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...infrequent during Quayle's tenure as vice-president, very little was as harsh as the entire "family values" debacle. For the one of you out there who missed it, Quayle blamed many of America's problems on the decline of family values. He talked about the problem of single parent homes and the instability caused by them. As a result of all this, Murphy Brown saw unprecedented television ratings and Quayle was vilified in the press for attacking single mothers. He protested that he had been misunderstood, but to no avail...
...embarked on a set of very extensive relationships with community hospitals," Gaintner says. The Deaconess Hospital's parent corporation now includes three other hospitals, the New England Baptist Hospital, the Deaconess-Neshoba hospital in Ayre and the Deaconess-Glover hospital in Needham...
From early on, the child-welfare workers had little hope for Lorina as a parent. "There is no reason to believe that Lorina Sandifer will ever be able to adequately meet her own needs, let alone to meet the needs of her growing family," a psychiatrist reported to the juvenile court in 1986. And so Yummy and his brothers and sister were placed with his grandmother, Janie Fields, whom Yummy took to calling Mama. Her prognosis as a care giver was not much more promising. The psychiatric report described Fields as "a very controlling, domineering, castrating woman with a rather...
...cumbersome plot frame, involving a grand jury investigation of a mercy killing and a melodramatic double misunderstanding underlying an estrangement between Ellen and her father. This elaboration clutters the novel but does not spoil it. Nor does the sense that beyond its last page, Ellen still has a living parent whom she understands only as a collection of flawed character traits...
...category," says Arthur Caplan, who directs the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. "The heart is the most symbolic of organs. Had they moved a lung or a pancreas, it just wouldn't have the same emotional impact." But a child's heart? Surely no parent could bear such a burden. Unless, perhaps, as in the case of the Szubers, the only alternative was another death in the family...