Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...result, Bush, who has never attended a single Yale reunion, came to view with contempt much of what he saw as a hypocritical and pretentious left-wing academic establishment...
...clear how consumers view that claim," Daynard said...
...child intentionally sets out to fail, yet many parents view grades as a verdict that requires them to administer reward or punishment. Though statistics are not available, there is ample anecdotal evidence that in households with a history of abuse, the punishment can be severe. And even parents who don't abuse their kids for getting bad grades often feel uncertain how to respond to C's, D's and F's--or even...
Tragic stories like these fill the nation's newspapers. But do they have any relevance to stepfamilies as a whole? Yes, say Martin Daly and Margo Wilson, two Canadian psychology professors at McMaster University in Ontario. In their slender new book, The Truth About Cinderella: A Darwinian View of Parental Love (Yale University Press), the duo argue that having a stepparent is the most powerful risk factor for severe child abuse. In fact, they say, an American child living with one genetic parent and one stepparent is 100 times as likely to suffer fatal abuse as a child living with...
...their view, it is no accident that fairy tales with wicked stepparents, like "Cinderella," can be found in every culture. The French even have a proverb for this: "Quand la femme se remarie ayant enfants, elle leur fait un ennemi pour parent" (The mother of babes who elects to re-wed/Has taken their enemy into...