Word: parente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...endorsement of McCarthy may lead to the dissolution of the 5000 member organization. It is against the constitution of the group's parent organization, the National Young Democrats, to endorse any candidate before he has been formally endorsed by the Democratic Party in convention. Because of this violation of the constitution the Massachusetts group's charter may be revoked by the National organization...
Adoption by a single parent is a new trend growing out of the soaring illegitimacy rate. Adoption agencies, no longer able to be so choosy in selecting foster parents, have decided that half a home is better than none. This is especially true where the child is older or is of racially mixed parentage-situations in which adoptive couples are often impossible to come by. Explains Walter A. Heath, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Adoptions, which pioneered single adoption two years ago and has already placed 42 orphans: "They were all children for whom two parents just...
...choosing their students." Dana M. Cotton, the senior member of the admissions committee with 23 years under his belt, points out that Exeter and Andover are not supplying as many Harvard students as they used to, "which the headmasters there understand but which is difficult to explain to a parent who sent his son to Andover so he could get into the college of his choice...
WHEN I HAVE A SON by Charlotte Zolotow, illustrated by Hilary Knight (Harper & Row; $1.95). This small book, highly reminiscent of Mr. Knight's best-known Eloise, will be fun for both child and parent. "My son," says John, speaking for all young boys, "won't have to take piano. He'll never have to go to sleep till he finishes the chapter, and he can have triple malteds just before dinner...
...Bowles-Coleman controversy may have seemed trivial to the ghetto parent, but it was not. Like the many. other disputes swirling around the Report, it reflects the study's real methodological problems--problems which fundamentally affect its policy implication...