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Finding the pointe of life in childhood living room

With New York in lockdown, I've found refuge at my childhood home, which I left 20 years ago to pursue a dance career. 




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Kajol reveals the true essence of motherhood for mother's day 2020

Kajol opened up about her experience juggling motherhood and acting during the course of her kids childhood




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Slum-Upgrading Project Helps Reduce Poverty and Improve Livelihoods Across Indonesia

670,000 households in Indonesia are benefitting from improved access to water and sanitation.




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Community Vegetable Farming for Livelihood Improvement - Additional Financing

Approved project 50278-002 in Mongolia.




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Single Motherhood Doesn't Seem to Hinder Happiness

Title: Single Motherhood Doesn't Seem to Hinder Happiness
Category: Health News
Created: 4/26/2014 10:35:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 4/28/2014 12:00:00 AM




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Childhood Self-Control Linked to Better Job Prospects Later in Life

Title: Childhood Self-Control Linked to Better Job Prospects Later in Life
Category: Health News
Created: 4/24/2015 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 4/27/2015 12:00:00 AM




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Mental Health Problems After First Baby Reduce Likelihood of More Children: Study

Title: Mental Health Problems After First Baby Reduce Likelihood of More Children: Study
Category: Health News
Created: 4/3/2020 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 4/6/2020 12:00:00 AM




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Tough Childhoods Are Tough on Adult Hearts: Study

Title: Tough Childhoods Are Tough on Adult Hearts: Study
Category: Health News
Created: 5/6/2020 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/7/2020 12:00:00 AM




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AHA News: Farms Flourish and Nourish in Philadelphia Neighborhood

Title: AHA News: Farms Flourish and Nourish in Philadelphia Neighborhood
Category: Health News
Created: 4/16/2020 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 4/17/2020 12:00:00 AM




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AHA News: Traumatic Childhood Increases Lifelong Risk for Heart Disease, Early Death

Title: AHA News: Traumatic Childhood Increases Lifelong Risk for Heart Disease, Early Death
Category: Health News
Created: 4/28/2020 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 4/29/2020 12:00:00 AM




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Exploring Early Childhood Factors as an Avenue to Address Chronic Peer Victimization




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Early Childhood Factors Associated With Peer Victimization Trajectories From 6 to 17 Years of Age

OBJECTIVES:

To describe (1) the developmental trajectories of peer victimization from 6 to 17 years of age and (2) the early childhood behaviors and family characteristics associated with the trajectories.

METHODS:

We used data from 1760 children enrolled in the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development, a population-based birth cohort. Participants self-reported peer victimization at ages 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, and 17 years. Participants’ behavior and family characteristics were measured repeatedly between ages 5 months and 5 years.

RESULTS:

We identified 4 trajectories of peer victimization from 6 to 17 years of age: low (32.9%), moderate-emerging (29.8%), childhood-limited (26.2%), and high-chronic (11.1%). Compared with children in the low peer victimization trajectory, children in the other 3 trajectories were more likely to exhibit externalizing behaviors in early childhood, and those in the high-chronic and moderate-emerging trajectories were more likely to be male. Paternal history of antisocial behavior was associated with moderate-emerging (odds ratio [OR] = 1.54; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.09–2.19) and high-chronic (OR = 1.93; 95% CI = 1.25–2.99) relative to low peer victimization. Living in a nonintact family in early childhood was associated with childhood-limited (OR = 1.48; 95% CI = 1.11–1.97) and high-chronic (OR = 1.59; 95% CI = 1.09–2.31) relative to low peer victimization.

CONCLUSIONS:

Early childhood externalizing behaviors and family vulnerabilities were associated with the development of peer victimization. Some children entered the cascade of persistent peer victimization at the beginning of primary school. Support to these children and their families early in life should be an important component of peer victimization preventive interventions.




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Development of IFN-Stimulated Gene Expression from Embryogenesis through Adulthood, with and without Constitutive MDA5 Pathway Activation [INNATE IMMUNITY AND INFLAMMATION]

Key Points

  • The augmented ISG profile of RdRP mice develops largely postnatally.

  • Elevated ISG expression is then maintained through adulthood.

  • The ISG signature in adults requires persistent type I IFN signaling.




