Word: reconnected
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With older children, the task becomes trying to maintain some semblance of normal mother-child relations. In Plymouth, Mich., the Children's Visitation Program runs parenting-skills classes at the women's prison to help moms and their kids reconnect. "A lot of [the children] are very angry," says director Florida Andrews. "They've been stigmatized because their mothers are locked up." Girl Scouts Beyond Bars buses kids to prisons once a month, where the scouts hold troop meetings with their incarcerated mothers. Tanyall Law, 15, and her two sisters, members of the Girl Scouts Rolling Hills council...
...math. Six adults and seven children would be sharing a four-bedroom house. We weren't going on vacation. We were forming a commune. Survivors of such experiments had warned us about feuding spouses, clashing parenting styles and conflicting itineraries. But they had also rhapsodized about the chance to reconnect with old friends or get to know new ones, the fun of cooking for a crowd, the guarantee of playmates for the children and extra hands to care for them...
What these Williamsburg wannabes have in common is that they are motivated equally by a desire to have their kids reconnect to their history and a desire to attract tourists. The result can be a bit surreal and even disconcerting. The quaint shopping areas sell mainly souvenirs. The history is generally sanitized. But it's important not to be cynical. In a pioneering, road-loving America, one can sense a sincere yearning to re-establish roots and restore community identity...
When Time Warner capitulated last Tuesday, offering an olive branch that brought an extension of the current Disney contract through July 15, a grateful viewership could finally reconnect with Regis. But there had taken place a not so subtle shifting in the ground beneath the cable business and in attitudes toward the Time Warner-AOL merger...
...Members of the new Cuban-American guard despise Castro too--but not so much that they disdain the First Amendment. As a result, they see their ascendancy as more than a chance to democratize Miami's discussion on how best to democratize Cuba. It's also a bid to reconnect the city--plagued by voter fraud and rampant official corruption--to mainstream U.S. civic values, as well as to its potential as the hemisphere's trade, tourism and cultural nexus...