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BIRTHS TO MOMS OVER 50 SOARING...

Arne Duncan: "White Suburban Moms" Comment Was "Clumsy"

In his first interview since making a controversial statement about “white suburban moms,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Thursday his choice of words was “clumsy” and had obscured the message he was trying to deliver about the importance of raising standards in schools nationwide.

“My wording was clumsy. And I apologized for it,” Duncan said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

“My message was simple. When you raise standards, that’s a challenging thing. And, I was challenging state school chief officers to do a better job articulating why raising standards is the right thing for all children.”

Meeting with state education chiefs last week, Duncan responded to complaints about the controversial Common Core curriculum when he described opponents as “white suburban moms who, all of a sudden, (discovered) their child isn’t as bright as they thought they were, and their school isn’t quite as good as they thought they were,” CNN reported.

The Common Core curriculum has come under fire from critics who claim the program is pushing students into a one-size-fits-all approach to education, which was also one of the criticisms of former President George W. Bush “No Child Left Behind” national education standards program. Proponents of the core curriculum say it helps level the playing field in schools across the country.

“My point was this. When you dummy down standards, and you’re lying to children — that affects all children. All families,” Duncan said when asked if his statement about suburban moms was somehow politically motivated.

“Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski noted that statement “really did resonate,” not in a particularly good way, across the nation. She asked what frustration, if any, had led him to make the statement.

“I was challenging education leaders to better communicate how important and how difficult this transition is. Again, there’s nothing easy about raising standards. And, that’s exactly what I was trying to do,” Duncan replied.

During his appearance, Duncan stressed the need for recruiting the “next generation of great teachers” as Baby Boomer educators move toward retirement. He called it a “once in a generation opportunity” for education.

“If we can bring in amazing talent, we’ll help elevate education for the next 25, 30 years,” he said.

As part of the recruitment effort, he said public service announcements were running on YouTube and on across the Internet. He is also traveling the country visiting college campuses as part of the drive to attract new teachers to the profession.

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To Succeed At Breast-Feeding, Most New Moms Could Use Help

That’s how it’s supposed to work. But for most new moms, breast-feeding doesn’t come easily, a study finds.

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The majority of new mothers try to breast-feed. But it’s not easy.

Only 13 percent manage to breast-feed exclusively for the six months that are recommended for a baby’s health. And, as you might expect, the moms who have trouble with breast-feeding in the first week with a new baby are the ones most likely to give up, a study finds.

Researchers at the UC Davis Medical Center surveyed 418 first-time mothers about breast-feeding, starting while they were pregnant and continuing until the baby was two months old. Almost all of the women said they intended to breast-feed.

Three days after giving birth, 92 percent of the new mothers said they were having problems breast-feeding.

Half of the mothers reported problems with getting the baby to latch on to the breast, or other feeding issues like nipple confusion, when a baby may prefer a bottle. And 44 percent said pain was a problem. And 40 percent said they felt that they weren’t producing enough milk.

The most commonly reported problems during the first week were also the ones that made it more likely that a mom would give up.

The researchers didn’t do physical exams of the moms and babies, so they don’t know what was happening for sure. But they speculate that some of the first-time mothers may have misread the babies’ cues, mistaking fussiness for hunger, for instance, or thinking the babies weren’t getting enough milk when they’re doing just fine.

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More Moms Are Breast-Feeding, But Many Babies Still Miss Out

Still, they think the biggest reason that women struggled is that once they left the hospital they lacked access to lactation counselors in that critical first week.
Two months after birth, 47 percent of the mothers said they had used formula, and 21 percent said they had stopped breast-feeding.

Just 34 of the women said they had no problems breast-feeding at day three. All but one of them were still exclusively breast-feeding at two months. Those women tended to be younger than 30, Hispanic, had an unmedicated vaginal delivery and said they had strong support for breast-feeding.

The study is a bit unusual because it didn’t use a checklist that restricted the women’s choice of responses; it let them answer in their own words. That makes it all the more striking that their responses were so similar.

Giving new mothers more help with breast-feeding problems in that first week home with the baby could help a lot, the authors conclude. The study was published online in the journal Pediatrics.

This study presents a gloomier view than a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention back in July, perhaps because this new study used exclusive breast-feeding at the measure of success. The CDC study found that almost half of babies were being breast-fed at least some of the time at 6 months, up from 35 percent in 2000.

Health officials urge women to feed babies breast milk because it reduces the infant’s risk of ear infections and diarrhea, and promotes better health into adulthood.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that mothers breast-feed for 12 months and the World Health Organization backs breast-feeding for up to two years.

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Celebrity moms back California anti-paparazzi bill to protect kids

Actress Jennifer Garner poses in a custom Gucci at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 24, 2013.

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SACRAMENTO, California | Tue Aug 13, 2013 11:57pm EDT

SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) – Hollywood moms Halle Berry and Jennifer Garner continued their campaign to keep paparazzi away from the children of celebrities on Tuesday, appearing at a legislative hearing in California to urge passage of a bill that would increase state penalties for harassing children.

In emotional testimony, Garner told members of a California Assembly committee that she and her children are followed wherever they go.

“How often do we see a tragedy unfold and say, ‘Oh, there were so many warning signs – why didn’t anybody pay attention?’” said Garner, who has three children with actor Ben Affleck. “I am asking you as a parent to pay attention.”

The bill, which already has passed the state Senate, focuses on people who target children based on their parents’ occupations. The idea originated with a 1990s-era law protecting children of health clinic workers from harassment by anti-abortion activists.

It would increase penalties for doing so from a maximum of six months in jail to a maximum of one year, and increase the potential fine for doing so to $ 10,000, from the current $ 1,000.

“I don’t want a gang of shouting, arguing, lawbreaking photographers who camp out everywhere we are all day every day to continue traumatizing my kids,” Garner told the Assembly Public Safety Committee, which voted to support the bill on Tuesday.

“What this bill would do is give us our rights back so that we can protect our children,” Berry said in testimony shown on KCAL-TV in Los Angeles.

Berry had a daughter with model Gabriel Aubrey and is expecting another child with her husband, actor Olivier Martinez.

The bill has been opposed by some news organizations, who say it will restrict their news-gathering abilities.

But state Senator Kevin De Leon, the Los Angeles Democrat who sponsored the bill, said it was important to protect children from unwanted harassment and dangerous situations.

“No child, regardless of his or her parent’s occupation, should be subjected to such unwarranted and harmful persecution,” Leon said in a statement on his website.

“By increasing penalties and authorizing civil actions, (the bill) will have a significant deterrent effect on those who would consider tormenting the most vulnerable and defenseless members of our society,” he said.

(Reporting by Sharon Bernstein; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Bill Trott)

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