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    Early Childhood Antibiotic Treatment for Otitis Media and Other Respiratory Tract Infections Is Associated With Risk of Type 1 Diabetes: A Nationwide Register-Based Study With Sibling Analysis

    OBJECTIVE

    The effect of early-life antibiotic treatment on the risk of type 1 diabetes is debated. This study assessed this question, applying a register-based design in children up to age 10 years including a large sibling-control analysis.

    RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS

    All singleton children (n = 797,318) born in Sweden between 1 July 2005 and 30 September 2013 were included and monitored to 31 December 2014. Cox proportional hazards models, adjusted for parental and perinatal characteristics, were applied, and stratified models were used to account for unmeasured confounders shared by siblings.

    RESULTS

    Type 1 diabetes developed in 1,297 children during the follow-up (median 4.0 years [range 0–8.3]). Prescribed antibiotics in the 1st year of life (23.8%) were associated with an increased risk of type 1 diabetes (adjusted hazard ratio [HR] 1.19 [95% CI 1.05–1.36]), with larger effect estimates among children delivered by cesarean section (P for interaction = 0.016). The association was driven by exposure to antibiotics primarily used for acute otitis media and respiratory tract infections. Further, we found an association of antibiotic prescriptions in pregnancy (22.5%) with type 1 diabetes (adjusted HR 1.15 [95% CI 1.00–1.32]). In general, sibling analysis supported these results, albeit often with statistically nonsignificant associations.

    CONCLUSIONS

    Dispensed prescription of antibiotics, mainly for acute otitis media and respiratory tract infections, in the 1st year of life is associated with an increased risk of type 1 diabetes before age 10 years, most prominently in children delivered by cesarean section.




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    Relative contribution of maternal adverse childhood experiences to understanding childrens externalizing and internalizing behaviours at age 5: findings from the All Our Families cohort

    Background:

    The negative effect of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on physical and mental health has led to calls for routine screening for ACEs in primary care settings. We aimed to examine the association between maternal ACEs and children’s behaviour problems (externalizing and internalizing) at age 5 in the context of other known predictors.

    Methods:

    We analyzed data from mother-and-child dyads participating in the All Our Families cohort in Calgary, Canada, between 2011 and 2017. Data were collected for factors related to the individual child (sex, age, temperament and behaviour), the mother (adverse childhood experiences, mental health, personality and parenting) and sociodemographic characteristics (family income, ethnicity and family structure) when the children were 3 and 5 years of age. We used logistic regression models to estimate crude and adjusted associations between maternal ACEs and children’s externalizing (hyperactivity and aggression) and internalizing (anxiety, depression and somatization) behaviours.

    Results:

    Data were available for 1688 mother-and-child dyads. In the crude models, the presence of 4 or more maternal ACEs was associated with children’s externalizing and internalizing behaviours at age 5. However, these associations were attenuated with adjustment. Persistent maternal mental health symptoms were associated with both externalizing and internalizing behaviours at age 5 (adjusted odds ratio [OR] 4.20, 95% confidence interval [CI] 2.50–7.05, and adjusted OR 2.52, 95% CI 1.66–3.81, respectively). High levels of ineffective parenting behaviours were also associated with both externalizing and internalizing behaviours at age 5 (adjusted OR 6.27, 95% CI 4.30–9.14, and adjusted OR 1.43, 95% CI 1.03–1.99, respectively).

    Interpretation:

    The association between maternal ACEs and children’s behaviour at age 5 was weakened in the presence of other maternal and family-level factors. Assessments of maternal mental health and parenting behaviours may be better targets for identifying children at risk of behavioural problems.




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    Captain Tom Moore says knighthood would be 'marvellous' as campaign for honour continues

    Read our live coronavirus updates HERE




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    War veteran Captain Tom Moore, 99, says he'd be 'amazed' to meet Queen amid petitions for knighthood

    Live coronavirus updates here




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    UK hospital first to widely use new respirator hoods to protect medics on frontline of coronavirus fight

    Frontline health workers at a UK hospital have become the first in the country to be widely kitted out with a pioneering respirator hood when treating Covid-19 patients.




