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...usually think of in relationship to addiction, such as insurance discrimination and expanding insurance opportunities for medication-assisted recovery. The 90-minute centerpiece for the project features nine separate segments, each directed by a different documentary filmmaker and covering a different theme, ranging from emergency room trauma to parent-child relationships. David Rosenbloom, the director of Join Together—a Boston University-based program that works to develop community-based responses to alcohol and drug abuse—said he respected the film for going beyond the individual harm that substance abusers bring upon themselves and covering community issues...
Increasingly, family courts are ordering a treatment called reconciliation therapy. One technique is to have the child look through an album of photos of the alienated parent to humanize that person again. Another is to show studies about how easily the mind is tricked, to let children know it's not their fault that they have come to believe falsehoods about their parent. But those first steps toward rebuilding the parent-child relationship can be wobbly...
...relationship with Disney is definitely parent-child, in all the best ways and in some of the difficult ways," Shyamalan, 35, says. "The things that made me conventional were celebrated, and the things that made me unconventional were not celebrated. I felt a large part of me was unconventional, and I didn't want that part to die." So Shyamalan went to Warner Bros., which is releasing Lady and which, he says, "has already offered to make the next movie, sight unseen." Disney, in a statement, said it wishes the director "the best of luck with Lady and all future...
...They are good people, and they have tried to do well by me. But the relationship was definitely parent-child, in all the best ways and in some of the difficult ways. The things that made me conventional were celebrated, and the things that made me unconventional were not celebrated. You start having an interest in unusual music, and your parents aren?t going to be like, I?m so excited you?re getting into rock 'n' roll or whatever it is. I felt a large part of me was unconventional and I didn?t want that part...
...want their own lives prolonged in a similar situation. But the questions that cut closest to home are the family issues. What would you do if Terri Schiavo were your daughter? Why couldn't Michael Schiavo just give custody over to the parents? What do we do about custody in a society where the parent-child bond is more durable than many marriages? The President's solution, to "err on the side of life," seems the only humane answer-if there is a dispute between parents and spouse, and the disabled person has left no clear instruction...