Word: parent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would never know "what it is to be loved." While those of us who care for these infants may be busy trying to preserve a fragile life, we are never so rushed that we do not sing a lullaby, hold a tiny hand or comfort a frightened parent...
...Gwendolyn Fairfax (Jacqueline Riggs). As she grills him on his eligibility with questions like "Do you smoke?" his meager replies sound more and more unrealistic--"I'm afraid I do," he squeaks, and she answers dictatorially, "Good--a man should always have an occupation." Worthing says he has no parents and Bracknell responds, "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune, to lose both is carelessness." In order to be considered for Miss Fairfax's husband he "must acquire some relations--at least one parent...
...phenomenon of one-parent families may be causing "an explosive epidemic" of drug use in America, according to a study released today by a Medical School researcher...
Children who grow up in single-parent households exhibit psychological traits similar to those characteristics of drug users, concludes the study, published in today's New England Journal of Medicine...
They include the correlation between households where a parent is absent frequently, for a variety of reasons, and "many forms of emotional disorder--especially the anger, rebelliousness, low self-esteem, depression and anti-social behavior that characterizes drug users...