Terminating unwanted babies raises risks for later pregnancies. When you do actually try to go “all the way”, future babies will be more likely have low birth weight and be born prematurely, which of course lowers their chance of survival.
That doesn’t mean it’s wrong… just that it has health consequences. It’s good to be informed [...]
A new study found that a significant minority – around a third- of the Australian population are against public breastfeeding. The group most opposed to it were 18 to 24 year olds.
Aren’t the young supposed to be cool, easy-going, and not hung up with old fashioned moralism? Not when it has something to do with [...]
Interview with Alison Gopnik in Seed Magazine.
The picture we used to have of children was that they spent all of this time doing pretend play because they had these very limited minds, but in fact what we’ve now discovered is that children have more powerful learning abilities than we do as adults.
They already seem to [...]
A doctor, Dr Panayiotis Zavos, has claimed in a TV interview to have cloned nine embryos, in a secret lab somewhere in the Middle East.
It’s probably just an unfounded publicity stunt:
Professor Robert Winston, emeritus professor of fertility studies at Imperial College London, was blunter. “I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr [...]
Fairfax-owned “Essential Baby” has a typically lightweight piece on the topic of immunisation. The bottom line:
The way I look at vaccination is: there is a tiny risk of an adverse reaction, compared to a much, much bigger risk of my children contracting a host of diseases if I had chosen not to vaccinate them. I’m [...]