Word: selfishnesses
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...Laura's latest book, Parenthood by Proxy, argues that parents should devote themselves to rearing their children, rather than farming the job out to nannies and teachers. At least one parent should stay at home full time, even if that means interrupting a career. Anything less, Schlessinger says, is selfish and neglectful. Dr. Laura hates the concepts of "dual-career families" and "quality day care," contending that not even the best hired caregiver can fulfill a child's emotional and moral needs...
...dropped all legal appeals. She wanted to be with her children in heaven. Just before Riggs died, she said, "I love you, my babies." Some people said she had killed them because she was severely depressed. The prosecutor, on the other hand, called her "a self-centered, selfish, premeditated killer who did the unspeakable act of taking her own children's lives...
...shadow of the future," there is every incentive to cheat--to drink but not share blood or, in the case of the stock market, to dump your shares at the first sign of a panic. So the larger and more anonymous the situation, the greater the incentive to be selfish...
...talking merely about a violation of "the father's rights." That's a legalism that assumes Juan Miguel Gonzalez to be as selfish, as narcissistic as most Americans have become in asserting their "rights." I am speaking of something deeper, more basic, more humanly essential--the father's love, his connection with his son. If the boy has a basic right, it is the right to his father...
...selfish and immature; even your letter is totally self-focused. It's hard...