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Children Dream of Becoming Celebrities, Study Shows

Where, 25 years ago, children dreamed of becoming teachers, doctors or pilots, today’s young ones have different aspirations. They want to become celebrities, pop or sports stars in particular, mostly by the model they see on television in the ever-so-popular talent competitions, a new study reveals, as cited b...

2 October 2009
15:31 GMT

Download MacFamilyTree 5.6.4 for Snow Leopard

Synium Software has released a new version of its genealogy desktop app, MacFamilyTree. MacFamilyTree helps users document, store, and display information about their family. They can draw and print family trees, lists, cards, heritage charts, descendant charts and genograms. According to the release notes for MacFa...

24 September 2009
05:27 GMT

One Third of Women Choose Children over Career

Previous studies and polls have shown that, when they reach 30, most women also reach a threshold – for lack of a better term – where they deliberately make a choice between having a family life and having a successful career. Those who go for the latter usually remain single or in a non-committal relatio...

31 July 2009
13:31 GMT

Candy Spelling Slams Daughter Tori in Open Letter

Candy Spelling, the widow of famed television Producer Aaron Spelling and mother of the original “90210” star Tori, is clearly not the type that would keep quiet if there’s something that bothers her. Never the family to wash their dirty laundry inside the house, the Spellings (Candy and Tori) are f...

27 July 2009
10:48 GMT

Facebook Helps Family Reunite After 27 Years

Facebook may be changing the way we interact with each other or make friends but now we hear that it helped a mother reunite with her son after having spent 27 years apart. The boy's father had taken him to Hungary and she never heard from him again. Her sister, who had been looking for him for years, finally tr...

29 May 2009
09:17 GMT

Childless Women Are Perceived as Odd, Cold at the Workplace

Although it has been repeatedly argued – and proved – that women in their 30s choose family over career, which, in turn, justified the still standing pay gaps between genders, it seems that they are equally at a disadvantage if they choose not having a baby at all. This is the conclusion of researcher Dr....

18 May 2009
16:01 GMT

Study Shows Boredom Kills Marriages

They say routine can be worse than love because one grows so accustomed to living with someone else that it becomes impossible to part ways, no matter how badly things are going between them. While this has never been scientifically attested, a new study has just shown that routine and boredom can singlehandedly kill...

18 April 2009
02:51 GMT

Parents Spend Fortunes on Babies Even Before They’re 3

Parents, and especially new parents, are constantly trying to do everything in their power so that the little one does not lack anything. From clothes in various models to toys that are this close to coming to life before their eyes, anything goes, and parents hardly think twice before taking out the wallet to pay fo...

15 April 2009
15:31 GMT

Family Comes Over Career for Women in Their 30s

The pay gap between men and women continues to be a reality in today’s workplace, as countless studies have proven throughout time. However, unlike the days of yore when it was an effect of discrimination, now, it is more the outcome of a choice women make. The results of a new poll indicate that most ladies se...

30 March 2009
15:11 GMT

Nursing Linked to Positive Parenting, Study Shows

The importance of young mothers to nurse their newborn children has often been stressed, with countless studies showing that the high nutritional content of their milk helps increase the baby’s IQ, among many other things. A new study comes now to prove that a mother’s milk is also linked to more pos...

27 March 2009
15:31 GMT

Children Don’t Make Us Happy, Economist Says

Although we have often been told that children are the greatest joy a man or woman can experience, and that they are also the closest thing to complete happiness, one economist says studies show no direct relation between one’s sense of fulfillment and happiness, and whether one has kids or not. Moreover, if sa...

20 March 2009
14:21 GMT

‘Gotcha’ Pregnancies Soar with Women in Their Late ‘30s

That family is no longer the strong institution it once was is no longer a secret, as countless studies made in recent years have shown that the divorce rate is increasing while the time span spent married is decreasing. Coming to show once more that the traditional family is progressively crumbling away is the rapid...

17 March 2009
16:31 GMT

Fathers Refuse to Change Diapers, New Poll Reveals

Although the times when only the woman was supposed to do all the chores around the house, take care of the children and have dinner ready for when the hard-working husband got home are long gone, something of that mentality is still lingering around with the new fathers. Only one in five daddies changes diapers, the...

17 March 2009
15:31 GMT

MacFamilyTree 5.4.0 Adds Context Charts on Every Person

Synium Software has updated MacFamilyTree, a powerful genealogy application for Mac OS X. MacFamilyTree 5.4.0 is now available for free download for existing users, and as a demo for new users.According to the release notes for MacFamilyTree 5.4.0, the genealogy program adds Web Page Export. The app now displays a Co...

5 March 2009
06:44 GMT

Independent Adults Still Rely on Parents for Cash

It’s hard for a young person to get a good start in life from a financial point of view. This is precisely why parents take it upon themselves to support the child until they’re on their own – as it happens, this rarely, if ever, occurs, as a new survey points out. One in five adults think they&rsqu...

