Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, there is the fully revised and expanded Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care by Dr. Benjamin Spock and Dr. Steven J. Parker (Pocket). The book takes the parent through adolescence. Child abuse, rock 'n' roll, AIDS: no topic is too difficult for Dr. Spock to address...
Rabbi, family mediator and mental-health counselor M. Gary Neuman says it is time for us to face the new realities of marriage: "We must stop regarding new family structures--single-parent, step-, and blended--as somehow inferior and support these families for what they are: real families too." Neuman's book, Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce the Sandcastles Way (Times), is meant to help parents navigate the choppy waters of divorce. Neuman is the creator of the Sandcastles Program, a workshop for the children of divorce, which has aided more than 30,000 kids. "The overwhelming majority...
...advice for working mothers a few years ago, it was only a matter of time before the male version emerged. Marathon Dad: Setting a Pace That Works for Working Fathers by John Evans (Avon) leads the charge with advice directed at the father who wants to take part in parenting without giving up his career. Evans, a psychotherapist, sees Marathon Man as the natural partner of Super Mom: "another breathless man trying to juggle the demands of a full-time career and hands-on, involved parenting in a two-working-parent home." But the struggle to be a good father...
...have seen a sharp rise in the number of gays and lesbians raising children, the so-called gay-by boom. Some had children before realizing they were homosexual. More recently, many would-be gay parents have chosen adoption, foster care or artificial insemination. While exact numbers are not available, it has been estimated that 6 million to 14 million children are living with at least one homosexual parent. Publishers have sought to meet the needs of this community with books like the often controversial Heather Has Two Mommies (Alyson...
...Schnatter and his wife and three children live in a brick-and-stone mansion set on nearly 16 landscaped acres in suburban Louisville, Ky. One neighbor Schnatter probably doesn't call on: David Novak, the former boss of Pizza Hut and current president and vice chairman of Pizza Hut parent Tricon Global Restaurants, who lives not far away...