Links by subject a to z
Abortion
Animals
Babywearing & skin to skin
- CNN.com Video: a mother is given her dead premature baby to hold in skin to skin farewell and the baby lives as a result of the mother’s touch
- Babywearing fosters attachment
- New Research Shows “Kangaroo Mother Care” Reduces Newborn Deaths More than 50 Percent
- Why ‘traumatised’ babies in front-facing buggies grow into ‘anxious’ adults | Mail Online
Breastfeeding – general
- Amazing Lesser-Known Facts about Breastfeeding
- Announcing TRU-BREAST™
- Breast intentions – On Line Opinion – 31/5/2010
- Breastfeeding Images 1450-1920
- Breastfeeding research = massive guilt?
- Can Breast-Feeding Hurt Your Marriage? Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Thinks So
- Early weaning linked to chronic disease
- Honesty is the breast policy – Scotsman.com News
- Scrap ‘breast is best’ slogan, say campaigners
- There is a smart drug – it’s called breast milk
- UN agencies issue ten tips for successful breastfeeding
- USA: Lack of breastfeeding costs lives, billions of dollars
- Why is breast milk best? It’s all in the genes
Breastfeeding – public
- Magazine in dogbox for ordering breastfeeding mums to toilet
- Sexualised boob obsession has origins in lactation
- Up to a third of Aussies against public breastfeeding
- Yahoo NZ poll on breastfeeding in restaurants
Breastfeeding – toddlers
- Ask Dr. Sears: Extended Breastfeeding — Handling the Criticism – Parenting.com
- Kellymom Extended Breastfeeding Fact Sheet
- Toddler breastfeeding: society says no
- What to Expect Breastfeeding includes info on Toddler breastfeeding (with thanks to web design student Katie Lynch)
Celebrity mothers
- Photo album: 100 Breastfeeding Celebrities
- Gisele Bündchen blogs about breastfeeding
- UK: Claire Richards piled on five stone following her recent pregancy – but she’s in no rush to lose weight
Chemicals
- Chemicals in shampoos and toys ‘could lead to low birth weight’
- Toxic chemicals finding their way into the womb
Childbirth
- C-section rates higher at for-profit hospitals
- Fetal heart monitor: Test leads to needless C-sections
- The natural caesarean: a woman-centred technique
- Scientific American – range of reports on The Mother-Baby Bond
- The Shape of a Mother
- TV Lost Births – The Unnecesarean
Child abuse
- ACC reinstates help for victims of sex abuse – National – NZ Herald News
- ‘Don’t Talk to Strangers’ is Dangerous Advice – ParentDish
- Drugging kids for parents’ relief called abusive
- French mother confesses to killing eight babies | Reuters
- Girl taken into care after mother injected her with botox
- Larry Rivers’s Daughter Seeks Return of Nude Videos – NYTimes.com
- Misguided child protection policies increase abuse risk
- Parents gave up autistic son | theage.com.au
- Partying mother leaves baby in car for 5 hours – National – NZ Herald News
- She-wolves in sheeps’ clothing
- The Shaquan Duley Murder Case: Why Moms Snap
- Witnesses: Woman slapped baby on plane
Controlled crying
- Australian Association for Infant Mental Health Controlled Crying 2002
- Babies left to cry can suffer brain damage
- Six-month-old babies become stressed if ignored for two minutes by mothers | Mail Online
Corporate interests
- GM cows make human breast milk: 5 reasons it’s wrong
- Hitting the Bottle Manufacturers might be removing BPA from their products, but they are substituting chemicals that may be just as dangerous.
- Pathologizing pregnancy: it’s just good business
- Topamax Lawsuit – Learn About Legal Options and Side Effects
Co-sleeping
- Baby Co-sleeping Fact Sheet
- Relationship Between Bed Sharing and Breastfeeding: Longitudinal, Population-Based Analysis — Blair
Discipline
- The Attached Family » A Place for Timeout?
- How a love-bomb can change a child’s world – The Irish Times – Wed, Oct 20, 2010
- Time up for time out
- The Unhappy Consequences of Being Child-Centered
Economics and sexism
Fashion as subjugation
- It’s not a shoe fetish, it’s natural selection | Stuff.co.nz
- On-trend shoes: high fashion or a step too far
- Photos: On-trend shoes: high fashion or a step too far
- Why I hate fashion | Tanya Gold | Life and style | The Guardian
Fathers
- Are Fathers Necessary?