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    Sidewalk Labs cancels plan to build high-tech neighbourhood in Toronto amid COVID-19

    Sidewalk Labs, a Google-affiliated company, is abandoning its plan to build a high-tech neighbourhood on Toronto’s waterfront, citing what it calls unprecedented economic uncertainty.



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    SWASTIKA masks at grocery store in same town as man in KKK hood...


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    Victoria Beckham shares adorable childhood snaps to mark her 46th birthday

    The former Spice Girl celebrated her birthday with a throwback to her youth




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    Mark Strong: Growing up without a father has made me take parenthood 'really seriously'

    The actor's father left the family home shortly after he was born




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    Kojo Anim review – BGT star on fame, faith and fatherhood

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    In his show Taxi Tour, the comic from last year’s Britain’s Got Talent offers only standard-issue middle-aged standup

    Kojo Anim was a star of the black standup circuit for years, but “Britain’s Got Talent changed my life,” he tells his Croydon crowd. The Londoner has booked his Taxi Tour off the back of an appearance in last year’s final, and recounts how that brush with fame – and his Christian faith, and new fatherhood – picked him back up after a grim period in his life. The emotional honesty is refreshing, but plays only a cameo role in an otherwise unadventurous show. Anim certainly does have talent, but – on this evidence – it’s for performing, not for writing distinctive material.

    The show opens with a justification for appearing on BGT, and an account of his experience of overnight celebrity. But it soon devolves into standard issue middle-aged standup comparing his unglamorous childhood with that of today’s pampered youth. His parents play their expected role, giving their son broad accents to mimic when not walloping him for the slightest impertinence. “Only an African parent,” reports our host ruefully, “will beat their own child when they see another child doing something.”

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    Chris Hemsworth: 'Fatherhood is much more important than Hollywood'

    Chris Hemsworth admits that being a father is his priority and means more to him than being a movie star.




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    Premier League season must finish so Liverpool can end title hoodoo, says Gerard Houllier

    Former Liverpool boss Gerard Houllier is desperate for the season to resume so that his old club can finally bring an end to their Premier League hoodoo.




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    Planned Parenthood Exits Federal Family Planning Program Over Abortion Gag Rule

    Planned Parenthood is leaving the federal government’s Title X program, which funds family planning services for low-income people, due to...




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    San Diego Man Wears KKK Hood After As Face Mask



    The neighborhood has a history of white supremacy..




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    Blogger Mattie James Balances Motherhood And Business Hustle



    Just say "no" to mom guilt.




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    Neighborhood and cognitive performance in middle-age: Does racial residential segregation matter?

    A study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health found that black subjects who were exposed to highly segregated neighborhoods in young adulthood exhibited worse performance in cognitive skills in mid-life. This outcome may explain black-white disparities in dementia risk at older age.




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    Like giant ice cream trucks, supermarkets on wheels get ready to roll into the neighbourhood

    Shoppers tired of waiting in line outside a supermarket, or trying to secure a slot with one of the overbooked grocery delivery apps, have new options to bring groceries home. Startups and established companies alike are eager to offer Canadians fresh alternatives during the COVID-19 lockdown and beyond.




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    Eric Holder at the Howard University School of Law Hooding and Degree Ceremony

    "With power and wealth must come responsibility and caring. You must realize that you possess real and symbolic power as lawyers and understand that you can change the whole of America for the better."




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    Attorney General Eric Holder at the Fatherhood Town Hall

    "I’m honored to be joined here this evening by fellow dads and leaders focused on fatherhood," said Attorney General Holder.




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    Six Individuals with Alleged Ties to Aryan Brotherhood Arrested and Charged with Murder of Two People in Nacogdoches County, Texas

    Six alleged members or associates of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) have been indicted and arrested for their alleged roles in the 2007 murder of two people in Nacogdoches County, Texas.



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    Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks Before the Alliance of Concerned Men Town Hall Meeting on Fatherhood and Youth Violence

    The plain truth is that youth violence is far-too common. There’s no single cause and no simple solution. But we know one important contributor is the absence of a responsible, loving father. Here in D.C., where half of African-American households don’t include even one grown man, the implications of this fact could not be clearer.




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    Three Individuals with Alleged Ties to Aryan Brotherhood Charged with a 2008 Murder That Occurred in Atascosa County, Texas

    Three alleged members or associates of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) have been indicted for their alleged roles in a 2008 murder in Atascosa County, Texas.



