An Indonesian businessman is complaining that polygamy is not so easy. The businessman’s attempt to make polygamy easier was rejected by the Indonesian constitutional court earlier this year.

Polygamy is legal in Indonesia but according to the countries marriage laws the only way that a man can take a second wife is to have it approved in court. To obtain approval the first wife must agree and either must be disabled or be unable to have children.

The businessman’s attempt to change the policy on Polygamy involved arguing that the conditions listed above effectively prevent polygamy and have caused many men to simply avoid registering their second marriages. Which of course means that children from these unregistered marriages could lose their inheritance rights and other benefits.

A Nevada woman believes she’s received a message from God … on a highway off ramp no less!

Carla Dupree, 29, gave birth to her fifth child after she pulled off a Reno freeway. She says that was a sign from God to not have any more children.

“I had him on the freeway,” she said. “This is the last one. God is telling me something.”

Now this one’s a strange story …

Little 10 year old Huang Li was watched by her father as she saw in the chilly southern China river, Xiang River, for three hours on October 2nd with her hands and feet bound! Her father believes the task will help his daughter achieve her dream of swimming across the English channel.

Huang Li managed to swim more than a mile in the river in early October. She traveled with the current as she swam moving like a dolphin through the water.

“Her swimming skills are perfect and she insisted on doing this,” Huang Daosheng said in a telephone interview. The girl, who lives in the city of Zhangjiajie in Hunan province, got the idea after seeing something similar on a local television program, he said.

With the Beijing Olympics less than a year away, sports is grabbing greater attention in an already sports-crazed country. Huang Li’s swim is at least the second time in recent months that a child athlete has drawn media attention.

Huang swam in a skirted swimsuit with her hands tied with string and her feet bound with a strip of cloth. Her face had a blue tinge due to the cold.

“It’s not dangerous because, first, her swimming skills are really good and second, I was swimming with her, staying close to her,” the father said. “I had her when I was 35, so she is my heart. I would never play around with her life.”

The father, a teacher who enjoys swimming, coaches his daughter and said the family does not have enough money for her to have a better coach. The girl started the sport when she was six and her father said her goal is to one day swim across the English Channel.

“She asks me every day, ‘Can I achieve this? Is the English Channel wide? Are the waves really big?’” Huang Daosheng said.

You’ve heard of families who’s children’s names all start with the same letter, and the occasional family where a child has the same birth date as the mother or father, but what about a family who’s children were all born on the same day in different years?

Jenna and William Cotton of Marysville have an easy time remembering the birthday of each of their children. All of their three children have been born on October 2nd. The latest addition to the family was little Kayla who was born on Tuesday Oct 2nd. Her brothers Ayden Cotton and Logan Cotton were born on Oct 2nd 2003 and October 2nd 2006 respectively.

Based on that history, the parents said they had a feeling their baby daughter would come a couple of days past her Sept. 30 due date. Sure enough, Jenna Cotton, 23, began having contractions early Tuesday, hours before a planned birthday party for the boys.

She had a doctor’s appointment scheduled later in the day and hung in for the party. Ayden, the 4-year-old, wanted to know if his new baby sister would make the festivities, Jenna Cotton said.

“He has been really excited about her coming,” she said. “He kept asking when she was going to come out.”

He wouldn’t have to wait long. His mother’s doctor sent her to a hospital, where 7-pound, 8-ounce Kayla was born at 7:07 p.m. Tuesday.

The odds of a family having three children born on the same date in different years are about 7.5 in 1 million, said Bill Notz, a statistics professor at Ohio State University.

The Cottons don’t plan to roll the dice on a fourth Oct. 2 baby, saying that’s it for them, as far as having children.