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How to Provide Healthcare for All Kids

Donna Norton, Huffington Post. November 17, 2008.
Children are the least expensive population to insure -- there's no good reason why we can't cover all kids now.

Did Palin Use GOP Funds to Buy Her Children Underwear?

Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. November 10, 2008.
The Palin clothes story just keeps getting weirder.

I Want to Bail Out Health Care

Erikka Yancy, Brave New Films AlterNet: Video. October 2, 2008.
Choosing to bail out children over corporations.

Americans' Attitudes Toward Breastfeeding Are Making Our Kids Sick

Aisha Qaasim, Women's eNews. August 29, 2008.
Want a healthy baby? Put the Baby Einstein videos and hand sanitizer away and breastfeed.

Children Are Paying the Price for Bush's Deportation Policies

David Neiwert, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. August 19, 2008.
Thousands of children are dumped into squalor after being deported from the United States.

7 Reasons Parents Should Not Test Kids for Drug Use

Lindsay Lyon, U.S. News & World Report. August 7, 2008.
Why experts say drug testing should be left to the professionals.

Send Bill O'Reilly Back to School

Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films AlterNet: Video. August 7, 2008.
O'Reilly thinks he is qualified to teach to your children.

Baghdad 5 Years On: City of Walls

ZP Heller, Brave New Films AlterNet: Video. August 7, 2008.
Why the surge isn't as successful as conservatives would have you believe.

Gender Policing is Harmful to Children

Habladora, Feministe AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. July 18, 2008.
"It isn't being different that put kids at risk, it's being punished for being different."

Mortgage Crisis Is Leaving Children Homeless

Caitlin G. Johnson, OneWorld.net. July 11, 2008.
Some middle class families are facing homelessness for the first time.

Even Kids Don't Like President Bush

ZP Heller, Brave New Films AlterNet: Video. June 5, 2008.
What a 10 year old thinks is wrong with the administration.

Sexpot Virgins: The Media's Sexualization of Young Girls

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. May 24, 2008.
Professor M. Gigi Durham discusses the corporate media's sexual objectification of girls and how to help young women fight regressive media messages.

Texas Court Rules Against Seizures of FLDS Children

Jesse Wendel, Group News Blog AlterNet: PEEK. May 23, 2008.
The Court of Appeals overturned a lower court ruling granting custody of the children to the state.

Sex Abuse in the Name of Religion Isn't a Lifestyle -- It's Sex Abuse

Ellen Goodman, Truthdig. May 23, 2008.
The call to understand the polygamous sect as just another unique corner of multicultural America is relativism run amok.

Settle, or Else

Melissa Lafsky, Huffington Post. April 18, 2008.
Just what we need -- another alarmist book telling women to settle for bad relationships.

Creationists Pollute Young Minds at Museum [VIDEO]

Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. March 27, 2008.
Disturbing and infuriating footage of creationists manipulating young children on anti-evolution tours of museums.

Exploring America's Bullying Epidemic

Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon AlterNet: PEEK. March 26, 2008.
There’s two worlds—the officially recognized one where people are kind and polite, and the one lurking right underneath where bullying happens.

Who's So Scared of the Spitzer Scandal's Effect on Children?

Phoenix Woman, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. March 14, 2008.
Oddly enough, there was no handwringing about "what will we tell the kiddies?" when David Vitter was exposed.

McCain Rated as America’s Worst Senator for Children

Satyam Khanna, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. February 28, 2008.
John McCain received a 10 percent rating.

Land of Curiosities: A New Children's Book Could Create Another Generation of Environmentalists [VIDEO]

David Neil, Ecoseekers AlterNet: Video. January 31, 2008.
A great gift to teach environmental history and promote eco-values for younger readers.

Is the Military Defending the U.S. by Poisoning Children?

Lucinda Marshall, Feminist Peace Network AlterNet: PEEK. January 23, 2008.
The damage perchlorate wreaks on the bodies of young children can only be described as a national public health crisis.

If Men Could Get Pregnant, Abortion Would be a Sacrament

Erica Jong, Huffington Post. January 22, 2008.
Childbirth is miraculous, but it can also be difficult, dangerous and even deadly -- so why should men be able to force women to go through it?

$38 Billion in Bonuses for Wall Streeters, Home Foreclosures for Regular Folks. Really?

Cliff Schecter, Brave New Films AlterNet: Video. December 25, 2007.
Yes, this is the America that has been created by Bush, his Republican cronies and too many corporate Democrats.

The Grinch Who Stole SCHIP [VIDEO]

Cliff Schecter, Cliff Schecter's Blog AlterNet: Video. December 22, 2007.
Anyone who could vote to raise their own pay and give tax cuts to corporate crooks while denying kids health care isn't qualified to be called human.

"Shock Doctrine" Applied to Autistic and Retarded Kids

Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake AlterNet: Video. December 21, 2007.
I guess it's the "trickle down" theory of torture.

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