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...bodies, Lyle, then 21, and Erik, 18, did not put on a very convincing show of grief; they went on a $700,000 spending spree with the insurance money. In March 1990, Judalon Smyth told police that after being asked to sit outside the office of her then lover, psychologist Jerome Oziel, she had overheard the brothers admit the killings to Oziel. Police seized Oziel's tapes and arrested Lyle and Erik on suspicion of having murdered their parents to hasten their enjoyment of a $14 million inheritance...
What is going on? According to psychologist Sherry Turkle, author of The Second Self, the key lies in the rates of development of young boys and girls, which to their mutual pain and embarrassment are usually out of synch. Girls in their pre-teen years tend to mature faster than boys -- socially and sexually. Normal day-to-day interactions with these girls can be stressful and troubling for the boys, who tend to withdraw to a safe place -- sports, scouting, computer gaming -- where they can hang out until they are ready to hold their own with the girls, a process...
...impossible to say how many children have gay parents, in part because there are no solid numbers on gay adults. Charlotte Patterson, the University of Virginia psychologist who testified for Sharon Bottoms, concedes that any estimate of children of gay parents -- hers is "millions" -- is an educated guess. A considerably lower yet still sizable figure is implied in a 1983 study by the Family Research Institute, a conservative think tank that distributed questionnaires in Los Angeles, Washington, Denver, Louisville and Omaha. Of 877 respondents who were fathers, 22 (about 1 in 40) labeled themselves either bisexual or homosexual...
...rights movement. A lot of gays wanted to have kids and presumed they could not. People started realizing they could live like everyone else." Nongay clinicians are not always so sensitive. Says Debra Samdperil, a Boston photographer who wants a child to raise with her partner, psychologist Laurie Livingston: "The doctors continue to see me as a single woman, not as part of a couple...
...similarities end there. Fischer is a reclusive eccentric who has spent most of his life alone in hotel rooms with the curtains drawn. Short is happily married to a Greek psychologist, Rae Karageorgiou, and finds time, even during tournaments, to play with toy trains with his two-year-old daughter, Kiveli. He lives in a cozy apartment in the leafy London suburb of West Hampstead and relishes beach time in Greece and good laughs over beer almost anywhere. He is, in other words, a rather normal guy with a sly smile and a quiet manner...