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Author Adam Mansbach knows a thing or two about the difficulty of putting a child to sleep. The father of a three-year-old, Mansbach became increasingly frustrated with his daughter's bedtime antics one night and took to Facebook to blow off steam.

Adrian McLemore, once a foster child himself, decided he couldn't let the same thing happen to his nephew and niece so he became an accidental father.

A 10-year-old boy escaped through the window of a minivan and swam to shore to get help just as his mother drove the van into New York's Hudson River, killing herself and three other children, police said Wednesday....