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After an $8 million study, we now know who and what to blame for high rates of breast cancer on Long Island: nobody and nothing. Or, at least, not the usual suspects, chemical companies and their products.
Comment: It is our opinion that this article is a very important editorial for parents to read. As parents, we are always looking for ways to protect our children and we often try to anticipate hazards in advance so that we can keep our kids safe from all of those potentially disasterous events. We cover lightswitches to avoid electrocution, we feed our children a healthy diet to give them the best chances for a long healthy life and we watch over the general well being to avoid general accidents or long term problems. So, who is to blame when something goes wrong? Read this article and let us know what you think in the general discussion board [Article]

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Recently there has been alot of television coverage of child abductions. So, the FBI came out with press release trying to calm parents nerves saying that the number is actually down from previous years. So, we wanted to know what the actual numbers were and we did an internet search. What we found was that, well, basically, most people agreed, that the numbers were difficult to track and that the research on this topic was not really being done as well as it could/should be.
There are a number of excellent organizations out there working to protect our children. There are also excellent resources online. Findthekids.com is a great website for relevant links and updated information.
The problem seems to be that there are so many classifications of child abductions and every police precinct may classify a missing person / abducted child in whatever classification that seems to fit. The child may have been taken by a non-custodial relative (one classification), potential runaway, endangered abduction, stranger abduction, lost child, throw-away child (yes, this was a category we saw on one website[!]), and many more. There were other reasons sited for the confusion over actual numbers of abductions reported but they were all speculative and too astounding to write about it a couple of sentences.
Here are a couple of links to websites we found most valuable. Let us know what you think. How are you planning on keeping your child safe? What precautions have you taken since the increased number of child abductions reported on the television (not the increased number of actual abductions just in the reporting of abductions)? Also, visit the Stay at Home Mom discussion board and take our poll on the reporting of child abductions.

Increased Number of Abductions?
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