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Contact a Family called on parents to tell their story of raising a disabled child holding national competition aiming to highlight the many issues they face on a day-to-day basis.
We had an overwhelming response from parents sharing their stories and we are pleased to announce that we have picked 'Jamie' as one of our runner up prize winners!
'Jamie' tells the story of a family and their young child who has Down Syndrome.Contact a Family called on parents to tell their story of raising a disabled child... more
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Contact a Family called on parents to tell their story of raising a disabled child holding national competition aiming to highlight the many issues they face on a day-to-day basis.
We had an overwhelming response from parents sharing their stories and we are pleased to announce that we have picked 'Fab Fin' as our grand prize winner!
'Fab Fin' tells the story of a fun-loving young lad with cerebral palsy.Contact a Family called on parents to tell their story of raising a disabled child... more
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Bessie Hudgins of 3 sides to every story, and Ron Smith of children need both parents are the Original organizers, of the DC Family Preservation Festival 2007 and 2008.
Bessie is Continuing the events for this years DC Family Preservation Festival 2009.
The dates for this will be on July 18 and 19th and held in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
We hope that all will attend as we know the importance of children having the ability of both parents in their lives is vital for healthy emotional growth.
For further information on the event for this year or if you would like to be a sponsor, please email her at Three3sides@aol.com.
You can go to the site for the Family Preservation Festival and Rally at www.dcrally2009.com
You will find plenty of information on the speakers and lodging, and more as information is available.
Im proud and honored to announce that Tawnya and I have been invited to speak on behalf of SpLiTnTwO & The Lee PAS Foundation on parental alienation and the effects on us, as parents and children.
Don’t forget that Valentines Day is coming up, and the gift shop is still open and will remain open on the Lee PAS site. All proceeds will go to both our Organizations. There is a bigger selection! Check out the gift shop by the end of next week for the new merchandise that will be available.
The Lee PAS Foundation is still requesting that you write out “special moments and memories”, you have shared with your children to be added to a book that will be put in for publication soon.Each person will have your own page to submit your endearing thoughts of your children. Please get them in no later then the end of March! Hurry while there is still room for you! EMAIL your memories and bedtime stories into theleepasfoundation@yahoo.com and please put into the subject title “Stories for the book!”.
New P.A. Information & weblinks on www.theleepasfoundation.org!
Keep a smile in your heart,
KatrinaBessie Hudgins of 3 sides to every story, and Ron Smith of children need both parents... more
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The Obama family is showing America a new way to look at a black family, some commentators say. Rather than being billed as the 'problem' family or the 'comic' family, the Obamas are presenting an educated and loving unit to the country. "The last time we had an image of a black family that was this positive it was "The Cosby Show," but this is the Real McCoy," says Jacqueline Moore Bowles, national president of Jack and Jill of America Inc., a predominately black organization for youths. The new President and his wife are also showing the US a healthy example of a black couple. "We don't get to see black love," says Heidi Durrow, the prize-winning author of the forthcoming novel, "Low Sky Dreaming."The Obama family is showing America a new way to look at a black family, some... more
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This article goes back a few weeks but found this interesting
Researchers have discovered that Oxytocin, a hormone well known for its role in helping mothers to bond with their babies during breastfeeding, is also involved in helping people recognise familiar faces.
The findings are the first time to shown the hormone in important in helping to remember social interaction.
"Recognising a familiar face is a crucial feature of successful social interaction in humans," said Dr Peter Klaver at the University of Zurich, the senior author of the new study, which was led by Ulrike Rimmele, PhD, at New York University. "In this study, we investigated for the first time the systematic effect of oxytocin on social memory in humans."
Dr Klaver and his colleagues had the study participants use a nasal spray containing either oxytocin or a placebo and then showed them images of faces and inanimate objects, including houses, sculptures, and landscapes.
