The United States is a slightly better place to be a mom this year than it was last year, according to the annual State of the World's Mothers report released by the Save the Children international aid organization earlier this week.

Just to be perfectly clear: yes, Save The Children has suddenly stopped its work in support of a tax on soda; but no, that's not connected to the huge monetary grant the group's seeking from the Coca-Cola corporation. Okay. [NYT]

Most troubling line from the New York Times' article about child-prodigy gameshow Our Little Genius: "...it is the parents of the contestant who decide whether to advance to the next question or to stick with the money they have already won."

People like Nadya Suleman, the IVF junkie mother of 14, and Alfie Patten, the 13-year-old father from England, are getting famous just for reproducing. It's a pretty gross trend.

Poor children in Asia: they're eating trash. Sad, poor street children, with only trash for food. Sad. Helping them to at least get some Kool-Aid is surely a worthy cause. Does that mean that you must use trash bags shaped as ghoulish little child bodies in an ad campaign to raise (sad) awareness? Yes. Yes it does.…

The New York Department of Education not only allowed Alec Baldwin into an elementary school, they're advertising this terrifying visit on their website! Ye gods he will eat those kids alive. Oh look, we found a video clip of his appearance:

Karl Lagerfeld-designer, living statue, colonel in the German Gay Zombie Army-would like to show your child a little something. No, not his series-of-metal-braces-and-leather-straps genitalia! He's made a fancypants teddy bear that will retail at Neiman Marcus for a completely reasonable $1,500. Lagerfeld is very…