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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What is disturbing to me when people here are talking about me or about other scholarship students from Bulgaria is that every parent (among the ones I have met) seems to know of some bright kid or some bright relative who has "succeeded" and is living abroad, either working or studying on scholarship. Instead of looking inward at the problems with which the country is faced and trying to figure out solutions, the usual Bulgarian is looking outward, more precisely westward, and hoping either that their child would be one of the "successful" ones or that, by some sort...
...fair for children to be used as pawns by one parent to punish the other? My ex-wife and Faye Yager, who runs an illegal underground network, don't speak for my children. They don't speak for me. Yet, in concert, they removed my daughters' rights to see me and my rights as a parent to see them. I find that reprehensible. One of your readers characterized Yager as a saint. Mother Teresa was a saint. She never broke the law or lived a life-style separate from that of the people she helped. Yager is no Mother Teresa...
Three powerful forces have shaped today's child prodigies: a prosperous information age that increasingly promotes products and entertains audiences by titillation; aggressive public-policy initiatives that loudly preach sexual responsibility, further desensitizing kids to the subject; and the decline of two-parent households, which leaves adolescents with little supervision. Thus kids are not only bombarded with messages about sex--many of them contradictory--but also have more private time to engage in it than did previous generations. Today more than half of the females and three-quarters of the males ages 15 to 19 have experienced sexual intercourse, according...
Kids aren't supposed to be tuning in to Dr. Drew Pinsky on Loveline, MTV's popular nightly call-in show on relationships. The program is aimed at young adults, and, Pinsky says, younger teens shouldn't watch it without a parent nearby. But they manage to. Sometimes because of a technicality: the show airs at 10 p.m. in the Central time zone instead of 11 p.m., as it does on the East and West coasts. But mainly because the subject is sex. And if sex is on the tube, adolescents are sure to find a way of getting...
...ability to reach a population in desperate need of information--a skill he first discovered 15 years ago as a medical student in California. When two disc-jockey acquaintances were starting a new show on relationships, they asked him to be the medical consultant. Pinsky, now a happily married parent of triplets, had sensed that young people were not receiving much sex education from their parents--a result of what he calls the 1970s "abdication of parenting" ethos. But he was stunned by the response to the first few shows. "It was an epiphany. The most important health issues...