Mothers

YouTube on Monday sought more time from the National Commission For Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) to comply with the apex child rights body's directions to remove videos portraying indecent acts involving mothers and sons. The NCPCR had on January 10 summoned a YouTube official to physically appear before it on January 15 with a list of channels running such content on the platform. In a statement, the commission said it has observed an alarming trend of "Child sexual abuse material" on YouTube, where challenges were…

Credit: Vera Kratochvil/Public Domain Having a child is bad for a woman's earnings. This is not only in the immediate period after the birth, but across her lifetime—as shown in research by recent economics Nobel prize-winner Claudia Goldin. On the other hand, men who become fathers are perceived as self-reliant and decisive. And they are often…

Bernice King, the daughter of Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King Jr., has seemingly criticized Jonathan Majors for using her mother’s name during a recent interview on Good Morning America. In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, King paid tribute to Scott King, writing, “My mother wasn’t a prop.” She added, “She was a peace advocate before she met my father and was instrumental in him speaking out against the Vietnam War. Please understand… my mama was a force.” Although the post didn’t…

With Academy Award winners like Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain, Mothers’ Instinct has already impressed many with a suspenseful and intense trailer, but do we know when we can expect to see the film arrive in theaters or streaming? The plot follows two mothers, Alice and Celine, who live perfect suburban lives until tragedy strikes. In the aftermath of Celine’s son’s death, the bond between the two mothers begins to fray as paranoia and guilt eat away at both of them. That description itself raises hopes for a…

The film, directed by Benoit Delhomme, is a psychological thriller set in the Sixties Academy Award-winning actresses Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway are having a literal mother-off in the first official trailer for Mothers’ Instinct. The forthcoming directorial debut from cinematographer Benoît Delhomme stars Chastain and Hathaway as Alice and Céline, respectively and follows their picture-perfect life in Sixties suburbia: they’re best friends raising sons of the same age in the same…

Researchers have discovered that the hormone GDF15, produced by the fetus, causes pregnancy-related nausea and vomiting. The severity is influenced by the mother’s prior exposure to this hormone. This insight offers a potential preventive approach and underscores the need for better treatment and awareness of pregnancy sickness, especially in its severe form, hyperemesis gravidarum. Credit: SciTechDaily.comA study reveals that the hormone GDF15, produced by the fetus, is responsible for pregnancy sickness, paving the way…

Normal Women is a novel about a depressed and unfulfilled new mother who seeks meaning in sex work that is spiritually designed to heal wounded men and restore their “crucial feminine”. It’s an outlandish and laughable premise, and that’s before you get to a possible murder – our protagonist, Dani, investigates the disappearance of Renata, the brothel owner. Ainslie Hogarth’s previous novel, Motherthing, was a mashup of horror and humour about a woman being haunted by the ghost of her mother-in-law, so the tone and…

Done with putting up with abdominal cramping for more than a week, a 37 year old woman from the French island of Réunion east of Madagascar visited a hospital emergency department, only to discover she was – in fact – pregnant.Scans soon revealed a rather surprising twist. Though there was a 23-week-old baby happily kicking around inside the woman's body, her uterus was completely empty. The fetus had instead set anchor to the membrane lining the abdominal cavity, just above the mother's tailbone.Identifying the…

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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Thirteen Brazilian mothers who say they are victims of domestic violence have told researchers of their harrowing experiences inside that country's family court system. The qualitative study—led by Dr. Elizabeth Dalgarno from The University of Manchester—is published today in the Journal of Social Welfare and Family…