Word: parenting
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...addition to raising student loan ceilings and interest rates, the bill institues a parent loan program and raises the maximum amount that may be received from Basic Educational Opportunity Grants...
...packages and often cost 25% or so less than national brand products, continue to boom. Within the past six months, the Star Market Co., based in Cambridge. Mass., claims to have introduced unbranded products to the U.S., has had a 10% increase in sales on 85 of them. Its parent, Chicago's Jewel Companies Inc., now has 170 such items in its stores, and the company claims that almost all customers buy some of them. Favorites: paper products and dog food. Savings can be substantial. A 32-oz. bottle of no-brand ketchup normally costs 89?, as compared with...
...then, once again, Reagan botched it. At the Michigan State Fair, he launched another attack on Carter and went too far. "Now, I'm happy to be here," he said, "while he [Carter] is opening his campaign down in the city that gave birth to and is the parent body of the Ku Klux Klan...
Another study among six to eleven-year-olds suggests that the performance of one-parent children may be improved if the divorced father retains custody of a son and the mother raises a daughter. However logical such an arrangement may seem, it flies in the face of the traditional legal presumption that women are, by nature, better equipped than men to nurture children of either...
Dallas Psychologists Richard Warshak and John Santrock, both associated with the University of Texas, made a close clinical study of relations between children and divorced parents in 60 families. Their conclusion, reported in an article in the Journal of Social Issues, was that children reared by same-sex parents exhibit greater maturity and independence. There is also less child-parent friction and a closer interrelationship. Mothers, after all, are less likely to teach boys to fish or hit a ball, and fathers are less experienced at dressing dolls or little girls. But try to tell that to the judge...