Word: mothers
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...wrong, immediately try to cover it up, but then fairly quickly get back to the business of being children. Hence after they left Bulger on the tracks, Venables and Thompson went into a video store near Thompson's house and watched cartoons on the telly. As Carr's mother tried frantically and futilely to save her daughter, Kocher went back to playing Nintendo ("If you don't think about it, you won't be sad," he reportedly told other kids, who were crying). And in Chicago last week, the seven- and eight-year-old boys suspected of killing Harris went...
...Martin is, as Lewinsky's spokeswoman Judy Smith says, "one of those docs who still make house calls," he only gradually gained the trust of his patients in this case. Retained soon after the scandal broke to represent Monica's mother, Marcia Lewis, he quickly devised ways of moving the women around town without notice of the camera crews, using techniques he honed as a 1980s prosecutor in the San Francisco organized-crime strike-force office. There he planned movements of such famous guests of the federal witness-protection program as Aladena ("Jimmy the Weasel") Fratianno...
...this as a mother who has come to parenthood through adoption. True, my daughter Becky and I don't "look alike" (an issue on people's minds last week, as if physical resemblance somehow legitimizes or alters the parent-child bond). But I assure you, Becky's claim on me is exclusive and has been in evidence since the age of 14 months, when she raced across a room yelling, "My mommy!" then tried to shove a child off my lap. I've met hundreds of adopted children; not one has needed a court or a mirror to figure...
...judge rather than their hearts and common sense, precedent favors the biological claim. Remember Baby Jessica and Baby Richard, each tearfully pried from adoptive parents to begin life anew with birth parents? More recent and extreme cases, like the two-year-old Maryland boy plucked from a loving foster mother to be reared by a biological mother who had killed his sister, have prompted legislators to pass laws that give more weight to the "best interests" of the child...
...shouldn't be that way. A child's claim on a mother--or father--should be every bit as unambiguous (and unbigamous) as the marital claim two adults make on each other. Except in cases of abuse or neglect, once that claim is forged, it should be unassailable. Kids know who their parents are; we should...