21.   A California judge in September ruled that under the law she has no parents and so is not entitled to child support.

22.   A lot of families have both parents out working, sometimes at two jobs apiece.

23.   A series of studies have found that when children have working parents who like their jobs, the parents have higher self esteem and this translates into better parenting.

24.   Abacha was private about his personal life, but it does not appear he had wealthy parents growing up in the northern Nigerian state of Kano.

25.   About half of the kids who smoke have parents who smoke, and teenagers with smoking parents are three times as likely to take up the habit.

26.   About a third of the children born in America last year had unmarried parents.

27.   All of these kids have two parents in their homes.

28.   Bush bemoans the fact that so many children have parents in prison.

29.   But he had his parents.

30.   But nearly all child support is owed by men and the overwhelming majority of children have parents of the same race.