Word: parented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nutty as it sounds, given the genetics of gender. Boys, by definition, get one X chromosome from their mother and one Y from their father. Girls have two Xs, one from each parent. Girls with Turner's syndrome have only a single complete X, and it can come from either Mom or Dad; modern genetic tests can reveal which...
...made enough trouble, he might be sent back west. Police believe he set the fire, then fled. One officer has said that, after police found him wandering the streets later that night, Malcolm admitted the crime. The boy's lawyers, who are moving to suppress that statement because no parent or attorney was present when he gave it, say Malcolm told one of them a different story...
...four of these fine films are stories about loss--of a lover, of childhood, of vitality, of a parent. Where a Hollywood movie would see some form of apocalyptic revenge as the answer to these discontents, foreign directors look for solutions grounded in daily experience. The films may be fantastic or melodramatic, lighthearted or soul-splitting; the people in them may look exotic and speak other languages. Yet compared with the heroes of U.S. films, they are closer to us--almost inside us. They offer artful lessons in getting through a summer, or a life...
...boomers once boasted of never trusting anyone over 30, Xers have even more cause for disillusion. Between 1965 and 1977, the divorce rate doubled. More than 40% of today's young adults had spent time in a single-parent home by age 16. Did the psychic toll produce latch-key basket cases or self-reliant survivors? Undoubtedly, both. In their coupling habits, Gen X is the "youngest copulating and oldest marrying generation ever recorded," note Strauss and Howe. Since 1970 the average marriage age has crept up from 23 to 27 for men and from 21 to 25 for women...
...laundry list of allegations in the report included several suspected drug deals at one club, a reported attack by a first-year who became drunk while visiting a club, repeated reports of sexual harassment, a complaint about lewd sexual acts performed by hired women and a complaint from a parent who said her son had been the victim of hazing by a club...