Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brown, who is a director of Allied Stores, the parent company of Jordan Marsh, refused "to render a judgment" on the request, saying that he did not think he had enough information to take a stand one way or the other on the Stevens boycott...
...Forest Hills, N.Y., parent has spent over $700 on special SAT preparation courses and private tutoring because she believes that the competition her son faces to get into an Ivy League school from the metropolitan area is extremly intense. "My son needs every extra edge he can get in order to have a chance of getting admitted at Harvard this year," she says...
...turning this view on its head, calls on men to discard their briefcases and join the world of women, to participate in the emotional growth of raising a child. Both men and women, then, should have careers, and both should enjoy the "nurturing," or emotional fulfillment, of being a parent...
...book can be read by any parent, married or divorced, gay or straight, working or unemployed, traditional or experimental. Open-mindedness is the watchword, and the authors view all family arrangements, even childless ones, with approbation. This openness makes the book generally accessible, an accessibility widened by the book's scope--from pre-parenthood to being the parent of an adult. In short, Ourselves will interest anyone in any stage of bringing up children...
...DOES have problems. Cant terms and phrases blemish the work, including, foremost, "nurture" in all possible tenses and manifestations. "Parent" is used repeatedly as a transitive verb, a questionable usage more startling than necessary. Quotations, essential to carrying the book outside the limited experience of ten women, sometimes obtrude, making the prose lurch like some balky pack-animal. And the eighth chapter, a pseudo-Marxist critique of American society, seems incongruous and overextends the credibility of the authors...