Happy babies

Bangkok Post
14 Sep 2007

Having a baby always brings great joy to the family. Your smiles are wider and your big laughs can be heard any time around the house. Everything your baby does is like a heroic act to you and the mere sight of his/her smile is the most impressive... read more...

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Tech Tags: Bangkok Post newspaper At Home

Who can you turn to when you feel you’re failing as a parent? listens in at Britain’s leading advice line to find out who calls and what help is on offer (The Guardian, 25 Aug 2007, Page 41)

Who can you turn to when you feel you’re failing as a parent? listens in at Britain’s leading advice line to find out who calls and what help is on offer

The Guardian
25 Aug 2007

Amanda gazes at her keyboard, listening intently and silently nodding as a tale of modern parenting unfolds in her earpiece. “So how often has she tried to run away?” she asks tentatively. “When did she first do it?” Pause. “And what happened that... read more...

Tech Tags: The Guardian newspaper Family

Family-orientated sites thrive as social networking comes of age (The Business, 18 Aug 2007, Page 36)

Family-orientated sites thrive as social networking comes of age
David Crow Media File
The Business
18 Aug 2007

Social networks are an essential part of life for today’s youth. Over 22m users log on daily to Facebook, the world’s fastest-growing network. But soon music downloads will be replaced by a hunt for mortgages and baby clothes: users of social networks... read more...

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Tech Tags: The Business newspaper Per Larsson Business Leader

The Guardian
30 Jul 2007

Population Foetuses aborted and dumped secretly as India shuns baby girls
Randeep Ramesh Nayagarh, India Nursing homes
The Guardian
28 Jul 2007

A hundred yards from a school playing field on the edge of Nayagarh, a small town in eastern India, is an innocuous damp circular patch covered with what appears to be sticks and stones. A closer look reveals that the debris is shards of tiny skulls... read more...

Tech Tags: The Guardian newspaper International

Sex discrimination rife and equality will take generations, says axed commission
John Carvel Social affairs editor
The Guardian
24 Jul 2007

Sex equality will take generations to achieve at the current “painfully slow” rate of progress, the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) said today in a final report before being wound up by the government after more than 30 years fighting gender bias... read more...

Tech Tags: The Guardian newspaper National

We should welcome the dawn of the migration age
Ban Ki-moon
The Guardian
10 Jul 2007

It is a commonplace to say that we live in a globalised world. Less well understood is that globalisation is taking place in stages. We are in the second: the age of mobility. In its first stage, as flows of capital and goods were liberated, the... read more...

Tech Tags: The Guardian newspaper Comment & Debate

Immigration is bad for society, but only until a new solidarity is forged
Madeleine Bunting
The Guardian
18 Jun 2007

Not many thinkers successfully straddle academia and politics, but one of the few who has managed to do so on both sides of the Atlantic is Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone. You can spot traces of his influence all over New Labour policy. He was... read more...

Tech Tags: The Guardian newspaper Comment & Debate