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FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2008 file photo, passengers walk to a train the Guangzhou railway station in Guangzhou, China as tens of millions of travelers scramble to board trains and buses to return home for this month's Lunar New Year holiday. Visit your parents. That's an order. So says China, whose national legislature on Friday, Dec. 28, 2012 amended its law on the elderly to require that adult children visit their aged parents "often" - or risk being sued by them. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

China passes law requiring people to visit their elderly parents

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, December 28, 2012 - 10:27am

BEIJING -- Visit your parents. That's an order.

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Mormon parents create gay-support video

Cristina Silva The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, April 20, 2012 - 2:59pm

Mormon parents defend their gay children in a new video that confronts The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ disapproval of same-sex relationships.

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Aggressive parents force egg hunt cancellation, discussion of behavior

P. Solomon Banda The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, March 26, 2012 - 7:18am

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Organizers of an annual Easter egg hunt attended by hundreds of children have canceled this year's event, citing the behavior of aggressive parents who swarmed into the tiny park last year, determined that their kids get an egg.

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Parents accused of leaving children home alone, flying to Vegas

Rosemary Sobol Chicago Tribune

Last updated Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 5:14pm

CHICAGO -- Child endangerment charges have been filed against an Uptown couple accused of flying to Las Vegas and leaving their two children, 12 and 9, home alone for nearly two days, police said.

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Utah's efforts to discourage youths from smoking is paying off, as the number of kids addicted to nicotine is dropping, Here, at the Ogden Amphitheater in May 2009, volunteers Nelson Riches, 16, dressed as a cigarette, and Lary Deuel, dressed as secondhand smoke, talk with kids during a celebration of the smoking ban in public outdoor spaces. (Standard-Examiner file photo)

Utah battle against youth tobacco use continues despite improvements

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 10:12pm

The U.S. Surgeon General is urging states to discourage kids from smoking by implementing tobacco tax hikes, high-impact interventions, smoking bans and mass media campaigns.

Each day, nearly 4,000 kids try their first cigarette and an additional 1,000 under the age of 18 become daily users, according to a report issued this week by the Office of the Surgeon General. About 3.6 million middle and high school students smoke, the report states.

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Mother of 8-year-old charged in elementary school shooting

Josh Farley The Kitsap Sun

Last updated Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - 4:01pm

BREMERTON, Wash. -- The mother of a 9-year-old son, and her boyfriend, are facing criminal charges in connection with her child's allegedly accidental shooting of an elementary school classmate.

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Advocates: Teens in foster care need a place to belong

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, February 25, 2012 - 8:05pm

SOUTH OGDEN -- Tears and joy mixed Saturday as a panel of foster-parent advocates discussed their experiences of taking in teenagers or of being taken in themselves.

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Suzanne Leonelli, seen Wednesday, is the new executive director of Prevent Child Abuse Utah, a nonprofit organization based in Ogden. (KENDAL RUSSELL/Standard-Examiner)

New Prevent Child Abuse Utah director may change nonprofit's direction

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 10:49pm

OGDEN — A change in leadership at Prevent Child Abuse Utah also may indicate a change in direction for the organization.

Suzanne Leonelli took over as executive director Jan. 17.

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Bedbug hoax rattles school

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, February 13, 2012 - 12:33pm

AUGUSTA, Ky. -- Augusta Independent School Principal Robin Kelsch had enough to worry about with the flu. Kelsch didn't need a student's report of bedbugs at the school to make things worse.

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Baby changes the brains of Mom and Dad

Lee Bowman Scripps Howard News Service

Last updated Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 12:29pm

Having a baby, so the cooing commercials say, changes everything.

While perhaps not changing everything, parenthood does set in motion an array of hormonal and even structural changes in the brains of Mom and Dad, in ways that researchers continue to try to understand.

Recent studies have made it clear that, contrary to the ditzy moments once dismissed as "mommy brain," mothers of newborns -- whether or not they already have kids -- tend to experience growth in key brain structures that influence motivation and maternal behavior.

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Survey: Morgan teens drinking alcohol at home -- with parents' permission

Deanne Winterton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, November 27, 2011 - 9:37am

MORGAN -- The results of a survey revealing where teens are consuming alcohol in this rural community are raising eyebrows and big concerns.

Although the number of respondents is small and officials lack consistent data, a Weber Human Services representative said she is concerned because the survey revealed some of the shocking conditions in which teens illegally drink in Morgan County.

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Free Thursday event at WSU for single moms

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, October 10, 2011 - 11:39pm

OGDEN -- Weber State University, 3848 Harrison Blvd., on Thursday will host its Single Mothers Success Forum, an eight-week series featuring a variety of topics affecting single mothers.

The free meeting is at 1 p.m. in Room 312 of Shepherd Union. For information, call 801-626-6090.

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In an Oct. 6, 2011 photo, Felicia Williams, Community Liason for Buffalo City Council member Darius Pridgen, holds a package of "Ring Pots" candy in Buffalo, N.Y. The marijuana-shaped candy that’s showing up on store shelves around the country won’t get kids high, but aghast city leaders and anti-drug activists say the product and grocers carrying it represent a new low. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

Marijuana-shaped candy alarms parents, officials

Carolyn Thompson The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, October 10, 2011 - 9:38am

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Candy shaped like marijuana that's showing up on store shelves around the country won't get kids high, but aghast city leaders and anti-drug activists say the product and grocers carrying it represent a new low.

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Online calculators help parents, students estimate college costs

Laurel Rosenthall The Sacramento Bee

Last updated Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 1:15pm

Students applying to college this fall have a new tool to help them compare costs at various campuses. This month, so-called "net price calculators" will appear on the websites of colleges nationwide, giving students and parents an idea of how much financial aid they could receive months before a formal offer arrives.

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Empty-nest parents embrace new possibilities

Cindy Krischer Goodman, McClatchy Newspapers McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 10:26am

Sitting at his youngest daughter's high school graduation, Bruce Katzen fought back the sting in his eyes. His thoughts raced from "Oh, my God, my baby is graduating," to "This is going to be an exciting time for my wife and me."

"It's a milestone," Katzen said.

This month, parents of more than 3 million high school graduates are celebrating the transition to the next phase of their children's lives. But where generations past fretted over the empty nest and the prospect of loneliness, today's empty-nesters are active in the workforce and see the transition as opportunity for better work-life balance and new routines.

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