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...group is intently focused not on the physical layout of Kampusch's captivity but on the mental landscape of a girl who grew up thinking her parents had abandoned her--counselors who work with children of divorced couples. Long-term abductions by strangers are thankfully rare, but psychologists say the trauma of Kampusch, 18, who was told for years that her parents had simply forgotten about her, echoes the fallout from the more common nightmare of a custody dispute in which a child is irrevocably poisoned against one parent. However composed she appears now, they warn, Kampusch has a long...
Bone has counseled scores of victims of a phenomenon known as "parental alienation syndrome," in which one parent accuses the other of brainwashing their child and turning him or her against the parent. Parental alienation is a controversial legal theory. Some say it's just a smoke screen for abusive or negligent parents who deserve to be hated by their children. But practitioners say that in extreme cases, parents can implant false memories of abuse or otherwise stir a child into a permanent and completely irrational rage against the targeted parent...
...abortion are fond of contending that such women can always choose to put up their unwanted babies for adoption—if socioeconomic factors are the main issue, they claim, the simple solution should be giving birth and then letting someone else care for the child. This way, the parent is not tied to an unsustainable burden, and the child is given a suitable developmental environment. Though this may seem like an ideal solution, it ignores several key issues, chief among them the fact that pregnancy and childbirth themselves require significant resources—for example, to pay for hospital...
...Lambertson Truex. Department stores like Italy's La Rinascente are swallowing Printemps, its competition in France. And established names like Valentino are diving into such emerging markets as India. Last month the Gucci Group was rumored to be eyeing the London-based Alice Temperley label. Next thing you know, parent company PPR will be purchasing Italian jeweler Bulgari. Beauty conglomerates like Estée Lauder and L'Oréal are once again hunting for acquisitions, armed with multimillion-dollar checkbooks...
Asked by one first-year parent whether she would consider Harvard’s top job, Simmons said that she plans to serve out her term as president of Brown, according to The Brown Daily Herald, the university’s student newspaper. The remarks were her first public comment on the matter since Feb. 21, when Lawrence H. Summers announced his decision to resign...