Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promoting her memoir, intends to start work with Hamilton next year on a book tentatively titled Under One Roof. It will be about their experiences while Hamilton was working to overcome her drug addiction, and they will write alternating chapters. The book "will be an account of a scared mother and a scared kid who went through this separately and came out on the other side," says Burnett, 53. Hamilton, 22, who is a cast member of the TV series Fame, adds impishly, "It's going to be about our relationship, about mother and daughter, about adolescence and menopause...
...father Miami Attorney James Baccus petitioned the Florida Supreme Court for a waiver of the 18-year- old age requirement for those being admitted to practice. "A judge called Stephen and asked if he really wanted to be a lawyer and if he understood what it meant," recalls his mother Florence Baccus. "I guess he gave them the right answers." Probably didn't miss one. He does not really plan to practice, though, maybe just take a few cases "when I'm between classes." He is up in New York City going for his master's, then Ph.D. in computer...
...like a pattern," says Sybil Lemon. "I never thought about that. If I had, I wouldn't want to be like that." At 22, Lemon can see the pattern clearly now. "We're talking about my mother, my auntie and two cousins." Each of them became pregnant in her teens, dropped out of school, went on welfare. So did Sybil. She was 17 when she met Jeffrey. "I was introduced to so many things through him," she recalls, "like liquor and drugs and stuff." Today she lives with her mother in a suburb of Chicago and supports her two-year...
...month. Factoring in Social Security deductions, food stamps and other benefits that would go to a typical worker with a spouse and child, the family would get a monthly income of about $737, that is, $246 per family member. If there were no wage earner, however, the mother and child would receive about $498 from AFDC, along with $74 in food stamps, for a total monthly income of $572, or $286 each for the mother and child. They would also receive comprehensive medical coverage. Percy Steel, president of the Urban League chapter in Oakland, says of an unemployed father...
...brought to life by personification, by the friendship and ideological comradeship of Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Libya is America's enemy, but that enmity glowers as a private hostility between Reagan and Muammar Gaddafi. If the values of American initiative need commending, Reagan will shed his spotlight on a Mother Hale of Harlem, as he did in the 1985 State of the Union message, and elevate one woman to emblemize an entire economic and social theory. If heroism in war is to be honored, a single veteran will stand beside the President on the White House steps, creating a tableau...