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Pure Ingenuity: Woman Charges $350 for Unsupervised Babysitting

Pure Ingenuity: Woman Charges $350 for Unsupervised Babysitting

New Yorker’s have enough on their hands without worrying about the well-being of their children when they are at work. But like anyone else, many of these parents become “helicopter parents” who monitor their child’s every move and breath. This paranoid parenting has caused this woman to start-up her own business doing just the opposite.

Lenore Skenazy, a former journalist who has championed the “free play” movement, cheekily launched the after-school program to try to encourage parents to let their children to play without structure or supervision.

Is Facebook Creating A Generation Of Gambling Addicts?

We know Facebook makes us lazy, vain, depressed, self-centered and ignorant, but what about Facebook gaming?

Children are using ‘virtual coins’ to simulate the thrill of hitting the jackpot with slot machine and roulette games on their home computers and mobile phones… But addiction experts have warned the games encourage teenagers to think gambling is harmless fun.

Doctor Doesn’t Abort Properly, Now Has To Pay Child Support

Going in for an abortion is one of the hardest things a woman may have to do, but she wouldn’t expect to find a baby-daddy in the clinic.

The baby was born healthy after a full nine-month term despite the doctor’s performance of a surgical abortion to terminate the pregnancy, Spanish newspaper Diario de Mallorca reported Wednesday. The boy is now 18 months old.