Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worked with former Australian greats Harry Hopman, Rod Laver, Roy Emerson and Fred Stolle, who he says have influenced him greatly, Felske places greater emphasis on conditioning than he does technique. He has introduced exercising drills to the team, stressed endurance, speed and flexibility and in an effort to foster togetherness, works with three or four players on the court at a time rather than have each individual hit by herself for an hour on the ball machine...
...North End community in response to the swine flu epidemic of 1918 that ravaged the area. Now it serves as a group care facility, and most of the 38 children, aged four to 12 years, live there for about two years before adoption, or temporary placement with a foster family or in other residential homes...
...Sheila, director of group care, explains. "The whole philosophy here is not just to care for the children--though of course we do that. It's a place to be a child. It's a neutral setting where they don't have to feel guilty about living in a foster family, nor do they have to call the ambulance, or pick up Mother at the bar. It also is to restore self-worth; they are worth caring for, and that's why they're here. Sometimes I look at them and think, wow, how can they cope? They have...
Professors of Social Work David Fanshel of Columbia University and Eugene B. Shinn of Manhattan's Hunter College spent five years studying 624 foster children, many of whom had been abused, abandoned or neglected by their natural parents. In their book Children in Foster Care, Fanshel and Shinn report that youngsters who were never visited by their real parents in the foster homes showed greater emotional turmoil than those who were, as well as some declines in their IQ scores. But children who were seen at least occasionally by their real parents seemed far less troubled in their...
Though loving foster parents may seem to make up for the missing biological kin, Fanshel and Shinn explain, "on a deeper level, the abandonment by natural parents can impose a profound sense of loss, and the child's ease with himself can be markedly impaired." The authors concede that children who stay in foster care a long time have difficulty coping with a double set of parents. For this reason, some experts have recommended that foster parents be allowed to bar visits by real parents. But, warn Fanshel and Shinn, a "cavalier readiness" to drum natural parents...