Word: petersons
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Social Security is scheduled to start spending more than it collects in about 2012, just as the huge baby-boom generation begins to retire. By 2029, even the so-called Social Security trust funds would be depleted. Thanks to men like Kerrey and investment banker Pete Peterson, president of the Concord Coalition, more and more Americans understand that the Social Security "trust fund" is a myth. Every week's collection of Social Security payroll taxes first goes to pay benefits to today's retirees; then the surplus (currently about $565 billion) is immediately used to finance other federal spending. What...
Baby boy Grossberg was not the only victim in the affair of Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson Jr. [SOCIETY, Dec. 2]. The two young parents were victims as well. We can speculate about what was going through their minds and how the two 18-year-olds let their newborn child die. However, this tragedy does not lessen the fact that society failed them in a major way. For some reason these two college freshmen from affluent backgrounds felt that they had no one to turn to--not their parents, their friends, professors or counselors. This tragedy should remind...
...amazing to read the statements of journalists deploring and philosophizing about the death of the Grossberg-Peterson baby. If these writers had been consistent in their views, they would simply report that the couple exercised their constitutional right of choice. After all, if the couple had paid a doctor to perform a partial-birth abortion shortly before the baby was born, that would have been legal and the press would have supported their actions. One wonders why this fact is not mentioned. Why is a culture that aggrandizes self so surprised every time selfishness hits the headlines? These amoral teenagers...
INDICTED. High school sweethearts AMY GROSSBERG, 18, and BRIAN PETERSON, 18; on two counts of first-degree murder for the death of their newborn son; in Wilmington, Delaware...
Certainly watching a father turn his son in because that son has killed his grandchild is heart wrenching. So was the sight of Barbara Peterson hiding her head in her son's soft fleece jacket, one she may have bought for him to wear on cool November days as co-captain of his soccer team, as she walked him into the courthouse. But perhaps his conscience had been warped somewhere along the way by these same parents. His mother's weeklong reaction was to keep her son from authorities and consider helping him escape punishment altogether after he admitted, minimally...