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...fell deeply in love. We had so much in common - so much to talk about," he says. And in 1982, 18 months after they started dating, the two moved in together. Over the years they pursued their careers - Stig is a musician and sound technician; Malene a preschool teacher - lived in a series of rented homes in Elsinore, a city 50 km from Copenhagen, and had three children: Aske, now 11; Joel, 9 and daughter Signe, 6. What they never did was get married. "We considered marriage when we had our first child, mainly because it would give Stig...
...pressure could be taken off the mothers and fathers if there was better child care," says the University of Kent's Furedi. "But that isn't happening at the moment." He laments the situation in the U.K., which has the worst record in Europe for looking after preschool children, according to a recent survey by Britain's Daycare Trust. "We are going to end up like [those] societies in Spain and Portugal and Italy where women just aren't having children because they know it is impossible to have a kid and to work. As a society we are just...
...With the help of prizes including new bunk beds and side-by-side desks, plus the services of a professional organizer, her five-year-old daughters have cleaned up their act--and not a moment too soon. They start kindergarten in a couple of weeks, and Rebecca, a former preschool teacher, is convinced they will do better in school if they come home to an orderly bedroom...
...directed at kids--more than 20 times the amount a decade ago. Nearly half of all U.S. parents say their kids ask for things by brand names by age 5. "I might mention to a child that the dress she is wearing is cute," says Marci Sperling Flynn, a preschool director in Oak Park, Ill., "and she'll say, 'It's Calvin Klein.' Kids shouldn't know about designers at age 4. They should be oblivious to this stuff...
...Mahar, for one, is disappointed, largely because he's seen the benefits of a preschool program firsthand while serving as principal at a private Catholic school in the 1980s. When standardized test results came in for the school's two kindergarten classes in Mahar's first year on the job, he was surprised to see that one class performed markedly better than the other, despite the two sections having equally good teachers. "I asked the one teacher why her kids were doing so well, and she told me that it was because she got all the students who went through...