Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...someone expecting a baby in July? No problem. Any number of companies make Mother's Day cards for mothers-to-be. And why should Pop feel left out and have to wait until June for his special day? Hallmark puts out a card that says "You're a terrific parent, too, Dad!" Why in fact should Mother's Day be restricted to parents? It is not. A card by Recycled Paper Products of Chicago has this touching message: "Although you're not my mother, your little motherlies mean a lot to me. Happy Motherish...
...expectations. % The traditional husband-wife relationship may no longer satisfy many people, but equally unrealistic are those who strive to become Supermom and Ultra- Exec. "You're not going to be able to go as far in your career, have the kind of marriage and be the kind of parent you would like all at the same time," warns Atlanta Psychologist Michael Berger. "If you've got tremendous amounts of energy, go for two of the three. But you're not going to get three out of three...
Littauer Professor of Political Economy at Kenedy School Thomas C. Schelling, referring to Moynihan's claim that 60 percent of all black children are in single parent families--as compared with 15 percent of white children--said the issue "is still fundamentally a Black problem of public policy...
...customary woolen habit. Daily hours may be shifted to local needs, and a prioress no longer has absolute sway over her convent. Beyond that, however, in rare cases nuns have abandoned the habit altogether. Also, sisters are occasionally leaving the cloister for personal missions like visiting a sick parent, and, with special permission, for more mundane matters like schooling. A prioress in Barcelona even appeared on a TV talk show. "These are the exceptions that get publicity," says a Carmelite in Rome. Nonetheless, such liberties would once have been unthinkable; to traditionalists like Mother John, prioress of a convent...
...developing toward stocks of communications companies, portending more big mergers and fast price rises. ABC stock shot up $31, to nearly $106, and issues of some other companies in the field also climbed sharply. At week's end CBS had gained 20 1/4, to 108 3/ 4, and RCA, parent of NBC, had risen 4 7/8, to 42 7/8. Newspaper publishers Gannett and Knight-Ridder were up too, as was the stock of Chicago's Tribune Co. Australian Publisher Rupert Murdoch, whose properties include the New York Post and New York magazine, added even more zest to the media merger...