| Kenya: Widow Lives in Fear After Death Threats and Raid
A year after the Marsabit plane crash claimed her husband, Ms Bernadette Okotu Shama lives in fear. The widow of former Moyale MP Guracha Galgalo, who was among 14 people who perished in the accident, says she has been constantly harassed, assaulted in public and her home raided by gunmen. .
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. .
For parents, kids must be Job One
Q: How come you never seem to get on anybody's case about their morals? It's not just you – "anything goes" is now generally the way of the world. How many more slutty, stupid, knocked-up girls are you going to send to "counselling" and how many more deadbeat, lowlife, shag'em-and-run dads are you going to let off as a lost cause? What's wrong with standing up for the idea that once you've got kids, there are no more "boyfriends" or "girlfriends," no more sleepovers or casual get-togethers with strangers moving in and out of a kid's life? What's wrong with telling these folks that they're rotten at making choices and are, therefore, prohibited from making any more? Just Curious A: While you'd rather lock the barn door after the horse is gone than lead it to safety, I take a different approach.
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