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...Kite Runner, it has no scenes set in America. This is a book about Afghans in Afghanistan, covering the past 30-plus years of Afghan history almost month by month. Mariam is the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy playboy, forced into a loveless marriage to the boorish shoemaker Rasheed. Childless, the couple adopts 14-year-old Laila, who was orphaned by a rocket attack. Rasheed proceeds to take Laila as a second wife. Confined to a single claustrophobic household, beaten and denied love and set against each other, the two women form a remarkable bond. Against all odds, they find...
...capable of giving meaning to their lives because they don't find much meaning elsewhere - not in politics, projects or work, and not in the future." That's ironic, because such new families will define the future. Nearly everyone who studies the topic predicts more of the same: singletons, childless couples, older mothers, cultural and ethnic diversity. As the traditional patriarchy breaks down, children will be more involved in decision-making, says the Future Foundation's Professor Howard. She foresees improvements to fertility treatments leading to more "vertical" family structures. A woman might have a first set of children...
...drop in the bucket,” says Mansbridge of the childcare initiative. “You could spend a lot of money trying to compensate parents for the time and money they spend raising children, so as to begin to level the playing field between them and the childless. This isn’t anything like solving the problem, but it’s an increase.” Though it has not received final approval yet, Mansbridge says the office of diversity and development is also vying for space to build a new day-care center...
...only obvious if you look for them. Bitter End is a sing-along about fair-weather friends (the group fell out with a few lefty rockers who, amazingly, felt cheated of the nation's opprobrium) and even Lullaby is the rare song about kids well crafted enough that the childless could mistake it for a love song. And as things begin to sag a bit in Long Way's final third, the album delivers a knockout, So Hard, the first pop song in memory about infertility (Maguire and Robison conceived by in vitro fertilization) and also the catchiest, most complicated...
...living if they start a family. To have and educate children is a major effort for parents, even more for a single parent. For mankind, however, it is the most important task, despite imposing some hardship on the parents. Chancellor Angela Merkel and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, both childless, will enter the history books, but for the continuation of humanity, they are worthless. Dieter Gebrath Gelnhausen, Germany My son was born in Germany 11 years ago. That is how I got to know a Germany even my mother would have found old-fashioned. As a Norwegian and a career...