Word: self-help
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...mother has returned to John with their son. John joined a volunteer self-help group called Parents United and discovered that "it's helped knowing I'm not the only person in the world who did this. I'm making myself a better person. But I'll be in therapy a long time." His stepdaughter has lived consecutively with her grandmother, her natural father, in a shelter for girls from broken homes and now, at almost 18, with an aunt. No one can predict whether she will ever get over her childhood trauma...
Craig Norberg, a founder of the men's self-help group RAVEN (Rape and Violence End Now) in St. Louis, says the typical spouse beater is unable to cope with the traditional notion of masculinity. "Not maleness, but the traditional male role, which requires men to be stoic. It requires men to not need intimacy, to be in control, to be the 'big wheel,' and when there is a problem to 'give 'em hell.' The difficulty is that nine out of ten men fail at that list, at least in their own judgment...
...What does it matter if we have a new book or an old book if we open neither?" asks another of PUSH-EXCEL's epigrams. White educators, in particular, praised this self-help philosophy when Jackson began advocating it in 1976. By 1981 the program had been officially adopted by some 35 high schools in nine cities...
...their loss of federal funds by replacing grants with grants and loan subsides with equal subsides. These critics point out that Harvard has a policy of insuring that all students talented enough to enter will be admitted regardless of need and offered a package of grants, loans, and self-help sufficient to permit then...to complete their studies. Thus, they argue that Harvard should not abandon this policy and allow students to lose their normal scholarships and subsidized loans simply because they have failed to comply with some unrelated federal law Unless Harvard makes up for the loss of these...
...civil rights activist and disciple of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Jackson founded Operation PUSH, a black self-help group based in Chicago, in 1971. He has never held elected political office. "He has certain qualities that would make him a good candidate," says James Compton, president of the Chicago Urban League, "but my own preference would be for a professional politician." Jackson also has a reputation as a sloppy money manager. Last month an unflattering interim federal audit of PUSH-EXCEL, a motivational program for high school students, surfaced in Chicago, raising questions about the program...