Posts Tagged Parenting

Lisa Ling discusses new motherhood, baby Jett

In this May 10, 2013 photo, journalist Lisa Ling, poses for a portrait in Santa Monica, Calif. After giving birth to to 9-week-old daughter Jett, Ling says she's ready to get back to work with her Dove campaign to promote girl's self-esteem and her Oprah Winfrey Network series "Our America with Lisa Ling." (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Lisa Ling is feeling unstoppable.

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Japan approves joining int’l child abduction pact

In this May 5, 2010 file photo, fathers that lost their children to spousal abduction to Japan hold photos of their children during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.  Japan’s parliament has approved joining an international child custody treaty amid foreign concerns that Japanese mothers can take children away from foreign fathers without recourse. The upper house of parliament on Wednesday, May 22, 2013,  voted to join the 1980 Hague Convention on international child abduction following passage by the more powerful lower house last month.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s parliament on Wednesday approved joining an international child custody treaty amid foreign pressure for Tokyo to address concerns that Japanese mothers can take children away from foreign fathers without recourse.

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Parents face tough choice when tornadoes bear down

In this image made from video, Amy Sharp, right, hugs daughter Jenna Dunn, 10, a day after she picked up her children from Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., which was leveled by a tornado packing winds of up to 200 mph. on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla.  (AP Photo/P. Solomon Banda)

MOORE, Okla. (AP) — With an ominous storm approaching, the Moore Public School District flashed a text alert to parents: “We are currently holding all students until the current storm danger is over. Students are being released to parents only at this time.”

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In tornado’s wake, worried parents seek out kids

A parent rushes to embrace her child as a teacher escorts her away from Briarwood Elementary school after a tornado destroyed the school in south  Oklahoma City, Okla, Monday, May 20, 2013. Near SW 149th and Hudson.  (AP Photo/ The Oklahoman,  Paul Hellstern)

MOORE, Okla. (AP) — The parents and guardians stood in the muddy grass outside an Oklahoma City area church, listening as someone with a bullhorn called out the names of children who were being dropped off — survivors of a deadly tornado that barreled through their community.

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