Word: parentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, after presiding over a hearing in a short-sleeved, open-collared sport shirt, cigar-gnawing Judge Byars handed down his decision: the Foster group really represented the official Republican organization in Georgia. His reasoning: the Foster group was the "parent organization"; it existed first...
...Actress Bergman nor Pia's father, Dr. Peter Lindstrom. Pia, she said, "is almost lost to her [mother]. Whether she [Actress Bergman] wished to admit it or not, a goodly part of the responsibility rests with her . . . Children are not chattels to be passed back and forth between parents to satisfy their pride, convenience and desires, at the expense of the welfare of those children. The parent having physical custody necessarily has the advantage, for besides having the child's constant regard, love and companionship, that parent . . . can and unfortunately often does, intentionally or otherwise, turn the affection...
...that many women "straddle the fence" in their attitude toward motherhood: behind the conscious desire to bear a child there may be a deeper, unconscious revulsion against having one. This, in turn, may be the result of emotional immaturity and dependence (seeking to make the marriage into a child-parent relationship with the husband as parent), or an aggressive, masculine personality which would make the patient resent a child's demands...
...Deliver me ! I, for one parent and ex-teacher, want no part of the "awesome" Center for Children's Books [TIME, May 5 report on what books children should read. Horse feathers ! In this day and age of television, comic books, second-rate murder mysteries, etc., I should think any book would be a healthy change for most children...
...sunshine . . . After the speech, a crowd gathered around, thrusting pieces of paper at him for autographs. I saw one boy hand the Senator his obviously poor report card. He signed (I don't think he even looked at it) right where the boy hoped-in the space for parent's approval signature...