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...Rather than having Hollywood judge the content that is appropriate for children of the same age across the country," says Vicky Rideout of Children Now, an advocacy group based in Oakland, California, "tell parents what's in the show and let them decide what is appropriate for their kids to see." Dr. Marjorie Hogan of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which was a consultant to the Valenti panel but opposes the new system, says, "I'm a parent of four, and what I really want when I look at a movie or a television program is to know what...
Millions of poor mothers are soon going to be faced with the same worry. Under the new federal welfare law, even recipients with very young children are required to find work (although states may exempt a single parent caring for a child under one year old). According to the Children's Defense Fund, there are now about 9.75 million children on welfare, about 4.5 million of them under five. That translates into an enormous new demand for day care and raises concerns about the quality of that care...
...foreseeable future, of course, most parents will probably continue to blame rock music and comic books, just out of habit. After all, a report a few years ago showing that young people were pretty much oblivious to the words of the songs they listened to had no effect on the fervor of the movement to protect impressionable teenagers from rock lyrics. The traditional homework dialogues between a teenager in his room and a parent at the bottom of the stairs will probably just continue without benefit of musical accompaniment...
...little space, a little time and a little fun add up to make "Soup of the Day" a harmless, lightly amusing student production. A one-act play written and directed by Barbara M. Matteau, a masters candidate in Theater-Arts, "Soup" examines life's choices and familiar parent-child conflicts that can reveal them...
...right here on campus. But friendship is time-consuming and risky, and as people who pride ourselves on our self-sufficiency, we don't think that our friends really need us to look after them. We might even consider it patronizing or annoying if someone were to play parent with us and constantly ask us where we were going or what we're doing next...