Word: bed
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...there is no flexibility because the system is stretched to its limit. Some agencies have become so desperate to place children that any bed will do. Kids are being sent to foster homes with no forethought, and the states cannot guarantee their safety. Furthermore, the number of kids needing foster care is exceeding the number of families available to care for them. Even the most devoted of foster parents are dropping out of the programs, frustrated at times by a lack of support--as well as legal roadblocks to adopting the children if they so choose...
...supposed mental retardation until he was adopted at the age of three. "Experts told my mother I would never make it." He did, but he has the scars to prove it: a crooked smile and an asymmetric head that he believes came from not being turned in his bed or held in an adult's arms. It is the sad legacy of foster care that more children than ever continue to be terribly, terribly scarred...
...sense of decorum. In front of Homer and his brother Frankie, they would refer to the two drugs as "boy" and "girl." Homer and Frankie never learned which was which, though they knew it was dope. Once, when the police came by, the brothers hid underneath a bed, emerging to beg the cops not to take their mom and dad to jail.But it was Homer and Frankie who were eventually taken away. One morning, as the boys played on the sidewalk in front of their home, a car stopped shy of the curb. Two men in suits jumped...
...uses scientific-looking charts and graphs to prove that parents should let their babies cry themselves to sleep. In the other corner of the nursery are William and Martha Sears, authors of The Baby Book. The Searses are proponents of holding, swaddling, nursing and co-sleeping in the family bed. Both sides offer plenty of advice, and both are quite dogmatic. It's my feeling that sleepless parents should do whatever works, borrowing as necessary from both camps...
...electoral college misfire occurred in 1888, but there have been seemingly murky elections in the years since. In 1916, when Woodrow Wilson sought a second term, the New York Times rushed to announce his defeat by 10 o'clock election night. Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate, went to bed thinking he had won. Two days later, it became clear that Wilson had won after...