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Dozens of such centers now operate around the U.S., says Jill Kagan of the National Respite Coalition, and there is mounting evidence that without them, the U.S. tally of bumps, bruises and worse would be even more shameful than it is: more than a million cases of child abuse and neglect in 1997; more than 1,000 deaths. Senator Paul Wellstone, a Minnesota Demo-crat, has introduced a bill to restore cuts in federal funding for crisis nurseries. Is it possible parents can abuse such a service? Maybe, says A. Sidney Johnson, president of Prevent Child Abuse America...
Berkowitz's ad hoc committee included LeonKass, an ethics and biology expert from theUniversity of Chicago; University of Pennsylvaniapolitical scientist Ellen Kennedy; and IsaacKramnick from Cornell University's politicalscience department. The Harvard members of thecommittee were Starch Professor of PsychologyJerome Kagan and Professor of German Maria M.Tatar...
...appeal, Berkowitz states that Kennedy,Kramnick and Kagan do not possess relevantexpertise in his field. He also suggests that themajority of the committee would have been inclinedto rule against him because of ideologicaldifferences, and so the membership failed toexhibit diversity of opinion...
...That sounds extremely speculative," Jerome Kagan, Starch professor of psychology, says about Pontius' findings. "There might be a symbolic reason why they didn't draw faces accurately...
...Kagan, whose Core course, "Social Analysis 56: Children and Their Social Worlds," has drawn hundreds of students in the past, says he doesn't do anything differently in a lecture during shopping period...