By Joan Robinson 2009 (v19, n6) November/December On the morning of October 2nd 2009, one of us (Joan) joined an audience of mostly health professionals and listened as Dr. Diane Harper, the leading international developer of the HPV vaccines, gave a sales pitch for Gardasil. Gardasil, as you may know, is the new vaccine that is supposed to confer protection against but strains of the sexually transmitted Human Papillomavirus...

HPV is it Safe? is a brochure produced by CIEF in 2009. Please click the link to find out more information. You can request copies of the brochure by emailing CIEF.

8/25/2009 By Janice Shaw Crouse http://www.cwfa.org/articles/17595/BLI/dotcommentary/index.htm I sat at a picnic table listening to various mothers discussing their hectic schedules trying to keep up with teenage daughters, all on the same sports team. When one mother told of squeezing in an appointment that morning to get her daughter the HPV shot that her doctor recommended, the conversation turned to the necessity to “protect”...

Here is a Great article about Canadians not having enough babies! This is a huge problem for families! Barbara Kay October 20, 2010 – 1:00 pm Evan Sung / The New York Times Last Saturday I chatted with a young woman I met after a panel discussion I’d participated in. “Andrea” has high ambitions typical of most young women today, but she also looks forward to marriage and a lot of children. She asked what...

Life can be hard for young children cared for by one stranger on Mondays and Wednesdays, a different stranger on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and yet a third stranger on Fridays. To clarify just how hard it is for children to deal with such shifting child-care arrangements, researcher Taryn W. Morrissey recently examined “associations between changes in the number of concurrent, nonparental child-care arrangements and changes in ...

Never easy to traverse, the path from boyhood to manhood proves especially treacherous for boys growing up in broken homes. Indeed, a new study adduces troubling evidence that many of these boys are headed for turbulent lives likely to bring grief to themselves and others. Conducted by researchers at Turku University in Finland, the study assesses the risk of “adverse long-term outcomes” for a large nationally representative...

According to the latest Census report, the number of cohabiting couples escalated from 6.7 million in 2009 to 7.5 million just one year later in 2010.  Living together has become today’s “normative experience,” with nearly 50 percent of young adults aged twenty to forty cohabiting. Moreover, the percentage of women in their late 30s who said that they had cohabited at least once reached 48 percent in 1995.  While increasingly...