Word: parental
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...solid majority would not 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...
...mini, has about the same storage capacity and likewise comes in designer colors, but it offers features that Apple doesn't: a removable Li-Ion battery, a 1.5-in. color LCD, an FM radio tuner and voice recording. At the CeBIT electronics show in Germany last month, iRiver's parent company announced that it would introduce 20-GB and 1-GB versions, starting at $440 and $270, respectively...
...PROTESTANT ACCEPTANCE OF MARY reflects a long-held Roman Catholic feeling that God the Father also has a feminine side. Humanity longs for a parent God who is not only a father but also a mother. The Marian movement among Protestants is very welcome. It represents an openness. Perhaps we will realize that religious faiths all contain essentially the same truths...
...already has that connection," explains Jackson. Like sleuths on TV's Cold Case, adoption workers delve into each youth's history, trying to identify coaches, teachers or neighbors who have a relationship with the adolescent. Sometimes they discover a distant relative who wasn't regarded as a "fit parent" for a child in the past. Agencies invariably require adoption-training classes; Jackson's group holds them in the same tough communities from which the kids come. "Not all the homes we find look like Ozzie and Harriet's," says Jackson. "We're targeting people who know the difficulties our young...
...Colorado incident: merciless gunfire, the black trench coat, the life-or-death question. But Red Lake has its disturbing distinctions. Instead of an affluent community, the setting this time was an impoverished reservation of the proud Ojibwa Nation in Minnesota. The terrifying revelation of Columbine was that caring parents could overlook signs of trouble in their offspring; the trouble in Red Lake centered on a clearly confused young man who had no parent to turn to for counsel or support, who used box cutters to slit his wrists in abortive suicide attempts even as he experimented with identities...