Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children after divorce. Today, however, about 60% of divorced women work outside the home, and the women's movement has encouraged many men to take a larger role on the domestic front. Says William Haddad, a political writer and co-author of the joint-custody book The Disposable Parent, "In the court, stereotypes prevail. The court does not yet conceive of shared roles...
Most judges still believe that the stability of a single home is essential: children should not be shuttled between parents who have proved that they cannot get along. Psychiatric advice has traditionally tended to agree. The 1973 book Beyond The Best Interests of the Child, by Joseph Goldstein, Anna Freud and Albert J. Solnit, took the stark position that the parent with custody should have the right to deny visits by the noncustodial parent because those visits might undermine the child's stability...
...court, he makes the most of what he describes as a talent for being "emotionally logical." In custody cases, he has been known to weep before a jury, out of what he asserts is "genuine concern for the parent who is feeling pain." As for the Marvin case, he describes it sanctimoniously as a quest "to permit unmarried women the dignity of walking through the front door of a courthouse" to seek "just and fair treatment...
...Puritan New England, after all, was a sobering proposition: one-half of all youngsters died before the age of ten, and those who survived were continually reminded that they had been born in sin and were doomed to hell if they did not submit to the commandments of parent and preacher. To adults, play was a manifestation of a depraved nature, and they tried to coerce their children into becoming models of rectitude. One dictum for raising properly passive Puritan offspring: "Once a day, take something from them." Children were hurried into adult responsibilities: by three, some were learning Latin...
With this new optimism came a shift in child-rearing emphasis from church to home: increasingly, parents focused less on a child's eternal fate and more on his making it in this world. Paintings mirrored the change. Children began to look more like-well, children, and were depicted as members of affectionate families. In his portrait of The Strobel Children and Their Servant Boy (1813-14), John Wesley Jarvis shows a young boy tenderly holding his sister. Hers is an expression of contentment, his of protectiveness. Such depictions of sentimentality echoed the views of transcendentalists such as Emerson...