Word: child
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...added that slave women placed greatimportance on the well-being of their children.When a woman escaped from bondage, it was not forher own benefit but for the benefit of her child,Jones said...
Beloved--the 1988 Pulitzer Prize winning novel about a Black slave woman and her child--shows the emotional side of slave women, a subject Jones said many historians are reluctant to investigate. But she added that studying this aspect of slave culture makes it easier to understand the institution of slavery as a whole...
...report also indicates that crack's evil influence has tripled the number of child abuse cases involving parents under the influence of drugs. The number of reported cases has swelled over the past five years from 2627 to nearly...
...these homes may be able to read a clock, but that does not mean they understand time. Norton found that most of her young subjects scored lower than average on seriation tests, which measured their abilities to understand sequences of events. The less a mother had talked to her child about time over the years, the worse the youngster performed on the tests...
...Other child-development experts concur with Norton's findings. Many poor children, they note, are mystified by the "time-slotted" school environment, where crayons are often taken away before the picture is finished because it is juice time. Says clinical psychologist Jeree Pawl, director of the Infant- Parent Program at San Francisco General Hospital: "The structured situation makes them feel powerless. It feels arbitrary, senseless and imposed because at home there is no predictability and rigidity." Confused youngsters may withdraw or rebel, prompting some teachers to peg these children as troublemakers or slow learners...