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...children from all backgrounds could nurture democracy through a shared educational experience. Not very long ago, that vision seemed an eternal verity, enshrined in the public-school system. But over the past generation, the balance wheel of the social machinery began to wobble badly. American schools today, as any parent knows, are anything but equal. And education, rather than bringing students together, has become a social dividing line, separating children rich with choices in life from those doomed to have nearly none...
...begin in kindergarten and eventually include detailed instruction about the nature and risks of homosexual and heterosexual intercourse. Conservatives are appalled. "We've seen the ACT-UP and Planned Parenthood curriculum proposals," says Monsignor Woolsey. "I wouldn't put them in Times Square bookstores, let alone schools. The average parent would throw up reading them...
This gap between knowledge and behavior is a major challenge facing AIDS educators, says Richard P. Keeling, chair of the American College Health Association's Task Force on AIDS in Charlottesville, Va. "I suspect any parent or teacher would point to peer pressure, or teens' sense of invulnerability," he says. But there are other important factors. A teenage girl may be too embarrassed to ask her partner to wear a condom. Or a youth might not want to buy condoms because it makes him feel guilty for having sex. Many prefer not to question their partners' sex practices...
...with preachers who warned drinkers that "they may die in a fit of drunkenness." (Johnson preferred the preachers who did not mince words.) If America gets a generation of preachers who boost sex because it gets you close to God, how will that affect the number of single-parent families or of AIDS cases...
...double humiliation: his father's alcoholism, his own failure. Why did Bly stay on all those years, during the prime of his life, on the nonworking farm half a mile from his father's boozing? "The alcoholic parent is not satisfied with his own childhood," Bly says, using the bruised rhetoric of recovery. "He wants yours too." When the father vanishes into alcohol, the son lingers and lingers, searching for a lost part of himself...