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Gas lamps are back in Celetna street - making it spooky, mysterious and
romantic. The boy who got beaten up by the devil! And, a nativity scene with
Czech VIPs. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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Current AffairsTrading in babies highlights adoption problem
The police have cracked down on an illegal trade in babies, arresting five
people, including the head of a maternity ward. The highly publicized
case, in which a young woman and a doctor were arrested at Trebic airport
as they were preparing to hand over a newborn baby boy, has opened a great
many questions, primarily: how much of this is actually going on?
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Czech ScienceStudy: Eighty-six percent of Czech children have experienced corporal punishment at home
"Spare the rod, spoil the child," is a philosophy still widely
practised by most Czech parents. Studies carried out by the Centre of
Preventative Medicine at Charles University suggest that ten years ago 90
percent of children had experienced some kind of corporal punishment at
home, and that the number has hardly fallen since.
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Current AffairsNew bill may make life easier for unwanted children
Should Czech women be allowed to give birth in anonymity? A question that
has evoked a great deal of controversy in the past few years - since one
of the fundamental rights of a child is to know who its parents are.
However potent that argument may sound, there are statistics which are far
more persuasive:
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In this week's edition of Mailbox we answer questions on: coal mining and
the use of coal in Karvina, the adoption of Roma children, and Prague
during the Ice Hockey World Championships. Listeners quoted: James Holmes,
Mary Fidler, Patrick Canca, Ashik Eqbal Tokon.
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