Word: whitely
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...seekers sometimes hire "search consultants" and go to great lengths, even illegal ones, to find their kin. "I'm calling about a probate matter" and "I'm doing genealogy" are typical little white lies. Many justify their actions with the claim that they are victims of adoption, robbed of their heritage or shamed into giving up an illegitimate child. Their anger and desperation have led some psychologists to conclude that adoption leaves a permanent wound. "Birth parents and adoptees are amputees in our society," says Los Angeles psychologist Annette Baran, who specializes in adoption- related counseling. Says she: "I think...
...pressed for information on when Bush would redeem another campaign pledge: to fund fully the Head Start program for needy preschoolers. Head Start has proved cost-effective in preparing disadvantaged students for school, but can now accommodate only about 1 in 5 of those eligible. As the summit closed, White House chief of staff John Sununu noted that "the Governors succeeded quite well in convincing the President of the value of preschool and early-childhood programs." Bush conceded "the need for more federal support for the prekindergarten education process...
...prospects for a substantial increase in federal education funding were dim, however. For weeks, Bush and his aides had rejected the notion that an education President should spend more on education. A senior White House official pointed out that federal funds account for only about 7% of total spending on education, and argued that much of the money is spent so inefficiently that "we could eliminate most of it and nobody would notice." Such arguments moved New York Governor Mario Cuomo, a liberal Democrat, to retort that waste and inefficiency never prevented the Administration from spending on defense...
...five years to get our schools back up to where they were in 1963, after spending 40% more, then maybe we should just . . . give people their money back and let them educate themselves or start their own schools. That would be one radical way to have accountability." Irritated White House officials scrambled to dissociate themselves from Bennett's impolitic outburst. But if the President and the Governors fail to show concrete results in this latest round of school reform, perhaps parents will be ready to take Bennett up on his offer...
...National Committee for Adoption in Washington -- is that there were more than 60,000 adoptions by * nonrelatives in 1986. The figure would be much higher were it not for a great and tragic irony: while adoptive parents will literally go to the ends of the earth to find healthy white, or perhaps Asian, infants, thousands of other American youngsters who are older or black or handicapped go begging for homes. In 1986 the nation's foster-care system harbored at least 36,000 of these adoptable "special-needs" children. Some 13,500 found families. That same year more than...