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Maternal Mortality – It Happens More Than You Know
“I lost my wife six days after the birth of our first child.” – Ryan Hansen, maternal health advocate – By Ryan Hansen The statistics are staggering and frightening. In the U.S., a woman dies every 10 minutes from childbirth birth or pregnancy related complications. Although the global number of maternal deaths has decreased by […]
Rethinking Family Vacations
“Vacation is just me washing dishes and doing laundry in a different place,” my mom used to joke to the four of us kids during summer vacations. We took a lot of family trips. My mother was a teacher, so she had the summers free from her paid job; she drove us 10 hours from […]
Don’t Let Technology Desensitize Your Kids
As technology continues to develop at a breakneck pace and with the recent death of the brilliant and innovative Steve Jobs, I found myself pondering the incredible advances that have been made since I was born in 1967.
Protecting Our Daughters from Campus Rape
In 1983, I was a Harvard freshman. I was happy to be at Harvard, naturally. Harvard was pleased too, mostly because the college, which had welcomed female students for only 11 years, had recently taken progressive steps to protect us from being raped on campus. During freshman orientation, the campus police proudly showed female students all the blue light phones that had been installed on campus walkways. If you ran to the phone at night …
Misty May-Treanor Welcomes Baby Girl
Its a girl for Misty May-Treanor! The three time Olympic beach volleyball player and her former professional baseball player husband Matt Treanor welcomed their first child, Malia Barbara, in Long Beach, California on June 3 her representative told PEOPLE. The baby girl most likely gets her middle name from May-Treanors mother Barbara, who died of cancer in 2002. The 36 year-old new mom posted on Facebook, We were so blessed to welcome this …