Word: parented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like most Americans, I do not tend to think of a society that has been good to me and to my parents as "evil." But when he said that "somebody has power," it was difficult to disagree. It is possible that icy equanimity and a self-pacifying form of moral abdication by the powerful will take more lives in the long run than any single drug-addicted and disordered parent. Elisa Izquierdo's mother killed only one child. The seemingly anesthetized behavior of the U.S. Congress may kill thousands. Now we are told we must "get tougher" with the poor...
...SHORTCUT, by David Macaulay (Houghton Mifflin; $15.95), is a funny, silly and exceedingly complicated adventure (Agatha Christie would have rejected the plot as too intricate) that is just right for an alert six-year-old and a wide-awake parent. The gifted artist, whose books Castle and Cathedral brought medieval architecture to life, starts with a farmer and his horse taking a load of melons to market and winds up dealing with a runaway train, a lost pig, an escaped hot-air balloon and more. All logical, too, if your eyes are sharp...
...sixth sense about the data their five senses gather today. Certainly many people outrank them in the child-welfare hierarchy, yet their views carry the greatest weight. Only they "walk up the drug-filled staircase, sit on the dirty couch and talk to the teenage mother," says Marc Parent, who spent four years as a caseworker in New York City. As the Elisa Izquierdo case demonstrates, "if you get a caseworker who goes to somebody's home and says it's fine, then it's fine," notes Parent. "That's how important their voice is." They get no public recognition...
...even the most dedicated caseworkers make mistakes. Marc Parent remembers vividly the 1990 Bronx case that finally broke his spirit. On the last call of a long night shift, Parent and his partner mounted six flights of stairs, passing drug dealers and crack addicts, in search of the mother in her late 20s who was reportedly neglecting her child. When they entered the apartment, they encountered mice and five filthy children, some naked, some half-dressed. Though Parent inspected the infant in question, he didn't unwrap the baby's blanket to look at the body or take the child...
...never let them down. This is a priority, along with my children"--may contain some truth. Diana, who admits she probably won't be Queen, may be maneuvering to promote young Prince William and protect her access to him. Since no one likes to see a devoted parent denied her children, there's little the palace can do except tolerate her as mother to the future King. As for her desire to be "queen of people's hearts," it looks as if she already...