Tragically Carmen Bousada, the World’s oldest Mum has died aged 69, leaving her 2 year old twin boys parentless. She had lied about her age, claiming to be 55, in order to get round the Los Angeles fertility clinics maximum age limit.
Retirement: A Luxury or a Right?
As news breaks today of the possibility that retiring people may be required to pay as much as £20,000 towards the costs of their health care, is retirement at aged 65 a luxury that we, as a country, can’t afford?
When will we ensure our kids are cybersafe?
As news breaks of yet another pre-teen being taken away from her family by a ‘net-stalker’, we have to wonder if the families are doing enough to ensure the safetly of children online.
We are right to be outraged at this man for targetting a 12 year old girl, and to say how wrong he was to lie about his age when he to arrange to meet her while she was on holiday with her family in the south of France. We do, however, have to wonder what she was doing chatting to a ’28 year old’ man on a social networking site in the first place. [Read more…]