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...ironic that those emigrant Filipina mothers are in turn often bringing up a generation of motherless kids in rich countries - kids whose mothers return to work before their children are of school age; kids who spend long days with Filipina nannies as surrogate mothers. Few children - rich or poor, in whichever country - prefer gifts and toys to the presence of their mothers. In both cases, the mothers' drive to provide for their offspring financially seems to avoid the simplest of facts: parenting cannot be outsourced. Juliet Linley, Rome...
Motherless Children How ironic that those emigrant Filipina mothers you profile in "The Motherless Generation" [Nov. 24] are in turn often bringing up a generation of motherless kids in rich countries - kids whose mothers return to work before their children are of school-going age; kids who spend long days with Filipina nannies as "surrogate mothers." Few children - rich or poor, in whichever corner of the globe - prefer gifts and toys to the presence of their mothers. In both cases, the mothers' drive to provide for their offspring financially seems to avoid the simplest of facts: parenting cannot be outsourced...
...Virginia Tech student went on a 2007 shooting rampage that left 32 dead, mental-health experts have been looking for answers. A new study by researchers from Columbia University, the National Institutes of Health and the New York State Psychiatric Institute provides some grim data: nearly half of college-age Americans have psychiatric problems, and fewer than one-quarter seek help...
...central question the book raises is how much inhumanity is justified in the cultivation of a talent--especially in an age when (as Naipaul is shrewd enough to realize) writers are judged on the basis of their personality more than their art. Even as he turned himself into a bespoke English gentleman, after all, while Pat became the obedient and self-denying Indian wife of legend, Naipaul's strength lay not just in the clarity of his observations but in the passion--the grief and terror and rage--that trembled just beneath them. When Pat finally died, in 1996, French...
...earn a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford, where got her master's degree and wrote a doctoral dissertation on the transformation of white-ruled Rhodesia into black-ruled Zimbabwe. While a college student, she launched a divestment effort to protest South African apartheid. After earning her Ph.D. at age 25, she briefly worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Company...