Word: child
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women. In a cozy five-bedroom home that smells of baby powder and food cooking on the stove, fingers that recently clutched glass crack pipes now rest upon distended bellies. From a back room floats the sound of a baby's cry and a soft, throaty voice singing, "Runaway child, runnin' wild, / . . . go back home where you belong./ You're lost in the great big city...
Mandela House these days is home to four mothers and their babies and three mothers-to-be. Residents receive prenatal care, drug counseling, classes in child development, personal finances and career guidance. They also share child care, housecleaning and cooking. "Mine is reality treatment," says Thomas. "I'm trying to put some order in their lives." Women are referred to Mandela House from jail, court and county protective services. The program is funded by the county, a private grant and donations...
...first time I hit the pipe, I thought, 'Wow! Home run!' " says Rodgers, a beautiful but hardened 29-year-old former dealer who is pregnant with her eighth child. Beneath her gold-tinged curls, a small metal plate covers a hole smashed in her skull with a board swung by an angry boyfriend. Her dark eyes glitter when she speaks of crack. Then she looks weary, confused and angry. "When I came here, I figured I'd get a place to sleep and some food, and then split and get an abortion and get high once in a while...
...child in kindergarten, the day is carefully divided into time for listening, playing, coloring, snacking and napping. Middle-class children, raised by parents who worship their watches, adapt easily to this regimen. But for many disadvantaged inner-city youngsters, the structure of the school day apparently seems totally unfamiliar. They often resist the idea that they should stop doing one thing simply because it is time to do something else...
...past six years, she has been regularly videotaping, from infancy, about 40 children born to young mothers living in the most blighted, impoverished pockets of Chicago. She lets her camera roll for up to four hours at a time, capturing the ordinary rhythms and interactions of a child's life at home. Reviewing thousands of hours of ) tapes, Norton found that references to time were rare. Most parents hardly ever provided instructions like "Finish lunch so you can see your favorite TV program at 1:30," or even sequential statements like "First put on your socks, then your shoes." Daily...