Word: parents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...care to concede. The social revolutions that stormed for the rights of blacks, women and homosexuals, among others, in the 1960s, while not yet complete, have begun to be accepted as facts of our lives. In the 1980s it is O.K. to be divorced, O.K. to be a single parent, O.K. to be different. Slowly, mysteriously, Americans are learning to live according to inner judgments. We are learning to profit from history: rejecting crusaders and romantic ideologies, widening the middle ground...
Staff Writer Jacob V. Lamar Jr., who wrote the story and was assisted by Reporter-Researchers David Ellis and Jeannie Park, says the subject had particular significance for him. "I was reminded that I was fortunate to grow up in a two-parent home and have access to a good education," notes Lamar, who joined TIME 3 1/2 years ago after graduating from Harvard with a major in history and literature. Lamar credits one of his professors, Child Psychiatrist and Author Robert Coles, with awakening his interest in social issues. Then he adds, "I don't know a black person...
Professional sex educators agree that when it comes to guidance, parents are the best source. "This is probably the first generation of parents that believes sex is normal and natural, and that leaves plenty of room for the moral questions -- when it is right and with whom. People are entitled to their own views and to pass them on to their children," says Ron Moglia, director of the human-sexuality research and teaching program at New York University. "Any parent who relinquishes the right to talk to his child about sex is giving up one of the most wonderful experiences...
...Southfield, Mich., a former traveling salesman who now works full time in the movement, testified that his visiting rights have been & withheld so often that he has been in and out of court for six years. "The vast majority of fathers are denied visitation," he said. "The noncustodial parent becomes isolated, and things are stacked against him." Peter Cyr, outgoing president of N.C.M. and a dentist from Portland, Me., spent seven years and $25,000 getting joint custody of his two daughters. "Even if you win a custody trial," he lamented, "you are wiped out financially, and your relationship with...
Even her family sometimes finds the rigors trying. Acknowledges Engquist, who stayed home to be the "nurturing parent": "Jane expects people to keep up with her, but her husband and children have different drummers. We don't." The boys balk at substituting cottage or farmer cheese for cream cheese. Engquist smokes, a habit Brody unceasingly rails against, and he limits his exercise to walking. His wife, in contrast, is ferociously athletic. Five times a week, though less in winter, she plays singles tennis. Every morning she rises at 5 a.m. and makes the family breakfast. After posting the menu matter...