Word: parently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main purposes of the proposed nursery school would be to encourage children to express themselves clearly, Finn said. He noted that in low income areas many families are composed of only one parent and more than five children...
...math is rote learning of unexplained rules ("carrying," for instance); new math tries to cut away mystery by making computation seem real, open and understandable. New math is here to stay. But, as many a baffled parent suspects, the teaching of it is in deep confusion. Max Beberman, the Illinois professor who has been urging new math on the U.S. for a decade, is now "very much disturbed...
...Enough? Unfortunately, even the best battered-child laws are useless if doctors' reports are not effectively followed up. The American Humane Association's Vincent De Francis thus questions the idea of reporting to the police. "This means viewing the case in terms of possible prosecution of the parent," says De Francis. But parental guilt is often impossible to prove, and the very threat of punishment may deter parents from getting medical help. As Mrs. DeHinger puts it: "The Children's Bureau does not want to put brutal parents in jail so much as to save the child...
...Feature writers portrayed it as a horrible example of suburban depravity in the wake of the trial of 19-year-old Michael V. Smith, who got drunk at a couple of debutante parties, drove a station wagon into a tree, and killed a 17-year-old companion. All the parent-hosts were haled into court under a controversial law against giving a drink to anyone under 21. Then, to make matters worse, a star prosecution witness at the trial, William Alpert, 20, was arrested for the possession of marijuana. But last week the beleaguered community got a Christmas present...
Neither Lewis nor anyone else at the Digest really expects the Wallaces to let their concern for the magazine or their control of the product diminish markedly. But the baby does continue to grow, and the parents are getting older. Help was needed at the top, and Digest staffers are unanimous in their relief that the foster parent who was chosen comes not from the business side but from the editorial hierarchy...