Word: parents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harry is no slouch either--he studies all the time and does well in school, he never uses violence to get back at the bully and is friends with the principal. Finally, even scrawny little Harry is a star at sports. In short, Harry and his friends are every parent's dream kids...
...thing to blame minorities-- "those women" (the ones who have helped erode our family values and raised serial killers), "those blacks," "those gays" and "those Jews" or "those other countries" for America's woes. It is quite another to have to find prescriptions to the problems of single-parent poverty, crime and unemployment caused by structural economic change...
...minority rather than the majority of the kids at Webster High. Every night my son has at least one to two hours of homework, as well as some kind of music practice at school. The teachers are all involved in extra activities with the children. And what about the parents? You made it seem as if we don't exist. Parent participation is very visible. A few of the stories talked about the Webster school I know. The rest seemed like just trying to find dirt. You lost who and what Webster is all about. CARRIE FLICK Webster Groves...
Tragic stories like these fill the nation's newspapers. But do they have any relevance to stepfamilies as a whole? Yes, say Martin Daly and Margo Wilson, two Canadian psychology professors at McMaster University in Ontario. In their slender new book, The Truth About Cinderella: A Darwinian View of Parental Love (Yale University Press), the duo argue that having a stepparent is the most powerful risk factor for severe child abuse. In fact, they say, an American child living with one genetic parent and one stepparent is 100 times as likely to suffer fatal abuse as a child living with...
...play does pick up in the end, in the sense that it goes from basically no plot to more plot. Some interesting issues of child-parent relations are raised when the German family's child turns his own parents in to the Nazis. This action raises a lot of questions about the son's motivations for revealing that his parents are in league against the Nazis...