Word: parented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From early on, the child-welfare workers had little hope for Lorina as a parent. "There is no reason to believe that Lorina Sandifer will ever be able to adequately meet her own needs, let alone to meet the needs of her growing family," a psychiatrist reported to the juvenile court in 1986. And so Yummy and his brothers and sister were placed with his grandmother, Janie Fields, whom Yummy took to calling Mama. Her prognosis as a care giver was not much more promising. The psychiatric report described Fields as "a very controlling, domineering, castrating woman with a rather...
...cumbersome plot frame, involving a grand jury investigation of a mercy killing and a melodramatic double misunderstanding underlying an estrangement between Ellen and her father. This elaboration clutters the novel but does not spoil it. Nor does the sense that beyond its last page, Ellen still has a living parent whom she understands only as a collection of flawed character traits...
...category," says Arthur Caplan, who directs the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. "The heart is the most symbolic of organs. Had they moved a lung or a pancreas, it just wouldn't have the same emotional impact." But a child's heart? Surely no parent could bear such a burden. Unless, perhaps, as in the case of the Szubers, the only alternative was another death in the family...
Many of today's educational programs were dreamed up by computer-industry veterans who were dissatisfied with what was on the market for their children. One parent, Richard Devine, started Club KidSoft, a mail-order company that distributes a quarterly magazine and a CD-ROM disk that allows parents to try out 40 software programs for free in their homes. To buy one, consumers simply call a telephone number for a code that unlocks the rest of the program. Started last October, Club Kidsoft already has more than 40,000 subscribers...
...Creating a single parent familycate-gory...would create the incentive for twoearner couples...to enroll the spouse in his orher employer's plan," according to Green...