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...PARENT TRAP...
...your situation is subject to so much financial instability, then why did you have three children?" he wrote back, expressing the concern of taxpayers. "Why is your husband in a line of work that subjects him to 'frequent layoffs'? Why, in the face of your husband's ability to parent as a result of his frequent layoffs, are you refusing to work outside the home? Why should the taxpayer foot the bill [for such education programs...
Being single and a parent is a good way to slip into poverty. Millions of single mothers know that, but it can be even worse to be a single father. Terry Younger remembers when he tried to get help in rearing his three children. "I've gone to some of these places, said I needed some help, and they just said, 'We can't help you; you're not a lady,' '' says Younger. "So it's double jeopardy, and I'm bucking the system...
...position to be a censor--that responsibility should be at the parents' level, or whoever controls the terminal," says Gordon Ross, chief executive officer of Canada's Vancouver-based Net Nanny, a program that allows a parent or guardian to monitor everything passing through the computer. Net Nanny users, for example, can enter such phrases as "What's your name?" and "What's your phone number?" in a phrase book. When the software detects one of the targeted phrases printing across the terminal--say, in a chat room of a commercial online service--Net Nanny harrumphs and pulls the plug...
...must give every advantage to parents, helping them not only to control the passage of strangers in and out of their home but also to be better parents; it should place a premium on parent education and support, including parent-to-parent support...