ABC News 20/20 How to be a Better Parent

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If you think you have heard everything about being a parent, think again. From being a ''serial surrogate,'' to pretending to be a mother of a fake baby to home birth, ABC News reports on extreme parenting.Reports include:-Labor Orgasms: Some mothers have discovered the secret of turning one of the most painful things imaginable, childbirth, into a pleasurable experience.-When Those Cute Babies Aren't Real: At first glance, they look like real babies, wearing beautiful new clothes with all of the accessories, and love, any baby could want. But there is something odd... take a closer look, and one can see that the babies are fakes. It is a bizarre new trend that's increasingly popular.-A Serial Surrogate Mother: Many women say one of the greatest things they can do is give birth. So it is not surprising some women give birth for other couples, sometimes again and again. But do they do it for love or money, or is it an obsession with pregnancy? ABC News reports ''serial surrogates,'' including one woman who has given birth to 12 babies.-Giving Birth at Home: American mothers are just catching on to an international trend to take childbirth out of the hospitals and into their own homes, with no formal medical assistance. Yet the American Medical Association issued a resolution this year stating that: ''the safest setting for labor and delivery is in a hospital.'' So why are more and more women ignoring the warnings and having their babies at home? Airdate: 1/2/2009This product i...

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It was a traffic accident in Buffalo, New York. Cynthia Wiggins, a young black woman, was hit by a truck as she tried to cross a busy highway on her way to a suburban mall. She never regained consciousness and died from her injuries, leaving an infant son behind.But, as Ted Koppel pointed out when he first reported this story, why she died and why she was on that highway to begin with divided the community along racial lines. The black community labeled the incident racist because the upscale mall had banned inner-city busses.The case wound up in court, as many accidents do. Some in the community feared that the trial would be divisive, others worried that the racial issues were never fully recognized in the first place. But after opening arguments and a handful of witnesses, the parties agreed to settle. Airdate: 11/22/99

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FRONTLINE and ProPublica reveal how the stories of Charles Taylor (the American-educated war criminal notorious for his use of child soldiers) and the tire company Firestone (Liberias largest single employer) intersected during the brutal Liberian civil war. This film raises provocative questions about corporate responsibility, accountability, and the ethical ramifications of doing business in conflict zones.

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First, in Battle for Iraq, produced in association with The Guardian, reporter Ghaith Abdul-Ahad makes a dangerous trip inside Mosul to examine the fight and its toll surviving an ISIS truck bombing along the way. Battle for Iraq is a gripping, first-hand look at the fight for Mosul and its implications.

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Katrina ranks as the country's most expensive natural disaster and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. It has killed more than 700 people, uprooted tens of thousands of families, destroyed countless homes and forced the evacuation of a major American city. Ted Koppel hosts a "Primetime" special edition, "Moment of Crisis: System Failure," a moment-by-moment chronology of what went so terribly wrong in the horrific days following Katrina's strike on the Gulf Coast. This was America's first major test of emergency response since 9/11, a test that has received failing grades.When sold by Amazon.com, this product will be manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.

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Frontline figures in the Civil Rights Movement reflect on their experiences, their colleagues and where America now stands on the issue of race in a series of NewsHour conversations and discussions. Included are conversations with Dorothy Height, Vernon Jordan and John Lewis about their memoirs and remembrances of the March on Washington, Rosa Parks and Hamilton Holmes. This collection also features a 1997 interview with Ruby Bridges, who in 1960, at 6-years old, became the first African American child to desegregate an elementary school.When sold by Amazon.com, this product will be manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.