Word: moms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrote, "I would like a magic ring that do anything I said and I would want my baby doll to be a real baby." The teacher wrote back, asking her, "How would you take care of a real baby and still go to school?" She answered, "I have a mom, you know." To this, the teacher replied in her red ink, "This isn't your mom's baby. Why should she take care of it?" No reply...
...have been staying home by myself until my mom gets home since I was in kindergarten," says John David, who usually entertains himself with television. "I'm not really scared, because we have friends around here if anything happens...
...grown up as a outsider. "The kids haven't experienced prejudice," says Mary Louise. "We experienced it from the Anglos from the day we were real little, when we couldn't go swimming in Austin's public pools. When we talk to the children about it, they say, 'Oh, Mom. That couldn't have happened. Not here...
Toward the end of the day, the slightest twist on the doorknob is enough to get a sea of tired eyes to look up. As parents arrive to pick up their kids, Katie quickly looks up to see if it is her mom or dad. Most kids have a pretty good feeling for what time their parents normally appear, so when a parent is late, a child becomes anxious...
Thirty years ago, in the era of Ozzie and Harriet, two out of three American families consisted of a breadwinner, known as Dad, and a mother, known as Mom, and the children they both were raising. Today fewer than one in five families fits that description...