Santiago, Chile, Jun 10, 2013 / 12:18 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In an effort to reverse the country’s low birth rate, President Sebastian Pinera of Chile has announced a proposal to offer financial incentives to couples who have three or more children.
The measure, announced on May 21, would benefit all women apply regardless of income level and would entail a one-time payment of approximately $200 for a couple’s third child. It would increase to $300 for the fourth child and $400 for the fifth. Read more…
by Jennifer Kabbany
LOS ANGELES – One of the largest public charter high schools in the nation allows a boy who identifies as female to use the girls locker room and bathrooms – despite protests from a female student who says she feels uncomfortable and vulnerable by his presence.
What’s more, the female student – who just finished her sophomore year at the Los Angeles-based Granada Hills Charter High School – claims the boy in question harassed her, touched her hair, stared strangely at her, and also peeked at girls over the stalls while they used the toilet. Read more…
Truly somebody must see how absurd and dangerous this is. Boys on a girls’ sports team–Like no one is going to see that as unfair? This is a mess.
by Becky Yeh
A California legal group is warning the public that a bill now in the California State Senate will allow students to choose the gender they want to be in restrooms and locker rooms, and on athletic teams.
Robert Tyler, general counsel at Advocates for Faith & Freedom, predicts California Assembly Bill 1266 will pass the state Senate and be signed into law. Read more…
from Kristina Arriaga
Last month, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals – at the U.S. government’s urging – decided that a family in Tennessee would have to return to Germany where they will face crushing six-figure fines and possibly imprisonment for breaking a Nazi-era law. The parents could even lose custody of their six children.
Their crime? Read more…
submitted by Ginny:
This has been proposed as part of the “Children and Young People” Bill that is currently in committee in the Scottish parliament. Article excerpts:
“This state-appointed overseer will be a specific, named individual, and every child will have one, from birth. The responsibility for creating this named guardian will fall on the heads of the health boards for the first five years of a child’s life, before being transferred to councils.”… Read more…
by Tamara Rajakariar
Seventy-six percent of Canadians believe it is best for children under six to be cared for at home by a parent, according to a poll released today by the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada. These results are consistent regardless of age, income, gender and working status. When parents are unable to be at home, Canadians choose options that most closely replicate the home environment such as a relative or a neighbourhood home day-care. Read more…
by Hilary White
LONDON, May 23, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Half of all British children born this year will be living with only one parent by the time they reach their teens, a study has revealed.
The study, titled “The myth of long-term stable relationships outside of marriage” undertaken by the Marriage Foundation, found that 45 percent of British teenagers between the ages of 13-15 are not living with both parents and that 9 out of 10 children born to unmarried, cohabiting “partners” will be living in single-parent households by their teens. Read more…
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