Word: parenthood
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...many children do you care for under the age of 18?”, would reveal young parents with a gaggle of children; a pregnancy test would reveal another on the way. These men and women were stressed out from the double whammy of poverty and parenthood, unable to understand why they couldn’t control the children wreaking havoc a few feet away—or, even better, “spending the day at home.” Children under the age of nine, spending eight hours a day home alone...
...historians and psychologists have lots of theories about how we got here, but some perennial truths persist: every generation thinks the next one is too slack; every parent reinvents the job. Parenthood, like childhood, is a journey of discovery. You set off from your memories of being a kid, all the blessings, all the scars. You overreact, improvise and over time maybe learn what works; with luck you improve. It is characteristic of the baby boomers to imagine themselves the first to take this trip, to pack so many guidebooks to read along the way and to try to minimize...
...overturning a Wisconsin law forbidding child-support-delinquent citizens to marry if they could not show that their children could be kept off welfare. Similarly, activists like the A.C.L.U.'s Catherine Weiss say Oakley's sentence "runs dangerously close to having a financial test for parenthood." Such fears are not utterly unfounded. Between 1907 and 1964, tens of thousands of people deemed "genetically inferior"--including many poor people, minorities and petty criminals--were sterilized by law in some 30 states. Justice Bradley wrote that her court "places the woman in an untenable position: Have an abortion or be responsible...
...FitzGerald finds such speculation "inflammatory" and not relevant to the court's goals regarding Oakley. He says the order by Banales is too narrowly drafted to be of much use to other prosecutors and is, in any case, a weapon against intentional dereliction, not a "financial litmus test" for parenthood. "What it really means," he says, is "if you have a kid, you have to pay support to your best ability and not just blow...
...good fight with all the weapons available: a firm bass voice, a wagging finger, the Bible? After all, this teen-drinking business is serious. Just because I survived my 12-pack road trips and puke-a-thon proms doesn't mean my daughter will. That scares me. But parenthood in general scares me. Something else scares me too: the idea that if I skip the porch talk, one day, after catching my daughter in her first big spree, I'll have to confront her about lying to me about liquor while knowing inside that I've been lying about...