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Relationship experts say one mark of being an adult is the ability to respect the fact that people do things differently. But that's easier said than done when even the best of friends have conflicting approaches to raising children. Take, for example, the case of Elizabeth and Tracy, who met in graduate school in Chicago several years before either became a mother. "We were opinionated, we were feminists, and we always had a lot to talk about," says Elizabeth. When they later became pregnant around the same time, they happily shared books on parenting, agreeing that they both liked...
...ailing father Hencliffe, 73, a retired mail-room worker. Gem, who works full time for a medical home-care company, has moved her dad into her two-bedroom condo in Mount Laurel, N.J., so that she can look after him. She has enrolled her father at the Tender, an adult day-care program that he attends while she's at the office, and she schedules morning doctor's visits so she can get to work on time. Gem's brother Marshall, 44, and his wife Nancy help out by playing host to Dad in the afternoon when day care...
...taken as a ballad - a narrative poem - "Blood Song" becomes beautiful and expansive. Like a ballad, its story exits only as a thread for the reader to follow through the metaphors and themes. One way of reading it, for example, is a story about the transition from child to adult - moving from careless tranquility through tempestuous seas to the world of responsibility and childbirth...
...equivalent to an X or NC-17 from the U.S. movie industry. But with one big difference. The existence of an adult classification inhibited American directors; they were unwilling to buck movie studios (which demanded an R or softer rating in contracts) or movie theaters (some of which refused to play non-pornographic adult fare), and simply stopped making rough films for grownups. In Hong Kong, movie people saw the new rating not as an inhibition but as a liberation. Now they could show ... anything! (Except hard-core sex.) The Hong Kong film form, already pretty robust and raunchy, went...
...working to bring to justice adult military commanders who recruit child soldiers and to give a voice to those children...