Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ylvisaker leaves four children, Elizabeth, Mark, Peter, and David; two brothers, John and David; two sisters, Elizabeth Brush and Barbara Newsom; and four grandchildren. His wife, Barbara, died last year...
...teams. "Should they be informed?" A man or woman with such a defect will have to consider the brutal fact that not only is there a fifty-fifty chance that a child will inherit the illness, but also that the disease may be progressively worse in that child, the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren...
...first the villagers were suspicious and reluctant to cooperate. Frustrated, Wexler called a town meeting. "We explained that we were trying to find the cause of the disease," she says, "and while it might not help them, it could help their children and grandchildren." She told the villagers that her mother had died of Huntington's and that she might also be stricken. Holding up her right arm, she pointed to a tiny biopsy scar and revealed that she too had contributed a skin sample for analysis. "They really understood that," Nancy says, "and I think they soon realized that...
...Japanese family contemplate a great and terrible event, the bombing of Nagasaki. But the milieu director Akira Kurosawa creates for their deliberations is small and serene: a farm where a grandmother, who witnessed the blast from afar and lost her husband in it, gently and indirectly informs her grandchildren about the past. And about the proper way to confront it -- with calm, unblinking acceptance. This is a part of their education their parents have neglected. For the middle generation, seeking economic advantage, especially with a branch of the family that has immigrated to the U.S. and prospered, has preferred...
...forceful advocate. "Push, push, push," she says. "Nothing ever works according to the system. Someone in the family has to do it." Two years ago, when Cassandra's drug habit became uncontrollable, Sweeney says the social services informed her it had no home available in which to place her grandchildren. So the next day Sweeney went to collect the boys. Her daughter, high on drugs, slumped on the couch, while men walked in to buy drugs from someone upstairs. Cassandra was using cocaine, PCP and Ritalin. A social-services caseworker told Sweeney she could ; not take her grandchildren...