Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other sources of parental trouble emerge from the play sessions. Unconsciously copying her own angry parent, a mother will often show almost sadistic anger when her child is slow to get to bed. A father sometimes tries to get from his child what he missed from his own parents. He may expect a child to accomplish what he himself wanted to accomplish but could not. Or he may force a child into the role of a loved, feared or hated sibling of his own. One father, for example, finally realized that he was grumpy with his little daughter because...
...regulations on industrial equipment and will press for new bans against dumping wastes in the oceans. What 1970 proved is that the environment issue cannot be dismissed as a fad. By changing national values, it may well spur a profound advance in U.S. maturity and harmony with nature, the parent of human life...
Doubts about conventional family life have also led to the growth of another phenomenon: the "single-parent family." No longer fearful about complete ostracism from society, many single girls who become pregnant now choose to carry rather than abort their babies and to support them after birth without rushing pell-mell into what might be a disastrous marriage...
...also creating a world where parents give things to their children instead of giving themselves. For example, a cab driver I had in Washington turned out to be a shoemaker who has taken a second job in order to be able to earn money to buy his kids a tape recorder and other expensive gifts for Christmas. The effect is, he's not going to see anything of his kids for a month and a half. This man is a good parent, but he just thinks that a new tape recorder is more valuable to his kids than...
...lost on the business community. If you take little Tommy to see Santa at Jordan's, the cost for one print is $2.34. But naturally, grandma will want one, and so will Aunt Sally, so you buy the package of three for $5.50. And acting as Santa Claus, a parent must buy extra presents, and that means more profits for someone. Then you have your Santa Claus dolls, your Santa Claus outfits, and your Santa Claus statues for your front yard in Shaker Heights...