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Talking to Your Daughter About Periods and Puberty

If you ask a young woman whether her mother spoke with her about puberty and preparation for starting her period, she might say, No, I learned from my friends. More then likely, when you ask her mom if she had the talk with her daughter, she will say Yes. Often, the reason is that unless there was something momentous about the occasion; it may not have been memorable enough for the daughter to recall.

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Pregnancy for Profit?

Youve heard about maternity discrimination, whereby women raising kids earn less than men, and less than women without kids, right? Ditto for the well-documented gender pay gap, whereby women earn 82 cents for every dollar a man doe

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Learning From Tragedy: The Leiby Kletzky Abduction & Murder

When tragedy happens we need to learn from it. There is only one person to blame for the senseless death of Leiby Kletzky, an innocent 8-year-old boy, – the predator monster that stole his precious life.As I spent the day angry, outraged at the madness of it all, my heart breaking for his family and community I still cant help but know – this was an avoidable tragedy, little Leiby didnt not have to die at the hands of an utterly deranged killer.