Friday, September 19, 2014

Single-Father Homes on the Rise...

   More fathers are going solo in raising kids. It's a change that single fathers say shows greater acceptance by American families and courts that sometimes the best place for children is with Dad. The 2000 census found: In 2.2 million households, fathers raise their children without a mother. That's about one household in 45. The number of single-father households rose 62 percent in 10 years. The portion of households headed by fathers with children living there doubled in a decade, to 2 percent. Single...

Thursday, September 18, 2014

What All Babies Need, But Aren't Getting Enough Of....

Babies need a few basic things to get started: mother’s milk, or something like it; love, attention, and playtime; clean clothes; and a safe place to sleep. All over the world, high- or low-income, desert or forest, high-rise or countryside, doting parents give their babies these essentials. But educational researchers have uncovered something else babies need, and this they’re not getting equally up and down the income scale. The missing...