Word: needing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presidential candidates to realize that the American family is the national religion. It is a religion based on a noble fantasy: the dream of blood belonging. Some families stay together through love, or through propriety or inertia. All are bound by intimately shared joy and pain, by a need to keep the dream of personal immortality alive for just one more generation. Every parent must believe he will be born again in the new, improved image of his child...
...learned such an enormous amount about Harvard during the union campaign that the opportunity to actually respond to that was appealing," said Taylor. "I know a lot about what people think [Human Resources] doesn't do well. Now I need to learn what is does [do well...
...physical aggression with the opposite sex. "Courtship violence is a more serious problem than spouse abuse in our society," says James Makepeace, a professor of sociology at the College of St. Benedict in Minnesota. "Young people don't have the economic resources or power to get the help they need...
...what they're experiencing -- grabbing and slapping -- as violence." In order to raise the consciousness of young daters, the project's acting troupe visits local schools and puts on skits that present alternatives to courtship altercations. For example, a jealous boy learns to respect his girlfriend's need to socialize with others, rather than accusing her of unfaithfulness...
Unfortunately, many couples affected by aggression refuse to seek help, often because they don't view their behavior as deviant. But, say experts, the cycle of violence should be taken seriously. "We need to look at the origins of marital abuse," says Therapist Koval. "The roots of marriage are not in the ceremony and the honeymoon but in the dating period." The best remedy of all may be for couples to take literally a favorite slogan of 1960s peace marchers: MAKE LOVE...