Participants were given a surprise test when they returned the next day - they were shown some of the images they had seen the day before as well as some new ones and were asked to distinguish between images that were "new," images that they specifically "remembered" being show the previous day.
The volunteers who used the oxytocin spray more accurately recognised the faces they had seen before than did those in the placebo group.This article goes back a few weeks but found this interesting
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Obama spokesman says president-elect will end 'don't ask, don't tell'
President-elect Barack Obama will end the 15-year-old "don't ask, don't tell" policy that has prevented homosexual and bisexual men and women from serving openly within the U.S. military, an Obama spokesman said
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Obama said during the campaign that he opposed the policy, but since his election in November he has made statements that have been interpreted as backpedaling. On Friday, however, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs, responding on the transition team's Web site to a Michigan resident who asked if the new administration planned to get rid of the policy, said:
"You don't hear politicians give a one-word answer much. But it's 'Yes.' "
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Is it time to allow gays to serve openly in the US military?Obama spokesman says president-elect will end 'don't ask, don't... more
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IRVINE, Calif. — Late at night, the neighbors saw a little girl at the kitchen sink of the house next door.
They watched through their window as the child rinsed plates under the open faucet. She wasn't much taller than the counter and the soapy water swallowed her slender arms. To put the dishes away, she climbed on a chair.
But she was not the daughter of the couple next door doing chores. She was their maid.
Shyima was 10 when a wealthy Egyptian couple brought her from a poor village in northern Egypt to work in their California home. She awoke before dawn and often worked past midnight to iron their clothes, mop the marble floors and dust the family's crystal. She earned $45 a month working up to 20 hours a day. She had no breaks during the day and no days off.IRVINE, Calif. — Late at night, the neighbors saw a little girl at the kitchen... more
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SAN BERNARDINO - It started as a single-student arrangement for tutoring between a parent and a Cal State San Bernardino professor.
More than five years later, the effort has blossomed into the new, state-of-the-art Watson and Associates Literacy Center on the college campus.
The literacy center is inside the university's new $51 million College of Education building.
It includes three classrooms, 10 individual tutoring rooms, a resource library and a kitchen.
It's a far cry from the early days in Mary Jo Skillings' small campus office. Skillings is chairwoman of the Language, Literacy and Culture Department. In 2003, she kept getting phone calls from a mother looking for someone to help her 8-year-old son with his reading struggles.
Skillings agreed to do the tutoring herself and then decided to write a proposal for a literacy center to serve more K-12 students, she said.SAN BERNARDINO - It started as a single-student arrangement for tutoring between a... more
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Jayne and Peter Stanyon know the pain of losing a child.
Both of their children were killed in separate car crashes.
Helping other people has helped the couple cope with their loss.
"I truly feel my girls guiding me," Jayne Stanyon said.
Last week, the Canyon Lake couple took toys to children in the solid organ unit at Loma Linda University Medical Center Children's Hospital.
The unit cares for children with heart, kidney and liver problems, including those who recently had transplants and some who are waiting for one.Jayne and Peter Stanyon know the pain of losing a child.
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By refusing to hear a case, the US supreme court handed down a huge victory to gay and lesbian parents throughout the country. A lesbian couple had seperated after having a Vermont civil union. They both parented a child. One woman was seeking visitation rights. The other woman was trying to use Virginia's very strict laws against granting same sex couples any rights whatsoever. The Virginia's supreme court was sympathetic to the woman seeking visitation rights. "The high court Monday declined to hear the case of Lisa Miller, who claimed that the Virginia Supreme Court improperly ignored a state law and constitutional amendment that prohibit same-sex unions and the recognition of such arrangements from other states." By ignoring the case, they endorsed visitation rights for gay and lesbian couples in co-parenting situations despite state law.By refusing to hear a case, the US supreme court handed down a huge victory to gay and... more
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An Enduring Crisis for the Black Family
In 1950, at the height of the Jim Crow era and despite the shattering legacy of slavery, the great majority of black children -- an estimated 85 percent -- were born to their two married parents.
