Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want no more children of her own. After she met the Sterns for the first time at a New Jersey restaurant, the three became friends, trading phone calls back and forth. Whitehead signed a contract, promising among other things that she would not "form or attempt to form a parent-child relationship" with the resulting infant. The Sterns promised to pay her $10,000, plus medical expenses. They paid the center $10,000. But during delivery, Whitehead told the court last week, she decided she could not go through with it. "Something took over," she said. "I think...
...Reagan Administration has long maintained that the traditional family is a bastion in the battle against poverty. It contends that the dramatic addition of 7 million Americans to the ranks of the poor since 1979 is rooted in a cultural phenomenon: the increase of single-parent, female-headed households...
...ignored "weak trends in employment and wages" from 1979 to 1985 as primary factors in keeping more than 33 million Americans below the poverty line, which for a family of four stands at $10,989 a year. It linked jobless statistics from the same period to show that two-parent households accounted for 45% of the rise in the number of poor. Single-parent families made up only 32% of the increase. Conservatives quickly defended the Administration from the implied criticism of its social agenda. However, according to Democratic Senator William Proxmire, a committee member, "When you have policies that...
...Ninoy was the public center of the family, Cory was the moral backbone. "He decided that he would be the indulgent parent," she has written, "and I would be the disciplinarian." Often she extended that loving discipline even to her husband, telling him the difficult truths that his cronies preferred to hold back. "Cory was his highest conscience," says Harvard's Brown."He valued her judgments enormously...
Still the pleas for her candidacy gained momentum. Finally, in October 1985, while delivering a lecture on "My Role as Wife, Mother and Single Parent" at a University of the Philippines sorority, Aquino conceded that she would stand for the presidency -- provided that Marcos called a snap election and that 1 million people petitioned her. The very next month, prodded by the & warnings of Senator Paul Laxalt, President Reagan's special emissary, that U.S. support for his regime was weakening, Marcos stunned even his advisers by announcing a snap election. One month later, Aquino was presented with her million signatures...