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...American Academy of Home Care Physicians, a national organization based in Edgewood, Md., that lists on its website aahcp.org doctors and other providers, like nurse-practitioners and physician assistants, who make house calls. "Often it's a son or daughter-in-law trying to find care for a parent in another part of the country," she says. "Other times it's the spouse of someone who needs care, and they are unable to find it. The stories are heartbreaking...
Have you lost a parent yourself...
...fact it is a fight for dollars. Every day, in Targets and Wal-Marts across the country, these two brands go at it. Which one do you give your kid? It depends on how old your child is, obviously, but it also depends on what kind of parent you are. As any good Supermom will tell you, Baby Einstein is the choice of parents who want their daughter to speak Swahili by 7th grade and go to Harvard. They leave the Barbies for other people - people who, they imagine, just want their daughter to have a smile on her face...
...that has taken her from a late-night writers' room to, um, a late-night writers' room. On her sitcom 30 Rock, she plays Liz Lemon, head writer of The Girlie Show, a decently rated, woman-oriented sketch show. Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin), an executive at NBC's corporate parent General Electric who made his career selling GE ovens, decides it needs more male viewers. So he forces Liz to hire Tracy Jordan (SNL alum Tracy Morgan), a wild and (literally) crazy comic who has starred in such Wayansesque hit movies as Who Dat Ninja? and Black Cop, White...
Increasingly, family courts are ordering a treatment called reconciliation therapy. One technique is to have the child look through an album of photos of the alienated parent to humanize that person again. Another is to show studies about how easily the mind is tricked, to let children know it's not their fault that they have come to believe falsehoods about their parent. But those first steps toward rebuilding the parent-child relationship can be wobbly...