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...most challenging reform may be to get patients to become their own advocates for better death. That would require frank talk about a somber subject. That's not an entirely unreasonable expectation, reformers contend. They point out that Americans successfully changed birth in the 1960s and '70s by getting fathers more involved and focusing more on mothers' well-being. Byock believes that the boomers, who demanded many of the changes in the way we come into the world, will be equally insistent on changing the way we leave. "The baby boomers are the most self-centered, arrogant, willing...
...plus side, parents who have taken the plunge say it's given them precious moments of intimacy, often at bedtime or in the car. In a 10-year study of top professional women who switched from full-time to part-time work with the birth of a child, Catalyst, a research group dedicated to advancing women in business, found that all these years later half are still working part time. Why? As a participant put it, "a 15-year-old does not show up during your hour of quality time and say, 'Here are the things that have been bothering...
Writer Rick Reilly's ability to describe the longing that his adopted Korean daughter had for biological identity, the suspense leading up to the possible connection with her birth mother, and the drama that unfolded made for an excellent and cathartic read [PERSONAL HISTORY, Aug. 28]. I have two children who were adopted here in the U.S. My six-year-old daughter knows and visits her birth mother. That mystery of never knowing her biological side has been eliminated. It is wonderful to see the two get to know each other. Many adopted children do need to fill a void...
When Reilly got to the part of the story in which the Korean birth mother breaks down upon seeing her 11-year-old daughter, so did I. He has written a true story with such emotional yin-yang that it socks you in the stomach and leaves you breathless. SYBIL HINKLE Napa, Calif...
Well, the elder Bushes and the elder Gores did not give birth to codfish - nor did they look on their sons with a jaundiced eye. That's left...