Content about Family
If a relationship’s single greatest strength is the ability for both people to trust one another, then its greatest enemy is infidelity. Not so conveniently, the college environment — with its alcohol-fueled parties, high concentration of people in the same age group, and freedom from curfews and other parental rules — isn’t exactly conducive to staying faithful.
DALLAS — A Dallas man accused of kidnapping and drowning his two young sons had a history of violence, and child protective services officials had been tracking the family for months, according to records and interviews with case officials Tuesday.
Naim Muhammad, 32, is charged with capital murder and is being held on $2 million bond. Police said he kidnapped 3-year-old Elijah, 5-year-old Naim and their mother by threatening her with a brick as they walked to school Monday.
Parenthood exerts financial, physical and emotional stress on every parent. But the stresses that come with parenting can be reduced if parents are willing to slow down and listen to their children and their intuition, according to the philosophy of Slow Family Living, an Austin-based familial organization.
Catrina Hyde remembers seeing a mother reading to her daughter in a visitation room at Child Protective Services in Austin. When she looked closer, the scene held one glaring problem: The book the mother read from had several pages torn out and colored in. Earlier this month, Hyde, a social work senior, started a toy drive to replenish the toys in visitation rooms at CPS. She works at the agency as part of the Child Welfare Education Collaboration, a paid internship program at UT that prepares students for work with CPS after graduation.
It’s likely that Republican midterm gains in Congress won’t lead to a federal ban on same-sex marriage, a UT law professor said Wednesday.
However, constitutional law expert Dan Rodriguez said the election results may have effects on other aspects of the gay rights debate.
