Word: adults
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...Attorney General Janet Reno announced several weeks ago in a news conference that arrests of teenagers for violent crimes dropped 9.2 percent last year, the reversal of a steady increase in juvenile crime between 1987 and 1994. Since 1994, almost every state has passed legislation giving adult courts jurisdiction over certain crimes committed by juveniles and reducing the maximum age jurisdiction of juvenile courts. Many will undoubtedly attribute Reno's good news to these "adult time for adult crime" measures levied at young offenders rather than the recovery of our economy from recession. They will also use her announcement...
This act, passed by the House on May 8, is currently under review by the Senate Judiciary Committee. It aims to "combat violent youth crime and increase accountability for juvenile criminal offenses" by subjecting juveniles accused of committing serious felonies to adult trials. The Act earmarks $1.5 billion over the next three years in "Juvenile Accountability Block Grants" to help states strengthen their juvenile justice systems on the condition that states which receive the money prosecute juveniles fifteen and older as adults where serious violent crimes such as murder and rape are concerned...
Tina Louise will always be remembered as Ginger, the Gilligan's Island castaway with a case of evening gowns, but these days she has more serious concerns. Louise has written a memoir, Sunday, published by Golden Books' adult division. It details the bad time she had when her very young mother put her in boarding school. "Writing it was a healing process for me," she says. "But I also want parents to buy it and share it with their teenagers...
Thank you, Robert Wright, for bringing the subtleties of adult differentiation, autonomy and egotism to the attention of the general public in the review of Peter Kramer's book about divorce, Should You Leave? [FAMILY, Oct. 6]. Conservatives who criticize Kramer for suggesting a healthy separation of the self for fulfilling, intimate relationships would do well to read Martin Buber's I and Thou for the ultimate description of the fullest and healthiest of human and spiritual relationships. Perhaps then they would understand that viewing relationships as extensions of oneself is the ultimate in self-indulgence. VIRGINIA K. GORDON Highland...
...taped a segment with Susan Molinari on CBS and sang a duet with Rosie O'Donnell. Sure, abstinence is the best policy, Fonda says, but not if it means losing the second-best policy: "About 90% of what we do is above the waist--give kids hope and an adult who cares about them, tell them not to have sex until they're mature. But you can't ignore below-the-waist aspects: contraception, sex education, AIDS and STD prevention...