Word: fathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Work was the same for everybody else in the little village, Moras En Valloire. Next to our peach orchard was a small tobacco field, where a father and son worked each day from early morning until late at night. From where we picked peaches we could see them, bent over like tumbled-down scarecrows, pulling the weeds out by hand as they slowly moved up and down the rows...
...another family, however, the Garcias, who impressed me the most. They worked for the Vallets, although the father also had a factory job which began each morning at 5 a.m. After getting off at 1 p.m., he joined us in the fields until 8 p.m. He worked all day Saturdays, too, and he "rested" Sundays by fixing up his houses or by picking fruit for his family's table. He spent virtually all his waking hours working on one monotonous task after another...
...three seasons at Wilson High School in Los Angeles, Cuccia set eight prep school records, led his team to a 39-0 record and won the California most valuable player award in his senior year. The coach at Wilson was his father, Victor Cuccia...
Newer research, however, challenges that assumption. The National Institute of Mental Health is preparing a favorable report about the effects of joint custody on children. A Virginia study of 96 couples and their children associated father absence with disruptions in the children's social and school life. Christine Rosenthal, a Brandeis University sociologist who studied 127 joint-and sole-custody fathers, was impressed by how well the arrangements worked among those who remarried. And a New York study of 40 divorced men found that joint-custody fathers were happier, closer to their children and had fewer problems with...
...joint custody works only if parents can detach child rearing from post-divorce resentments. That is no easy trick. Jerry and Jan LeClaire waited two years for the rancor that accompanied their divorce to fade before moving to joint custody. Now their daughter Lisa, 8, spends summers with her father and his new wife in Chaska, Minn., and the rest of the year with her mother in Plymouth, 25 miles away. The parents admit that Lisa is still a bit confused: she has two homes, two wardrobes, two sets of rules, and two sets of friends, neither of which...