- The Brains of Our Fathers: Does Parenting Rewire Dads?: Scientific American
- Communicative Fathers Help Reduce Teenage Smoking
- Fathers Can Get Postpartum Depression
- Strange but True: Males Can Lactate
Female genital mutilation
Formula marketing
- Did Powdered Milk From China Cause Baby Girls to Grow Breasts? – TIME NewsFeed
- Email Nestle in June – stop its latest baby milk marketing scam
- Film clip: Nestle latest baby milk marketing strategy explained
- Shopping infant formula code violators
- World Health Assembly adopts two landmark Resolutions on the promotion of junk foods and baby foods
Gender
- Gendercide Killed, aborted or neglected, at least 100m girls have disappeared—and the number is rising
- Kathy Witterick and David Stocker are raising a ‘genderless baby’
- Motherhood and gender
- UN Women: Taking the Gender Fight Worldwide
- Virtual reality used to transfer men’s minds into a woman’s body
- Why Can’t Middle-Aged Women Have Long Hair?
Human rights – general
- Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in Chi
- Bradley Manning: top US legal scholars voice outrage at ‘torture’ | World news | The Guardian
Human rights instruments
- Convention of Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
- European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
- The Geneva Conventions
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- UN International Human Rights Instruments
- UN Human Rights Treaty Body Database
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Human rights organisations
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Amnesty International
- Article 19
- Corp Watch – holding corporations accountable
- Human Rights Watch
- Human Rights Resource Center
- OMB Watch – government transparency and accountability
LGBT
- 50 Cent, LGBT Suicide and ignorance in surprising places « Insurgent Heart
- Coming Out: Audio, Photos, Stories of Gay Teens
- Gay and Transgender Youth Homelessness by the Numbers
- How female beauty stereotypes affect transgender women
- It’s time more gay men became dads | Gary Nunn | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
- Judge strikes down Prop. 8, allows gay marriage in California | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times
- The last person out of the closet? The bisexual male
- Lesbians make ‘better parents’, says senior parenting official
- Map of the Day: Bestiality-Friendly States | Mother Jones
- Proposition 8 ruling excerpts from U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles.
- Stonewall
- Stupidity, Gay Marriage, and the Evolution of Religion
- Youth | Suicide « Give A Damn
Maternal mortality
- DEADLY DELIVERY: THE MATERNAL HEALTH CARE CRISIS IN THE USA
- Mapping the US Maternal Health Care Crisis
- Mothers We Could Save
- USA: Despite Progress Maternal Mortality Remains a Crisis
Media and human rights
- Centre for Democracy and Technology – keeping the internet open, innovative and free
- Comunica – information and communication technologies in less developed countries to reinforce local initiatives for development and democracy
- Electronic Frontier Foundation – civil liberties group defending rights in the digital world
- Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
- Independent Media Centre – collective of independent media organizations and journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage
- International Freedom of Expression Exchange
- Internet Freedom – voice of free speech
- Institute for War and Peace Reporting
- Media Channel – promotes accountability and transparency by the media
- Media Lens – correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media
- Media Peace – examines the nature of contemporary war reporting
- Public i – a forum for topics underreported and voices under-represented in the dominant media
- The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
- Reporters Without Borders
- SpinWatch – monitoring PR and spin
Midwifery
- Effect of continuous support during labor on duration of labor and rate of cesarean delivery
- International Day of the Midwife 5 May 2010
- Ireland’s Home Birth Services: MOU and Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010
- Midwifery Today Conference “Birth Is a Human Rights Issue” Strasbourg, France September 2010
- Sustainability and the midwifery profession
Motherhood – global
- For mothers, worst place in world is breast place
- Pregnant Women and Newborns are Unseen Victims of Gaza Conflict, Warns UNFPA
Motherhood – work
- Babies don’t suffer when mothers return to work, study reveals | Life and style | The Observer
- Mothers in the workplace: call this choice? | Jessica Smith | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
- Study: Young, Single, Childless Women Earn More Than Men
Parenting – general
- 30 minute BBC Radio 4 interview with UK child psychologists Oliver James and Laverne Antrobus
- Red State Families vs. Blue State Families: The Family-Values Divide | Vision
- Why Modern Day Grandparenting Is So Hard | Vision
Politics
- The death of Osama bin Laden – an alternative perspective
- Desperation Grows as Jobless Benefits Run Out – NYTimes.com
- Is burning the Koran free speech? – The Week
- The Runaway General | Rolling Stone Politics
- UK Election 2010 – What About Women?
