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A 'Bullying Crisis'? Come On

Neal Colgrass — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:12:24 CDT

With the documentary Bully coming out this weekend and stories of online bullying increasingly common, we must be in the midst of a "bullying crisis"—right? "I don't see it," Nick Gillespie writes in the Wall Street Journal . "I also suspect that our fears about the ubiquity of bullying are...

Tombstone of Hitler's Parents Comes Down

Dustin Lushing — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:13:15 CDT

Neo-Nazis have lost a familiar haunting ground: The tombstone identifying the burial site of Hitler's parents, Alois and Klara, has been removed from an Austrian cemetery, reports AP . The marker was taken away at the request of a relative, in part because it had become a shrine for extremists. And...

3 out of 10 Young Adults Moving Home

Dustin Lushing — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:17:05 CDT

As many as three out of 10 young adults are moving back in with their parents—resulting in the highest share of 18- to 34-year-olds living with multiple generations since the 1950s—after finding themselves unable to find lucrative employment in this dismal economy. They're dubbed "boomerang kids" because they...

California Parents Prepare to Fire School

Rob Quinn — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:51:05 CST

The Parent Trigger is cocked and ready to fire at an underperforming elementary school in California. A 2010 state law gives parents the power to take over schools, and a parents group at Desert Trails Elementary outside Los Angeles plans to do so if the district doesn't overhaul the institution,...

Teen Tweeter Is No Hero

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:19:15 CST

There's something wrong with a world in which Emma Sullivan , the 18-year-old high school student who refused to apologize to Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback after tweeting that he "sucked," is turned into a "heroine of the liberal blogosphere," writes Ruth Marcus in the Washington Post —adding that Sullivan should be...

Another Drunk Dad Has 9-Year-Old Drive: Cops

Matt Cantor — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:23:03 CDT

A few weeks ago, a boozed-up father had his daughter climb on a booster seat and take him shopping ; now childhood designated-driving is turning into a quasi-epidemic. A Wyoming man visiting Orlando felt he and his wife had had a few too many on Saturday, so he instructed his son,...

Boozing Dad's Designated Driver: His 9-Year-Old

Kate Schwartz — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:10:35 CDT

Before you applaud a boozing guy for getting a designated driver to take him to the store around 2am on a Saturday, know this: said alternate chauffeur was his 9-year-old daughter ... who was sitting on a booster seat. The Detroit News reports that Shawn Weimer, 39, bought her a candy...

Parents in Italy Fight to Evict Son

John Johnson — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:45:10 CDT

An exasperated couple in Italy has turned to the law to try to get their 41-year-old son to leave home, reports the AFP . The son "has a good job but still lives at home," says dad. "He demands that his clothes be washed and ironed and his meals prepared. He...

Grieving Parents May Die Sooner: Study

Luke Kelly-Clyne — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 07:21:34 CDT

A new study suggests that parents who lose a child in the first year are more likely to die early themselves, reports the BBC . Researchers at York and Stirling universities found that such moms and dads are four times more likely to die within a decade. It's not clear why...