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...went home. Home for Carll is an ideological stance; he, his wife and two children live, by his choice, as virtually the only whites in a black development in Jackson. He holds down a plodding job as a traveling salesman of schoolbooks that cosmeticize the '60s and neglect to mention evolution...
...country whose business is business, this may seem a case of gross neglect by those who, whether they like it or not, are considered to be the voices of society. As the United States undergoes the transformation from a manufacturing society to a service and information one, one naturally looks for signs of this momentous shift in the pages of recent fiction, But, as a trip to the local bookstore will demonstrate, such is not the case...
...system at odds with the Constitution's guarantee of religious free dom. State courts have routinely intervened against the antimedicine doctrines of some religious groups in or dering treatment for the chil dren of church members when death is imminent. Now states are beginning to bring charges of neglect or abuse against parents who endanger their children's lives by adhering to religious teachings...
...many instances, though, courts do not hear about children's untreated illnesses until it is too late. In the past, states rarely charged parents with child neglect or abuse if religious beliefs were involved. Washington until recently also evaded the problem: in 1974, a federal child protection program required participating states to exempt from prosecution parents who refuse medical treatment for their children on religious grounds...
...which children died, seemingly unnecessarily, from accidents or disease, state legislators are calling for change. Indiana has a new law that as of June will no longer allow parents or anyone else to cite religious beliefs as a defense for failure to report a case of child abuse or neglect. Tennessee's senate last week voted down a religious exemption bill. The federal Department of Health and Human Services last year dropped the 1974 religious exemption demands and issued a new regulation to states, requiring that all cases of child neglect be reported. (An amendment to restore that exemption...