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ONDON, July 5 — The House of Lords, the upper house of Parliament, resolved today to limit, but not forbid, the right of parents to hit their children, changing a 144-year-old law that gave parents the right to strike children as "reasonable chastisement" for misbehavior.The vote represented a victory for Prime Minister Tony Blair, who opposes an outright ban on hitting and supported an alternative proposal for physical punishment that caused neither physical nor mental harm.For those who oppose punishing children by hitting them, the debate surrounding the vote was part of a campaign to secure for children the same...

A New Mexico school district is debating a controversial plan to stop young kids from having sex. Its solution: Sex education starting in kindergarten. In the town of Anthony, between Las Cruces and El Paso, Texas, a lot of children are having sex early and often. “We ask them how many sexual partners they’ve had, coming in to get tested, and quite a few of them, in fact the majority, had anywhere from 10 to 15 partners by the time they got to high school,” said Colleen Runyan, a school nurse at Gadsden High School. Already this school year the...