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Some research has suggested that after divorce, teenagers fare better with the parent of the same sex. "Single dads tend to have older children on average than single moms, and may be especially likely to parent older boys," says University of Maryland sociologist Suzanne Bianchi. Thomas Hoerner, a Fort Worth, Texas, sales manager, took primary custody of his three sons, then 3, 7 and 9, at his wife's suggestion. Balancing his career, relationships with his kids and ex-wife and running a household was difficult. "I couldn't get my arms around it all," he confesses. He tried...
Interracial coupling is actually rocketing up faster than the stats indicate, suggests University of Michigan sociologist David R. Harris. According to his research, 1 in 6 interracial unions is a cohabitation, so the prevalence of intimate partnerships among the races is greater than it appears. And casual dating between groups is even more common. The Post found that 4 of every 10 Americans said they had dated someone of another race and almost 3 in 10 said it had been a "serious" relationship...
...Jakarta. Squatters invade mines and plantations, nobody pays taxes, smuggling is rampant, and murders go unpunished. Since February, some Dayak tribesmen in central Kalimantan have kept the heads they cut off Madurese migrants as trophies of magic power. Indonesia has more than 1.2 million refugees from ethnic violence. Says sociologist Paulus Wirutomo: "There's a hate being kept alive in our culture. We have to get rid of this." Wahid tried but failed. And Megawati...
...cities, the need to tweak the old policy is urgent. The coddled offspring of the one-child policy are reaching adulthood, and many show little sense of family obligation. "They're rebelling against all sense of family," says sociologist Li Yinhe. In a once unthinkable break with Confucian tradition, many refuse to care for their elders. China's graying population is expected to peak in 2040, and there is no mechanism in place to finance its welfare...
Part of Generations of Hope, a nonprofit organization, Hope Meadows is the brainchild of University of Illinois sociologist Brenda Krause Eheart, who got the idea after five years of research into the adoptions of older children, which she discovered often failed. The key problem, she found, was that even the best foster families felt isolated. Without constant, accessible support, they found the task overwhelming. Eheart also fondly recalled having older neighbors who were devoted to her family when her children were young. In the early '90s, when some politicians were promoting a return to orphanages and group homes, Eheart says...