So, opinion? I'm just curious about what the people on my friendlist thinks.

( Personally )

Orphanages and foster home horror stories, there are so many of them. We hear of people thinking of the children all the time, but it's rarely about the most vulnerable, those without capable parents, instead, they navel graze over rude words on television and gay marriage and adoption and the secularization of society ( Read more... )

By Emanuella Grinberg
Court TV
MIAMI - The children of manslaughter defendants Joseph and Lamoy Andressohn have each gained about 20 pounds and grown more than one foot since they were taken from their vegan parents, the children's aunt and guardian told jurors Thursday.
The couple is accused of starving to death their 6-month-old daughter, Woyah ( Read more... )

Jan. 4, 2005. 04:32 PM

JAKARTA - Fearing that child-trafficking gangs will exploit the chaos of the tsunami disaster, Indonesia has slapped restrictions on youngsters leaving the country, ordered police commanders to be on the lookout for trafficking and posted special guards in refugee camps ( Read more... )

Furthur thoughts on an earlier post about The Rights of the Child: Bodily IntegralityI disagree with the notion that that human rights should be allow to be violated for "cultural" reasons. There is no one truth in a culture, there are always variants within it, it only look homogenous from the outside, as a Chinese looking from inside I know how ( Read more... )

The Ottawa Citizen. Saturday, October 18 1997.

U.S. anti-circumcision activist cheers Canadian's attack on practice
By Sharon Kirkey
( What if we had some new group who, for their cultural reasons, said all children--and don't let's make this sex-discriminatory--all children in our community will have their left earlobe removed after birth. I think Canadians would go ballistic about that, and that's a less dangerous thing to do than a male circumcision. )

Definition of a child for the purposes in this article would be any persons under the age of 18.

Bodily IntegralityNo medically unnecessary surgery should be performed to alter or damage the genitals of any child (female, male, or hermaphrodite). This includes but is not limited to male circumcision (any removal of the foreskin), male castration ( Read more... )