Continuing to follow the situation in Guatemala that's been spinning out over the past few days, it's beginning to look like the Casa Quivira case is already unraveling, as authorities have released two babies, deeming their adoptions "legal".

The US Embassy seems to be pushing for the investigation to move along rapidly, and I'm sure families and children are thankful for all the help they can get in sorting this mess out.

Hopefully, they get around to the others soon, and apologize to everyone damaged.

And speaking of damaged orphans, some that were used as guinea pigs more than 60 years ago have finally won compensation.

In a reprehensible example of inhumanity, a 1939 University of Iowa study of stuttering subjected orphaned children to extreme abuse known as the "Monster Study" in the hope of bringing on speech problems.

Sheesh.

They got off cheap, I think, though, and I wish the plaintiffs had received closer to the $13.5 million they originally asked for.

And for another disgusting look at humans, how about this story of a stepfather who placed a hidden camera in his 16-year-old stepdaughter's bedroom.

Perv! He's been sentenced to a year in jail. Good.

A British mom is trying to get attention paid to plagiocephaly, or Flat Head Syndrome, and has managed to get more than 15,000 signatures on a petition to have the National Health Service provide special corrective helmets for kids whose heads are going flat.

Read the story if you're worried about such a thing.

And while it's helmets for some in Britain, it's stab jackets for others.

Yep, orders are apparently flooding in for Kevlar-line clothing for back-to-school wear.

If that doesn't make parents nervous enough, maybe this will.

Schools in Australia are getting close to banning cell phones for students. The reason? Well, one might be the "video phone sex scandal" at one high school or the fact that phones with cameras have been used to record student brawls, assaults, drug use and intimidation of teachers.

To turn an old phrase new: phones don't have sex, kids do.

Seems to me they may be looking at the wrong end of the problem.

And yesterday's news warning about kids and cough meds is followed today by this one saying nursing mothers should not take codeine.

Apparently, there is a small percentage of women who have an "ultra-rapid metabolism" for the drug that can cause serious problems in infants who are being breastfed.

As much as 10 percent of whites, 3 percent of blacks and 1 percent of Hispanics and Asians carry the ultra-metabolizing variant. Between 16 and 28 percent of North Africans, Ethiopians and Saudis carry it, FDA officials said. A test for the gene is widely available.

"Anyone can be an ultra-rapid metabolizer without knowing it," Kweder said.

Interesting.