Word: fostered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...prevaricator." Democrats arguing Gore's case are "mind-numb morons," "vicious political hacks" and "just a bunch of sleaze-bag crooks." Don't believe a word spoken by Gore campaign chairman Bill Daley: "All he does is lie." Hillary Clinton is "the witch" and, in an allusion to Vincent Foster's death, "the First Murderer." Half of America - the Democratic half - is "socialist." Or worse. After all, Gore won the popular vote because "Communist Kate Couric" and the rest of the media "prayed to Khrushchev" for a victory...
...want to recognize Harvard's unique House system, and to encourage and foster it," Hall said...
After childbirth, the treatment is often no better. Most states make no special arrangements for the care of newborns in prison. After delivery, mothers and babies are typically separated--sometimes within hours. The infant is sent to live with a family member or goes straight to foster care. New York, Nebraska and Washington State are exceptions; prisons in these states have nurseries in which infants are allowed to live with their mothers for a year to 18 months. But this raises another difficult question: Is it really better for an infant to be raised in prison, just to be near...
...whispers in my ear," says Nakea Walker, 25, of Staten Island, N.Y., "I know I wouldn't have made it." Walker was 16 when her late mother was sent to a prison in upstate New York, nine hours away. Her five siblings was sent to a foster home. Walker has been fighting to reunite her family. The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 will probably send more kids like Walker's siblings into foster care. It allows courts to begin terminating parental rights if a child is in foster care for 15 months out of any 22-month period...
...getting any help," says Sarah Ambrosini, 29, who lives there with her two sons, ages four months and 16 months. The program is expensive, averaging $40,000 a year per inmate, compared with $25,000 in a regular prison. But since families stay together, fewer kids wind up in foster care. Also, follow-up studies show inmates in the program have a lower recidivism rate. Says Sterling O'Ran, an administrator for California's Department of Corrections: "We've been able to get them hooked on their kids instead of drugs." Many prison moms would like that same opportunity...