Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third-grade girl who wrote in her journal, "I'll have my own children someday, I'll be sure to do this and that. Then I'll kill myself."? Another entry: "The best thing about a pet is that it dies." And "I would not like to have the mother I have now. She don't love...
...times are so different," says Sherri. She speaks as if it has been decades since she was a child. "Under the influence of drugs, 14-year-old boys might decide to go off and grab Bianca. Every time she leaves out the door, it is scary." For both mother and daughter, the nightmares have already begun...
...mother has worked full time at the state department of human services, where she processes vouchers, since before her first child was born. "Nowadays, once you start depending on that second paycheck, there's no turning back," she reports...
...vanished from these kids' minds," says Suzie Doerr, a teacher at Bedichek. "These kids think life is fancy-free." Hermelinda Garza Perez, a second-generation Mexican American, teaches eighth-graders. "Their goal is to get by, not to get better," says Perez. As a child, she went with her mother to her job as a maid. "My mother always said to me, 'I don't want you cleaning someone else's commode...
...Mary Louise admits, "the children are really not wanting for anything. A family needs two paychecks to make it, to give kids what we didn't have. Maybe that's not good. We had love as kids, and we had nonmaterial things. We had intangibles, like we had Mother at home with a little snack when we came in. These kids don't have that because their mommy's out there working...