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...undersized high school dropout from Brooklyn, N.Y., won Olympic gold in 1952. Four years later, at age 21, he knocked out Archie Moore to become the world's youngest heavyweight champ--and the most conflicted. The Hall of Famer, who said he had "no self-esteem" as a kid, was so stung by a 1959 loss to Ingemar Johansson that he left the arena in disguise. Yet when he regained the title from Johansson a year later, he was disturbed by his "hate" for his rival. After retiring, he grew easier on himself. When a reporter said Patterson had been...
...exactly, does yanking a kid out of college count as protection? "A lot of suicidal people don't just kill themselves," says Peter Lake, a higher-education law professor at Stetson University in Deland, Fla. "They also can hurt others, even if it's unintentionally." Schools steadfastly reserve the right not to let one person's disturbing behavior disrupt anyone else's educational experience. And they argue that their mandatory-leave policy can force emotionally distressed students to get the best possible help. Gary Pavela, a judicial-policy expert at the University of Maryland and author of a book...
...first I thought the battle line was day care. Should a kid be with mom or go to preschool? But I looked at the research numbers, and now I'm confused again. Because 48% of stay-at-home moms send their 3-year-olds and 4-year-olds to preschool. Which is not that different a percentage from working moms, 53% of whom send their pre-Ks to preschool. This whole war can't be over that 5% difference...
...this war must be about how much time kids get with their parents. The sociologists keep meticulous track of this. For decades, they've had moms fill out time diaries, chronicling how they allocate their minutes. This research makes an important distinction between accessible time and engaged time. Accessible time is when the parent is present, but the kid is playing or watching television while mom cooks and cleans. Engaged time is direct interaction - snuggling, talking, reading books, eating together, and checking homework. A fascinating report on this came out last week from Suzanne Bianchi at the University of Maryland...
...recognize that there will always be a war over who is the better mother. I've read enough war coverage to know this has no ending. But I think a kid is lucky to have either type of mom, and so I'm not going to pick sides. I'm with the grandparents. Neutral as the Red Cross...