Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protect family harmony as well as prevent collusion against insurance companies, American law has generally barred a child from suing his parents for injuries resulting from parental negligence. Now the California Supreme Court has joined a growing trend and condemned the policy as a "legal anachronism." Since most suits are in fact intended to recover money from the parents' insurer, said the court, family harmony is not really threatened. Beyond that, "we find intolerable the notion that a parent may act negligently with impunity." The court moderated the impact of its decision on parental authority by declaring the test...
...called the meeting to discuss specific day-care problems. Participants could not decide whether to establish a parent cooperative or a pro-fessionally-staffed center with a parent governing board...
Being a good parent also requires preventing anti-black feelings in black children. When parents counsel "Never be ashamed of your color" and then speak of only light-skinned Negroes as pretty, they "plant seeds of self-doubt, conflict and identity confusion." To promote racial dignity, parents should "emphasize a spirit of community with all black people" so that children will know that they are not alone...
What are the webs made of? Of guilt, Laing seems to say-unnecessary, irrational guilt, perhaps resulting from fantasied childhood "wrongs" and from tortuous, circular reasoning about causes and effects. When a parent is angry, a child is sure that he is unloved because of his "badness." Thus...
...keep local munitions workers sober during the Great War, the government of Lloyd George expropriated a brewery in the north of England and severely restricted drinking in its chain of 450 pubs. When a British travel firm's Belgian parent company was seized by the Nazis in World War II, the government of Winston Churchill assumed title to Thomas Cook & Son. By now, Britain's march toward nationalization has led to a state-owned industrial complex of brobdingnagian proportions. One-tenth of the country's labor force works for government enterprises, including railways, docks, airlines, bus lines...