Word: child
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parents are participating in Carrera's three Harlem-based programs. Carrera's track record is impressive. In four years only two girls have become pregnant and, as far as the counselors can tell from their intimate weekly individual discussions with the kids, only one boy has fathered a child. "This is not a value-free program," he explains. "We have a message that delaying sexual activity is good. We are taking a stand." This year the Childrens Aid Society is establishing the Stern National Training Center for Family Life Education in Manhattan, where Carrera will teach his techniques to others...
...above the age of 15 have had one. According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a research organization, most are young and single -- 81% are unmarried at the time, and 62% are under 25. More than one-fourth ( are teenagers. More than two-thirds say they could not afford the child or felt otherwise unready for motherhood...
Movies are show; plays are tell. Here's one difference. In Beth Henley's 1984 off-Broadway hit The Miss Firecracker Contest, a seamstress named Popeye Jackson explained that as a child she "used to make little outfits for the bullfrogs that lived out around our yard." In this expansive adaptation, Popeye (Alfre Woodard) displays one such frog, cunningly coutured in a nurse's gown with matching stethoscope. Ah, the glamorous realism of the cinema! It's cute...
...search for more flexible professional schedules; or an outright rebellion against the rat race. Any or all of these may force a family to make some hard and intriguing choices. Which is most important? A challenging and fulfilling job? A bigger house? A college education for a gifted child? A life in the big city...
...dream of athletic stardom is the one that got away. So they stick with baseball, living and dying with their team, analyzing stats with the rapt anguish of a rabbinical student cramming for a final. To their favorite players they are both sons and fathers -- part hero worshipers, part child psychologists. They become a collective, possessive lover of their idols. Baseball fever: boys catch it, men can't shake...