Word: parentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every day hundreds of U.S. parents are faced with a problem which few of them know how to tackle: a son (more rarely, a daughter) who shows more interest in his own than in the opposite sex. Such cases are commonest in families that have been disrupted by the death of one parent, by divorce or separation, or by constant bickering between husband and wife. But they are also found, and all too often, in families that consider themselves normal in every way. Then parents scourge themselves with the question: "What did we do wrong...
...There is one underlying cause common to every case of true homosexuality: the individual has failed to "identify," as psychiatrists put it, with the parent of the same sex. In normal development a young boy wants to be substantially like his father, and things go wrong when a boy rejects his father as an ideal. If the father is a dominating, bullying type, the boy is likely to prefer, and tend to identify himself with, his mother's yielding tenderness. If father is a henpecked weakling, the boy will reject him and resolve to avoid his mistake of falling...
...Negro children's attempt to enter Sousa Junior High School was a maneuver carefully planned by the Consolidated Parent Group, an organization of Negro parents headed by a barbershop owner who once paid a $10 fine for taking his three-year-old daughter into a white playground in Washington. The other four cases before the court, from South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware and Kansas, were brought about in much the same manner by the N.A.A.C.P. The legal technicalities in the lawsuits differ somewhat from case to case,* but the aim is the same: mixed schools...
...bound to happen sometime during the Christmas recess. Some parent, uncle, neighbor of friend in a worried voice, is going to ask just about every undergraduate: "Say, what's up with those Reds at your College?" His exact wording will vary with the care with which he reads the papers, but the attitude will be the same: honest concern over what the papers call the "mess" at Harvard, and the same kind of concern he felt last fall about the "mess" in Washington...
Last week the judge gave each of the fathers six months' suspended sentence with a warning that "if your children commit any more thefts, you will serve the six months in jail." It was the first time in Texas that a parent has been held liable to imprisonment for the crimes of his children. It was also the first time in many a long month that quiet has reigned in Rosenberg...