Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easy to picture Elizabeth as a parent because she seems a parent already. Like Bernadette, she has been rushed into adulthood. Now she must take care of her father as if she were his parent?he who does not like to talk about the Troubles, or about the past, and who seems to have settled, quite justifiably, for a life of determined peace and quiet. He may never change. A grownup parent sees life in stages, knows fairly well when a child will outgrow or overcome this and that. But how does a child-parent know the same about grownups...
...wonder, in fact, if they begin to love their parents a little less for the multitude of responsibilities imposed on them. Or, for that matter, if they love them less for the danger they all are in. In primitive worlds the high infant mortality rate is said to have inured parents against caring for their children too much. Does the same obtain in places where there is a high parent mortality rate? Perhaps the children begin to withhold some of their love from their parents as a pre-emptive strike against the assassins. It would be reasonable. It would...
...burial ground, the boy walking behind them. Kim Seng was quite weak and thin. The neighbors buried his mother, burned incense, and departed. Then Kim Seng knelt by the grave and burned three incense sticks of his own. Finally he took a handful of dirt from each of his parent's graves, poured it together in his hands, and beseeched his dead parents to look after him. He then returned to the mobile team...
Eleanor C. Marshall, assistant to the director of the Parents Association, said yesterday that the association has received many complaints during the past five years from parents who ordered packages that were either not delivered or incomplete. The association received a letter this week from a parent who claimed the company did not deliver one of the two kits ordered, Marshall added...
...Domaine Chandon in 1981 captured an estimated 25% of the market for sparkling wine made by the French method. The company, whose bubbly retails for about $12 a bottle (vs. around $24 for imported Moët & Chandon), plans to produce 5 million bottles annually. By comparison, its parent, Moët-Hennessy, shipped 2.6 million bottles to the U.S. in 1981. Another French firm, Piper-Heid-sieck, has started a California winery with Sonoma Vineyards and will release its first wines in late...