Word: zigler
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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Runaways. "Children do not belong to parents," says Edward Zigler, director of the U.S. Government Office of Child Development, and one of a growing breed of advocates who are concerned with children's rights. But the new children's advocates do not propose that the family give way entirely to the courts. "Courts can destroy relationships, but they cannot create them," observes Lawyer-Psychologist Joseph Goldstein of Yale Law School. He thus opposes legalistic custodial laws that assign orphaned children to their nearest blood relatives. He prefers laws that would "acknowledge the emotional realities that exist," allowing...
...book also has its strong defenders, for example Harvard Urbanologist Daniel Patrick Moynihan. "All new information is thought to be threatening at first," he says. Harvard Sociologist Daniel Bell calls Inequality "an argument both against stilted American myths and vulgarized Marxism," and Yale Psychologist Edward Zigler, former director of the U.S. Office of Child Development, agrees that "we've been sold a bill of goods. School people keep saying we should do more, whereas the real wave of the future is for schools to do less and let other social institutions play a larger role...