Word: parented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doesn't have to be an ethicist to see the difficulties these situations could create. All parents know how hard it is to separate what they think a child ought to be from what he or she actually is. That difficulty would be compounded -- for both the parent and the child -- if an exact template for what that child could become in 10 or 20 years were before them in the form of an older sibling. "I think we have a right to our own individual genetic identity," said Daniel Callahan, director of the Hastings Center, an ethics- research organization...
...Tuesday evening in Greenville, South Carolina, hundreds of parents hurried through dinner and headed for the local school-board meeting. Those who could not find seats flowed into the hallways, where TV monitors captured a heated debate over a proposed program called "Framework for Learning." Supporters argued that this curriculum would strengthen reasoning skills; opponents countered that it was a veiled effort to sabotage home-taught moral and religious values. For many of those in the room and in the hall, the controversy evoked a here-we-go-again feeling that has pervaded every board meeting in town since January...
...even required to win converts and influence agendas. Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum conducts seminars in Georgia to challenge that state's new OBE programs, and not incidentally to publicize the Forum's wider agenda. Opponents of OBE have managed to galvanize concern to the point that parents in suburban Atlanta stick leaflets on car windshields denouncing the "dumbing down" of classes and the substitution of "psychotherapy" for the three Rs. Debi Schwier, an anti-OBE organizer in Gwinnett County, denounces such reforms as "one of the most blatant shifts in the history of the U.S. from what they call...
...festivals and shoofly pie, has seen its drug problems increase as people have moved in from poor neighborhoods in New York City and Philadelphia. Some of the newcomers already harbor the AIDS virus; at least 400 children in the county have either lost or are about to lose a parent to the disease. Often, infected mothers leave large cities and return to places where they grew up, where aunts and grandmothers can take in the children. "Perhaps half the women we see have come home to die," says Jacquelyn Clymore of the AIDS Service Agency in Raleigh, North Carolina...
...hard enough for a child to lose a parent. But when AIDS is the killer, the pain is all the more profound. Since most of the infected mothers are single parents, no father is around to fill the void. If the mother's drug use had caused her family to spurn her, relatives may be unwilling to care for her kids. Moreover, the stigma of AIDS causes many families to keep the cause of death quiet. The surviving children are isolated in their shame. "If they know, they usually don't tell anybody," Clymore notes. "Not their best friend...