Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right down to it and analyze them, they seem so meaningless. Adam Berg, is a 30 year old Yale graduate who just can't deal with his real world. It's not as if Adam has AIDS or is penniless or something. He is merely upset that his mother has remarried a man he doesn't like. And he is upset to find out that his girlfriend, Suzanne, has been using the Widener stacks here at Harvard for more than intellectual pursuits, igniting a sexual relationship with her comp lit advisor...
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...
Children have lost status in the world. Teachers have endured a long decline in public esteem. Day-care workers rarely earn a living wage. The role of mother is being rewritten, and that of father as well. A generation of children is being raised in the midst of a redefinition of parenting. Childhood has become a kind of experiment...
Cant phrases, such as "quality time," have found their way into the vocabulary. A motif of absence -- moral, emotional and physical -- plays through the lives of many children now. It may be an absence of authority and limits, or of emotional commitment. A mother writes in the New York Times: "What I see emerging is an entirely new category of professionals who spend little, if any, time with their children. There appears to be a new form of neglect: absence ... Recently my six-year-old daughter exclaimed, 'Look, Mom, Sarah has a new babysitter.' The 'babysitter' was Sarah's mother...
...were allowed to sit on only one side of the courtroom. In 1986, for example, the Supreme Court made it more difficult for prosecutors to use peremptory challenges to keep blacks off juries. A few months later, an all-white jury in Alabama awarded $7 million to a black mother who sued the United Klans of America over the lynching death of her son, a far cry from the days when an all-white Mississippi panel freed two white men in the infamous 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till...