The Morton the Merrier: British actress Samantha Morton (Sweet & Lowdown, The Minority Report) announced that she is pregnant with her second child. Dad is fiancé Harry Holm. Ms. Morton has a seven-year-old daughter Esme from a previous relationship.

Pregnancy Discrimination News: The city of San Antonio has agreed to settle a Department of Justice lawsuit that alleges that its police department discriminated against a pregnant detective by reassigning her even though her pregnancy did not impact her ability to perform the requirements of her job. “Women must be allowed to perform their jobs without being subjected to unlawful policies or practices, simply because they are pregnant,” says Wan. J. Kim, assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.

The Benefits of Preschool: Over at Working Dad, word of a new University of Minnesota study that finds that children who attend top-quality preschools are more likely to graduate from high school and continue to college, to be employed, and to have health insurance, and less likely to wind up in prison or depressed. The study focused on a Chicago public eduction program serving low-income families. Note the researchers, “Because expenditures for the medical care and justice systems comprise roughly 20 percent of the gross domestic product, the potential cost savings to governments and taxpayers of early childhood prevention programs are considerable.”