Word: adults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...abandons his pregnant girlfriend Esther Rothschild when he hits the big time, and then meanly refuses to acknowledge the resulting child Billy as his own, or to peel off any loot for child support. The story is told by Billy, who, as a teenager and then as an adult, skulks about the edges of Luke's fame, hoping forlornly for a smile from...
Reagan's achievements were adult achievements, but when I think of him now I think of the reaction he got from the young. It was as if some mutual sweetness were sensed on both sides...
Bruce Handy, a self-professed "liberal member of the media elite," stated that young girls should not be portrayed as "ripening, imminently deflowerable teases" [SPECTATOR, March 16]. Yet Handy "doesn't have a problem with genuine obscenity when it involves adults." I'm amazed when men who think of themselves as thoughtful and intelligent refuse to recognize the irony of their own duplicity. Child pornography is an early step in desensitizing males to accept adult pornography that depicts women as "deflowerable" and even abusable teases. How genteel of Handy to suggest we condone and support those same degrading messages only...
...Golden, 11, will not face the death penalty. They will not spend the rest of their lives in prison. In fact, if convicted of killing five and injuring 10, they are likely be out of prison at age 18. In Arkansas children under 14 cannot be tried as adults, and juveniles face a maximum sentence described by state law as "indeterminate," which means not to exceed their 21st birthday. And, says Gerry Glynn, law professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, "most children are released at age 18 because the state does not have the facilities to hold...
...many states, though, age is no barrier to punishment. Twenty-seven do not have age restrictions in prosecuting juveniles as adults (see chart). On Friday the Indiana Supreme Court upheld a department of corrections decision to house Donna Ratliff in an adult prison. At 14 she burned down her parents' house as retribution for alleged sexual abuse by "family members since the age of four." In 1996 a judge had recommended that Donna be sent to a juvenile facility...