Word: six-year-old
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...might not be controversial for high school seniors to consider whether Tennessee Williams' sexuality fueled the outsider lyricism of A Streetcar Named Desire. But telling six-year-olds, however gently, that some other six- year-olds have two mommies is still a red flag in many households with just one. Some parents involved in the New York City controversy fear that exposure to the subject might predispose young children toward homosexuality. Others simply don't want to teach their kids that gay couples are acceptable. "We're asked to park our values about life-style at the door," complains Joanne...
Most Americans got their first glimpse of the "new" Al Gore during the Democratic National Convention last July, when the vice-presidential candidate recounted his six-year-old son's brush with death and his family's journey of emotional healing. Some sneered at Gore's revelations about family counseling as mawkish exploitation of private tragedy for political gain. But many voters, aware of the transforming experience of a personal tragedy, are less cynical; they understand that politicians can be simultaneously strategic and sincere. "I thought, 'This white-bread family admitted to counseling?' " recalls Susan Longley of Liberty, Maine...
Lisa Leal of Nelson, New Hampshire, said she traveled to the Galleria to obtain an autograph for her six-year-old niece...
OVERHEARD IN THE schoolyard last week at the Flint Hill Elementary School in Vienna, Virginia, as a six-year-old introduced a pal to her parents...
...inappropriate in a public library. I don't want my tax dollars paying for it. This is all about character and developing that character and sense of family values in young children." He adds, "After all, 99% of parents across the country would not tell their five- or six-year-old child that it's O.K. to grow up and think it's a positive thing to get divorced, live a homosexual life-style, take drugs, whatever. The values that my wife and I hold are those of a majority of this community." But one Goldsboro woman responds, "Such arrogance...