Some insanity from the UK

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=566340&in_page_id=1770

Tesco bans parents from buying alcohol if they are with their OWN children
Parents shopping with their own children are being refused alcohol by over-zealous supermarket staff - for fear they are supplying drink to minors. Workers have been told not to serve adults accompanied by children in the latest crack-down on underage drinking...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=566349&in_page_id=1770

Chemicals found in baby bottles and other everyday products could be condemning children to a lifetime of obesity, experts have warned. A trio of studies shows that exposure early in life to 'gender-bending chemicals' widely used in plastics, pans and water pipes leads to fatness in adulthood...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=566279&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=

Senior Conservatives said yesterday they will rally behind David Cameron in voting to cut the legal limit for 'social' abortions from 24 weeks. David Davis, William Hague, Liam Fox, Andrew Lansley and Chris Grayling are among a raft of frontbenchers who will vote with their leader for a cut to 22 or 20 weeks...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=566268&in_page_id=1770

Parents are taking a feckless, layabout TV character as a role model for raising their children, Conservatives will warn today. Too many mothers and fathers do not know what good parenting is and follow the example of Frank Gallagher, the father in Channel 4's dark comedy Shameless

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=566229&in_page_id=1770

The 'quick-fix culture' is damaging children's ability to master sport and music, a leading headmaster warned yesterday. Jonathan Milton of Westminster Abbey Choir School said youngsters increasingly lacked the patience to acquire skills such as choral singing ...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=566230&in_page_id=1773

'I don't mind changing nappies!,' says Les Dennis as he poses with his new baby girl 28 years after his first child was born Les, 54, reveals he relishes his role as a modern dad

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