Word: mothers
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...country, they complain that they outnumber men by as much as 6 to 1. The imbalance helped give rise in 1944 to Operation Birthrate, under which women who had seven children were awarded the Glory of Motherhood medal. Bearing ten or more children earned the title of Mother Heroine...
Outside, Josh is in his 30s; inside, he is still a sheltered child, whose most bruising experience has been dueling with some electronic monster in a video game. Not recognizing the boy in the man, his frightened mother uses a butcher knife to evict him from their home in suburban New Jersey. It is left to Josh's more worldly friend Billy (Jared Rushton) to escort him across the Hudson to Manhattan and to help him find a job as a computer operator in a giant toy company...
Fortunately or not, there were enough scars to go around. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. His parents divorced when he was five, and while one child stayed with his mother, Hanks and two others went with his father, who married a woman with five children of her own. Other divorces followed for both parents, and by the time he was ten, says Hanks wryly, "I had three mothers, five grammar schools and ten houses." His own first marriage, which produced two children, also ended in divorce, and only last April, Hanks married his second wife, Actress...
...hurt rather than help their chances of getting a visa. The President does plan, however, to talk to Vera's father Yuri and a dozen other refusenik families at Spaso House, the U.S. Ambassador's residence in Moscow. "People pin all their hopes on the summit," says Vera's mother Tanya. "The old refuseniks are all in a terrible state...
...family life and for the upbringing of children. This policy provides women with greater opportunities to practice their chosen profession, to go about their favorite pursuits and -- not least important -- to take good care of themselves in order to remain an equal and desired loved one, wife and mother for many years to come...