Here are some recent baby-and-child related stories from The Consumerist:

Oregon Lawmakers Cool With BPA In Baby Bottles
Most people seem to agree that baby bottles that include the chemical BPA are probably less than awesome to use to feed your baby. States and municipalities have banned BPA, but the beleaguered chemical has finally found some allies in the Oregon state legislature, which voted down a bill that sought to ban it, the Oregonian reports. Read the full post.

Apple Admits To Having Underage Labor In Factories
The iCompany has issued an "oops" on its Web site, admitting that underage workers were employed in three different Apple-affiliated plants last year. In its annual compliance report, Apple confesses, "Across the three facilities, our auditors found records of 11 workers who had been hired prior to reaching the legal age, although the workers were no longer underage or no longer in active employment at the time of our audit." Read the full post.

Hey Companies, Little Kids Are Not An Acceptable Sales Force
Dale writes to us that his two kids came home tasked with a lame magazine subscription assignment on behalf of a classroom magazine called Weekly Reader. It's a little sleazy to use kids to pry cash out of the pockets of relatives and friends, and I hold that opinion as both a kid who has had to do it and an adult who has received the manipulative "please help my school!" plea in the mail. Read the full post.

The Inventor Of The Easy-Bake Oven Has Died
Ronald Howes had an illustrious career as an inventor. While he did some defense work, what we care most about is his work at toy maker Kenner. There, he helped make Play-Doh less toxic, helped create the modern version of the Spirograph, and invented the Easy-Bake oven. He died last month at age 83. Read the full post.

Scalpers Charged With Swarming Online Ticketers So You Couldn't See Hannah Montana
The feds charged four guys in Nevada with hitting online ticket sellers with tons of simultaneous requests, snapping up tickets and then scalping tickets to shows like Hannah Montana and Bruce Springstein. Their company, "Wiseguy Tickets," hired a Bulgarian programmer to bumrush the sites of Ticketmaster, Livenation and MLB and outsmart their crappy CAPTCHA systems to grab up all the prime seats. Read the full post.