Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...false." Nonetheless, a number of psychologists and sociologists emphasize the need for a vigorous educational program to inform the public ?particularly adolescents?about the risks that are as much a part of gambling as its potential profits and pleasures. Dr. Sirgay Sanger, for example, director of the Parent-Child Interaction Program at St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan believes: "We've become a very materialistic and success-oriented society that is tremendously influenced by mass communication, particularly TV. The effect on children is to indulge them into thinking they can do anything?but that, by hook or by crook...
...said another study by Burt, published after his death, found a 49 per cent correlation in parent-child I.Q. scores and that a review by Christopher S. Jencks '58, professor of Sociology, of five other parent-child studies found a 48 per cent correlation...
...analyzing slave registers, marriage records during Reconstruction and later census data, Gutman found that the two-parent household and long-lasting marriages have been typical among blacks for most of their American experience. In the slave quarters, marital fidelity was highly regarded and defended, but premarital sex was tolerated, and no stigma was attached to illegitimacy. Except when marriages were broken by the sale of one spouse, the clear tendency was for stable, long-lasting slave marriages. In some cases, marriages even survived successful escapes by one spouse. Gutman quotes a Natchez, Miss., slave overseer who said that slaves...
...Tinkering. Gutman took his study only to 1925 and many experts insist that black family structure is still reasonably strong in 1976. For example, Sociologist Joyce Ladner and Anthropologist Carol Stack report that single-parent households among the urban black poor are often part of flexible extended families that protect the young and preserve family continuity...
Harvard's Parent Loan Plan (PLP), which enables parents whose incomes range from $15,000 to $50,000 to pay tuition in monthly installments over eight years, was implemented this year...