Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next few weeks a three-member administrative panel, set up under state regulations, will consider Rivers' appeal. At issue will be fundamental questions of free speech, due process and parental rights. But also, perhaps, a matter of common courtesy. "I could have walked into school on Aug. 31 without telling anyone," Rivers says. "How rude would that have been...
Traveling through China reinforced my belief that attempts to restrict information and control dissent are not only counterproductive to a healthy economy and society, they are also, in the age of satellites and the Internet, futile. Among the most common sounds in Shanghai now is the chirping of cell phones. And last week I kept bumping into folks--from Yahoo's Jerry Yang and AOL's Steve Case to my dinner companion Liu Mingkang and Beijing Internet cafe founder Edward Zeng--who are launching digital-information services...
There's an old joke that grandparents and grandchildren are natural allies because they share a common enemy. If parents are the enemy, they must be won over, for they are the gatekeepers who regulate grandparents' access to their grandchildren. According to researchers, the better the relationship between parent and grandparent, the greater the contact and closeness between grandparent and grandchild. "It's up to the parents to make the grandparents feel welcome and to send the message to their children that they're really integral," says Sally Newman, executive director of Generations Together at the University of Pittsburgh...
There are many reasons grandparents parent again: child abuse, abandonment and neglect, divorce, teen pregnancy and parental incarceration, as well as death of a parent from illness, accident, suicide or murder. By far the most common reasons are parental abuse of drugs and alcohol--and, increasingly, aids. Factor into that the rising numbers of single-parent families and, says Herbert Stupp, commissioner of the New York City department for the aging, "the chances for any one child of being raised by someone other than [his or her] parent are higher than they used...
Grandparents are often the safety net that catches children whom parents, fate and society fail--but not without strain to the net. If raising a child changes your life, raising a grandchild turns it upside down. Isolation is a common complaint among second-time parents. Social lives dwindle, as grandparents don't fit in with younger parents yet can't bring children to senior events. Late-life dreams get put on hold, while the expenses of child rearing create new financial challenges. "We should be thinking about retirement," says the grandmother of a 19-month-old. "Instead we're thinking...