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    Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks at the Project Safe Neighborhoods Annual Conference

    "Our future progress, I believe, will depend on our ability to bring innovative, evidence-based solutions to the work of addressing our most overwhelming and intractable challenges – namely, the prevalence and consequences of gun-, gang-, and drug-related violence, as well as the devastating impact of childhood exposure to violence," said Attorney General Holder.




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    Justice Department Announces Recipients of Annual Project Safe Neighborhoods Achievement Awards

    The Department of Justice today announced the 24 recipients of the annual Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Achievement Awards in a ceremony hosted by Acting Deputy Attorney General Gary G. Grindler at the PSN national conference in New Orleans.



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    Acting Deputy Attorney General Gary G. Grindler Speaks at the Project Safe Neighborhood Awards Ceremony

    "What makes Project Safe Neighborhoods so unique as an initiative is that it relies on teamwork that goes beyond law enforcement," said Acting Deputy Attorney General Grindler.




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    Attorney General Holder Unveils Defending Childhood Initiative

    Attorney General Holder officially unveiled Defending Childhood, a new Department of Justice initiative focused on addressing children’s exposure to violence.



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    U.S. Clean Water Act Settlement in Northeast Ohio to Protect Lake Erie, Revitalize Neighborhoods and Create Green Jobs

    A comprehensive Clean Water Act settlement with the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District (NEORSD) will address the flow of untreated sewage into Cleveland area waterways and Lake Erie.



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    Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli Speaks at the Defending Childhood Grantee Meeting

    "The Defending Childhood Initiative is one of several in the Department where we have sought to enhance how we work together, all with the goal of better helping our partners in cities, towns, reservations, and rural areas throughout the Nation."




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    Attorney General Holder, Justice Department Officials Meet with Defending Childhood Representatives

    Attorney General Eric Holder today met with Defending Childhood representatives from eight communities across the country to discuss local efforts to address children’s exposure to violence.



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    Attorney General Holder Speaks at the Defending Childhood Initiative Grantee Meeting

    "I am grateful for this opportunity to discuss our shared goals – and your front-line efforts – to prevent, reduce, and combat childhood exposure to violence. The issue of children’s exposure to violence has been both a personal and professional concern for decades. As our nation’s Attorney General, and as a parent of three young children, addressing this crisis – and implementing bold, innovative, and collaborative solutions – is a top priority."




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    Eleven Alleged Aryan Brotherhood of Texas Members Charged for Roles in Assault

    Eleven alleged members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) have been indicted for their alleged roles in the 2008 beating of a gang prospect in Tomball, Texas.



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    Alleged Aryan Brotherhood Members Charged for Roles in Jefferson County, Texas, Shooting

    Two alleged members and associates of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) were arraigned today on charges related to their alleged roles in the 2009 shooting of a man in Jefferson County, Texas.



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    Two Aryan Brotherhood of Texas Gang Members Plead Guilty to Racketeering Charges

    Two members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) prison-based gang pleaded guilty today in federal court to racketeering aggravated assault in the 2008 beating of a gang prospect in Tomball, Texas.



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    Project Safe Childhood Operation Announced Following Indiana Man’s Guilty Plea to Multiple Child Exploitation Offenses

    David R. Bostic, of Bloomington, Ind., pleaded guilty today to multiple charges of sexual exploitation of children relating to his participation in an international conspiracy to sexually exploit children through the trading of child pornography.



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    Department of Justice on Behalf of Partner Agencies Releases Solicitation to Build Capacity in Distressed Neighborhoods

    The Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance today announced the Building Neighborhood Capacity Program Training and Technical Assistance Coordinator Solicitation, part of an innovative approach to build capacity in distressed neighborhoods.



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    Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks at the STANCE Initiative Meeting/Neighborhood Crime Prevention Event

    "Today, together, we have an opportunity to discuss the goals and responsibilities that we share – to reach the young people who need our help most; and to ensure that violent crime rates – here in Cleveland and across the country – continue to head in the right direction."




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    Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against Maryland Man for FACE Act Violation at a Planned Parenthood

    The Justice Department today filed a civil complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against Richard Retta for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act).



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