Word: parental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Robyn Gray, 27, an Atlanta accountant, benefited from a different type of aid. The single parent of a two-year-old daughter, she obtained a mortgage through a program that local bankers set up last year after a newspaper charged that the lenders were deliberately redlining -- or boycotting -- Atlanta's black communities. After hunting for a year for an affordable home in a pleasant neighborhood, Gray took out a 9.25% fixed-rate mortgage. Even then she needed help from her parents to make the $2,500 down payment on her $50,000, three-bedroom home. But without the bank program...
Other child-development experts concur with Norton's findings. Many poor children, they note, are mystified by the "time-slotted" school environment, where crayons are often taken away before the picture is finished because it is juice time. Says clinical psychologist Jeree Pawl, director of the Infant- Parent Program at San Francisco General Hospital: "The structured situation makes them feel powerless. It feels arbitrary, senseless and imposed because at home there is no predictability and rigidity." Confused youngsters may withdraw or rebel, prompting some teachers to peg these children as troublemakers or slow learners...
Schroeder, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1964, is a co-sponsor of a well-known child care proposal that will go before Congress this year. She has also co-sponsored a family medical leave bill, which will provide a parent with 10 weeks leave without pay in the event of a family emergency...
...first is a commission, created under former President Ronald W. Reagan, that is studying changes in the American family. The second Parent Action, is a parent-supported lobbying organization started a few months...
...Bundy spoke of is the fear that we are so similar to him. He was sane, charming, intelligent and yet pure evil. There is nothing in his life that we can point to as a reason for why this man is such an aberration. Ted Bundy could be our parent, our lover, our friend--or even ourselves...