Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stockholders who own between ten and 500 shares face the biggest dilemma. Under terms of the divestiture agreement, they will keep their shares of the parent company, and in addition be given one share in each of the seven regional operating companies for every ten shares of A T & T stock they have. Thus someone with 100 shares of AT&T, worth $6,675 last week, would acquire another ten shares each in new companies with such unfamiliar names as Pacific Telesis and Ameritech. Those with fewer than ten A T & T shares will be given cash instead of partial...
Browne, indeed, writes wonderfully about fatherhood, even if the toll has been heavy. Ethan, now 9, lives with his father, while Ryan, 1½, is with his mother. "I have hope of finally getting it right, of finally learning how to integrate life as a parent and my life as an artist," says Browne, before admitting, "So far I've never really got them to go together...
...abuse so they can remain together. When the abusive situation in a home seems unlikely to change permanently, authorities often argue over who should leave the household: the offending adult or the victimized child. Since it is easier under most state laws to remove the child than force a parent to leave, that is how the problem is most often resolved...
...clear. Clinics and social-welfare agencies deal more frequently with the poor. Whether actual abuse occurs more often among poor families is not certain. A correlation between increases in unemployment rates and rises in physical child-abuse reports, however, suggests that stress over money matters tends to make parents lose their tempers more readily when a child cries too long or is unruly. Still, contends Betty Singer, who heads a childtrauma team at Boston's Children's Hospital, "every parent has the capacity to abuse...
...locating a victim is difficult, pinning the blame on an adult is even trickier. Children are understandably reluctant to accuse their father or mother. When they do, the parent often denies any wrongdoing-and law-enforcement authorities find it difficult to take the word of a child over that of an adult. Despite the pain involved, various counseling groups encourage open confrontations as a means of getting the guilty to face up to the problem...