Word: parent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...facts of life, albeit a lesser one: the hardest person for a teen-ager to talk to about sex is a parent. Dealing with that reality is difficult enough as it is. But now the Federal Government, and thus the courts, have fallen into this generational communication...
MacKay and his wife Linda alone submitted 47,000 entries. A drawing was held, and the three finalists were picked. All are residents of the Allentown area: MacKay, a house parent at a home for disturbed children; Ron Kistler 25, an unemployed baker; and Dalton Young, 23, an unemployed veteran. They settled onto the platform on Sept. 20. Sponsors gave each one a tent, radio, sleeping bag, portable toilet, telephone and an electronic game. Although they have their own heaters, under the rules they cannot have TVs, alcohol or, with occasional brief exceptions, visitors. Their families hoist up food...
Sometimes children are reluctant out of fear they will be blamed if the defendant in abuse cases, often a parent or family friend, is convicted and punished. Says Carol Schrier, director of the Support Center for Child Advocates in Philadelphia: "We emphasize that the judge or jury makes the decision." Experts are careful, however, not to sugar-coat the potential outcome. "If it's going to involve the possible jailing of a parent, I think they have a right to know that," says Patty Coleman, a Philadelphia psychiatric social worker...
Bardot recalls her early childhood as the proper jeune fille of an affluent father who once whipped her 50 times. ("I felt like a stranger in my parent's house. That's perhaps why I have had so many houses, houses I have bought myself, to feel at home.") It was Roger Vadim who first saw an international sex symbol in the guise of an ingenue of 15. He became her husband and Svengali. ("I was not used to such handsome men ... I was so shy, a little girl still. I wore white socks and a sophomoric white...
...Many parent sponsors of the new Christian academies have a deeply rooted animosity toward public schools. In their view, the schools have adopted a godless philosophy of "secular humanism" by requiring classroom discussion of such touchy subjects as sex education and feminism. Be cause secular humanism is in conflict with the Bible, as these parents see it, it is a sin for them to send their children to public schools. Says Blanche Reinbolt, who has three children at Bridgeport Baptist Academy: "I've seen what certified public school teachers have done for my kids, and it wasn...