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...punitive" responses to kids' bad behavior) and low socio-economic status. The best predictor, the study concluded, was early childhood physical aggression. "If a child is aggressive at 2 years of age, he's more likely to be in the higher-increasing trajectory," Boivin said. "If, in addition, the mother is hostile and reactive, the prediction risk increases." Adding the third element, low socio-economic status, increases that likelihood even further...
...society. A culture focused on women’s needs, they argue, would instead focus on both promoting and rewarding motherhood. This stance, however, assumes that a female’s most important societal function is anatomically determined: In essence, that she should serve as a womb and a mother before she should act as a holistic human being. By stooping to the level of biological essentialists, organizations like the FFL bolster the idea of an intangible “feminine mystique” and pervert conceptions of modern womanhood...
...Graduated from Texas Christian University in 1959 with a degree in journalism; he started out taking pre-med classes in deference to his mother, but switched after two years...
...Schieffer was in the Star-Telegram newsroom when JFK was shot in Dallas. A little while later, a call came in from Marguerite Oswald, mother of Lee Harvey Oswald, the suspected assassin in the JFK shooting. At her request, Schieffer and another reporter drove Mrs. Oswald to Dallas where her son was being held, and took statements from her on the way there of which Schieffer says: "She was making these outrageous statements, statements that were so outrageous that I didn't include some of them ... And I learned a great lesson ... that you have to be very careful about...
...Over his 27-year tenure, Pope John Paul II named more saints than all his predecessors combined, beatifying more than 1,300 people and canonizing nearly 500. He fast-tracked Mother Theresa's canonization, and made a distinct effort to identify saints in Africa and Asia. In 2000, much to the chagrin of the communist government there, John Paul II canonized the first saints in China, naming 87 Chinese citizens and 33 foreign missionaries who had died in the country between 1648 and 1930. He also named the first saint from Brazil, home to more Catholics than any other country...