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Parenting classes attract all (BBC News) - Talk of parenting classes and you may think of dysfunctional families, but this is often far from the truth.

Factor parenting into your finances (Dallas Morning News) - When they do their financial planning, many families don't take into account the value of parental caregiving.

Katie Holmes pregnancy ice-skating photo flap (Blogging Baby) - A photo of a very pregnant, ice-skating Katie Holmes has been a point of discussion on several parenting boards. The photo was taken last Thursday as TomKat celebrated Katie’s 27th birthday with a private skating session in Rockefeller Center. The controversy stems from posters asking questions like, “Would you ice skate this late in your pregnancy?” and “Is this risky behavior

Class offers parenting tips for dads (WBBH) - LEE COUNTY — Compassion, understanding, love and discipline are all qualities of a loving father, but for many men parenting doesn't come easily. A new class called Dad's Tool Time is designed to give men the skills they need for parenting.

'Amazing woman' striving for self-reliance (The Buffalo News) - Sometimes, when she wakes up at 4:45 a.m. to begin a hectic day of work, education and parenting that won't be over until almost midnight, Donna M. Coplin wonders what keeps her going.

Advice by Marilyn Heins, M.D. : Parenting Gift idea for kids: good manners (Arizona Daily Star) - Call me old-fashioned, but I think manners are important. They are especially important in this holiday season.

FBI Joins Hunt for Missing Girl (ABC News) - Amber Harris, 12, Last Seen Three Weeks Ago

Rehab reach lessens with cuts (The Des Moines Register) - The challenge to come clean for many drug users is treatment, a weapon against drugs virtually ignored in recent years. Funding for rehab has been...

Q&A: Dan Williams (Cullman Times) - Dan Williams is Program Supervisor over Foster, Adoptions and Resources for the Cullman County Department of Human Resources. At his job he works to help get abused or neglected children into the foster care system and then, if possible, to return that child back to its family quickly.

Project Storybook helps treatment inmates give gifts to their children (Corvallis Gazette Times) - ROSEBURG — This Christmas, Rory Noland won’t be with his three daughters. But at least he’ll be sober. Noland is an inmate at the Douglas County Jail, and part of the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment program.