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What is a single mother to do? Jennifer Ireland, 19, wanted to get on with her life. In high school in 1990 she became pregnant by her boyfriend, Steven Smith. She had a baby girl, Maranda. Unmarried but with help from her mother, she raised the child for three years, with little involvement by Steven, who last year began paying $12 a week in child support. Last year Ireland enrolled at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor on a scholarship. While in school, she put Maranda in day care. Wrong move...
...England Journal of Medicine. A single attempt at in-vitro fertilization carries a price tag of $8,000, but because of the procedure's high rate of failure, the actual cost is multiplied many times over by repeated attempts. Only about 1 of 10 women gets pregnant with the first in-vitro procedure, and the odds only grow longer after that first...
...More reason for asking pregnant women not to smoke: a study of nearly 9,000 $ children revealed that those whose mothers smoked during pregnancy had nearly 5% less air flow than other children and had more risk of getting respiratory ailments. (The study accounted for the risks of secondhand smoke after birth...
...Women who have breast cancer while pregnant are roughly three times as likely to die of the disease as cancer sufferers who have never been pregnant...
...California wine trade, whose annual sales exceed $3.6 billion. The Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which regulates the wineries, appears to be following a neo-prohibitionist agenda. The bureau requires wine labels to carry warnings about drunken driving and the danger of alcohol to pregnant women. At the same time, the bureau refuses to allow vintners to promote or advertise research indicating that drinking wine in moderation has some health benefits...