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...impossible, situation. They work horrendous hours. They are under constant stress; they deal with angry and violent parents and are expected to find placements for children when there aren't any appropriate homes available. It's no wonder there is a turnover rate of 70%. The only answer is increased funding to supply the resources, training and support that foster-care agencies need. This will help ensure that children are provided with the competent and caring social workers and foster parents they deserve. CAROLE WESTERMAN Monterey, Calif...
Asked by the Chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1947 whether he was or had ever been a member of the Communist Party, the screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr. objected to the question and finally said, "I could answer it, but if I did, I would hate myself in the morning." It became a memorable line, and it makes an appropriate title for Lardner's breezy, engaging memoir, I'd Hate Myself in the Morning (Nation Books; 198 pages; $22.95). Reams have been written about the Hollywood blacklist and the witch hunts of the late...
...adoption the answer? As a school social worker who deals with the results of our foster-care system, my response is an unequivocal yes. No child should languish in foster care year after year while parents try to get their act together. You emphasized the abuses that take place in foster homes, but many more occur in the child's own family. The whole system needs a major overhaul. And while the issue is debated, children are growing up feeling unwanted and unloved. Foster care is not the answer. Adoption is. LINDA L. GENTILE East Longmeadow, Mass...
Although it was not my policy to answer fan mail, this policy had never been tested, so I reversed it and wrote Goulet, asking him to be my celebrity pen pal. "I really don't need a pen pal!" he wrote on the back of my first Goulet Christmas card, in which I was introduced, twice, to a pleasantly revealing picture of his wife Vera. "What I need is a buddy! Will you be my buddy???" Underneath, he drew an angry alien. I decided it was best to call. After I listened to some Goulet tunes while on hold, Goulet...
What, then, does it take to get everyone on the right side of the digital divide? The answer is simple, if expensive--college. Degree-bearing graduates are eight times as likely to have a computer at home and 16 times as likely to access the Internet from home as those with lower levels of education, according to a recent Commerce Department study...