| DODD: Spanking isn’t so bad, is it?
I know nothing about this incident past what I read in The Evening News and The Tribune, therefore I won't make a comment on this case.I can tell you I believe in spanking children and in some cases I think a belt is appropriate. DODD: Spanking isn't so bad, is it? By LINDON DODD Local Columnist A Sellersburg father was arrested for spanking his 7-year-old son with a belt this week. I know nothing about this incident past what I read in The Evening News and The Tribune, therefore I won't make a comment on this case. .
Children orphaned in Vietnam War and adopted in the US look to ...
He was one of hundreds of Vietnamese orphans crammed onto a cargo plane as part of Operation Babylift, a mass evacuation in the days before the fall of Saigon in 1975. He arrived in Chicago as an infant, and grew up on a Mennonite farm in Wolford, North Dakota, near the Canadian border. There wasn't another Asian in two states, Slaubaugh joked. When it came time to adopt their own child, Slaubaugh and his wife Amanda agreed they would go to Vietnam. They returned home with 2-year-old son Ben in late May. The trip to his birthplace was Slaubaugh's first. My adoptive son and I will have a similar bond, he said. Both of us were abandoned by our mothers at the hospital. .
Veteran actor encourages men of color to mentor fatherless kids
HOLLYWOOD-For the past two seasons, millions of fans of TNTs top-rated crime drama, "The Closer," have come to know actor Robert Gossett as the antagonizing Commander Taylor in the Los Angeles-based weekly crime drama. Gossett begins his third season on "The Closer," 9 p.m., Eastern and Pacific time, June 18 as the consistent "thorn-in-theside" of Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson, played by the awardwinning Kyra Sedgwick. Gossett, in real life, has been a breath of fresh air to community organizations that mentor children. For the past several years, a young boy growing up in Los Angeles has come to know Gossett as his mentor and father figure. Gossett speaks proudly of his mentorship and association with a South Central Los Angeles-based organization, created to serve at-risk youth with programs and activities that foster lifestyles free of gangs and drugs.
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