Word: bamforths
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...Bamforth, who works in the Child Witness to Violence Program at Boston Medical Center, provided statistics on the effects of domestic violence upon children...
More than 43,000 children in Massachusetts grow up with violence in their homes. By the age of two years and six months, 10 percent of all children have witnessed violence in their homes, according to Bamforth...
...addition, 40 percent of all children have also seen a dead body outside the context of a funeral home, according to a Louisiana study cited by Bamforth...
...Oldroyds, from old William who was murdered by Luddites in 1812, to young David who resolves to recoup the family fortunes in 1931, represent the close-fisted, passionate hard-riding Tory lot who owned mills. The Bamforths, illegitimately conceived by young Will Oldroyd in 1812, are, as one might suspect from their origin, those who suffer the worker's lot and eventually become Crusaders in that cause. The decline of the Oldroyds begins when the desire for family distinction obscures the interest in good cloth; the success of the Bamforth line lies in its espousal of the humane cause...
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