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...them says to Houlihan, “Why don’t you come over and sleep with me tonight?” “Maybe later,” Houlihan responds coolly. This incites the senior guys, who dish out some enthusiastic advice to the youngster. “I can’t believe you just did that,” they say. “This is your first year at college. You might never have another chance like that.” Then they reconsider. “Actually, now she’ll want...
...from the National Center for Children in Poverty warns that it could lead to even more severe behavioral problems in the future. Psychologist Elizabeth Thompson Gershoff analyzed 88 different studies on corporal punishment and found that the more often or harshly a child was hit, the more likely the youngster was to grow up to be aggressive, antisocial or abusive toward his or her own kids...
Many children decide on their own to become vegetarians and are declaring their preference at ever more precocious ages; it's often their first act of domestic rebellion. But a youngster is at a disadvantage insisting on a rigorous cuisine before he or she can cook food--or buy it or even read--and when the one whose menu is challenged is the parent: nurturer, disciplinarian and executive chef. Alicia Hurtado of Oak Park, Ill., has been a vegetarian half her life--she's 8 now--and mother Cheryle mostly indulges her daughter's diet. Still, Mom occasionally sneaks...
...awful. I'm a priest and a bishop, and I wanted to be a priest from the time I was in the sixth grade. And my own experience of priests from the time I was a youngster has only been of the finest priests that I know. Yes, it's shocking...
...hairdresser recounted another alleged admission by Skakel when the defendant was a teenager. Matthew Tucciarone described in detail how Skakel made the alleged confession as he cut his hair at the Golden Touch salon in Greenwich in the mid 1970s. Skakel, a then bushy-haired youngster had sat in the hairdresser's chair wearing a plaid shirt and trousers while speaking to a young woman. Tucciarone said Skakel was angry and told the girl he wanted to take a gun and kill someone. "You can't do that," the girl said, and Skakel allegedly replied "Why not, I killed before...