Just 15 years later, 24 percent of black mothers were then bypassing marriage
By 1980, black fatherlessness had doubled; 56 percent of black births were to single mothers. In inner-city neighborhoods, the number was closer to 66 percent.
By the 1990s, the majority of black women who did bear children were unmarried.
Today, 70 percent of black children are born to single mothers. In some neighborhoods, two-parent families have vanished.
And what has this meant for racial progress?
Fifty years after Jim Crow, black U.S. households have the lowest median income of any racial or ethnic group.
Close to a third of black children are poor, and their chances of moving out of poverty are considerably lower than those of their white peers.
The fractured black family is not the sole explanation for these gaps, but it is central.
The institution of marriage appears to promote ideals of stability, order and fidelity that benefit children and adults alike.
Those who pin their hopes for black progress on education tend to forget this.
Numerous studies, when controlled for income and race, show that, on average, children growing up with single mothers are less likely to graduate from high school and go to college. employment are not a certain cure.An Enduring Crisis for the Black Family
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This video shows how our government funds the cover up of statutary rape and sexual abuse of young girls who became pregnant
Nationwide undercover investigations show the same pattern in different locations
Planned parenthood do not report it and send the child right back to her predator
If a state require parental notification, girls will be sent out of state to a different abortion mill
Abortion first, condomn second .Yes we can.
Planned Parenthood; receives over $300 millions of taxpayers money each yearThis video shows how our government funds the cover up of statutary rape and sexual... more
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Prop 8 Backlash Is 'An Outrage That Must Stop,' Group Says in Support of Church
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints expressed appreciation today for a full-page advertisement in The New York Times that decries the "violence and intimidation" directed toward the Church because of its support of Proposition 8.
Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said: "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints expresses its gratitude to the signatories of the full-page advertisement that appeared today in The New York Times.
This was a thoughtful and generous gesture at a time when the right of free expression of people of faith has come under attack. We join with those of all religious faiths and political persuasions who have called for reasoned and civil discourse on matters that affect our nation."
The ad was sponsored by The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and was signed by scholars, dignitaries and religious leaders from a variety of faiths.
"Religious groups can't claim some sort of special immunity from criticism," the advertisement stated. "Nevertheless, there's a world of difference between legitimate political give-and-take and violent attempts to cow your opponents into submission. Violence and intimidation are always wrong, whether the victims are believers, gay people, or anyone else."
The statement in the ad continued: "Participating in ballot initiatives is legally different from politicking for candidates. It is perfectly lawful for charities, including religious ones. It is perfectly appropriate as well that all voices be heard."
The statement by the group also called for others to add their names to the letter and concluded with a declaration of unified support:
"Therefore, despite our fundamental disagreements with one another, we announce today that we will stand shoulder to shoulder to defend any house of worship -- Jewish, Christian, Hindu, whatever -- from violence, regardless of the cause that violence seeks to serve."Prop 8 Backlash Is 'An Outrage That Must Stop,' Group Says in Support of... more
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Once again, the morning shows teach us the correct way to behave during holiday season...
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at current.com/infomania. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at infomaniafacebook.com.Once again, the morning shows teach us the correct way to behave during holiday... more
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Contact a Family welcomes Carers UK’s latest research into the financial difficulties being experienced by carers.
One of the key findings of Carers in Crisis is that families with disabled children have been hardest hit among carers by the credit crunch. Counting the Costs, a recent survey and report by Contact a Family supports these findings with one in six families of disabled children reporting that they are going without food and heating.Contact a Family welcomes Carers UK’s latest research into the financial... more
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UK disability charity Contact a Family has welcomed last week’s ruling by the Employment Tribunal protecting parents who combine work with caring for a disabled child against harassment and discrimination in the workplace...UK disability charity Contact a Family has welcomed last week’s ruling by the... more
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