In 2006, Jennifer—the co-founder of popular parenting/consumer advocacy site Z Recommends—took her two-and-a-half-year-old to the bathroom at the local Toys R Us store. What she didn't know was that this particular store featured the awesome striking power of the Action Toilet Stall with...

The bus matron of a special needs bus owned by Outstanding Transport, Inc. has been charged with felony reckless endangerment, after forgetting about a 22-year-old passenger and leaving him strapped in his seat on the bus over New Year's Eve in below-freezing temperatures. He was found yesterday mor...

According to Disney Family Parenting, “Your parenting style affects your child’s weight and whether she will be overweight by first grade, a new study found. “Children of authoritarian parents had five times the risk of being overweight compared to children of authoritative [a more...

U.S.A. -"Less than a year after moving into her new 2,100-square-foot house in Lenexa, Kans., Susan Sabin has strung up lemon lights in her front window. The lemons, she says, go perfectly with the... The uniquely original New Home Builders NewsBlog delivers sorely needed truth in today?s home buyin...

Earlier this month, I wrote about a lawsuit against the government brought by the family members of Francisco Castaneda, who was refused a biopsy for a lesion on his penis while in immigration custody, and then died after having his penis amputated. The government initially moved to dismiss the...

Intergenerational Equity. My first challenge with this blog posting was to decide how to categorize the concept. Is this topic about history, politics, sociology, marketing, health & fitness, media or science? Yes. These two words describe perhaps the most divisive and encompassing aging issue o...

NC Lawyers' Weekly has provided a great link to an article that was run in the Winston-Salem Journal about contributory negligence laws in North Carolina.  Contrubutory Negligence is an issue that people don't know or care about, until they face the problem themselves.  Basically, in NC, e...

Nursing Home Negligence Injury and Death : While more Americans are living longer, the number of individuals ending their days in nursing homes is also increasing.  However, accidents in the nursing homes due to negligence are on the rise as well.  In one case, an elderly woman was left un...