Parenting

Attorney Unveils Suit Alleging Cover-up of Disgusting Child Abuse by DA, County Agency

A lead attorney in the Miramonte Elementary School child abuse case that broke in Los Angeles last year has turned his attention to the Orange County Social Services Agency. Brian Claypool accuses the agency's Child Protective Services (CPS) workers of "aiding and abetting the commission of child ab ... More >>

6 OC Parents Arrested for Allegedly Ignoring Warnings of Children's Chronic Truancies

Earlier today, I posted on Frank Cabada of Santa Ana's Hector Godinez Fundamental High School being among six Latino high school seniors from around the country honored this morning by the Hispanic Heritage Foundation in Beverly Hills. It's unlikely Cabada, a math and engineering whiz, would have ... More >>

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Tustin Schools, Garden Grove Police are Latest to Reassure Parents After Newtown Shootings

The school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, continue to prompt police and school district officials in Orange County to assure parents everything is being done to keep their children safe.The Garden Grove Police Department has summed up its response in a letter to the community, while a Tustin Uni ... More >>

Where to Go When You're Pregnant In Heels

[Trendzilla] How to detract, or showcase, that you're now the size of Jupiter

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Observatory

Ju-Ju-Be Pairs With Tokidoki to Create Diaper Bags for Hip Moms

[Trendzilla] The Costa Mesa company makes baby lugging downright hipster

Dr. Robert Sears Takes on Both Sides of the Great Vaccination Divide

The author of 'The Vaccine Book' presents his own alternatives to the CDC-recommended schedules kenneth m. ruggiano

Porn Stars Review Octomom's New Film, and Her Parenting Skills

Consider the source and all, but if a porn star says you're a bad mom, you may want to take parenting classes. If the porn star says you're bad at porn, well, practice makes perfect.Porn actress Amber Peach, whose work has included "The Sphincter Chronicles" and "Your Wife My Bitch," has weighed in ... More >>

New York Times Discovers Perverts are Banned From Many Orange County Parks

The Old Gray Lady has confronted your friendly neighborhood park pervert.Chuting in from an international kerfuffle unknown, The New York Times has discovered the growing phenomenon of Orange County parks being declared off limits to convicted sex offenders.

Examining the Parent Trap in 'What to Expect When You're Expecting'

Kirk Jones shapes narrow worldview from Heidi Murkoff's mega-best-selling pregnancy manual

5 Plead Not Guilty to Child Endangerment via Exposure to Piss, Shit, Scratches from 110 Cats

Five adults pleaded not guilty to felony child endangerment for allegedly exposing two children to "severely unsanitary conditions" in a Santa Ana home filled with feces and urine from 110 cats.John Ed Howe, 68, his wife Sharon Lynn Howe, 65, their daughter Kerri Lynn Howe Moreno, 44, Moreno's ... More >>

Who Needs 'Friends With Kids'?

This formulaic romantic comedy is no 'Bridesmaids'

[UPDATED with Reviews Are In:] Eighth Sign of the Apocalypse: Octomom Nadya Suleman Paid "Six Figures" to Give Advice

​UPDATE, DEC. 28, 9:31 A.M.: During her inaugural, Christmas Day advice show that streams live Sundays on the web, Octomom Nadya Suleman of La Habra apologized for being 10 minutes late, mumbled, shamed the oldest of her 14 children for being "materialistic," mentioned they are all "grateful" this ... More >>

Jim Lindberg of Pennywise and Black Pacific on The Other F Word: 'I Check My Kids' Facebook Profiles Regularly'

​Jim LIndberg's 2008 book Punk Rock Dad: No Rules, Just Real Life described how the Lindberg, the man who sang "Fuck Authority" for the punk rock band Pennywise, raised three daughters. It was such an inspiring story that director Andrea Nevins offered to make a documentary on Lindberg and his fam ... More >>

10 Signs You're a Hipster Parent

​You know how it goes: "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a baby carriage!" It's the same for everyone--even embittered hipsters who view love ironically fall prey to evolution and feel the need to procreate, so to speak. But if you're eschewing all sorts of labels (along w ... More >>

La Habra Latest to Ban Sex Offenders from Parks

​La Habra is the latest Orange County city to enact a law banning registered sex offenders from parks and playgrounds following action by the City Council Monday night.The city modeled its child safety zone ordinance after the county's enacted in April to keep perverts out of regional parks and ot ... More >>

Nadya Suleman's Latest Octo-Promos: I Was Raised Muslim, I've Been Celibate 12 Years and No Touching!

