Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...More than a third of all black families are headed by women, v. a bit more than a fourth in 1968. By contrast, the proportion of white families headed by females has increased only from 8.9% to 9.6%. Female-headed families are almost twice as likely as two-parent families to have incomes below the officially established poverty level...
Jean Charbonnel, Minister of Industrial and Scientific Development, worked out a compromise by which the watchmaking plant would get $7,250,000 in new capital, half from its parent company and half in government funds. This meant laying off only 400 workers. But the workers, enjoying the limelight as well as widespread public support, summarily rejected the plan. They even stepped up their rebellion by making the first wage payments from the proceeds of their sales. Then they refused to accept service of a court order requiring them to shut down the plant...
More specifically, transactional analysts believe that what makes a person unhappy is an unbalanced relationship between the three parts that constitute every human personality: Parent, Adult and Child. Harris rejects any suggestion that these are the equivalent of Freud's superego, ego and id. "The Parent, Adult and Child are real things that can be validated," he insists. "We're talking about real people, real times and real events, as recorded in the brain." Be that as it may, the theory is that unless the mature, rational Adult dominates the personality, or, in the language...
Crossed lines like this denote uncomplementary transactions, and bode trouble. For example, the Adult-to-Adult question about the cuff links might be answered with a sharp "Where you left them," a reproof that comes from the wife's Parent and is addressed to what she sees as the inept Child in her husband's personality...
...Adults. As a way of inspiring group members, T.A. therapists usually make "contracts" with them to achieve specific goals like giving up alcohol or such amorphous ones as "to get more OK," "to be able to give myself to others" or "to exercise more control over my Parent." One far-out leader shouts, "You're OK!" to his groups, and another asks members to clasp hands in a circle dance while singing Ding, Dong, the Witch Is Dead. Harris, who now does more teaching and training than therapy, usually begins his lectures with a few jokes to loosen things...