Our thoughts are with everyone affected by the Boston Marathon explosion today.

“I do not condone extramarital sex nor the physical abuse of anyone, especially kids, but I do believe in redemption—and forgiveness. If I didn’t, who knows where I would be, and I’m just not ready to teach my 7-year-old that apologies don’t mean something anymore.”

We continue to be amazed by this young woman.

Reminisce with us, won’t you?

This story is just MIND-BOGGLING.

Warning: You’re probably going to need tissues for this. 

Jaclyn, our digital photo editor: So what if it kind of sounds weird and avant garde and snobby. Up with gay marriage and down with conventional gender terminology, am I right?

We’ve heard of parents losing custody of obese children, but now it seems that a Canadian court used one father’s excessive weight as the reason to deny him custody of his sons, according to Canada.com.

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Horrific…what a brave woman.

Pregnant ladies aren’t entirely as delicate as common opinion would have us believe. After all, they’ll be pushing out an entire little person at the end of that third trimester—if that isn’t resilience, we don’t know what is! Nevertheless, there are still certain things you should not do to an expectant mother—tasing being very high on that list. But that did not stop Seattle police from tasing a pregnant woman three times after she was pulled over for speeding, according to the New York Times.

Jerad Wheeler, an officer with the DeKalb County Police Department in Georgia, is guilty of kicking a woman in the stomach— a woman who was nine months pregnant, according to Altanta’s WSB-TV news. Read full story

Should you hear a knock on your door in the middle of the night, chances are the last thing you expect to see when you answer is a toddler. But for Traci Gilbert of Denver, that’s exactly what she found: a 3-year-old covered in snow standing in her doorway after a car thief found and evicted him from the vehicle, reports the Huffington Post.

motherjones:

America’s buddy cop, Joe Biden, just tweeted this out.

Right?

Looks like it’s time to update out “Photos of Joe Biden Wearing Aviators” gallery.

Third-smallest baby born

Melinda Star Guido is surrounded by news cameras as she is discharged on Jan. 20 from Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center five months after her birth in Los Angeles. Guido was born at 24 weeks weighing 9.5 ounces, making her the third-smallest baby born in the world. At the time of her discharge, she weighed a mere 4.5 pounds. Doctors will continue to monitor her for the next six years.

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