​Elizabeth Taylor was the master at keeping herself relevant through tabloid headlines, but at least she had true talent. It seems the latest generation living off publicity is wading in a very shallow talent pool: Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, any Kardashian.The muck at the bottom of that talent p ... More >>

Leaked: Britney Spears' After-Party Plans

​ Britney Spears has had a busy week, announcing a pair of June SoCal shows as part of her Femme Fatale tour and popping up unexpectedly at a club with Nicki Minaj, causing such a stir that six fans collapsed from hyperventilation. Not wanting to miss out on the excitement, we used our connecti ... More >>

Report: OC Kids Fatter, More Likely to be a Hoodlum

Sup?​The number of Orange County children living below the poverty level is down and their test scores are up, but more are living in obesity, illegally consuming alcohol and narcotics, willing to join criminal street gangs and relying on government-sponsored free or reduced school lunch programs. ... More >>

Nursing Mother Asked To Leave Arizona McDonald's

Flickr user myjuly​According to ABC15 in Phoenix, Clarissa Bradford was asked to leave a Glendale, Ariz. McDonald's after breastfeeding her 6-month-old son. Clearly, the manager of this McDonald's has never heard of mombloggers, or this would never have happened.

Dr. Michael Kamrava, "Octomom" Nadya Suleman's Litter Maker, in Hot Water Again

​The fertility doctor who treated "Octomom" Nadya Suleman of La Habra faces new state medical board accusations.As was alleged in the Suleman case, Dr. Michael Kamrava transferred too many embryos into an unnamed woman and failed to recommend that she see a mental health professional, California ... More >>

Alexis Bellino of Real Housewives Offered Tips to Keep Her Kids From Drowning

​We told you here how The Real Housewives of Orange County reality spouse Alexis Bellino and her husband nearly lost their twin baby girls to the Balboa Bay Club pool Fourth of July weekend.The Bellinos and their kids grace the July cover of OC Parenting Magazine, and one hard-hitting question thr ... More >>

Kids Text More and Are More Literate Because of It

​Are TV, computer and cell phone monitors making kids smarter? They are if you connect the conclusions of two separate studies. One, from the Kaiser Family Foundation, shows today's teens and tweens are consuming more media than ever before via television, the Internet and mobile devices. The othe ... More >>

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Health Care Agency Blocks Planned Parenthood's Final Attempt to Secure County Funding

​After thirty years of working closely with the county and swooping in to absorb patients the county's shoddy public health care system could no longer treat, Planned Parenthood was forced to give up the county grant it has received for the past nine years. In a scathing letter written to the coun ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Planned Parenthood Still In the Running for County Funding

All seemed to be said and done yesterday in the fight over whether Planned Parenthood should receive county funds for its non-abortion related health care programs.

Planned Parenthood Seeks County Funds Despite Activist Supervisors

Orange-based Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties, which had its $300,000 health-services contract voided in March due to activist county supervisors, only to have the grant reinstated Tuesday along with regulations that will make it more difficult to attain future county funds, ... More >>

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"Parenting the Addict Child" Finds a New Home

Photo by John GilhooleyShortly after publication of the Weekly's story on Laguna Beach's Leyla Fatima, who hosts the radio program Parenting the Addict Child, her station KLSX 97.1 FM switched from its "FM Talk" format to Top 40 music. That was curious because Fatima talked at the time of big plans ... More >>

Supervisors Abort Planned Parenthood Funding

As anticipated, the Orange County Board of Supervisors today cut about $300,000 in Planned Parenthood health education funding by canceling the nonprofit's contract through the Coalition of Orange County Community Clinics. Each Supe cited a moral objection to Orange-based Planned Parenthood providin ... More >>

Milkalicious Mamas' Live Feed to Seacrest Radio Show

The "Manny on the Street" segment of KISS-FM's Ryan Seacrest Show is scheduled to come to Aliso Viejo's favorite "community-based lactation destination" between 7 and 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. "Expectant and breastfeeding couples, family and friends are invited to attend, have fun, win prizes, see what w ... More >>

Is Real Housewives a Real Guide to OC-Style Parenting?

Ginia Bellafante writes in today's New York Times that The Real Housewives of Orange County reveals much about Orange County-style parenting.Parenthood supplies a strange and fascinating dimension of The Real Housewives of Orange County, which increasingly feels like Mildred Pierce: the habit of ind ... More >>

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The Legs Are the Last to Go

[Trendzilla] Babies for Obama!

Cool Kids

High School Musical

To Do Tonight 4/3

Author Signing: Annette Fix, 6:30 p.m. 30-something single mother and aspiring writer Annette Fix was working as an exotic dancer, searching for Prince Charming, and trying to find a perfect balance between her dreams and her day-to-day life in OC. Barnes & Noble 26751 Aliso Creek Rd. Aliso Viejo, ... More >>

Bouncy, Trouncy, Flouncy, Pouncy

‘Tigers—Tracking a Legend’

Jose's Choice

County tells man to leave his wifeor lose his kids

Porn-secution

The Bush administration has a new weapon in its war on porn: stalkers

Black Like Me

No Child Left Behind

Bright Ideas takes a swing at Texas-cheerleader-mom syndrome

Parental Advisory

Mommie Fiercest

Letters

'Stray Not From Righteousness'

And other lessons for the countys poor

Daddy Dearest

Raising kids can be murder