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Parents Behaving Badly

December 23rd, 2006

Sherri Lohnstein Gets Smashed before Giving Birth, Killing Baby

Man, you gotta give Sherri Lohnstein an ounce of credit. When her 2 lb. baby died shortly after birth in September, she knew the reason: she had gotten drunk the night she went into labor. Lab tests confirmed that the child was born with a blood alcohol level of 0.17%, more than two times the […]

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December 10th, 2006

Marta L. Patel: Crack-Addled Pregnant Mama Cracks up Her Car

Today, Parents Behaving Badly presents a few simple rules for a happy, healthy pregnancy.
Rule #1: Don’t smoke crack when 9 months pregnant.
Rule #2: Don’t get behind the wheel of a car after smoking crack when 9 months pregnant.
Rule #3: Don’t fall asleep after getting behind the wheel of a car after smoking crack when 9 […]

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December 2nd, 2006

Heather Heck Accused of Leaving Baby in Car for Weekend While She Partied

Thanks to Trench for the heads-up on this story on CrimeRant about Heather Heck. The 23-year-old Loraine, Ohio woman really, really wanted a nice weekend out with her boyfriend. But, alas, she couldn’t find anyone to babysit./ So she did the only logical thing: wrapped her six-week-old child up in a bed sheet (and a […]

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October 9th, 2006

Mom Jailed for Using Meth, Dope While Pregnant

Our Parents Behaving Badly week kicks off with…more druggie parents! Now, as I’ve made clear before, I’m not a “Just Say No” kind of guy. But if you’re going to use, there are certain guidelines you ought to follow. Like, oh, say, not ingesting any substances while you’re pregnant. Sadly, 26-year-old Stacey Sturdevant of Springfield, […]

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October 6th, 2006

Are Pregnant Teens Puffing Their Way to Comfortable Births?

My wife Kim sent me this story about a new danger to babies in England: their teenage mothers. A public health ministry report out of England says that teen moms have taken to smoking to reduce the birth weight of their babies. The idea, apparently, is that they can smoke the baby smaller, thus making […]

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August 17th, 2006

Britney Spears: Too Much Money, Too Little Birth Control

It’s not like "ordinary people" - i.e., people without $70 million in disposable income - don’t ever have unplanned pregnancies. Somehow, though, it seems much more trashy when it’s Britney Spears. The baby was hit one more time by Kevin Federline’s sperm (ew ew need hot shower now ew) in an "oops" insemination. Little Sean […]

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September 9th, 2005

Mom Fakes Pregnancy to Abduct Child

Talk about desperate housewives. Sunita Adsul could school Eva Longoria and her ABC bitch posse on any random weekday. According to police, the 40-year-old Indian woman with three kids from her first marriage faked a fourth pregnancy to please her new husband. She planned the faux nine months perfectly so that, when her time was […]

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August 31st, 2005

Britney Spears Drinking While Pregnant? Many Unconvinced

Celebrity Baby Blog has to be praised for finding a brilliant way to exploit unpaid labor. For the past few weeks, they’ve had potential new bloggers "auditioning" for writing gigs by posting to the blog. Sneaky! Ah, what you can get away with when you do over 30,000 visitors a day….Anyway, it looks like auditioning […]

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