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Group Files Petition Over Enforcement Of Regulations In Adult Film Industry To Prevent Sexually Transmitted Diseases
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation last week filed a petition in Los Angeles County Superior Court asking "the court to order the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health to enforce regulations that require condom use in adult-film production or take other reasonable steps to stem the spread of disease," the Los Angeles Times reports (Yoshino, 7/17). In the petition, "the group claims that in the month since an actress tested positive for HIV, the county Department of Public Health has done little to address what it considers to be a serious health threat" (AP/San Jose Mercury News, 7/16). In a statement released last week, the department, said, "The county continues to strongly support state legislation and the regulatory role of the [California Division of Occupational Safety and Health] as the most appropriate means to regulate the practices in the adult-film industry that expose performers to unnecessary and preventable occupational risks of acquiring and transmitting these diseases," adding, "The department does not believe that litigation is the best means to deal with this issue" (Yoshino, 7/17).
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BVA Asks Defra To Abandon Separation Of Animal Health From Animal Welfare
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The Lasting Effects Of Center-Based Care And Insensitive Parenting

A growing number of American children are enrolled in child care and questions remain about how these settings may affect them in both positive and negative ways. A new study published in the May/June 2009 issue of the journal Child Development finds that early interpersonal experiences - center-based child care and parenting - may have independent and lasting developmental effects. The study draws on the large, longitudinal Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development in the United States, which was carried out in collaboration with the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). The NICHD study has followed about 1,000 children from 1 month through mid-adolescence to examine the effects of child care in children"s first few years of life on later development. The researchers observed children in and out of their homes, and when the children were 15, they measured their levels of awakening cortisol - a stress-responsive hormone that follows a daily cycle (cortisol levels are usually high in the morning and decrease throughout the day). Children who, during their first three years, (a) had mothers who were more insensitive and/or (b) spent more time in center-based child care - whether of high or low quality - were more likely to have the atypical pattern of lower levels of cortisol just after awakening when they were 15 years of age, which could indicate higher levels of early stress. These findings held even after taking into consideration a number of background variables (including family income, the mothers" education, the child"s gender, and the child"s ethnicity), as well as observed parenting sensitivity at age 15. The associations were small in magnitude, and were not stronger for either boys or girls. The study was supported by NICHD. Summarized from Child Development, Vol. 80, Issue 3, Early Family and Child-Care Antecedents of Awakening Cortisol Levels in Adolescence by Roisman, GI (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Susman, E (The Pennsylvania State University), Barnett-Walker, K (RTI International), Booth La-Force, C (University of Washington), Owen, MT (University of Texas, Dallas), Belsky, J (Birkbeck University of London), Bradley, RH (University of Arkansas at Little Rock), Houts, R (RTI International), Steinberg, L (Temple University), and The NICHD Early Child Care Research Network. Copyright 2009 The Society for Research in Child Development, Inc. All rights reserved. Sarah Hutcheon Society for Research in Child Development


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