Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crown outlined its case, Thorpe (then, as now, the Liberal M.P. for North Devon) befriended Scott in 1961, took him to Thorpe's mother's house, and initiated an affair. It lasted "at least until 1963." But by 1965, a restive Scott was threatening to make the relationship public...
Carol Foreman also thrives on controversy and, like Claybrook, works twelve hours a day. She is aggressive and serious, as could be expected of a woman who once lobbied for Planned Parenthood while in a visibly advanced stage of pregnancy. The mother of two children, Foreman is married to a vice president of the retail clerks union. She looks more like an editor of a fashion magazine than a tough Government regulator, and she strikes visitors as calm and relaxed. Soft, gentle music plays in her office because, she says, "it calms the wild beasts who are in here...
...ranks of the stay-at-homes are growing for other reasons as well. In Washington State a Mormon mother keeps her two daughters out of public schools because she fears they will be taught Darwinian concepts of evolution...
...family with two boys who have never been enrolled in school lives on a small farm in Sheffield, Mass. Both parents read to their sons, aged eleven and nine, take them on hikes and involve them in farm chores; their mother, a college graduate, also takes them to special art, poetry and music classes in town. "They decide when and whether they'll learn something," says she. "We help them when they ask, but I'm more interested in how happy people are than if they can stand on their heads...
...impact of this educational laissez-faire on the children? "Quite marvelous for all of us," says their mother. "They need much less attention and entertainment than other children their age. They're not anxious about whether other people approve of them. They are moving in the direction of becoming truly mature people who have judgments, peacefulness and care for each other." Says her eleven-year-old son: "For some reasons I'm lucky and for some reasons I'm not. I know lots of things other children don't know. I know how to plant seeds and how to grow...