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...Stevens (Associate Picture Editor); Kevin J. McVea (Operations); Renee Mancini (Syndication); Sarah Buffum, Gary Roberts, Cristina T. Scalet, Nancy Smith-Alam, Marie Tobias, Mary Worrell-Bousquette (Assistant Editors) Bureaus: Martha Bardach, Sahm Doherty, Leny Heinen, Stanley Kayne, Glenn Mack, Barbara Nagelsmith, Anni Rubinger, Mary Thompson, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Forrest Anderson, Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Dirck Halstead, Barry Iverson, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, Steve Liss, Peter Magubane, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Robert Nickelsberg, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Anthony Suau, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...
Penalties, however, are never enough. Social critics point to the need to change the patterns and assumptions that guide the behavior of young people growing up in desperate neighborhoods. Elijah Anderson, a sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, argues that young black males have such trouble finding family-sustaining jobs -- the traditional mark of adulthood -- that they end up building their self-esteem through games that emphasize sexual prowess. Their babies become evidence of their manhood. "I ask why they don't marry the girl," Anderson says, "and they say, 'Because I can't play house.' That means they...
...welfare system often creates strange distortions in social relationships that soon become traditions of their own. It is not uncommon, says Anderson, for a young man to persuade a young woman living at home with her parents to have a baby so she can get on welfare. "She lives home with Mom and Dad, and the $158 she gets every two weeks amounts to an allowance," Anderson says. "And she gives a lot of it to the boy." The welfare check binds a boy and girl together, just as a baby can. "There's no ring involved...
...Stevens (Associate Picture Editor); Kevin J. McVea (Operations); Renee Mancini (Syndication); Sarah Buffum, Gary Roberts, Cristina T. Scalet, Nancy Smith-Alam, Marie Tobias, Mary Worrell-Bousquette (Assistant Editors) Bureaus: Martha Bardach, Sahm Doherty, Leny Heinen, Stanley Kayne, Glenn Mack, Barbara Nagelsmith, Anni Rubinger, Mary Thompson, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Forrest Anderson, Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Dirck Halstead, Barry Iverson, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, Steve Liss, Peter Magubane, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Robert Nickelsberg, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Anthony Suau, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...
...Stevens (Associate Picture Editor); Kevin J. McVea (Operations); Renee Mancini (Syndication); Sarah Buffum, Gary Roberts, Cristina T. Scalet, Nancy Smith-Alam, Marie Tobias, Mary Worrell-Bousquette (Assistant Editors) Bureaus: Martha Bardach, Sahm Doherty, Leny Heinen, Stanley Kayne, Glenn Mack, Barbara Nagelsmith, Anni Rubinger, Mary Thompson, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Forrest Anderson, Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Dirck Halstead, Barry Iverson, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, Steve Liss, Peter Magubane, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Robert Nickelsberg, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Anthony Suau, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...