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Harris McCarter, parent of a kindergartner, says he wants a "name that symbolizes the two schools coming together...
...minutes after the first bell rings to start classes at 7:55 a.m., Phyllis Newton and MaryAnn Savilonis--the new school's parent liaisons--are sitting at their desks in the Parent Room...
...that people are here it's fine," says Savilonis, as she punches out paper letters for the Parent Room bulletin board she is putting...
...comparison, George W. Bush was nearly mute on what might have seemed an ideal issue for a Republican, commenting vaguely about the responsibilities of parents and movie theaters. It may be that his campaign decided that bashing Hollywood didn't work for Bob Dole in 1996. Or it could be that the entire subject is not particularly comfortable for a candidate who sat for 10 years on the board of Silver Screen Management Services Inc., a New York-based firm that financed more than two-dozen R-rated movies. The Hitcher, one of its films for Home Box Office (which...
...book, Wallerstein argues that children don't care if their parents are happy--they just want the stability of a two-parent household, without which they would later flail through adulthood and have a hard time forming good relationships. This conclusion, like her other gloomy generalizations ("Parenting erodes almost inevitably at the breakup and does not get restored for years, if ever"), is based on a small, nonrepresentative sample of families who were going through divorce in l971 in affluent Marin County, Calif. Wallerstein looks for evidence that divorce harms kids, and of course she finds it--now well into...