsolved Mysteries", which is noted for giving misleading information. This episode was about feral children, who are children that have been raised by animals. Are feral children for real, or are all cases either unproven or proven to be hoaxes?

I'd like to limit this to those of us who have children/family/friends going to War. I'm not proud of the fact that we are headed to the front lines, but I feel at this point in time that this is a time for us to gather together. I don't know that anyone who has not been there would ever...