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Ellwood also notes that the New Paradigm does not address two of the most important poverty issues: the impoverished situation of single-parent families and the dilemma of people who work full time and still remain below the poverty line...
...Defense Secretary appears to have a double standard when it comes to Pentagon policy on military families. Dick Cheney opposes a proposed law that would excuse one parent from the front lines in the event married soldiers with children are both called to serve. Cheney's position prompted the sponsor of the Military Orphans Prevention bill to remind him about his own history as a noncombatant. California Congresswoman Barbara Boxer points out that Cheney received a deferment from the Vietnam draft in 1966 because his wife Lynne was pregnant. "You . . . felt that your wife and soon-to-be-born child...
...front and tell us. So far he hasn't. The College should not limit the ability of students to make these vital cost-benefit calculations. The restrictions undermine an important function of college life--to provide an arena in which students make these kinds of decisions without a watchful parent or guardian to oversee them...
Four weeks into Operation Desert Storm, the deadly reality of war has come home for the grandmothers and grandfathers, aunts and uncles, sisters and brothers and family friends who have suddenly been pressed into a very special type of war service: tending children whose parents or whose single parent has been shipped to the Persian Gulf...
Critics of the Pentagon policy charge that neither military parents nor their children need suffer so much grief. Last month Republican Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and Democratic Representative Barbara Boxer of California introduced similar gulf-orphan legislation. Their bills would allow single parents, or one parent in the case of a military couple with minor children, to decline a war-zone assignment. Military officials would choose which parent to exempt in the case of a couple...