Word: support
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Apple Circus designed a five-week pilot program. As he tuned in to the needs of his new audience, Christensen made changes in his timing and toned down his circus-arena makeup and gestures to suit the bedside. Perhaps the most daunting hurdle was earning the respect and support of the medical staff. "They had to accept that we were there as part of their world," he says...
...both withdrawing from Kuwait and neutralizing his most fearsome military capabilities? This is the point on which any deal would probably founder. It is unlikely that Iraq would agree to any settlement that reduces its own military without similarly reducing Israel's force. Most Arab nations would certainly support such a demand...
Instead, some are experiencing a stressful kind of deja vu. They often feel overwhelmed by the emotional, financial and legal hardships of their improvised status as child guardians. In hardscrabble urban areas, where strung-out parents use their welfare checks to buy drugs, grandparents must support young wards on slender fixed incomes. The better-off find themselves pressed too. "Without the kids to take care of, I wouldn't be working as much," says Florence Gilmore, 57, of Long Beach, Calif., who works as a private-duty nurse to support three young grandsons. Nonetheless, Gilmore faced the prospect of bankruptcy...
...result, grandparents are beginning to look out for one another, chiefly ) by banding together in support groups like those run by Sylvie de Toledo, a clinical social worker in Long Beach. Her sessions offer members an opportunity to overcome their isolation and vent anger toward their children for failing to accept their parental responsibilities. They also provide an outlet for frustration toward the grandchildren who disrupted comfortable routines. These groups can help navigate issues such as obtaining custody and securing medical care for children...
...Gates of West Waynesville, N.C., reluctantly set aside their plans to buy a camper and spend their retirement hunting and fishing. "When we first got the baby," says Shirley, "it was really hard on me and Paw-paw." They remain angry at their daughter, who, Shirley says, pays no support and rarely visits. But the Gateses have found their grandson a constant joy and challenge. "It's been worth it," says Shirley, "because Mitchell needed us." The senior Gateses can no longer imagine life without...