A new study conducted by the American Institute of CPAs shows that while 61% of parents say they give their children an allowance (the average is $15 a week, or $780 a year), only 1% say their children save it. Children are not being set up with a realistic relationship to money. Although 89% of those aprents ... read more »

  A new study from British and Dutch researchers states that some women’s wombs may allow too many embryos — including poor quality ones — to implant, resulting in miscarriage. The study — published this month in the journal PLoS ONE — may provide an explanation for why some women have multiple (defined as three or more) ... read more »

A new study published in the International Journal of Obesity shows that children who received antibiotics in the first 5 months of life were 22% more likely to be obese at the age of 3. This effect was not seen in children who were received antibiotics between the ages of 6 and 14 months. The children’s weights ... read more »

A 20-year-old mother in Wales has been sentenced to 15 months in jail for leaving her 15-month-old child alone for days so that she could attend parties during the Christmas holidays. The woman’s neighbors called the police after hearing the baby screaming. The woman (who has not been named) would go back to her home ... read more »

The latest issue of the journal the Biology of Reproduction says that eating two handfuls of walnuts a day may improve sperm health in young men. In the study, 117 healthy men between the ages of 21 and 35 had their sperm tested for shape, movement, and vitality. Half of the men added 75 grams ... read more »

What badge do they give for this? A 51-year-old Boy Scout leader was attacked by a rabid beaver while swimming in the Delaware River in Pennsylvania earlier this month. On August 2nd, Norman Brousseau was acting as assistant troop leader on a Boy Scout trip with another leader and four Scouts when a beaver swam ... read more »

A mother in Los Angeles is facing possible felony charges after leaving her two children locked in her car while she went shopping. 18-year-old Arely Amaya allegedly left her 1-year-old son and 2-week-old daughter strapped in their carseats with a rear window cracked. The temperature outside was 92 degrees, but Deputy Pete Mejia estimated that the ... read more »

14-year-old Nadia Iles won free plastic surgery from a site designed to help children with facial deformities after being bullied about her appearance. Iles appeared on Good Morning America to talk about her decision. She says she was bullied about her ears since the age of 7, and became so depressed by the constant taunts ... read more »

Her priorities firmly in place, 24-year-old mother Crystal Rusaw of New Port Richey, Florida, left her three children — ages 4, 3, and 10 months — home alone for hours so that she could have sex with a neighbor at his home. The three kids crossed Massachusetts Avenue — a busy four-lane highway with a ... read more »

A California woman who was faking a pregnancy with her estranged husband, dressed as a nurse and tried to abduct a newborn from Garden Grove Hospital in Southern California on Monday morning. Grisel Ramirez, 48, began getting questions from her estranged husband after her alleged due date passed.  The couple does not live together and ... read more »

So THAT’S why he was breathing funny. A wheel shaped Lego piece was found inside 6-year-old Isaak Lasson’s nose last week, after he was taken to see a new doctor after having difficulty with his breathing — in particular, with eating and sleeping — since he was 3-years-old. Previous doctors suspected an infection and had ... read more »

This week, scientists in Australia reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association that children given the DTaP — the current vaccine used to prevent whooping cough — were four times more likely to contract whooping cough than children given the DTwP, which is an older version of the vaccine. The DTwP was found to ... read more »

New studies presented Thursday report that cyberbullying may be less common than previously thought. Ian Rivers, a professor of human development at Brunel University in London, and other researchers presented their studies at the American Psychological Association’s annual meeting on Thursday. Though cyberbullying has been heavily studied since the early 2000s, Rivers states that, ”the one ... read more »

Dominique Cottrez, 48, who confessed in 2010 to killing eight of her own newborn babies, has been freed in Douai, France without supervision. She is required to receive psychological and psychiatric care as a condition of her release. Cottrez, a former nursing student, was arrested for murder in July 2010 after the remains of infants ... read more »

A study just published in Archives of Disease in Childhood found that warning signs of heart disease — typically considered a disease of middle age — have been found in obese children as young as 2-years-old. Researchers from VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam studied  307 severely obese children between the ages of 2 and 18. Two-thirds of ... read more »