Well, you don't say?

[boglin]

Parents warned that ill-fitting shoes can damage children

Apparently, parents should be making sure their chidren's shoes fit properly, and have their feet measured regularly - as children are, allegedly, *growing*.

Parenting licence. You know it makes sense...

Comments

[sciamachy.livejournal.com]

Way to shrink our native population... I heard a report on R4 that said that all the Malthusian predictions of the 1970's had turned out to be false - that we'd just found more ways to maximise food production to cope, BUT the UK and a number of other Western countries were suffering from the lack of birthrate while other countries were actually benefitting from being so populous. These days India's greatest asset is its literally millions of highly skilled or intelligent and eminently trainable young people, while we're facing a situation where there just won't be enough younger people around to care for us in our dotage.

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, we need the young to pay for the pensions and healthcare of the old (and getting ever older). Oh, and the unfortunate inhabitants of the third-world of course. Still, some of the third-world is hot on the heels of the first-world. The next century is going to be interesting, and quite possibly rather painful.