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Deborah Epstein, the parent of an eighth-grader, says she remembers "great anger and bitterness" surrounding that process...
Powell, who's lost count of the dads who ran for the hills at the sight of the first dirty diaper, couldn't hold back. "Have you thought about marrying your girlfriend?" he asked, waking up everyone in the courtroom. Being a parent is more than dropping off an occasional check, Powell went on. So if you want a break, show me a commitment...
...Every parent needs to make up his or her own mind, of course, and in turn they need to be able to live with themselves. But in a country where everyone moans about the violence saturating our television and movie screens, it seems awfully hypocritical for spank-happy parents to introduce their children to violence at such a young...
...Nevertheless, my parents somehow made it through my childhood (and that of my considerably better-behaved younger brother) without dispensing a single spanking. They sent us to our rooms, sure, and grounded us or withdrew telephone privileges. But they never hit us. And even now my mother says that while she doesn?t see anything wrong with a quick swat when a kid really pushes the envelope, she just never thought of spanking as a way to deal with parent-child conflict. And most parents they knew felt pretty much the same...
...Institute of 1770, the HPT's parent organization, signed a letter of intent this spring to transfer ownership of its building to Harvard, in part due to arrears owed the University...