An Iowa official was paid $180,000 by the state to settle her lawsuit in which she alleged she was fired from her state job because she is a mother. more

Fifty-nine percent of the 3.1 million American kids who don’t share a house with a parent live with their grandparents, USA Today reported. more

If a toddler shares a bed with his or her parents, a new study published in the journal Pediatrics, says the child should be okay, more

Going completely against the current safety-first trend, the New York Times’ John Tierney asserted that the measures people have implemented to make playgrounds “safer” haven’t turned out as they anticipated. more

Making the case that severely obese children should be taken into government custody in order to protect the children’s health, Dr. David Ludwig, an obesity specialist from Children’s Hospital in Boston said officials sometimes need to intervene, the Associated Press reported. more

Does having that third (or fourth or more) child necessarily wreck a women’s career? A new study says yes, more

The owner of a Monroeville, Pennsylvania restaurant has told his customers that they need to be 6 and up in order to be admitted. more

Pleading with parents whose children throw temper tantrums in public to deal with these children and keep them from disturbing others, writer LZ Granderson said on CNN’s web site: “Children are wonderful but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we will all be.” more

A study of over 26,000 Norwegian women in 1964 between ages 17-39 found that “women who had children early – by their mid-20s – were much less likely to continue their education beyond the required first two years of high school.” more

A Washington, D.C. police officer who asked to temporarily be put on desk duty until she finished breastfeeding because wearing the bulletproof vest “is extremely painful and could clog [her] ducts and slow down the production of [her] milk supply” was instead told to take a leave without pay, according to the Washington Examiner. more