Our Little Monster

Mike Luckovich / Truthdig Oct 3, 2007 Dig deeper

The Unborn Victims of Occupation

Staff / Truthdig Aug 15, 2007 Rampant violence and a curfew that makes nighttime medical aid unrealistic at best are threatening the health of pregnant Iraqi women and their children. Official data on the problem is scarce, but medical and humanitarian workers say childhood and maternal mortality is on the rise. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

New Jersey Considers Mandatory HIV Test

Staff / Truthdig May 12, 2007 A new proposal would make New Jersey the first state to require HIV testing for pregnant women and their babies, unless the women decline the test in writing. Currently four states test just mothers, and two others only newborns. The bill is opposed by the D.C.-based Center for Women Policy Studies on the grounds that it limits health rights. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Mr. Fish – 300 Millionth Baby

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Oct 20, 2006 Dig deeper

Stoner Boom

Staff / Truthdig Sep 8, 2006 Drug use among baby boomers is up, while use among teens is down, according to new government figures. That actually makes sense. If teens started paying as much attention to the doings of Bush & Co. as their forebears, we'd see those numbers rising in unison. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Fertility Gap

Staff / Truthdig Aug 23, 2006 Liberals will continue to lose ground in American politics as long as conservatives continue to outbreed them, argues a Syracus University professor in the Wall Street Journal. (The blue/red baby gap is much bigger than you'd imagine.) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Infertile in a Baby-Crazed World

Staff / Truthdig Aug 13, 2006 Glamour magazine runs a thoughtful piece about how we're witnessing "a rampaging, almost hysterical fixation on pregnancy and babies and how having them will transform your life and allow you to reach nirvana" -- and about the effect that's having on the infertile among us. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Readers Shocked, SHOCKED at Magazine’s Breast Cover

Staff / Truthdig Jul 29, 2006 Puritanism is reigning supreme once again as many readers of BabyTalk magazine were offended en masse by the sight of -- horror of horrors -- a breast offering sustenance to an infant on the magazine's cover. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Ellen Goodman: The Baby Bump Fixation

Staff / Truthdig Jul 27, 2006 "How did this fixation on celebrity babies, this upbeat bump beat, happen just as we are being told that parenthood is onerous and grueling and that parents are overworked and overwhelmed?" Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

A Satirical Broadside at China’s Employers

Staff / Truthdig May 29, 2006 The Onion reports on an "unpaid 15-minute break during the regular 18-hour workday, to allow pregnant women to 'expel the child from their body, adjust to being a new parent, wash their hands, and return to work.' " Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Brangelia Baby: Slate Helps You and Your Kids Cope

Staff / Truthdig May 29, 2006 OK, we give up: With news of The Birth pushing all other news off the international agenda, here's a satirical guide from Slate that helps parents express why they love the Brangelina baby more than their own children. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

America Becoming Haven for Designer Babies

Staff / Truthdig May 16, 2006 Foreign couples are flocking to the U to take advantage of medical techniques--banned in most countries--that allow the dictation of a baby's sex . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )