Word: parentes
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...this issue into the news, revealing yet another facet of America's painful obsession with the definition of human life. Many advocates for children's welfare feel that a mother who would take drugs or act in other irresponsible ways during pregnancy has shown herself to be an unfit parent. Yet it is evident that prosecuting such women for child abuse would effectually decide the abortion question in favor of the "rights of the unborn," and possibly invade the woman's privacy as well...
...Previn, an adopted daughter of Allen's companion Mia Farrow. That sort of escapade is common enough in the long, tawdry life of this planet. But on Dec. 17, 1991, in the Surrogate Court of the State of New York in Manhattan, Allen became a separate but equal adoptive parent of Moses and Dylan Farrow, whom Mia had previously adopted. Each adult was given parental rights. Never before in New York, and perhaps in the U.S., had an unmarried couple been allowed to adopt a child. "As far as I know," says attorney Paul Martin Weltz, who devised the arrangement...
...modern parent could turn Tolstoy's famous maxim on its head and say, "No families, happy or unhappy, are alike." But as Judge Gangel-Jacob ponders the evidence to determine whether Mia is a fit mother and Woody any kind of a father, she may conclude that the Sesame Street brood of Farrow's is like every other family. Only more of them. And more...
Defining the ancient taboo becomes hard in an era of recombinant families created by divorce, remarriage and adoption. The traditional stricture -- no carnal relations between parent and child or brother and sister -- still holds, but how does it apply to today's blended and extended families, where blood ties are often thin or absent...
...Anyone who comes into a marriage with a teenage child needs to exercise extra caution about incest," warns psychiatrist Domeena Renshaw of Loyola School of Medicine, in Chicago. "That child is beginning to blossom, and will sometimes compete with the natural parent." Freudian theory holds that the earliest erotic impulses are incestuous; young boys unconsciously rival their father for their mother's affection, while daughters covet their father, a normal process in development known, in boys and girls respectively, as the Oedipus and Electra complexes. One therapist wonders whether Soon-Yi may never have resolved such early longings and might...