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Foster parents get parenting rights in Ireland (EARTHtimes.org) - The Child Care (Amendment) Bill, 2006 will give long-term foster parents some vital parenting rights in Ireland. These rights are applicable to parents who have been taking care of children for five or more years.

New editor for Practical Parenting (intellagencia.com) - IPC SouthBank has appointed a new editor to lead its Practical Parenting magazine. Susie Boone, currently a freelance journalist, is taking over from Mara Lee, who is returning to her native Australia.

Alabama Court To Rule On Gay Parenting (365Gay.com) - (Birmingham, Alabama) A Mobile, Alabama lesbian couple are asking the Court of Civil Appeals to make both women the parents of child they are raising and who was born to one of them.

Firelands offers 'Happiest Baby' program to help soothe fussy kids (Port Clinton News Herald) - Firelands Regional Medical Center is offering the parenting class, "The Happiest Baby on the Block" from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 12, on the first floor at Firelands Regional Medical Center South Campus, 1912 Hayes Avenue, Sandusky.

Business briefcase (River Valley Business Report) - Coulee Parenting Connection, a bi-monthly magazine devoted to improving family life in the Coulee Region, celebrated its five-year publishing anniversary by donating $825 to the La Crosse Community Foundation.

While convenient, cell phones can hang up parenting (Clarkston Eccentric) - A few years ago, I did a column about how annoying cell phones are. My complaints included the usual: people on cell phones blocking the grocery store aisle; drivers paying more attention to their phone conversations than to their driving; people taking calls and ignoring the people around them.

New parenting program for first-time expectant moms and dads available in Hamilton (Hamilton Mountain News) - First-time parents expecting their baby from December 2006 to early May 2007 can now enroll in a free, prenatal and parenting program - The Parenting Partnership.

For More Information? (CBS News) - CBSNews.com has compiled a list of Web sites and blogs about teens and technology.

Taste mom ordered held on bond (Chicago Tribune) - Bond was set at $200,000 today for a south suburban woman charged with felony child abandonment after she allegedly lost her 6-year-old boy at Taste of Chicago and then did not admit to having left him at the event for more than a week.

Hill Worries About Mcgraws Strictness (ContactMusic) - Country queen FAITH HILL is urging her husband TIM MCGRAW to read self-help parenting books because she fears he'll become a tyrant when their daughte