John on August 19, 2010
Here’s the gist of the story: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), a division of HHS, funded a survey of 1,000 adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18 and their parents, in order to measure parent-adolescent communication and adolescent attitudes toward sex and abstinence. The American Public Health Association’s (APHA) website reveals the only is results of the survey: “Adjusting for all other factors in the model, parent [...]
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John on July 11, 2010
From CNS News: After a meeting with gay and lesbian activists on Thursday, NBC’s “Today” show said it is changing the rules for its annual wedding contest to allow same-sex couples to apply for a ceremony conducted on morning TV. NBC extended the deadline for applications until Monday. Already thousands of couples have expressed interest in the on-air wedding, which the top-rated morning show has sponsored for a decade, a [...]
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John on June 15, 2010
That’s the conclusion of a study of over 5,000 people: “We think of a regular contagion like the flu,” Fowler said. “You get a virus and you’re more likely to spread the symptoms to someone else. This is not just true for a virus. This is true for a lot of social behaviors.” Friends have even more influence than siblings when it comes to divorce, according to Fowler’s study. People [...]
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Cindy on May 14, 2010
Update: Below are the individual statements read by both Kelly and Brent King, Chelsea’s parents, in court today during the “Victim Impact Phase” of the sentencing of John Gardner. Brent King’s Statement: On July 1st 1992 God gave Kelly and me the gift of Chelsea. We almost lost her during the pregnancy but she came through born healthy and very happy. From her earliest days she had a joy and [...]
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John on March 12, 2010
Boy does this ring true. After describing his sister’s surprise that he does the shopping, Peter Familias writes: This little scene says something about a basic condition of at-home dadhood: Isolation. You spend your days in Mamaworld, especially out here in the suburbs, living in strange detachment because you’re not female. Shunned is too strong a word, but don’t look for full acceptance and membership in the mama’s parenting club. Usually, you don’t even [...]
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Tim - t.q.o. on December 2, 2009
Tips to make your holidays a little jollier… …sage advice sent by my happily married cousin (of some 25+ years) in Colorado.
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John on November 17, 2009
Probably not as significant as the study’s authors are hoping: Rivals on the dating scene could make one feel closer to God, according to new research that suggests one’s religiousness may be more closely related to mating strategies than previously known. In experiments with 269 college students, researchers found that both men and women apparently felt more religious when they saw attractive potential competitors. [...] “Our guess at this point [...]
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Cindy on October 13, 2009
Update: This past week I had the chance to speak in-depth with a local hospital physician and this was some of the conversation interesting enough to share: * Sugar can reduce your immune system’s ability to fight viruses. Limit sugar intake when sick with a flu. * Increase Vitamin D intake if you can (some people cannot due to prior health issues) which aids your immune system’s ability to fight [...]
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John on May 29, 2009
There has been a lot of ink spilled on the “sexting” craze in which teens with camera phones trade nude photos of one another for a laugh. ABC reports that this is actually pretty mild compared to what some teens are doing. Canadian filmmaker Sharlene Azam documents a world in which high school girls have become pimps and oral sex is “the new goodnight kiss.” “I ended up having sex [...]
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John on January 2, 2009
From Live Science: According to a recent review article in the Dec. 3 issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine, sexually unsatisfied women who practiced the Eastern techniques of mindfulness and yoga reported improvements in levels of arousal and desire, as well as better orgasms. In addition, yoga has been found to effectively treat premature ejaculation in men. [...] Mindfulness — an awareness of the present moment, also a key [...]
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John on December 1, 2008
From the Daily Mail: It appears the days when we took a strict moralistic approach towards sex are long gone. Researchers blamed the situation on a decline of religious scruples, the growth of equal rights for women and a highly sexualised popular culture. They found that when it comes to one-night stands, numbers of partners and attitudes to casual sex, Britain leads the field, ahead of even liberal nations such [...]
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John on November 17, 2008
Melanie Phillips in the Daily Mail: Baby P’s household lifts a curtain on this underworld – a home reportedly littered with dead animals, where another child was regularly savaged by a Rottweiler as part of the dog’s ‘training’, and one of those convicted of Baby P’s death had previously tortured his own grandmother to make her change her will to his benefit. Ignoring the fact that this underclass has become [...]
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Scott on November 17, 2008
So the fallout continues from the passage of Prop 8 in California. Protests occurred all weekend across the nation (here, here and here for starters). Amid all the hullabulloo, the celebrities are putting their thoughts out there as well. Two of the most notable so far are Roseanne Barr and Sir Elton John, but oddly enough they are NOT on the same side of this issue. Roseanne, self-proclaimed “domestic goddess” [...]
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John on November 3, 2008
We got a comment this morning from someone calling himself Rev. Joe Baytzim. The comment included a link to this site which begins: The “yes on 8″ movement is being funded almost entirely by the Mormon Church. Money is coming from outside California by the millions. This is an attempt by the Mormons to win over evangelicals and other Christians. We may feel we have common ground on this issue. [...]
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John on November 2, 2008
A surprising new study which I’m certain will become the center of ongoing controversy: The study is the first to draw a direct link between sexual content on TV and the likelihood that teens who watch it will become parents. Researchers examined survey data from about 2,000 teens. They plucked out 23 popular shows and asked how much teens watched each. They coded the replies to established indicators of sexual [...]
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John on November 2, 2008
Blogger Patterico has a post titled No on Proposition 8: Allow Gay Marriage in California. He argues: Since gays do not consciously choose their sexual orientation, refusing to give them access to an institution available to heterosexuals is discrimination. The policy question is whether this discrimination is justified on a societal level. My conclusion is that it is not. Those who want to ban gay marriage advance many alleged benefits [...]
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John on October 13, 2008
Michelle Malkin notes the hypocrisy of the No on 8 crowd: In the same week that the No on 8 campaign launched an ad that labeled as “lies” claims that same-sex marriage would be taught in schools to young children, a first grade class took a school-sponsored trip to a gay wedding. Eighteen first graders traveled to San Francisco City Hall Friday for the wedding of their teacher and her [...]
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Cindy on June 22, 2008
**NOTE**: John and his family are out of town for a couple weeks. To fill his spot we have spared no expense and brought in a hired gun of the highest caliber, our friend Cindy. Well, OK. Cindy is not costing VS anything so she isn’t a hired gun. And that whole “highest caliber” thing… well, her son and my son are best friends, so I had to put that [...]
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Scott on May 29, 2008
What a weird, wacky and sadly pathetic story… A husband (72 years old) and wife (59 years old) who traveled to India for the wife to receive IVF (in vetro fertilization) treatments were disappointed when the wife delivered twin girls in London. The couple was unhappy with the girls because they wanted a boy to carry on the family name. Sources are telling several news outlets that the couple said [...]
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John on May 25, 2008
Two stories I’ve come across in the last couple days that I think say a lot and, frankly, comport with my own experience. First off, if you had any doubt, know that Gore Vidal is every bit the self-obsessed dirtbag he appears to be: In a wide-ranging interview in today’s Independent on Sunday New Review magazine, he addresses rumours that he fathered a child in the 1950s – at first [...]
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