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...this century the father has been sidelined in a new, more disturbing way. Today he's often just plain absent. Rising divorce rates and out-of-wedlock births mean that more than 40% of all children born between 1970 and 1984 are likely to spend much of their childhood living in single-parent homes. In 1990, 25% were living with only their mothers, compared with 5% in 1960. Says David Blankenhorn, the founder of the Institute for American Values in New York City: "This trend of fatherlessness is the most socially consequential family trend of our generation...
...What event in your childhood had the most impact on the way you now look at the world? -Don Carmen Schimizzi, Rochester, NY It would probably be the early films my mother took me to when I was just a baby. When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor...
...Either way, Jefferson's fate has become something bigger than the man himself. He rose from a dirt-poor rural childhood to attend Harvard law school and became, in 1990, the first African-American elected to Congress from Louisiana since Reconstruction; his equally spectacular fall, if it comes, would be a bitter disappointment to many constituents. Some of them have already organized in his defense; a group calling itself the Justice for Jefferson Committee issued a statement less than a week after the indictment accusing the federal government of using "vast financial resources to manipulate the media" and calling...
Gates was born on Oct. 28, 1955 and spent his childhood in Seattle, Wash...
...many points of linkage across the University: to the Medical School and hospitals on clinical trials and epidemiologic study and infectious diseases; to the FAS in collaborations in statistics, economics, government, and regional studies; with the Kennedy and Business schools in global health; to the School of Education on childhood development and health; and with the Law School in our joint Public Health Law program...