TikTok Hot takes! Get your hot takes, right here! Piping fresh hot takes, straight off the TikTok! Get ready folks, because this one is a doozy. TikTok user and entrepreneur @melanieduncan77 recently posted what she knew would be an unpopular opinion on the site — why aren’t schools more focused on the mental health of parents? — and boy was it ever so unpopular. “I want to know: where is the school that is prioritizing not just the mental and emotional health of the children, but the mental and emotional health of the parents?” she begins, continuing, “Between all of...
Trump Has Revoked Federal Guidance On Emergency Abortion Care First Established In 1986
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images News/Getty Images On Tuesday, the Trump administration revoked federal guidance to hospitals in regard to emergent abortion care, which has been in place for nearly 40 years, and had been more recently reasserted by the Biden administration. The move has some worried about how this will affect pregnant people in states without abortion protections, who may face increased risk as hospitals weigh their legal obligation to their patients and state laws. After Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court in 2022 under its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling, abortion law was returned to...
RFK Ordered The FDA To Review Baby Formula In The US
Alex Wong/Getty Images News/Getty Images In March, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert Kennedy announced the implementation of Operation Stork Speed, an initiative designed to ensure ongoing quality, safety, and nutritional adequacy of infant formula in the U.S., as well as shoring up the resilience of domestic formula production. This is the first re-evaluation of formula nutrients since 1998. “The FDA will use all resources and authorities at its disposal to make sure infant formula products are safe and wholesome for the families and children who rely on them,” Kennedy said in a statement. “Helping each family and child...
Redditor Stunned When Another Mom Said Her Daughter Wasn't Allowed To Befriend Boys
Best View Stock/Best View Stock/Getty Images I sometimes really think the hardest part of having grade school children is navigating the minefield of their friend’s parents. Most of the time it’s fine: you might even make a new friend! But other times, just because the kid is cool, it doesn’t mean their parents aren’t a nightmare to deal with, and dealing with them is entirely on you. Redditor u/jenjersnap (great name) asked for advice to deal with a particularly baffling issue with another parent on the Parenting subreddit… Baffling in that I thought we were all past the issue in...