Word: parented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...genetic disease. It is not that purebreds have more defective genes than other dogs, or that inbreeding - somehow causes healthy genes to go bad. Most hereditary disorders in dogs are caused by recessive genes; as long as an animal has a good copy of the gene from one parent, it will override a bad copy from the other parent. But if both parents pass on the same bad gene -- which is more likely if mother and father come from the same family -- the puppy has a problem...
...again. "The foster family is the solution to our problems," says Joe Kroll of the North American Council on Adoptable Children. "Professionalize it, support it, compensate it. The costs of foster care would go up, but they would still be far less than the costs of institutions." Awarding foster- parent status -- and financial support -- to a child's relatives became a new focus...
...There's nothing bad I can say," Brown says. "I would say for someone following in his footsteps, he's a good mentor. I hope [the program] continues on and on. It really is a great asset to any parent whose children are going...
...Every day in the halls... I walk by a teen parent," said high school junior Shenita Cosby. "When only a small fraction feel comfortable talking to their parents, we need to be able to go to someone nearby whom we trust...
...spend Commencement Day perched in the world's most torturous-looking chair, the Sackler's new show, American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, provides no answers. It does, however, remind us that Harvard's museums are more than a place to temporarily dispose of loved ones when Parent's Weekend begins to pall. The exhibit raises a labyrinth of confounding problems that transcend the hothouse world of museums to intrude on our faith in the definition of American culture...