A new study published today highlights an increasing concern that our children are watching too much TV. And if Dimitri Christakis, director of the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children’s Research Institute is correct, children in home daycare may in fact be exposed to more than twice the TV time than those who visit daycare centers.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued half a dozen critical safety recalls relating to children since the beginning of this month. Here is our current update which includes Adventure playsets, Century 21 sweatshirts, Three Sisters baby hammocks, Easton Sports bicycles, McLaren strollers and MacPherson’s art easels.

An appeals court in Ohio has ruled that Marilyn Anderson, mother of 9-year daughter Victoria, is not allowed to smoke around her child.

Exclusive to Single Parent Gossip – Pornography on the Internet has many faces. We all know that it always was and always will be one of the most popular topic areas and most of us have to admit that we at least played with the idea to find out what is out there.

But there is one topic we usually don’t talk about and pretend it does not exist – child pornography. Single Parent Gossip author and child safety expert Pat McKenna exposed disturbing information that child pornography and paedophiles may be just one click away from some single parents. This direct imminent threat to the safety of children does not only exist in what many still believe is an ocean of anonymity of the Internet. There is an especially alarming implication for the real world.

A website that promises to identify pedophiles recommends that especially single moms should remove pictures of their children from their social networking pages. “Many single moms are inadvertently creating happy hunting grounds for that subspecies of pedophiles who like their prey young – really young,” says Crystal the Jacquez, managing editor of Guys That Lie.com.

Are you the spouse of a person that has been discovered in contact with child pornography? Have you discovered this fact and not reported it to the police, or have the police come to your door and informed you that the computers in your home or business are being forensically examined for indecent imagery of children?

A man who is a care worker with an exemplary record for close on half a century goes fishing. His life is ruined. In the previous week he was visited by police at his home and it was made known to him that he was being investigated for visiting Internet sites on which child pornographic imagery was available. His computer was seized and his wife was devastated by the news. His daughter arrived home from class to find without any warning that her life would never be the same again.

The ability to use a digital camera, a computer and a means of communication such as broadband connection to produce high quality images and distribute them has enabled an explosion of fun. Equally it has fueled a rapid rise in questionable or illegal use that directly affects people, particularly children.

Some time ago there was a phenomenon whereby people were being assaulted on the streets and this was captured on phone camera and uploaded to Internet sites for public viewing. A mobile phone with an internet connection is all that was required to achieve this, nothing else.

You are a single mom with a young child. You have a job to make ends meet and find yourself dependent on the services of a nursery. You have met the staff and they are caring and friendly, and each morning that you arrive there you are met by a smiling and caring lady who knows all about your child’s quirks. She takes your precious bundle from you and you depart with great comfort and confidence that this is one aspect of your life that is well taken care of.

What in the world could possible go wrong? Vanessa George, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen. That’s what can go wrong.