Psychology
- An idle brain may be the self’s workshop – latimes.com
- Can Preschoolers Be Depressed?
- Do Depressed People Literally See World Differently? – Health Blog – CBS News
- Empathy Dropped 40% in College Students Since 2000
- The Hidden Cost of Smiling | Psychology Today
- In Sleepless Nights, a Hope for Treating Depression
- The mind plays tricks: Watching can create false memories of doing – latimes.com
- People who need people live longer – latimes.com
- Religious Experiences Shrink Part of the Brain: Scientific American
- Study: Money Buys Happiness When Income Is Below $75,000
- Study Reveals Why Women Apologize So Much
- Temple Grandin: Why autism is a gift – CNN.com
Reproductive rights
- Childbirth, parenting and human rights
- Chinese state holds parents hostage in sterilisation drive
- Does paying drug addicts to be sterilised work?
- Human rights instruments supporting motherhood
- Moving forward with maternal health and human rights : The Lancet
- The Reproductive Revolution: How Women Are Changing the Planet’s Future
Right to health
- Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: How the Performance of the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationa
Sexualisation
- At UN, actress Geena Davis takes on media for negative images of women
- Australia: Put soft porn out of view say experts
- Breast cancer’s handbag campaign: sexist, puerile, insulting / motherhood denied / Liberty and Human
- Breasts: Both sexual and maternal – The Week
- Call to label airbrushed photos
- Craigslist removes sex ads after campaign by anti-prostitution lobby | World news | The Guardian
- Girls’ Early Puberty Linked to Unstable Environment via Insecure Attachment in Infancy – Association
- Lynx hooks up with Woolies to promote female servitude | Melinda Tankard Reist
- ‘Mummy, will I get fat?’ – Features, Health & Families – The Independent
- New Zealand: Stepping up the fight against childhood sexualisation
- Pornography’s .xxx factor | Culture | The Guardian
- Sexualised boob obsession has origins in lactation
- Stop the Sexualisation Sexualization of Children | LinkedIn – please join my LinkedIn Group
- Thin is in: in search of the perfect male body
- UK: MumsNet ‘Let Girls be Girls’ campaign
- UK: Padded bras for seven-year-olds are still sold
- UK: Primark padded bikini row: other high street chains caught ‘sexualising children’
- Why do we give children such confusing messages about their bodies?
- Would you let YOUR 10-year-old son pose like this in a beauty pageant?
Sexuality education
Solo parents
- Do not allow NC Judge to take Alaina Giordano’s children just because she has cancer!
- Shared care, compromised care
- USA: What Happens To Welfare Mothers?
Technology
Trafficking and prostitution
- Children ‘sold in UK for £16,000′
- Modern-day slavery the psychological apsects of human trafficking.
- UN launches campaign for universal ban on sale and prostitution of children
- UN official enlists advertising industry in combating violence against women
- Violence against the Girl Child
Vaccination
- Are Vaccines More Important than Breastfeeding?
- Breastfeeding and Risk for Fever after Immunization
- Flu vaccine convulsion cases in NZ
- New concerns over swine flu jab after children given it ‘hit by sudden sleep syndrome’
- Scientists fear MMR link to autism
- Teen’s win on MMR – News – Wigan Today
- Vaccination: Immunity from Persecution
- Vitamin D better than vaccines at preventing flu, report claims – Times Online
- Western Australia: Toddler dies and 60 babies and small children, suffer fits, fever and vomiting after flu vaccine
- WHO and the pandemic flu “conspiracies” – BMJ
Violence – family
- The Animal-Cruelty Syndrome – NYTimes.com
- Australia: Attitudes towards Violence against Women Survey 2009
- UK: Outrage as Danny Dyer advises Zoo reader to ‘cut ex-girlfriend’s face so no one will want her’
- USA: Report Finds Connection Between Domestic Violence and Reproductive Coercion and Control
Violence – sexual
- BBC News – TV advert to tackle rape myths
- ICC probing Gaddafi rape claims
- Sexual Victimzation in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates, 2008-09
