Tag: Children

Ruby Franke’s jailhouse calls REVEALED: Influencer mom asks husband if ‘we made the news’ just ONE DAY after cops uncovered horrific abuse of her two young children

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YouTube mommy blogger Ruby Franke has been heard in recorded jailhouse phone calls telling her husband that ‘children can be full of evil’ after her August arrest. 

A series of communications between the couple took place while she was being held at Purgatory Correctional Facility in Hurricane, Utah. 

The 42-year-old has since been sentenced to up to 30 years in prison in February for brutally abusing her 12-year-old son and nine-year-old daughter in a ‘concentration camp-like setting’.

Her arrest came

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Cancer survivors rally behind Kate Middleton and and say telling children about diagnosis is the ‘hardest thing they’ve ever done’

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Cancer survivors have shown their support for the Princess of Wales – revealing that telling their children about the disease was ‘the hardest thing they’ve ever had to do’.

Parents who battled the condition have rallied behind Kate Middleton, 42, who last night said that ‘it has taken them time to explain everything to George, Charlotte and Louis in a way that is appropriate for them, and to reassure them that she is going to be ok’.

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‘It has taken us time to explain to George, Charlotte and Louis – but I tell them I am getting stronger every day’: Princess of Wales reveals how she broke news of her cancer to her young children in conversation no mother wants to have

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The Princess of Wales has announced tonight that she has been diagnosed with cancer aged 42 and is undergoing ‘preventative’ chemotherapy.

In a deeply personal, unprecedented and emotional video message, filmed at Windsor on Wednesday, Catherine revealed the news had come as a ‘huge shock’ and that she and William ‘have been doing everything we can to process and manage this privately for the sake of our young family’.

It came days after she was seen smiling with Prince William

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Josh Peck breaks silence on Drake Bell’s childhood sexual assault and says ‘children should be protected’ – after Drake & Josh star faced backlash from fans for failing to speak out

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Josh Peck has broken his silence on former co-star Drake Bell’s sexual assault aged 15 after the star detailed the abuse in docuseries Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV.

Troubled Drake, 37, had revealed that he was the unidentified minor who came forward in 2003 about being molested by dialogue coach Brian Peck (no relation to Josh) aged 15.

The 63-year-old registered sex offender served 16 months in prison in 2004-2005 after being arrested on 11 charges

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The Real Lessons of the Alabama IVF Ruling

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When the Alabama Supreme Court found on February 16 that frozen embryos are protected by the state’s wrongful-death law in the same way that embryos inside a mother’s womb are, it set off one of those depressing and familiar 21st-century political firestorms.

The court had heard a complicated civil case touching on questions about the rights of families undergoing in vitro fertilization and the responsibilities of the fertility industry—questions that have long been neglected, to the great detriment of the

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Why judges MUST ban all abusive fathers from ever seeing their children – by a mother whose husband lured their sons to the loft, locked the door and set the house on fire

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The moment the doorbell rang, Claire Throssell knew the worst had happened. Hands trembling as she opened the door, she saw a police officer on the doorstep.

Frozen to the spot, she begged him: ‘What has he done?’ The look in the policeman’s eyes confirmed her worst fears.

Claire’s abusive ex-husband, whom she had finally plucked up the courage to leave six months earlier, had done exactly what she had warned the family court he would do if given unsupervised

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The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood

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Something went suddenly and horribly wrong for adolescents in the early 2010s. By now you’ve likely seen the statistics: Rates of depression and anxiety in the United States—fairly stable in the 2000s—rose by more than 50 percent in many studies from 2010 to 2019. The suicide rate rose 48 percent for adolescents ages 10 to 19. For girls ages 10 to

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Don’t tell the writers of Succession, but eternal romantic Rupert Murdoch, 93 on Monday, is finally marrying a lady his children really like!

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In the rolling hills of Bel Air, up a winding road bordered by gated McMansions, lies the Moraga Estate, a 16-acre property that is home to the only working vineyard in Los Angeles.

Built by Victor Fleming, the legendary director of Gone With The Wind and The Wizard Of Oz, the sun-dappled ranch is, to quote one wine writer who recently embarked on a guided tour, possessed of ‘beauty that grips [visitors] with a kind of escapist romance’.

A similar

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The Anti-abortion Movement’s Attack on Wanted Pregnancies

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In the nearly two years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, we’ve witnessed the sober consequences of denying abortions to people who desperately want them. Women have been forced to continue pregnancies that have almost killed them, and given birth to children they can’t afford to care for, children conceived by rape, and children they are simply not ready to have. Now we’re seeing the flip side of the anti-abortion movement’s push to give legal rights to

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