Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Koberinski 46 19 26 45 16 32 Malcolm Parks 46 17 21 38 24 48 Lee Davidson 39 16 10 26 30 63 P. Nakonechny 41 6 14 20 21 4 2 Tom Benson 45 0 20 20 34 76 Scott Dub 44 11 8 19 34 79 Russ Parent 45 2 16 18 21 50 Mike LaMoine 45 2 16 18 18 36 Brent Bobyck 44 6 11 17 8 16 Grant Paranica 40 5 10 15 18 36 Murray Baron 39 3 10 13 30 60 Jeff Bowen 43 5 7 12 17 42 Tarek Howard...
Still, Reagan has taken advantage of our kindness in the extreme. Unlike the children of an aged parent, we cannot keep making excuses for our elected patriarch. He is accountable, and his health is the least of his problems--as well as ours. To be presidential means to possess a capacity to lead and a willingness to accept responsibility. The more attention paid to the president's health, the less we are able to see his larger failings...
Edelman is particularly concerned about teenage pregnancy, which she sees as both a cause and a consequence of poverty. The C.D.F. reports that one in every five poor teenagers is a parent. Every year, almost half a million teenage girls give birth; about 50% receive no prenatal care in the first three months of pregnancy. Nearly one of every five babies born to adolescent mothers suffers from low birth weight. Amid growing concern about teen pregnancy, Edelman last week presided over the C.D.F.'s third annual Pregnancy Prevention Conference, which drew more than 2,000 religious leaders, social and health...
...teen cluster suicides have devastated communities across the country in recent years, school systems have set up counseling networks, including suicide-prevention training for teachers and students, suicide hotlines and community- and parent-awareness programs to help identify and deter potential victims. But problem kids often ignore offers of help. Although Bergenfield prides itself on the number of youth-support programs operating in the school district, many students did not seem to be aware of them...
Because the defective site is on the X chromosome, females (who are born with two Xs, one inherited from each parent) are less often affected by the syndrome; their normal X chromosome can mask the effects of the faulty one. But males, who have one X and one Y sex chromosome, have no such backup and are therefore more susceptible. Still, for reasons that baffle scientists, not all females are protected, and some males are spared. "About 20% of males who inherit the gene are unaffected carriers, and about a third of all females who are carriers are affected," says...