Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mother, father," I said. "We have an awesome responsibility. The once-proud leader of the greatest nation in the free world will be here soon, in our care for four days. Has he not had enough woes? First, the perverse American people voted in a Democratic Senate. Then, those tricky Russians refused to back down on SDI. Now, some little pipsqueak in the NSC has singlehandedly threatened his Presidency with some Watergate-like scandal, completely without his knowledge...
...Lots of students are buying Harvard shirts to take home for little brothers or mother and father," said Corcoran who also owns The Harvard Shop...
...Willomenia Williams of Los Angeles is the mother of eight children, fathered by three different men, none of whom has provided much help in raising his offspring. She gets $698 a month in AFDC and $125 in food stamps, more than any of her former boyfriends could offer. "If they can't do their part," she says, "I don't think they should be coming around." For a while, Williams lived in a private shelter run by a group called Parents of Watts. Alice Harris, a woman known for her ready smile and generosity, runs the program. "Of course welfare...
William Jones, 39, never knew his father. He and his six siblings grew up on welfare in his mother's Harlem household. Like so many in the inner city, he became disillusioned with high school, dropped out, got into drugs. "I was on the street. I felt I knew everything," he remembers. "I only started missing my schooling when my kids came along. That's when I knew what I didn't know." Eleven years ago, the teenage mother of Jones' two children left, never to be heard from again. Shortly thereafter, Jones lost his job and went on welfare...
Today he is raising his kids, as well as seven of his nephews and nieces, ages 6 to 18, whose mother could no longer cope with the pressures of bringing them up. He and his mother, along with the nine children, live in a two- bedroom, $134-a-month apartment. He is off drugs. He is also off the welfare rolls, earning his living as a community organizer at Harlem's Family Life and Sex Education Program...