Word: adults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kiddie entertainers," Hyslop says. "People with skills in adult areas brought grown-up skills to address how you do an intelligent and loving show for kids...
...name "Sesame Street" was suggested in part because it "has a hocus-pocusy sound. Children like hocus pocus. But it has an adult meaning as well," he adds...
...with no criminal record to his parents. But Barry Krisberg, president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency in San Francisco, asks, "If detention was not called for, where is the counseling? A child bringing a gun to school needs help." Now Kinkel will be tried as an adult, although under Oregon law he is too young to be subject to the death penalty...
Letourneau is an adult who misused her position of authority to prey upon a vulnerable child both physically and emotionally. Claims that the young victim wanted to have sex and was very mature for his age deserve contempt. The molestation of young boys by adult women remains one of the least acknowledged crimes in our society and one of the most harmful. LAUREL E. FEDERBUSH Ann Arbor, Mich...
...adult teacher does not notice a student's talents in the second grade and have a love affair with him in the sixth grade. How can we talk rationally about such "reasons" for Letourneau's behavior as her husband's having a dead-end job or her father's dying of cancer or her having "bipolar disorder"? America is suffering from the Death of Common Sense. STEVEN M. WALK Great Neck...