Husband dies. His sperm is extracted posthumously so his widow can undergo IVF treatments in order to have his baby. Sounds like a far-fetched soap opera plot, but it's a real life scenario playing out in Australia. The couple was scheduled to sign consent forms to begin fertility treatments the day after the man's unexpected death. However, since the forms hadn't been signed yet, local officials refused to begin treatments for the widow, as insemination without a donor's consent is prohibited. A judge has ruled that the sperm is the widow's property but she'll have to travel elsewhere to receive treatment. Have sperm. Will travel.
A Scottish girl recently won the right to listen to an iPod during exams because she claims she has trouble concentrating unless she's listening to music. School officials at the pricey private boarding school initially balked at the request for fear it would lead to the possibility of cheating but backed down when they were faced with the threat of a lawsuit.
Good morning. This is your scheduled 6:30 a.m. wake-up call. It's time to get out of bed and go to school. One Iowa high school, plagued with habitually tardy students, instituted a standardized wake-up call. While most parents have been supportive of the new system, some complain that it's just encouraging students to be lazy and unmotivated.
Sometimes it seems that parents and teens can find little common ground. But some high school students and their parents in New Jersey have found a cause they can rally around together -- protesting homework. They say that the amount of homework assigned to students has gotten out of control and limits need to be set and standardized. Do your kids get too much homework?