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...Exceptions to the author's reserve mostly center on Gandhi's limitations as a family man. Where the world sees a saint, Rajmohan Gandhi sees a cruel husband and a mostly absent father, paying scant attention to his children's schooling and dragging wife Kasturba across continents at will, belittling her desire for the simplest of material possessions, then expecting her to comply when he turns from amorous husband to platonic companion to apparent adulterer. Gandhi took on a magnetic personality in the presence of young women, and was able to persuade them to join him in peculiar experiments...
...promise is empty. Harvard and most of the pro-choice establishment agree that choice should be preserved in the hands of individuals, but in reality, this choice has not been extending both ways and investment in the “keep the child” option has been absent. Especially at the college, where pregancies are even a scarier reality for students, Harvard is a dismal failure in preparing and counseling students who are pregnant and decideto give birth. A little more than a year ago, Harvard Right to Life conducted a survey and spoke to a number of Harvard...
Kumar’s flashy, seemingly effortless game, so frustratingly absent in the first three dual matches of the spring season, has returned with a vengeance, most recently this weekend, when he won all four matches he played with dazzling finesse...
...whose fathers are more involved. The former behave more aggressively, don't get on as well with siblings, tend to be less popular in school and are more reluctant to take responsibility for their misbehavior. In 2002, the U.S. National Center for Policy Analysis concluded that kids with physically absent fathers were up to three times more likely to use drugs and engage in criminal behavior. Last month, an Israeli study reported that children with absent fathers were more likely to have trouble forming new relationships, whether the absences were permanent or shorter term. When children reach school age, Australian...
...socioeconomic ladder. But the jobs they took-many of them white-collar jobs at the heart of the Asian economic boom-robbed them of a family life, too. Today, their sons-the third generation and the present crop of fathers-are the product of two previous generations of absent dads. "The pattern of fatherlessness can be passed down," says Wong Suen Kwong, who says he started the Centre for Fathering because he was having trouble relating to his teenage daughters...