Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crocket writes up tragedies every day, stories about Chuckie, an 8-year-old autistic foster child, or 8-year-old David, whose penniless aunt rescued him from his mentally ill mother who threw dishes and chairs at him and his three sisters, or about 6-year-old Peter from a rundown public housing project who wrote to Globe Santa asking that his 4-year-old sister Martha get some dolls to play with...
...contributors will help put something--something that wouldn't have been there otherwise--under the tree for kids like 3-year-old Susan whose father dead in September and lost all her toys when her welfare mother's apartment burned up last month, and orphan Mary Jo, whose father deserted her when she was born and whose drug addict mother left four years...
...will be impossible for a 13-year-old American girl like Olga Peters to find comfort or happiness in the Soviet Union. Perhaps she will be clever enough to find her way to America, as her mother...
...well as a few bit parts in TV soaps. In End Zone, he landed one of the lead roles, playing James Bernard, a talented college quarterback who struggles to reconcile his personal conscience with the win-at-any-cost pressures of his coach. Salinger's father and mother (who divorced in 1966) have both supported his acting ambitions and promise to show up for one of the early performances. Says he: "I'll be nervous and worried enough without worrying about what they think." Which is something Holden Caulfield would certainly understand...
BECAUSE OF this confusion over where to draw the line, there are some pro-lifers who would advocate no exception for self-defense. But if they are going to impose such a rigid and dogmatic standard, which would mean the death of the mother, they must show why abortion is worse than murder...