Word: parented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nearly one-third of all American children are now in families headed by a single parent, the Census Bureau reported today. Perhaps surprisingly, the highest concentration of single-parent families (37.3 percent) is found in quiet Albany, Ga., just 40 miles from former President Jimmy Carter's hometown of Plains. Overall, the report says, 30 percent of American families and 63 percent of the country's black families are headed by single parents. New York City came in second in the survey, with 35.9 percent of children in single-parent homes...
...comfort level at all [with this decision]," said Fantini, who added an amendment to the decision which he hopes will increase parent involvement and input in the health center...
Cracked Rear View (Atlantic). Charged by rock 'n' roll but grounded in the blues, this quartet, based in Columbia, South Carolina, makes music with frat- party swagger, but the band's lyrics address such serious topics as the death of a parent and the racial implications of flying the Confederate flag. The rough, commanding voice of lead singer Darius Rucker, at left, makes it all work...
...discovery of a fossilized embryo from a carnivorous dinosaur: an oviraptor found in Mongolia. The embryo was lodged in a nest, which also contained bones from other tiny dinos that mother oviraptor might have eaten while watching over her sharp- toothed darlings. Apparently even prehistoric monsters knew how to parent...
...appear to harm the kidneys.) Ending heavy use of Tylenol -- which accounts for 48 percent of the nation's $2.9 billion in annual pain reliever sales -- could prevent 10 percent of kidney failure cases, saving about $700 million in medical bills a year, the study concludes. But Johnson & Johnson, parent of Tylenol's maker, lashed out, calling the drug "remarkably safe" and saying the report would "unnecessarily alarm the public...