Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hours after the funeral, Amy sat sobbing in her living room. Could she have saved her baby from SIDS? The night before Father's Day, she had come home from work exhausted. She had simply asked Ron how the baby was. "Fine," she recalled him whispering...
...what? Ron said he never forgave Amy for refusing to cut short an ocean cruise with her parents to come home and comfort him when his father died in 1996. So, he said, he decided to marry her, have a child with her and kill it. He researched SIDS while waiting for her to bond with Tyler. He confessed, he said, because he was haunted by the corpse...
...sports programs, despite their excesses, manage to promote the old virtues: self-confidence, personal responsibility, teamwork, persistence, the ability to win and lose with grace. "In an organized sport, Danny's got to learn a little teamwork, some structure and discipline," says Terrence Straub, a Washington steel executive and father of Daniel, 9, and two older sons...
...Barry's father Stan, an Olympic alternate in track in 1976, coaches his son's club track team, the Roosevelt Express. Last year the club spent $60,000--most of it raised from local companies--to travel to tournaments as far away as Seattle and Antigua. Saunders estimates his out-of-pocket expenses last year...
...kids who quit their childhood sports by age 13, according to studies. "They drop out because it ceases to be fun, and the pressures put on them by coaches and parents don't make it worthwhile," says Fred Engh of West Palm Beach, Fla. He's a professional coach, father of seven and author of the book Why Johnny Hates Sports...