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Special Topics in Calamity Physics By Marisha Pessl Viking Adult...
...swinging away from that idea. Professor Toni Falbo of the University of Texas has researched the subject for 30 years and, she says, found no disadvantages to children without siblings. That's because what counts is not a traditional family structure but the opportunity to form relationships with adults and contemporaries. "Parent and peer contact can compensate for the lack of siblings," says Falbo. Parents of only children are ingenious in developing family structures to provide that contact. A child's best friend can often be co-opted as an honorary sibling; or the extended family can be plundered...
...tissue, but many labs work with both cell types. "We're not sure where the breakthroughs will come," says David Macauley, chief executive of the UK Stem Cell Foundation. "Everybody expects it will come from embryonic stem cells, but the majority of stuff we are seeing is in the adult stem-cell camp...
Paul, a married Dorchester resident with five adult children and two grandchidren, says he needs his job “to take care of my family...
Skyler and Olivia had no adult notions of loss or judgments about helping me. Not long ago I had tied their shoes. Now they were tying mine. I had patched up their cuts and scrapes; now they were changing my dressings. Their sweetness permeated the house. Before Iraq, I had thought of parenting as another job--a lot of work with little payoff. Now it was a love affair. Skyler and I picked up our running chess game. Olivia helped me cook dinners--"one-handed spaghetti" was our specialty...