Author Archives: carl

It was a quiet week for those of us who are constantly on the prowl for stories about the nutsy things parents do with their kids. But then along comes this one, which restores my faith in humanity. Or, rather, my faith in humanity’s never-ending ability to outdo itself in the “are-they-out-of-their-freakin’-minds?” department. A customer at a Wal-Mart in Lawrence Kansas, alerted the police to a young boy, tied up and blindfolded, outside a Chevy Suburban in the parking lot. When the cops got there, they found not just one, but two kids bound and blindfolded–the boy and a 7-year old girl. Oh, and there were three other kids, ages 12, 13, and 15, inside the car as well. Police arrested a couple from a Chicago suburb, Adolfo Gomez Jr., 52 and Deborah Gomez, 43, and charged them with child abuse and child endangerment. According to news reports, the Gomez family

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Special Needs Causes – a Friend Needs Me & YOU Jackson St. Aubin Scheduled for Hemispherectomy Surgery June 27 Note from Kat: With her permission, I pulled in the second post my pal Caryn posted on her site about our mutual friend Gina St. Aubin’s family and her son, Jackson, who is undergoing hemispherectomy surgey later this month. I published her last post about the Need for an online Family Reunion within and for the Special Needs Community to help support this family and Jackson, who is 9 in a post late last week. I can’t ask for your help with this family’s needs any better than my friend Caryn can, and what follows in the bulk of her post from her own site, Living with Logan, regarding Jackson’s situation. I’m joining with this cause in the hopes that YOU will also join in. Read all the way to the end,

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A new state-by-state analysis released for Father’s Day shows how little the nation supports and protects employed fathers when a new child arrives. The special report, Dads Expect Better: Top States for New Dads, includes an analysis of state laws and regulations governing paid leave and workplace rights for new fathers in the United States. It finds that only 14 states and the District of Columbia are doing anything at all to help new dads who work in the private sector. The special report was compiled by the National Partnership for Women & Families using its recently released analysis of state laws that help new parents in both the public and private sectors, Expecting Better. Dads Expect Better focuses on state laws that apply to both new fathers and new mothers and ranks the top states and the District of Columbia based on their enactment of these inclusive family friendly public policies. “Our analysis

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