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Monday, May 17, 2010

MP seeks to criminalize those who coerce women to abort

Manitoba Conservative MP Rod Bruinooge wants to make it a crime in Canada for someone to try to coerce a woman into having an abortion, the National Post reported.

The Criminal Code already forbids the uttering of physical threats against pregnant women. But Bill C-510, a private member’s bill that Bruinooge introduced last month, would go further by criminalizing other forms of intimidation, such as threatening to take away her “financial support or housing” and “argumentative and rancorous badgering.”

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Monday, May 17, 2010

Preschoolers and TV a bad mix: study

Culture

Parents who let young children watch too much television are jeopardizing their across-the-board development, according to a new study reported by the Montreal Gazette.

Researchers at the University of Montreal, the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Centre and the University of Michigan based their findings on interviews with the parents of 1,314 Quebec children. Parent-reported data on the amount of time children spent viewing TV at 29 and 58 months old was compared with assessments of the children’s performance in grade four. They concluded that the degree of impairment by the time the children turned 10 was both significant and far-reaching.

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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Parents spending more time with their kids

Family

Two recently published studies – one in the United States and the other in the United Kingdom – suggest that working parents are spending a lot more time with their children compared to previous generations.

As the New York Times reported, a study by married economists Garey and Valerie A. Ramey at the University of California, San Diego, found that the amount of time that parents at all income levels – but especially among those with postsecondary education – spent with their children had risen “dramatically” since the mid-1990s.

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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Maternal madness

Life

How an initiative to help mothers and children in the developing world became all about abortion

Written by Andrea Mrozek, manager of research and communications at the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada

When Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that he would make maternal health a major initiative when Canada assumed presidency of the G8 in late June, the move garnered widespread approval. Since then, many have wondered how on earth a call for improved maternal and child health in the developing world evolved into a debate about abortion.

The following chronology outlines how the debate unfolded:

Christian Influence in Society

What does the Bible say about becoming involved with politics? Is there a reason why Christians should vote or care about an election?

HEARD AROUND

“Sarah Coyne, professor of family life at Brigham Young University, co-authored a recent study on media aggression and found that out of 120 hours of programming, an average of 52 acts of hostility (physical and verbal) are broadcast per hour on reality TV. Non-reality programming contained only 33 such incidents per hour. Coyne concludes, ‘[Programming is] producing this culture of being mean to each other,’ Coyne said. ‘We're setting up our culture to being overreactive.’ (The study was published in June's Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media.)”

[Pluggedin.com 7/6/10; USAtoday.com 6/29/10]

Listing of Pregnancy Care Centres

Pregnancy centres provide loving counselling, practical assistance and a variety of resources to pregnant women. For more information about these services available across Canada, please click here.

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