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...radio, movies, the Internet, and video games are the biggest competitors for American parents to their children's time and minds. According to children's advocate and Stanford professor James Steyer, many children spend as much as 40 hours a week with the media, and only 17 hours a week interacting with their parents. In his new book, "The Other Parent: The Inside Story of the Media's Effect on Children" (Pocket; May 20), Steyer traces how this has happened, and addresses what parents and concerned citizens can do at the corporate and federal level. Speaking of the federal level...
...found it too difficult to be a good parent to my children while doing this,” she said. “For me to hold an administrative post, my family has to be living in the same place...
...mother's children--she is reportedly pregnant again, this time with twins--are likely to be raised by a single parent. But this is true for 1 in 4 children, and it has become an accepted medical practice to help widows become pregnant through artificial insemination with the late husband's sperm. Those who feel that having a baby is a basic human right argue that this couple behaved in an especially ethical way by going to such effort and expense to ensure that their children would be born free of the disease. In this sense the case is comparable...
...take Koppel's long-held time slot? When reports leaked out that ABC was negotiating with Letterman, whose CBS contract expires in six months, disgruntled ABC News staffers (are there any other kind?) hit the roof. Nightline's ratings have been sagging, and ABC is under pressure from corporate parent Disney to boost its profits. But top news execs were miffed that they hadn't been told about the possible booting of the widely respected Nightline. Both Koppel and Letterman were keeping quiet, but watch Dave's Top 10 lists...
...describes a tutor as a “kind of omnipresent figure that’s somewhere between a friend, a parent figure and an adviser...