Word: apt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...premise of Samuel Beckett's play is that Godot never arrives--an analogy that until recently seemed particularly apt for the Middle East. Now, however, Rabin and Arafat must deal with a situation that demands more than just endless talk...
...tens and maybe hundreds of thousands of other American children and adults -- but because it ended up in court and on the evening news. The vast majority of such families live quietly, unobtrusively. When gay parents do face custody or visitation battles in court, the outcome is apt to vary from state to state -- indeed, from judge to judge or from social worker to social worker. Virginia is one of just four states where legal precedent deems gay parents unfit (Arkansas, Missouri and North Dakota are the others), and even Judge Parsons granted Sharon a weekly visit, ensuring she would...
...lesbian parents are infusing the gay civil rights movement with a sense of family virtues, making it mainstream in a way Middle America can understand. When today's children are adults, their experience of growing up with a gay parent, or having a childhood acquaintance who did, is apt to have demystified for many the otherness of gays. In sufficient numbers, that could lead to precisely the matter-of-fact outlook that gays seek and antigay conservatives fear...
Children of gays are most often born to parents in heterosexual marriages who subsequently come out. That has always been true, except for the coming- out part. Today's gay father or mother is much more apt than those of a generation ago to be candid, so that a much larger percentage of today's children who have gay parents grow up aware that they do. Most of the rest are born to lesbians via artificial insemination; estimates of how many such babies have been born range from a thousand or so to tens of thousands. At Pacific Reproductive Services...
...said that politics make strange bedfellows; the committee that must work together in spite of its differences is an apt example of the adage. These bedfellows, however, are not as strange to each other as their public sparring might indicate...