Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...collaboration with Psychologist David Clayson, has been studying women selected at random at New York Hospital's therapeutic-abortion ward. Downs found that at least one-quarter of the first 108 women studied had suffered psychiatric problems in the previous two years; more than half had lost a parent or close relative during the past year. A slim majority said that members of their families had recently undergone hysterectomies, or that they themselves had experienced gynecological disorders that led them to question their fertility. "It really makes sense for these women to become pregnant," says Downs...
...professionally-staffed day-care center governed by parents and open to the children of Harvard employees, students and faculty, the Center is the first parent-initiated day-care center in the University. Space for the Center, as well as heat and partial janatorial services, are being provided free by the University...
...bristly as a fresh toothbrush. He kept his elbows off the table at meals, his speech was a crisp cadence of "yes, sir" or "no, ma'am," and on occasion he even helped old ladies across the street. He was, in short, the ideal son for many a parent: a cadet turned out by one of the nation's once flourishing military schools. Today, though, many of the academies are battling for survival. They have been ambushed, they say, by the recession, the permissiveness of modern parents, and public irascibility over the Viet Nam War, which seems...
...PARENTS. "The rules of parenthood are simple enough: Be an adult and enjoy being an adult. Do not permit what you do not soberly approve. Set limits and see that they are kept. When should a parent turn over authority to the child? When the child stops reaching for authority and reaches for responsibility, and not before." STUDENT RADICALS. "I believe that unearned approval in childhood is the source of three traits common among the student radicals: 1) They are far less argumentative than young radicals used to be. Arguing takes listening. 2) They read surprisingly little, although they know...
...know if I can last until then." Two Detroit machinists formerly employed by the Michigan Tool Co., Earl MacLeit and George Silver, told similar tales of woe. Each of them was laid off after more than three decades of steady work when Michigan Tool's parent company, ExCellO Corp., decided to move the Detroit operation to North Carolina. The men were not invited to relocate. Now they subsist on unemployment checks...