Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...game was a great indication of what we can do," Captain Scott Hilinski said. "We just keep picking up each game...
...essence, all of the Jews who lost their lives were my relatives; we shared a common religious and cultural heritage. Thus, even if there were no other reason for doing so, I should--no, I must--preserve my Jewish heritage in order to keep alive the memory of the 6 million who were slain...
...their mantel, Frank and Dante keep a silver-framed picture of their adopted son Alex, who was ten months old when he died of AIDS-related pneumonia last year. If Mickey too succumbs, they will consider adopting another child with AIDS. "I think we were called to take care of them," says Frank, a former Franciscan brother. "We know what it is like to go through the loss of a child, but we also know there is another baby out there...
...even when adoptive parents come forward, the foster-care and adoptive system can keep the children tantalizingly out of reach. Designed to be a short-term arrangement ending in either adoption or the child's return to a competent parent, foster care has become a kind of indeterminate sentence. Only about half of all foster children return home; many of the rest are suspended in a legal limbo by parents who make little effort to regain their children but refuse to relinquish them fully. Although federal law mandates that a child whose mother shows no inclination to plan...
...list of the mental and spiritual resources that the parents of such children should have. It could apply to anyone who takes on a special-needs kid. "You've got to be optimistic without denying what is happening," she says. "You've got to focus on strengths, keep perspective, set reasonable goals and get help when you need it. You have to be able to tolerate the unknown. You have to be able to say, 'I will love this child forever...