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In a tale of forgiveness, two men bonded by a horrible tragedy have formed an unlikely friendship. The men meet at least once every two weeks, attending church together and eating meals at the Waffle House and other restaurants, just the two of them.
When Vincent's first grade teacher told their class at Central Elementary School in Union, Mo. that Zac had leukemia, Vincent told his dad he wanted to shave his head.
“I didn’t want him to feel like the only one without hair,” said Vincent.
Oprah Winfrey has donated to only three political campaigns. Barack Obama and Newark’s Cory Booker received Winfrey’s financial support and blessings. The third is the campaign of 21-year-old Michael Tubbs, a recent Stanford University graduate who is campaigning for a seat on the City Council in Stockton, California.
Infants are able to distinguish between people of different races but, by nine months they are better at recognizing the faces and emotional expressions of people they interact with the most, according to a University of Massachusetts Amherst study.
Proving exes can be civil, words of encouragement for Halle Berry have come from an unlikely source – former husband Eric Benét.
No adult, social worker, foster parent, or judge is required to talk to kids in foster care about sex. Yet foster youth are more at risk for pregnancy than their peers. Nancy Redd is joined by Ryann Blackshere, Ducky Doolittle and Ronald Hennig to discuss.
At least part of the drop out rate for prospective parents is due to the long and complicated adoption process. This is magnified even more in the case of interstate adoptions, which require two child welfare systems to hash out paperwork, responsibilities and costs.
Mortgage rates are at an historic low, but they aren't resulting in more home sales, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. The group says many people -- be they homeowners looking to refinance or new home buyers -- are finding it virtually impossible to get the low-interest loans.
Whether extended family or foster parents, there is no uniformity in training on how caretakers should address this critical issue, and such a lack of comprehensive sexual education for youth in foster care has a significant correlation with high pregnancy rates and contraction of sexually transmitted diseases among other negative outcomes.