Reality show star Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries are getting another chance to settle their divorce case, and this time a judge wants the professional basketball player to attend. Humphries did not appear for settlement talks Friday, and a Superior Court judge set another hearing for April 19 in Los Angeles.
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A fine line for kids’ TV presenters
The public has an expectation of people in the limelight, TV presenter Jason Gunn says.
Study: Most Child Abuse Goes Unreported
Children in highly developed countries suffer abuse and neglect much more often than is reported by official child-protective agencies, according to the findings of the first in a comprehensive series of reports on child maltreatment, published Dec.
Has Fame Spoiled ‘Slumdog’ Kids? Trust Fund at Risk
Young Rubina Ali’s social diary has been more than full these past few months: a trip to Paris; a tea party in Westminster, London; a dance show in Hong Kong; product endorsements; and numerous trips in and out of India for award shows and to promote the Slumdog Millionaire child actor’s autobiography, Slumgirl Dreaming.
Music: The Un-Retirement of Jay-Z
Like running backs and child actors, rappers usually do their best work in the first year or two of their careers. The inevitable decline is brought on not by bum knees or embarrassing arrests–in rap there’s no such thing–but by something far more mundane: words
Dirty Work: The Creeping Rollback of Child Labor Laws
The government has not had a lot of ideas for what to do about the nation’s anemic job market, but there are troubling signs that one old idea is starting to reemerge: child labor. In the first part of the 20th century, there was a concerted effort to end the scourge of children working in factories and textile mills
Eating Candy in Childhood Linked to Adult Crime
What parent hasn’t used candy to pacify a cranky child or head off a brewing tantrum? When reasoning, threats and time-outs fail, a sugary treat often does the trick.
Outrage: Former Bishop Vangheluwe Downplays Child Abuse
The Belgian Catholic Church must have felt it hit a nadir last year when it had to face harrowing revelations of rampant child sex abuse among its priesthood. However, the church’s reputation is now at a new low, thanks to the ill-judged comments of the disgraced former Bishop of Bruges, who in April 2010 admitted to abusing his nephew
Girl, 9, laid to rest as murder suspect, 15, appears in court
A 9-year-old girl was laid to rest Wednesday as a 15-year-old girl, described as an acquaintance, was in court on charges she carried out the younger girl’s murder On Wednesday, Olten’s family looked towards closure as two drastically different scenes unfolded in Missouri.
52 children recovered, 60 alleged child pimps arrested in crackdown
Law enforcement authorities have recovered 52 children and arrested 60 pimps allegedly involved in child prostitution, the FBI announced Monday.