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Breastfeeding: Senator Rob Schaaf Proposes Bill To Protect Moms, Nursing In Public

Here's a health-related bill from a Republican lawmaker in Missouri that just perhaps may not face intense backlash from women's rights groups across the state and country. It's State Senator Rob Schaaf's breast-feeding bill -- a proposal to give women better protections to nurse in public. "It's ... More >>

[VIDEO] Breastfeeding Mothers Attempt World Record

Okay. So perhaps it didn't generate as much buzz as that Time cover a few months ago, still August 5 was a big deal for breastfeeding. Women across 23 countries and 626 cities gathered at 10:30 a.m. in their local times zones to "simultaneously" breastfeed their children.[View video below.]St. Louis ... More >>

Boot camp makes men of deadbeat dads

The narrow worldview of What to Expect When You're Expecting

Teen Birth Rates Decline in St. Louis City, and Across the Country

The St. Louis Department of Health is proudly touting its steady decrease in teen pregnancies, a trend that mirrors the national decrease in teen pregnancies since 1991. In fact, the national rate of teen pregnancies dropped 44 percent in the past 20 years. Locally, that drop reflects a change from ... More >>

Celebrate "Herstory" This Weekend in Belleville

March is not just a time for tournaments and brackets of all kinds -- it's also Women's History Month. This weekend Tapestry of Community Offerings (TOCO), a nonprofit in Belleville, will be holding its eighth annual Herstory Weekend at the Ground Floor Club. Which, as it happens, has less to do wit ... More >>

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

Falling, Not Failing

Three Notes on Dining With Children

Wikimedia CommonsThis child isn't sprinting, blocking the door or discussing umbilical stumps. ​ Yesterday we mentioned how the National Restaurant Association's Kids LiveWell program is getting healthier kids meals into restaurants, which might lead to more families dining out. Which is great ... More >>

Blowback: Special Child-Rearing Edition: Readers discuss Suzanne Venker and baby spittle

Attention, working moms: Author (and Schlafly niece) Suzanne Venker thinks you are destroying America

An Open Letter to the Parents of the Baby Who Puked in Front of Me at Lunch

Image via​Hi!You don't know me, but we ate lunch at the same restaurant today. You seemed like very nice people, and your baby sure is adorable! I think she even smiled at me when I sat nearby.Did you enjoy your meal? I certainly enjoyed mine -- until, that is, you picked up your baby from her ... More >>

NYT Column Slaps at Local Anti-Feminist Author

​In yesterday's edition of the New York Times, columnists fittingly opined on dear old Mom. And Stephanie Coontz's contribution to the mom-centric page, "When We Hated Mom," starts off with a slap at St. Louis author Suzanne Venker's latest book, "The Flipside of Feminism."Venker's book, co-writte ... More >>

Cahokia Couple Kept Children Locked in Closet

Kim McGee and Keith Rucker face six counts of unlawful restraint and child endangerment.​U.S. Marshals deputies were conducting a compliance check on a home in Cahokia in February when they discovered two children locked inside a closet. A nail in the door secured the five-year-old boy and girl in ... More >>

MMA for Kids: A Family Story

Kholood Eid​This week our feature story tells the tale of Mike and Madeline Green, a father-daughter duo hailed as two of the toughest fighters in the city. Once an untamed street brawler, Mike Green turned his life around through fatherhood -- and in the process raised the best MMA prospect i ... More >>

Dining with Children and Other Brats

Wikimedia CommonsKeep the bowl-head at home, Junior.​There was a time when all restaurants were family restaurants. Pubs were gathering place for all ages and babysitters weren't even invented. Restaurants weren't places to escape the daily grind; they were places to eat and socialize. But so ... More >>

Newsflash: If You Play With Your Kid, It Won't Be Depressed!

image viaOr maybe a sad kid just needs a trip to Disney World and a pretty, pretty princess dress, just like Suri Cruise's.​A team of child psychiatrists at Washington University has made an amazing discovery: The best way for parents to relieve depression in their toddlers is to play with the ... More >>

City of Many Santas

New Missouri Abortion Laws Among the Nation's Most Restrictive

​In the 2010 legislative session, Missouri, along with several other states, passed new laws placing major barriers between women and their Constitutional right to obtain abortions. The Center for Reproductive Rights, a New York-based pro-choice legal advocacy group, Tuesday released a report on t ... More >>

In Case of Disaster, Missouri's Kids Are Screwed

Pop quiz: What do Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Montana and Wyoming all have in common? According to a new report by Save the Children, kids in all these states are probably out of luck in case of an emergency.

Cents Less: Budget Cut of $7 Million Would Cost Missouri $38 Million in Federal Funds

Bill would send $38.7 million in federal funds down the crapper.​A budget bill making its way through Jefferson City could have a devastating impact on child care in Missouri.  Legislators in the Missouri House are looking to balance a projected $500-million budget gap for fiscal 2011. In so ... More >>

Time to Glide

Seems Like Old Times

Missouri: Not Safe For Kids

flickr.com/photos/florgAt least, that's what we're hearing from the Save the Children organization. Today the agency sent out a fear-mongering alarming notice (attached at the end of this post) stating that Missouri is "unprepared to protect children from disasters." According to Save the Children, ... More >>

A Waitress-cum-Senator do a Supreme Court Justice Make?

Wikimedia CommonsA woman's place is not in the kitchen. It's at the front of the house, like on the bench at the U.S. Supreme Court.A former speechwriter for George H.W. Bush has floated the name of -- nay, endorsed -- Missouri's freshman senator for the soon-to-be-open seat on the U.S. Supreme Cour ... More >>

Strong Enough for A Woman

'Fight McCain, Have Sex': Free Condoms Go Quickly at Debate

Hey, Mr. DJ!

Parenting hits the stage

Things to Do with the Kiddies At Ballpark Village

To The Parents Who Let Their Kids Play Under the Restaurant Table and Offered Only a Half-Hearted Apology When One of Said Kids Threw a Slinky at Me

Makin' History at Herstory

To the Dude I Just Saw Skateboarding Down the Center Turn Lane of Delmar Blvd. with a Stroller with a Baby in It Attached to Your Skateboard

Just Kickin’ It

Elvis Perkins

Ash Wednesday (XL/Beggars)

Local Blog O' the Week

Naked Brides

Boo the Clown helps Unreal overcome our fear of clownkind, and La Leche League puts it all out there during World Breastfeeding Awareness Week. Plus -- want to see a truly blushing bride? Take away her dress.

Quick Picks

Week of November 3, 2004

Best Gym/Fitness Club

South City YMCA

Best Daycare

Clayton Child Center

Best Community-Service Program

Humane Society of Missouri's Docents

Daycare Nightmares

In response to growing demand, the number of daycare facilities in Missouri is increasing each year. So are the problems.

Throwing in the Towel

Under mounting pressure, a local nonprofit agency finally agrees to give up its contract to provide Head Start services to 2,500 preschoolers

LOSING WAIT

Thousands of St. Louis children are stuck for years in foster care before they get permanent homes.
The feds are demanding the wait be shorter. But for the city, that's easier said than done.

WHEN PRO-LIFE MEANS MORE ABORTIONS

Letters to the Editor

News Real

Letters to the Editor

Milky Way

Breast-feeding is better for babies, better for mothers, better for society -- so why is the practice shrouded in shame?

Fertile Ground

Planned Parenthood seeks to require Missouri's health-insurance industry to get consistent and provide coverage for birth control