Many moms assume burden of child-care costs

One of the biggest hurdles for working couples trying to balance work and family is finding good and affordable day care. But for some reason, many mothers think arranging and paying for child care is mainly their concern.

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Parents pull kids from day care as money tightens

The nation's economic troubles play out one family at a time at the New Horizons Learning Center in this struggling city two hours northwest of Chicago.

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Audit finds sex offenders at Calif. child care facilities

The state social services agency on Wednesday was moving to shut down nine homes used for child daycare and foster care after an audit found registered sex offenders living there in violation of state law.

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Home-Based Child Care Workers Seek Union

Jennie Rivera works 10-hour days taking care of children in her lower Manhattan apartment and has never had a paid vacation or earned more than $13,000 a year.

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Close to 1 million roller blinds and Roman shades sold by IKEA, Bed Bath & Beyond and Hanover Direct are being recalled for posing a serious strangulation risk to small children.

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Some store chains have stopped buying blueberries from a major company due to its use of child labor. Apparently child labor is used commonly in the fields by various companies.

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Women are not built to raise children alone, according to biological anthropologists. So in an age when moms are often isolated from family and friends, they turn to strangers online for help.

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Women are not built to raise children alone, according to biological anthropologists. So in an age when moms are often isolated from family and friends, they turn to strangers online for help.

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The 23-year-old man was hospitalized, and his mother and brother are in jail after bomb materials and a marijuana-growing operation were discovered at the family home, which doubles as a day care center. The mom has a permit to care up to eight children.

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The Children's Minister has ordered a review of the case of two police officers told they had broken the law by caring for each other's children.

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MIDDLEVILLE, Mich. - A West Michigan woman says the state is threatening her with fines and possibly jail time for babysitting her neighbors' children.

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"The Big Book of Parenting Solutions: 101 Answers to Your Everyday Challenges and Wildest Worries," a new book by Michele Borba, allows parents to flip straight to an issue that's befuddling them most and download needed guidance in a hurry. Here is an excerpt.

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A report this morning tells the heartbreaking story of a man who lost his job as a computer consultant, and along with the job went the health insurance for his family.

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In the wake of three child deaths and the near strangulation of seven other children, federal authorities and several businesses announced Wednesday that nearly 5.5 million hazardous window shades and blinds are being recalled immediately.

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Forget the sleepover rituals of junk food, "truth or dare" and late night gab sessions that have ushered tweens into teens for decades. A new generation of parents are sticking to strict no sleepover rules.

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Forget the sleepover rituals of junk food, "truth or dare" and late night gab sessions that have ushered tweens into teens for decades. A new generation of parents are sticking to strict no sleepover rules.

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Parents can slap and even kick their children when chastising them, a senior judge said yesterday.

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Many cash-strapped families are trying to make it through summer without pricey kid classes and camps. It's prompting parents to get creative and, in some cases, create impromptu DIY camps right in their own homes, yards and neighborhoods.

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As a new father ten years ago I underestimated a number of finer points involved in the pregnancy and birth of a child: I had a habit of putting diapers on backwards (diaper dyslexia), my second son required forceps in order to be pulled out of his mother (She's four-foot somet …

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The poem "Children Learn What They Live" is not new. But, I think this classic still contains much wise counsel on parenting children years after Dorothy Law Nolte wrote it.

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In a "Dear Governor" letter to the 50 states, Mr. Duncan said $44 billion in stimulus money was being made available to states immediately.

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CONCORD, NC - Stay at home mom Lisa Pagan and her children are inseparable. She's also a 7 year Army veteran assigned to a transportation unit.

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Families thrive not in spite of working mothers, but because of them, say the authors of "Getting to 50/50." In this excerpt, they write about why you shouldn't feel bad about using child care for your kids while you pursue your career.

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Families thrive not in spite of working mothers, but because of them, say the authors of "Getting to 50/50." In this excerpt, they write about why you shouldn't feel bad about using child care for your kids while you pursue your career.

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COLUMBIA - Some women say being a stay-at-home mom is rewarding, but soon the state might reward them for taking care of their kids.

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Two Pennsylvania judges charged with taking kickbacks to send youth offenders to privately run detention centers have pleaded guilty to fraud.

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Two Pennsylvania judges have been charged with taking millions of dollars in kickbacks to send teenagers to two privately run youth detention centers.

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Some tips for parents on how to handle children's bedwetting.

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We Pro-life Christians Need to Lead by Example

Fellow pro-lifers, let's seek to teach more effectively and more often about the importance of abstinence for teenagers. And, those of you who are skilled parents, please seek to disciple young couples on effective parenting skills.

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