In today’s age, social media has become a part of daily life. A startling ad campaign by Deutsche Telekom has leveraged this fact and ignited a critical conversation about the potential dangers of sharing photos and videos of children online. The campaign features a deepfake video titled “A Message from Ella,” and has amassed over...
A father from Oregon stands accused of a disturbing crime: drugging three 12-year-old girls during his daughter’s sleepover party last summer. Michael Meyden, aged 57, turned himself into the police last Thursday, over six months after allegedly dosing his daughter’s friends’ smoothies with benzodiazepine, a drug commonly used to treat insomnia and panic attacks. The...
Lake Travis High School in Austin, Texas, recently addressed concerns about bullying when students pulled a potentially deadly prank. Some varsity football players played the prank on their fellow teammate, Carter. The young man suffers from a peanut allergy and opened his locker one day to find something deadly: several peanuts waiting for him inside....
Death is the inevitable part of life we all must face at some point. For some, it is expected due to a diagnosis. They get to plan what happens after they pass, and this can provide some comfort to their loved ones knowing they can say goodbye. Then for others, death comes suddenly and creates...
In 1979, China introduced a law that stated that families could only have one child. The policy was introduced in a draconian attempt to fight poverty and control the population. Unfortunately, this meant many children were abandoned. When Kati Pohler’s parents became pregnant with a second child, they knew that they could not keep her....
Not all parents leave behind a loving memory for their children. Sometimes, the wrong runs so deep that it remains even after the parents pass away. In 2018, an obituary became the prime example of such an event. As it stands, obituaries are usually solemn matters. They can be matter-of-fact, decorative, and/or emotive. However, they...
Currently, there is a serious rise in Strep A infections in primary schools. Already 13 children under 15 years old have died from the infection. One little girl fighting for her life in the hospital is five-year-old Farah from Northern Ireland. Her mother is warning other parents to ensure they know the symptoms to help...
Christina Fisher experienced a blessing in disguise that would change her whole life for the better. Due to unexpected circumstances, she put her baby up for adoption. Everything was set and she had arranged for adoptive parents to raise the child in Georgia. However, when her baby was born with a rare condition called, Treacher...
It’s difficult to become a mom. This hard transition is often overlooked by ‘the miracle of birth’ and assumptions such as ‘if you love your child then, of course, you love being a mom’. However, entering motherhood can be exhausting and even terrifying. Many new mothers wake up one day and realize they have changed....
One of the most popular parts of social media, especially the video sharing platform TikTok, are challenges. People, particularly young people and children, love participating in them and the online attention they receive when they do. Unfortunately, too often these TikTok challenges are dangerous. The latest of these includes the Blackout Challenge, which has now...
Dustin and Caren Moore wanted children for almost a decade. And after nine years of miscarriages, fertility treatments, and the complicated process of adoption, they finally became parents of a beautiful baby girl. She was just eight days old when they adopted her in Colorado. On the plane ride home to California, they were asked...
Michael and Stephanie were engaged to be married and expecting a baby boy. When Stephanie started leaking amniotic fluid at 18 weeks pregnant, they feared the worst for their unborn child. They rushed to the hospital where they were told their baby’s heart was too big. Michael shares the gut-wrenching moment when he was asked...
