Word: childe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Washington on security matters. But parents don't need to be celebrities to benefit from his sage counsel. De Becker's book gives families million-dollar advice for $22.95. If a baby sitter makes you uneasy, writes De Becker, listen to your inner voice. Pay heed if your child is uncomfortable around a particular adult. Make careful choices about the people you include in your child's life. Remember: the issue is not strangers but strangeness. De Becker empowers parents to best protect their children from unsafe day-care centers and schools, as well as sexual predators. "As you understand...
...advancing age. Though many geriatric inmates are lifers whose crimes were in the distant past, a surprising 45% of inmates 50 and older have been arrested within the past two years. These older felons, moreover, tend to be locked up for more serious crimes, such as rape, murder and child molestation. Yet they're sharing prison space with people like Bedarka, who can't remember what he ate for breakfast but can clearly recall his defense against that murder charge three decades ago. "He threatened me," Bedarka says. "It was either him or me." Now, it's just...
Once upon a time, just a few years ago, two women fell in love with each other. They would have married if the law allowed it. They wanted very much to have a child. And so they did, through artificial insemination. One partner gave birth to a beautiful girl named Zoey, and both shared in her care. For several years they were a happy '90s family like the one depicted in the controversial children's book Heather Has Two Mommies...
...then the mommies began to fight and, like so many couples these days, decided to break up. And now the woman who gave birth to Zoey is blocking her former partner from seeing the five-year-old child. The other woman is suing for custody rights. And a state appeals court in Florida is struggling with some heart-rending questions. Who exactly qualifies as a child's parent in the eyes of the law? Can a woman who behaves as a mother to a child be kept away from that child just because the woman is homosexual...
...veteran in Palm Bay, Fla., is the woman being kept from seeing the little girl she has helped to rear, and she thinks she knows the answers to the tough questions. She thinks anyone does, if she listens to her heart. A mother, Kazmierazak says, is the person a child calls "Mommy"; the one who cares for the child physically and emotionally, without pay. She adds, "It's easy for a child to have two moms"--and the child doesn't care which one gave birth...