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...some 20 million children. The rise in the number of households without fathers is a result of well-intentioned federal programs that offer women incentives to throw fathers out of their children's lives, to the detriment of the children. Children benefit from being raised by a mother and a father. Peter G. Hill, Weston, Massachusetts...
...Several years ago, two Vietnamese journalists asked Dung to tell his story. Over months of interviews, the tale of a confused young man took shape, chronicling affairs gone bad and his mother's disappointment with him on her deathbed...
...policy on Iraq - my son was killed there - I respect Sarah Palin for her decision to keep her Down-syndrome baby [Sept. 15]. I am the father of a 28-year-old Down-syndrome daughter, whom I've cared for almost single-handedly since the death of her mother 16 years ago. My daughter has been a source of joy and hope in the midst of family setbacks. Even if Palin does not win the election, she at least has put a new face on Down syndrome. I thank her for that. Joseph P. Nolan, Waterbury, Conn...
...you’re going to ignore the SAT Reasoning Test, maybe? What? My mother is crying—mostly because I berated her (it was unrelated), but at least partly because she spent seven months of her pregnancy with a tape player strapped to her torso, repeating complete analogies. Tenet is to theologian what hypothesis is to biologist—not that that matters...
...tons of books in the house and my mother would read to us at the dinner table at night,” he says, beginning a story, something he often does when answering a question. “She would fix a meal, eat quickly before we would all sit down, and she would read...