Word: detach
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...discipline, particularly when both parents work. "Parents don't want to spend what little time they have with their children reprimanding them," says Spock. "This encourages children to push limits and test parental authority." Brazelton is also concerned that working mothers are so overwhelmed by guilt that they "detach | from the baby, because it's the only way they have of coping...
...Modrow unveiled a four-step process for the gradual merger of the two Germanys' economies, legal systems and governments that closely paralleled the plan presented in December by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, except on one critical point. Modrow unequivocally called for a neutral Germany, demanding that both states "detach themselves" from their respective military alliances...