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MONICA LEWINSKY Female lobbying group retracts its job offer due to stigma. She has more clout with guys anyway...
Coloroso's book, which also covers divorce and illness, is a true self-help book, and she is an adherent of pop-psych locutions. The "five S's" of suicide and murder, she says, are "stigma, shame, secrets, silence and sin." The "TAO" of family is an acronym for the three things we need when our lives are thrown into chaos: time, affection and optimism. Some of Coloroso's observations are wise; others will be annoying to those less inclined toward this approach. But it's hard to quibble with her favorite formulation: "Life is not fair. Life hurts. Life...
...have a child without a father was a threat to traditional family values. Who can forget Vice President Dan Quayle's attack on TV single mom Murphy Brown eight years ago? Well, it seems many people have. With increasing numbers of middle-class women parenting alone, the stigma of being a single mother is fading...
...medical setting, its comfortable surroundings, and the possibility of accessing mental health services under the guise of academic tutoring contribute to the ease with which students seek its services without the stigma attached to care at UHS," the report says...
...Director Charles P. Ducey says the center was founded during a time when the stigma behind mental illness and psychological therapy was great...