Around the Web…

Some links to get you through your Friday afternoon:

• A 61-year-old woman gives birth in Japan — Yahoo! News
• Are gender differences ingrained in children’s minds from birth? — Jezebel.com
• Soleil Moon Frye and her business partners launch their first video blog on their store’s website, TheLittleSeed.com — The Little Seed
• The number of measles cases worldwide is up for the first time since 1996; officials believe the lack of vaccinations due to a fear of autism is the cause — New York Times
• A look back at the way children’s books used to be written — Sweet Juniper!

Comments

QQ- When you enroll your kids in school in NY you have to have an updated innoculation record. If parents choose not to vaccinate their children, how do you get them into school? My college also required a series of Hep. vaccines that I received at about 18-19…

Also, I think this article is interesting in light of the recent comments by Amanda Peet.

- Suzi on August 22nd, 2008

Suzi,

Some states/schools/institutions allow waivers for religious or other personal/moral reasons.

- Lilly on August 23rd, 2008