24 February 2009
15:41 GMT

Families Ask Doctors to Tell Them the Bad News Up Front

A new research, published on December 16th, 2008, in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, shows that most families of critically-ill patients would rather find out their loved ones' real medical conditions, than be deceived by doctors with more optimistic prognosis and life expectancy. The study, conducted b...

16 December 2008
05:50 GMT

How Vesuvius Buried a Pompeian Family

A team of Italian volcanologists from the University of Naples Federico II, comprised of Claudio Scarpati, Giuseppe Luongo and Annamaria Perrotta, have managed to use the latest techniques in order to render a pretty accurate image of the final hours in the life of a Pompeii-based house during the eruption of mount V...

12 December 2008
15:51 GMT

MacFamilyTree 5.3.6 Improves GEDCOM Importer

Swinging from one tree topic to another, Synium Software has updated MacFamilyTree, its genealogy application, to version 5.3.6, improving the generation and rendering performance of the virtual tree, but also enhancing the alignment in the virtual tree and the MobileFamilyTree sync, for the iPhone version of the app...

12 December 2008
10:09 GMT

Christmas Time Is Not Just About the Shopping Stress

It's somehow disheartening to notice that winter holidays have turned, over the years, into a big shopping spree against the clock, thus into the cause for a huge amount of stress. There's no need to put aside the joy of such a celebration by having to worry about presents, family lists, acquaintances lists...

2 December 2008
04:45 GMT

Earliest Case of Nuclear Families Discovered

As indicated in a previous article, the remains of an ancient family have recently been unearthed in Germany, close to the city of Eulau. This has also been demonstrated to be the earliest ever genetic evidence of a nuclear family discovered. The impressive batch of Stone Age graves also provided clues to the fact th...

19 November 2008
06:34 GMT

About Stepparents

We are all well familiar with the story of Snow White and Cinderella so that we have already formed an opinion about stepparents. For many, the word "mother" revokes the image of the natural mother and no other woman can come to replace her. How do things really stand when it comes to stepparents? Is the new mom or d...

12 May 2008
09:08 GMT

Johnny Depp Is the Sexiest Dad Ever!

Johnny Depp is one of the few actors out there who manage to prove to us time and again that if a celebrity really wants to keep their private life... well, private, it can be done. The extremely talented yet very reclusive father of two recently sat down with In Touch and gave a rather vague but nevertheless sweet i...

21 February 2008
10:51 GMT

Human Polyandry: One Wife, Several Husbands

Too many males can cost, in biological terms, the female. Females 'going' from one male to another are more exposed to injury, sexually transmitted diseases and predators, not to mention the wasted energy. In the polyandrous species, the female mates with more males.Polyandry is widespread in nature. In 1 %...

2 February 2008
06:02 GMT

Bringing Master Chief Home to Meet the Folks - Video

It would be something, wouldn't it? To bring Master Chief home to meet your folks, your nerdy brother and.. the dog. This HERE funny video shows your regular American family with the daughter's boyfriend attending the family dinner. The only thing wrong with the whole scenario isn't even the fact that ...

7 January 2008
07:52 GMT

Monkey See, Monkey Do: Paris Hilton Wants a Baby

That "monkey" reference in the title of this article wasn't an accident, y'all. I'm talking about Paris Hilton here, so you see, the connection is pretty much obvious. Plus, it's the truth: some monkeys function on that principle, and I'm totally being metaphorical here. The whole thought pro...

29 November 2007
10:43 GMT

A Stable Family and Low Body Weight Mean Later Puberty Onset for Girls

You may say that, in a stable family, children are less exposed to sex imagery and these more protected girls are less prone to early sex. But a new research, published in "Child Development", shows they really turn later from little girls into little women. The research team at the University of Arizona and the Univ...

16 November 2007
06:27 GMT

Renée Zellweger Likes Being Single, Hates Sex Scenes

Renée Zellweger recently stated that she likes being single and would even be happy to stay single forever. The "Bridget Jones' Diary" star was married to country singer Kenny Chesney, but their marriage was annulled just four months after taking place. And now, as a reaction to all the speculation about her bei...

23 October 2007
09:56 GMT

Gibbons: 5 Unknown Issues

1. Gibbons are the smallest living apes. They are restricted to the southeastern Asia (Indochina, and three big islands of Indonesia: Borneo, Sumatra and Java). Gibbons split from the line that evolved towards humans over 10 million years ago. Experts say that all living gibbons evolved from one species, 2 million ye...

22 October 2007
14:06 GMT

New Software for the Best Divorce Solution!

Where the heck is the angel you loved so much? The sweetheart turned in time into a f**king monster. And the most genuine love became the strongest hate. Lucky him/her you don't have a gun license. Yes, there is no sweet divorce, but a new software is developed to make it less bitter. The computer program mixes ...

1 August 2007
05:45 GMT

Dream Chronicles

Not too long ago, I saw a Japanese animation that had the human dream world as the main theme. Well, I won't start to tell you what that was all about, nor give details that are not important. The question is: What's that got to do with a game? Well, it's simple: dreams and slumber are the themes of th...

29 June 2007
10:04 GMT


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