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Once payment and privacy are accounted for, each of the three new e-commerce sites has its own strategy for pushing merchandise to teens and the grownups who love them. At DoughNET, special promotions like free movie tickets with selected purchases or contest entries lure young shoppers. On iCanBuy, kids can peruse celebrity wish lists (tip: Britney Spears wants a WNBA basketball, body glitter and, oddly enough, her own CD). At RocketCash, a top-10 list of user purchases lends some insight into what's hot with the masses. Recent chart toppers include a Limp Bizkit CD and wooden bracelets...
...stories like these fill the nation's newspapers. But do they have any relevance to stepfamilies as a whole? Yes, say Martin Daly and Margo Wilson, two Canadian psychology professors at McMaster University in Ontario. In their slender new book, The Truth About Cinderella: A Darwinian View of Parental Love (Yale University Press), the duo argue that having a stepparent is the most powerful risk factor for severe child abuse. In fact, they say, an American child living with one genetic parent and one stepparent is 100 times as likely to suffer fatal abuse as a child living with...
Their reasoning, based on research in the U.S., Canada, Britain and Australia, won't sit well with many stepparents. "Because parental love carries with it an onerous commitment, it would be strange if merely pairing up with someone who already had a dependent child were sufficient to fully engage the evolved psychology of parental feeling," they write. "And it is not sufficient. Stepparents do not, on average, feel the same child-specific love and commitment as genetic parents, and therefore do not reap the same emotional rewards from unreciprocated 'parental' investment." Violence, they say, is just one, albeit dramatic, consequence...
Violence is not the only negative trait that runs in some stepfamilies, say experts. "We know that there's less of a sexual taboo in stepfamilies because you don't have the biological connection," says Dr. James H. Bray, author of Stepfamilies: Love, Marriage and Parenting in the First Decade. As a result, says Bray, "if a woman is about to remarry, she really ought to get to know her spouse and know some of her potential spouse's family history, because we know that sexual and physical abuse tends to run in families...
TRAINING ROSES Many parents love to garden. Most kids enjoy model trains. And now these two pursuits are merging in a hot family hobby imported from Britain: garden railroading. Aficionados lay tracks and carve tunnels through their flower beds and hedges. One measure of the trend: circulation of Garden Railways magazine has doubled to 36,000 in the past three years. The train kits begin at $150. Curious? Check out www2.gardenrailways.com/gr/ or www.largescale.com...