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Maybe we are asked to say it because there is tremendous insecurity in the American household. A sociologist could explain it in terms of divorce rates, or whatever, but we are flooded with requests to show love for our parents...
Such statistics do not refute the argument that a gun, even if not fired, can save a life by discouraging a murderous attacker. Still, Tulane sociologist James Wright points out that guns have limited usefulness in preventing crimes. About 90% of crimes in homes occur when the resident is away, he notes, while violent crimes often take place on the streets. Says Wright: "Unless you make a habit of walking around with your gun at all times, you're not going to stop that either...
...sharing and flextime, and to developers who build affordable housing with communal meal-preparation facilities. (A problem she does not mention is that many employers do encourage part-time work, often as a way to avoid paying for medical insurance and other benefits.) Using the phrase of another sociologist, the author calls for a "Marshall Plan for the Family," in which government would encourage day care by students, elderly neighbors and grandparents. Neighbors could form support networks so couples wouldn't feel so alone. "Traveling vans for day- care enrichment," she muses, "could roam the neighborhoods as the ice- cream...
...appreciate fully the importance of the publication last week of A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society, a landmark 588-page study by the National Research Council that strives to update reports by the 1968 Kerner commission and Gunnar Myrdal. Edited by black economist Gerald David Jaynes and white sociologist Robin M. Williams Jr., A Common Destiny represents the nation's most definitive report card on race relations in 20 years. And America has flunked...
White resentment over affirmative action has become a powerful undercurrent in race relations. "Whites think most discrimination is ancient history," says sociologist Bob Blauner, the author of a recently published oral history, Black Lives, White Lives. "They see things like affirmative action, and some people even think blacks have an advantage...