Family Planning

Concord couple mix business with family

2007-01-15T21:51:00.000-08:00

Concord couple mix business with family

Lisa and Brian Perry run their graphic and Web design business, Perry Productions, out of their home to spend more time with their two children, 5-year old Jake and 20-month old Dylan.

Usually, one parent works while the other spends time with the children. Since Jake is now in elementary school and Dylan goes to preschool, there are some normal work hours, but most of the time is spent divided between Lisa and Brian.

"They get a lot of Daddy time, which kids don't always get," Brian said. "They spend half the time with me and half with Lisa. We do try to explain that normally most mommies and daddies go out of the house to work, but this works for our family."

"We co-parent and co-work," Lisa said. "We work some very bizarre hours, but it works for us."

When they started Perry Productions 10 years ago, Brian and Lisa knew they didn't want to spend a lot of time away from the kids they eventually wanted to have.

Weber Co. Awarded $3M Grant For Sex Education

2006-12-19T21:58:00.000-08:00

Weber Co. Awarded $3M Grant For Sex Education

Weber County has been awarded a three million dollar grant to teach ``abstinence only'' sex education. This after statistics revealed record-breaking levels of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases in the county. Health officials say the money will be used to attack a problem centered mainly in Ogden. In fact, recent surveys found 92 out of one-thousand women between the age of 15 and 19 gave birth between 2002 and 2004 in central Ogden. The national rate is 41-point-two per one-thousand. State officials say because the money is coming from the federal government is can NOT be used for family planning programs. However, the county will still offer family planning at the health department. The federal grant will stretch over a five-year period.

Morning-after pill has proved useless, says family planning expert

2006-12-12T23:06:00.000-08:00

Morning-after pill has proved useless, says family planning expert

The morning-after pill appears to have failed to reduce the rate of unwanted pregnancies and abortions, according to Professor Anna Glasier, a family planning expert in Britain. Emergency contraception has been widely available in Britain since the last five years, yet abortion rates keep rising. The professor told in the British Medical Journal that perhaps the benefits would be better if the health focus shifted to encouraging people to take precautions before or during sex. Professor Glasier, who is director of family planning at the Lothian Primary Care NHS Trust, said that emergency contraception was heralded as the best defense against unwanted pregnancies. Regulators had assumed that providing women with this pill would prevent abortions. But this has not happened. Official figures reveal that abortions have increased from 11 per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44 in 1984 to 17.8 per 1,000 in 2004.

Rwanda: Women Receive Bicycle Donations

2006-11-23T18:04:00.000-08:00

Rwanda: Women Receive Bicycle Donations

Women leaders from Musanze District on October7 received eighty bicycles of road master type by Multisectoral Aids project (MAP) to facilitate their mobilization campaign of women activities.

Handing over the donation, the first of its kind in the province, the Minister of Gender and Family Promotion in the Prime Minister's office, Valerie Nyirahabineza urged the beneficiaries to utilize the bicycles for promotion of good health for all women in the area. "These bicycles are for the women programmes, they are not for your husbands," she said. .

Signs of hope amid quake survivors' frustration?

2006-11-12T21:04:00.000-08:00

Signs of hope amid quake survivors' frustration?

Like most journalists from out of town, I'm leaving Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani-administered Kashmir, today. Sunday was the one-year anniversary of the huge quake that hit the region on Oct. 8, 2005. The international media spotlight flashed across the quake-affected areas for a week or so. Now it will shift elsewhere. Yesterday the city, still home to more than 40 tented camps for people displaced by the quake, was graced with a visit from President Pervez Musharraf, who helicoptered in to speak at a commemoration ceremony attended by the public, including many schoolchildren. I couldn't go because I didn't have security clearance from the president's 'men'. I was supposed to be appearing on a live broadcast with PTV (Pakistan Television Network), the state-owned TV channel.

Family planning clinic to hold grand opening Tuesday night

2006-11-06T01:14:00.000-08:00

Family planning clinic to hold grand opening Tuesday night

The Futures Family Health Clinic, 338 S. Walnut St., will have its grand opening from 4 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, offering tours and refreshments. The clinic's focus is promoting healthy lifestyles for young adults and family planning.

"The emphasis is about educating clients on reproduction," said Bob Schmidt, administrator of the Monroe County Health Department.

The clinic will offer birth control, STD screenings and tobacco cessation classes. It will also answer any questions cl .

Around the Valley

2006-10-10T20:16:00.000-07:00

Around the Valley

COVINA - Police arrested five men Wednesday after officers discovered they were in possession of stolen information, officials said.

At about 4 p.m. John Chiaramonte, 24, of Covina, Edmundo Favela Jr., 20, and Brian Ashby, 25, both of Azusa, were taken into custody after being pulled over for a traffic violation.

Covina police Detective James Rochford said an officer searched the vehicle and found three people inside the car to be in possession of stolen mail, checks and personal information belonging to others.

Rochford said early Thursday Jonathan Bright, 20, of Covina and Christopher Martinez, 18, of Azusa were arrested after one of the suspects gave police more information.

All five suspects face charges of possession of stolen information and identity theft.