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Part of that problem, she said, comes from the parent-less existence television often provides. Television's influence is hard to counteract, she said. That's no surprise at any age, but looking at some of the stories the kids wrote, the power of television really struck me. One girl wrote that her mom still wasn't home last night, and so she watched television. For another girl, every story she wrote involved television in some way. And the news gets worse: the teacher said that one day, she asked a girl to bring in any book from home...
...true that teachers can make a difference--one afternoon, my sponsor took her kids on a community field trip to the public library. But teachers can only do so much. For children to succeed in school and in life, parents must pay attention to their kids at home. It does not matter if a child grows up with one parent or two, with a mother who works or doesn...
...sure, Grant's crime, committed at the age of 14, was not necessarily so brutal that it can never be forgiven. At the time of the murder, Grant was living with a verbally abusive, alcoholic parent. Moreover, since her release, she has made great strides toward rehabilitating herself, through three-and-a-half academically successful years in high school...
...What happened is obviously not a good thing,"the friend added. "At the same time there arereasons why [murders] occur. A child does not killa parent for a petty reason...
...parent can't compete with someone who is buying their children Nikes...