Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Riverside) take aim at a new syndrome known as SAID, or sexual allegations in divorce. Citing studies showing that 75% to 80% of these divorce-related allegations are false, Brott and his co-author trace the cozy relationship between counselors who coax abuse charges from frightened kids and the social-service programs that pay them for eliciting horror stories. "By viewing men with suspicion and fear, we are driving them farther away from their families," write Brott and Parke...
...working as a busboy at a white country club and exposing the prejudices of its members in New York magazine. Here, instead of reporting on the foibles of the black upper crust, Graham sucks up to it, providing little more than a breathless list of neighborhoods, vacation spots and social clubs dominated by folks who can pass the "brown paper bag" test, meaning that their complexion is lighter than a grocery bag. His criteria for including an institution in the elite class are that he either belongs to it or would like...
...pedigree as black status symbols. Graham shows how easily ambitious outsiders can now join the black upper class. He boasts that he belongs to the Boule, a group of "the most accomplished, affluent and influential black men" in the nation. If the Boule were really all that exclusive, a social climber like him would never have...
Measure 58 is about dignity and justice. It is not about "open season" or "tracking down" anyone, both insulting hunting analogies. This is nothing revolutionary or extreme; it's the way adoption law stood for years before the failed social experiment of sealed records, which was founded on archaic notions of stigma, secrecy and shame. SHEA GRIMM, LEGISLATIVE CHAIR Bastard Nation Redmond, Wash...
...left out the perspective of adoptive parents. They are required to jump through many legal and social hoops to adopt a child. When they get a child through legally binding adoptive procedures, they provide all the necessities of life that natural parents would. But what rights, courtesies and considerations are available to the adoptive parents? The possibly fragile foundation achieved by those adoptive parents through years of love and support may now be jeopardized by open adoption files. ROBERT ERDMANN San Diego...