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- 331: Greg Graffin
- ... were divorced after his birth. In 1976 his mother his brother and him moved to San Fernando valley California, which is now the punk rock capital of the world. "Like millions of other victims of divorce in the seventies I had to deal with the fact that my father was now living far away(In Racine, Wisconsin) and that I would not get to see him very much." While his father ...
- 332: Child Stars: From Mozart to Gary Coleman
- ... like domineering parents. Leopold Mozart can be seen as almost the forerunner to the "showbiz" parents that have proliferated in the latter half of this century. The difference is now stars have the means to divorce their parents, if they so choose. The cases of Macualey Culkin (who had his father stripped of legal guardianship) and Dominique Moceanu (who sued her father for squandering the winnings from her role of the ...
- 333: A Doll's House: Women Have Come A Long Way
- ... they had no voice in their formation, married women had no property rights, husbands had legal power over and responsibility for their wives to the extent that they could imprison or beat them with impunity, divorce and child custody laws favored men, giving no rights to women and when women did work they were paid only a fraction of what men earned, women were not allowed to enter professions such as ...
- 334: Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will: A Work of Art
- ... were so, and some people choose to perceive art in this manner, then Triumph of the Will could be considered great art since most critics agree to its technical contribution. However, others like myself cannot divorce content from form, because as Shahn suggests, the art is the manifestation of content. I think of it as evaluating a tool without knowing its use. One could do so, but a better overall assessment ...
- 335: The Kalapalo Indians
- ... the payment to the girl’s parents and their siblings by the parents of the husband to be. The second form of marriage involves people who are lovers and takes place after the death or divorce of a spouse. The Kalapalo seek to establish the first of the two marriages, which is the arranged marriage on the basis of past relationships of kinship or affinity. The reason why arranged marriages are ...
- 336: The Stalking of Celebrities
- ... publications and TV shows that cater to the public appetite for celebrity news, there's little privacy for stars. We learn the minor details of their lives--from an early schooling, to first kiss, last divorce, drug problems, hopes and fears.2 Celebrities on their own property are not safe from high-powered lenses, Dietz said, the founder of TAG (Threat Assessment Group), nor are they protected by the law when ...
- 337: Study on Juvenile Psychopaths
- ... fundamental orientation of society. Sexual morality got unanchored in the 1960s, followed by the legalization of abortion. "Abortion is a very definite rejection of the child. So is out-of- wedlock births, as well as divorce," he says. "The [predators] everyone' s afraid of were abused kids. There's sexual abuse and alcohol, and just the general decline in the cultural knowledge of what love is. " In 1950, for every 100 ...
- 338: Depression
- ... vocal and determined pioneer in promoting mental health awareness, leading suicide prevention programs and facilitating support groups for survivors. But several years ago Hartley herself experienced her first major bout of depression, amidst a difficult divorce and the emotional swings of menopause and mis-prescribed hormones. "I cried all the time," she describes. "I couldn't find my legs, I couldn't find my balance. I was lost and it wasn ...
- 339: Dead End: Teenage Suicide
- ... me, somebody I could have talked to, maybe my teens years would have been different. Many experts have tried to pinpoint the reasons for teen suicide. This list of these culprits is long: Too much divorce, too little religion, too much television and too little communication between parents. Absent parents, too much sexual freedom, and widespread use of drugs and alcohol, to many guns, not enough love and finally a hostile ...
- 340: Alcoholism
- ... of identification with or imitation of the alcoholic parent, but also because the social and family conditions associated with alcoholism are among those believed to contribute to the development of alcoholism. These include family conflict, divorce, and job security. Other problems reported in children of alcoholic parents include hyperactivity, school problems, antisocial behavior, and drug use. Studies indicate that children of alcoholics have an increased risk of alcoholism even when they ...
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