Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sticks up must be hammered down. When Sixth-Grader Tetsuya Osawa returned to Tokyo from New York City, he encountered hostility. Classmates ridiculed his Americanized way of shrugging his shoulders in answer to questions and his practice of opening doors for girls. Osawa's teacher informed the boy's mother he must "act like a Japanese person." In short order, Osawa developed a stress-related ulcer and had to be transferred to a private international school. Adults hardly fare better. Says Koji Kato, chief researcher at the National Institute of Education: "Returnees are regarded as kind of guests...
...surrogate birth. By last week, when the custody judgment was rendered, was there anyone still unschooled in its painful dilemmas? Even so, no one can have felt the lessons more deeply than the child's father, William Stern, a New Jersey biochemist who was awarded custody, or her mother, Mary Beth Whitehead, who lost the little girl she gave birth to as part of their surrogate agreement...
...into problems of the Whitehead household -- his battle with alcoholism, their financial setbacks -- that raised doubts about whether surrogacy permits the more prosperous and sophisticated to exploit those who are less so. It offered the dismaying court spectacle of a mental-health expert disparaging Whitehead's skills as a mother because of how she played pat-a-cake...
...several points during the trial. Even so, the vehemence of his language in the ruling came as a shock to many. Perhaps with an eye to safeguarding the custody portion of his judgment from second-guessing in the appeals phase, he slashed at Whitehead's fitness as a mother, calling her "manipulative, impulsive and exploitive" as well as "untruthful" and charging that she was too possessive of her children...
Immediately after reading his decision, Sorkow called the Sterns into his chambers and to their surprise proceeded to the adoption by which Dr. Stern was named the baby's legal mother. Four days after her first birthday, Baby M. got the belated gift of a new name on her birth certificate: Melissa Elizabeth Stern. The jubilant father told reporters, "I'm so happy." Then he broke down in tears...