I typically stay in parenting/pregnancy categories, but today I ventured on to different categories and I must say, it’s a breath of fresh air seeing questions that don’t revolve around missed periods and poopy diapers. I may have to venture out more often. What about you? Are you stuck in the pregnancy section?

I considered subscribing to _Child Development_, a scholarly journal that publishes a lot of the leading research articles on parenting and child outcomes, but it’s subscription fee is horrendous. (Set for university libraries, not parents, I guess.)
Most magazines seem to give very short shrift to research. They interview so-called experts for ideas from time to time, but you can tell that these folks are rarely research scientists.
So have any of you found any good methods of doing this?

Well LONG story short….my girlfriend well ex cuz i made her mad and she left me….is about 15 weeks pregnant now and she cant stand me. We were a serious couple with talks of even getting married. Before the pregnancy she was the type to get mad and get irrational but be able to calm herself down in about 10 minutes. It seems like now she gets set off and she cannot bring herself back down. She is convinced that i dont love her, care about her and only think i want to be with her because shes pregnant. I havent spoken to her in about a week and a half now and its starting to break me down a little bit. People have said that she will start to calm down in the 2nd trimester but so far it seems nothing is changing. So my question is is it possible that this could go on during the entire pregnancy? Or am i really losing the love of my life : (

What benefits whould this have? I am writing a Thesis on getting a program started through the government requiring parents to have a parenting lecture or class during their hospital stay. Any comments are appreciated. Thanks!