The children who hate their bodies: How half of six-year-old girls think they're fat and how parents can stop this dangerous obsession

Yesterday, we revealed how exposure to pornography is poisoning young minds. Now, in the final part of our series on the sexualisation of children, Tanith Carey shows how girls are growing up with a more negative body image than ever before - and gives practical tips on what parents can do to nip it in the bud...

The children who hate their bodies: How half of six-year-old girls think they're fat and how parents can stop this dangerous obsession

Obamacare Shreds Mental Health Care

As the House of Representatives debates a bill to repeal Obamacare and start over, the Left will invoke the tragedy in Tucson as a reason to keep the law in place. Liberal bloggers and some patient groups are claiming that states are already cutting mental health budgets to balance budgets, Arizona among them. They will claim that overturning Obamacare, which offers mental health benefits through an expansion of Medicaid, would only deepen the danger. The New Republic's Jonathan Cohn provides the familiar liberal narrative: "We may never know whether a better mental health care system would have averted this massacre. But we can be sure that it would avert some future ones."

Obamacare Shreds Mental Health Care

Bill would expand child psychiatric services

A bill intended to provide more psychiatric services in Kentucky for children now getting care out of state passed the House Health and Welfare Committee Thursday on a unanimous vote.

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