Word: child
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Forest Whitaker's performance (which is softly gliding in manner, ultimately wrenching in effect), Parker is an innocent, but he is not the victim of anyone but himself. His is the innocence not of the artist saint, self-consciously trying to soar beyond conventional morality, but that of the child egoist, unconsciously trapped in a premorality where appetite -- including the one for music -- is destiny, and escape to adulthood is not an option...
Those are questions many men ask when considering a paternity leave. Marc Greenhouse did not hesitate to take a month's leave three months ago, when his first child, daughter Ranit, was born. A 40-year-old data-processing systems analyst for Transamerica, Greenhouse began his time off a few days before his wife Dianne gave birth by caesarean section. He savored the days with his infant. Says he: "It was really a blessing...
...most parents, a good day-care program that costs $50 a week seems the impossible dream. But in Edison, N.J., such a place exists: in a corner of the Heller Industrial Park is the John Kenney Child Care Center, where 84 children, from 18 months to 5 years old, play with toys, career down slides and learn to spell and share. Says Bruce Oakley, whose daughter Laura, 4, attends the center: "This is not a place where you just dump the kid off. It's great...
...would cost Shanker up to $700 a month to put his boys in other local day-care facilities of comparable quality, he pays the bank only $520 through convenient payroll deductions. Moreover, the arrangement allows him to avoid paying taxes on the portion of his salary that goes to child care. The best part, though, is that Shanker can walk downstairs at lunchtime to visit Elan and Dannel, and is nearby in case of emergency...
...elderly parent. The Merck pharmaceutical company helped start a day-care center near its Rahway, N.J., headquarters, and permits employees to start work as early as 7 a.m. or as late as 9:30 a.m. so that they can meet family obligations. Procter & Gamble offers workers unpaid child-care leave of up to one year, with a guarantee that they will not lose their job. American Express conducts workplace seminars on topics as diverse as pregnancy planning, family stress and elder care. Capital Cities/ABC contributes up to $3,000 when an employee adopts a child...