By Julie Jacobson
nzherald.co.nz

First-time parents will often “call in” to Giggles daycare centre several times a day to check on their children, owner Shona Ua-Marsh says.
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By: Madeline Friedman, Reporter staff writer

They’re all around us and we may not know it. But, if we look closely, said Hoboken filmmaker Dana Glazer, we will be able to spot the many fathers who have chosen to put careers on hold to stay home and spend more time with their children.

“If you walk down the street and start looking, you will see stay-at-home dads,” said Glazer, who is shooting a documentary on the topic called “The Evolution of Dad.” “Now that I’m more aware of it, I see more of it,” he said.
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A glimpse into a long lost world, NYC in the 1950’s, clean, safe and beautiful. See how comfortable and charming the city’s subway system once was, how homely and clean the neighborhoods of Manhattan once were, in color!…
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Here’s a brilliant video of Coney Island in the 1940’s, a beautiful window on another America…
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HEN News

A CORONER issued a warning to parents to heed advice about not letting babies share their bed after an eight-week old child died.
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By Sarah E. Richards
Slate

If a new brand of birth control gets approved early next year, that time of the month could become the time of, like, the decade. Lybrel, a birth-control pill made by Wyeth, would be the first oral contraceptive to deliver an uninterrupted supply of hormones. Seventy percent of women who took it for six months were period-free, according to a preliminary study by the company.
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