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...base in August is an indication of just how much trouble he is in. In the late spring, the Gore campaign did its research and poked the focus groups and found that it was losing a slice of independents Clinton had conquered in 1996--not just the soccer moms in the suburbs but the waitress moms who punch the clock and still struggle to hold it all together, new economy be damned. Many voted for Clinton last time but favored Perot in 1992 and don't always care enough about politics to go to the polls at all. That...
Sara Hansard, 49, a journalist from Arlington, Va., adopted a 1 1/2-year-old girl from China more than two years ago. She faced the strong objection of her mother, "who always imagined me getting married and having kids the normal way." Mom has come around, but since she lives in an assisted-living facility 90 miles away, she can't be much help. So Sara has organized an informal network of single moms in her area, who are on call to baby-sit in emergencies and who trade child-rearing tips...
...long ago, this breed of single mom was considered eccentric at best, man hating and antifamily at worst. A woman whose husband had died or whose boyfriend had run off could be regarded as a victim, but one who deliberately set out to have a child without a father was a threat to traditional family values. Who can forget Vice President Dan Quayle's attack on TV single mom Murphy Brown eight years ago? Well, it seems many people have. With increasing numbers of middle-class women parenting alone, the stigma of being a single mother is fading...
Having a child later in life is rewarding, Sara says, but she knows her choice is not universally popular. She says she has lost out on jobs because some bosses wouldn't accommodate her needs as a single mom. Then there was the stranger on the subway who struck up a conversation and when she found out Hansard was a single mom, railed that what she was doing was morally wrong. Sara told her off. "I wanted to be a parent, and in my case, I happened not to be married," she says. "I'm not apologizing to anyone...
...only does little brother go into a trance and come out of it with an alarming loss of memory, but also strange voices start emanating from the basement, calling Peter's name. What has Danielle done to her brother, and will she be able to save him before Mom and Dad return from a short business trip...