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Children in beauty pageants

Read the article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2426040/British-mother-claims-putting-children-beauty-pageants-helped-protect-innocence.html What do you think? Express your opinion as a comment below!
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Unique Strengths of Single-Parent Families

Growing up with a single parent. According to the article "The Unique Strengths of Single-Parent Families" single parents are often successful in raising happy and healthy children.   by Stephen Duncan Dr. Nowadays, it's quite common to talk about the problems of single parent families. These problems usually center on the disadvantages to children. This focus may lead some single parents to throw up their hands in despair. I remember as a young graduate student feeling shocked and appalled at some of the personal deficits I was predicted to have, because I spent 11 years of my childhood in a single parent family. It's true that research shows that children in single parent families, on average, tend to do less well in many ways than children in two-parent families. However, all of us know of persons who grew up in single parent families who turned out fine. In addition, single parent families aren't helped to become strong by focusing only on their weakn...

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The Juno Effect

Some parents and critics wonder if films like Juno, among other media that portrays young pregnant teens, may be doing more harm than good. What do you think? Did the movie Juno make teen pregnancy seem cool?

'16 and Pregnant' = fewer teen pregnancies?

Learning English:Program Seeks to Lower Teen Pregnancy Rate in New York

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