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News Round-Up May 31: Dad Witnesses Birth of Baby Via Skype, Socialist Kids and Is Parenthood Bad for Marriage?

What we’re reading today:

1. Kids don’t really need Gatorade, unless it’s really hot and they’re running around a lot.

2. One San Francisco mom was a little scared away by “mommy makeovers” being promoted in her otherwise helpful new mom newsletters, what with the multiple plastic surgery procedures you get all in one go, so she started making her own clothes.

3. One author says that parenthood is swallowing marriage.

4. How to raise a socialist.

5. Social Family news: Soldier dad can’t be there for the birth of his son, so he watches the whole thing on Skype:

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