Word: child
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among other family features: payments of up to $2,000 to cover costs when workers adopt children and a $5 million fund to help support and establish child-care centers. But the benefits were not free. In return for these and other new provisions, employees agreed to forgo automatic cost of living adjustments...
...each other verbally and physically -- and frequently do the same with their children. In fact, the large majority of violent kids have been physically, and often sexually, abused by parents, relatives or others. One mother, reports Lewis, broke her son's legs with a broom; a father threw his child down a set of stairs...
...Gobots, engaged in destructive acts. But viewers see no consequences. Victims never bleed and never suffer. Youngsters mimic the behavior with toys based on the shows. Later they graduate to TV programs and movies that depict people killing or degrading other people. By the age of 16, the typical child has witnessed an estimated 200,000 acts of violence, including 33,000 murders. Inevitably, contend many experts, some youngsters will imitate the brutality in real life. In a 22-year study, researchers tracked the development of 875 third-graders from a rural community in New York. Among the discoveries: those...
...area in particular stands out as a potential benchmark of change at Harvard--the likely HUCTW agreement on changes in child care. "HUCTW has led the way," Bozzotto says, and Local 26 will wait to see what kind of progress HUCTW makes before deciding on their own demands...
...phone, the alumni shared career crises--some denied partner status, others yearning to switch jobs, many balancing child-rearing with work. They shared family concerns--making payments on their first suburban home, divorcing, paying hospital bills. These are circumstances that we'll encounter as well. But the difference between a Harvard education for this class and the alumni before us is not to be found in mundane events...