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  • All in the family: Why a strong, intact home life is the biggest single factor in raising good kids

    11/05/2005 9:29:08 PM PST · by Coleus · 92 replies · 932+ views
    CERC ^ | 10.03.05 | John Leo
    All in the family    JOHN LEO Why a strong, intact home life is the biggest single factor in raising good, successful kids. It took the media a while to acknowledge that most of Katrina's victims were black. Apparently, it will take longer to mention that most of the victims were women and children. I noticed three commentators who brought up the delicate subject of the mostly missing males — George Will, Gary Bauer, and Thomas Bray, a columnist for the Detroit News. Will noted that 76 percent of births to Louisiana's African-Americans are to unmarried women, and probably more...
  • OZZY. . .PITIED OR SCORNED?

    01/15/2003 12:47:41 PM PST · by grantswank · 11 replies · 504+ views
    MichNews.com, Chalcedon.edu | J. Grant Swank, Jr.
    IS OZZY TO BE PITIED OR SCORNED? J. Grant Swank, Jr., POB 1984, Windham ME 04062 Pastor, New Hope Church, Windham ME Ozzy’s English boyhood was poor—father worked nights in a steel plant, mother worked days at a car plant. No money, no auto, meager food. He claims as a child he had one pair of shoes, no underpants, trousers and one jacket. At the base of his bed was a bucket for urinating in. There were no clean sheets on his bed, overcoats used as sheets when all else failed. Dad beat on Ozzy, chiefly for the boy’s attempts...
  • A 'Snow Day' without the snow (Ridgewood, NJ, Families take time out)

    03/27/2002 10:35:39 AM PST · by JoeMomma · 4 replies · 134+ views
    USA Today ^ | 3/27/2002 | Rick Hampson
    <p>This notoriously overscheduled suburb tried a collective timeout Tuesday. It canceled homework, sports practice and other activities so families could spend a few hours together doing nothing.</p> <p>Not exactly nothing. Some families rediscovered the discrete joys of forming meatballs, coloring Easter eggs and arguing over such topics as: What video will we watch? Who'll clean away all these dinner dishes? Is ''yokum'' really a Scrabble word?</p>