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• Modern-day Hansel and Gretel Dumped in the Woods?

  An Idaho father was charged with second-degree murder after sending his kids, 11 and 12, on a 10-mile hike through the snow after their car broke down on Christmas Day. Second-degree murder, which carries a possible sentence of life in prison, seems pretty harsh for what basically amounts to being a massive moron, or at the most, criminally negligent. Here are the details: Read More... Posted Dec 30 2008, 01:02 PM by Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: kids, news, father, crime, tragedy, negligence

• Police Called on 10-Year-Old Riding Train Alone

  The nervous nellies strike again. This time a 10-year-old boy was riding on the Long Island Railroad to see his friend last Friday. His friend's family was going to pick him up at the station. He'd done the ride dozens of times before. LIRR has no policy about what age is too young to ride alone, but his mom had talked to them before his first ride, and they said 10 sounded fine. But not to one hovering conductor . . . Read More... Posted Dec 29 2008, 12:00 PM by Miriam Axel-Lute with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: kidnapping, trains, freedom, fear, visiting, independence, hysteria, risk, free range kids, negligence, assessing risk, Lenore Skenazy, kids alone, kids unsupervised, mommy police, kids’ rights, Inner wildness, LIRR, nanny state, Axel-Lute

• Toddler Drowns In Nine Inches Of Water

  We've been pretty good lately about backing off the dead baby stories.  But I felt I had to report about this one - namely, because it involves something I always considered more of an extreme hypothetical situation than an actual, real-life tragedy:  children drowning in mere inches of water. Read More... Posted Sep 28 2008, 09:31 AM by Amy S.F. Lutz with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: old wives tales, negligence, kids drowning, nicolas claus

• Couple Sues After Failed Vasectomy

  What would your first assumption be if your wife got pregnant after you’d had a vasectomy? Would you suspect her of being unfaithful—or your sperm of outsmarting your sterilization surgery? Well, unless your marriage is on the rocks or you’re swingers (and, hey, I don’t judge!), the latter is the more likely. At least 1 percent of vasectomies fail to prevent pregnancy—just as condoms break and women on the pill get pregnant. Read More... Posted Sep 10 2008, 08:04 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, hospitals, marriage, Arkansas, stress, birth control, miscarriage, vasectomy, contraception, Cheating, doctors, defamation, fail, faithful, sterile, failed vasectomy, statistics, negligence, miscarry, sue. lawsuit, botched, mindy hill, brady hill, one percent