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Parenting Classes Required in Texas Public Schools Next Fall (KFDA-TV Amarillo) - Your teenager will soon be required to take a course in parenting. The Texas legislature recently mandated a parenting curriculum for all of the state's public high schools starting the next school year.

Mother Sentenced For Negligent Parenting In Baby's Death (NBC4 Washington, D.C.) - A 23-year-old Edgewood woman has been ordered to serve 18 months in jail for a negligent parenting conviction stemming from the death of her 5-week-old son.

State curriculum on legalities of parenting coming to Texas high schools this fall (Dallas Morning News) - Do you know the difference between an "alleged father" and a "presumed father?" Your child soon will. The Texas attorney general's office has created a new parenting curriculum that will be required in every public high school this fall.

Son of RD Laing - psychiatrist who blamed madness on poor parenting - found dead in a tent beside an empty vodka bottle (Daily Mail) - The son of Sixties cult psychiatrist RD Laing, who championed the use of LSD and claimed families create madness, has been found dead in a tent on a Mediterranean island.

Montgomery Newspapers - News - Stories About Parenting (The Globe) - It is very difficult in the heat of your children's battle to keep your cool. If we only had a comprehensive set of tools in our parenting bag of tricks we could turn to to help both our children and ourselves, these battles could be a lot less stressful for all parties involved.

NC Co-Parenting, Again (Gay City News) - On May 6, the North Carolina Court of Appeals made no new law in ruling that the same-sex partner of a birth mother could seek custody and visitation with the birth mother's child whom she had helped to conceive and raise.

Son of RD Laing - psychiatrist who blamed madness on poor parenting - found dead in a tent beside an empty vodka bottle (Evening Standard) - The son of famous British psychiatrist RD Laing was found dead in a tent on a Spanish island lying next to an empty bottle of vodka, it emerged today.

Adelphi Welcomes Renowned Author and Therapist (Garden City News) - Adelphi University's Institute for Parenting is proud to host Jonathan Diamond, Ph.D., who will present the Institute's Parent Coffee Series, "The Gift of Fatherhood," on Thursday, June 5, 2008, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., in Adelphi's Alumni House, 154 Cambridge Avenue, Garden City, NY. An interactive Q&A session will follow. Parents and community members are encouraged to attend.

Parenting workshop to begin June 3 (The Reporter) - The 10-week Vacaville Police Department Parent Project starts Tuesday, June 3, at Three Oaks Community Center, 1100 Alamo Dr. The program promises concrete answers for all of your questions, and is held on Tuesdays from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuition is $40 and includes a workbook.

'Shameless' Parenting Not The Norm For Vulnerable And Single Parents, Says NCH, UK (Medical News Today) - In response to Chris Grayling MP, Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary speech on parenting skills in our society, Clare Tickell, Chief Executive of NCH, the children's charity says:"The Conservative Party's growing understanding and concern for those trapped in the cycle of poverty and poor parenting is welcome. The change in attitude to lone parents shows their commitment to change.