By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Not even a month has passed since the furor over the indecent display of a 10 year-old in Vogue Paris and the fashion industry in France is under fire again - this time for a lingerie designer whose website is full of pictures of scantily clad girls as young as four sporting makeup, beehive hairdos and a new line of age-inappropriate underwear.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An analysis of over 250 peer-reviewed journal articles on marriage and family has found that the divorce rate is down but cohabitation rates continue to rise, putting more children at risk than ever before.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Parents Television Council® (PTC) has released the results of its latest study, “Cartoons Are No Laughing Matter,” which documents shocking levels of adult content on networks with the highest-rated primetime animated cable shows among children ages 12-17 such as the
Cartoon Network,
Disney Channel, Adult Swim and
Nick at Nite.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The country's teetering economy points to the need for reform on many levels, including the breakdown of the family, experts say, which can cost taxpayers up to $112 billion a year.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Experts from Harvard and Johns Hopkins University will be among the panelists participating in a conference this week that aims at removing pedophilia from the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) list of mental illnesses, even though removal of the condition could lead to the decriminalization of pedophilia.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
British Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to get to work immediately on the creation of new policies that will reverse the "slow motion moral collapse" of his country, which he blames for fostering last week's riots that left five people dead, thousands in jail, and hundreds of millions in property damage.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new study by the Centers for Disease Control analyzed chronic skin infections that erupt after tattooing and found that they can be caused by the use of tap water during rinsing and diluting of inks, raising concerns about the health risks involved in this largely unregulated procedure.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The American surrogacy industry is reeling after news broke that a high-profile California attorney who specialized in "non-traditional, third-party family building" was operating an elaborate baby-selling ring.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A Facebook campaign has been mounted by homosexual activists to pressure PBS into allowing the two most famous Sesame Street characters, Bert and Ernie, to get married as a way of showing children that same-sex marriage is normal.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The role social media played in the deadly riots in London and violent flash mobs in the U.S. in the past week are behind moves by law enforcement on both sides of the Atlantic to establish special crime units dedicated to policing
Twitter and
Facebook for evidence of crimes in the making.
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