... was born he was working between several San Francisco newspapers without a steady employer or steady income. Shortly after Louise's birth the family, which was now comprised of three children including Barbara born in 1880 and Louis who was born in 1882, moved to Reno, Nevada where her father found work on newspapers in surrounding cities. The move to Reno had a considerable ... would consider to be a appropriate young women. At home she quickly learned that the life she saw around her was not the type of life she wanted. Her older sister Barbara, who was five years her senior, was marr...

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... society, they looked for justifications for those roles. They found them in the assumptions that society had come up with for males, females, children, and society in general. According to Barbara Epstein, in Industrialization and Femininity: A Case Study of Nineteenth-Century New England, women were told that they had special abilities for raising children due to their innate warmth and morality ... ...

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... family, through actual experience and thorough examination, I have selfishly realized that I would rather have both of my parents accessible to me when I need them. Still, this is an impossible illusion. Barbara Dafoe Whitehead has demonstrated that "children in families disrupted by divorce do worse than children in intact families on several measures of well-being Contrary to popular belief, many children ... ...

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... 1967. Kouri, Kristyan M. and Lasswell, Marcia. 1993. "Black-White Marriages: Social Change and Intergenerational Mobility."" Pp. 241-257 in Families on the Move: Migration, Immigration, Emigration, and Mobility, edited by Barbara H. Settles, Daniel E. Hanks III, and Marvin B. Sussman. Binghamton, NY: The Hawthorn Press Inc. This article discusses why black and whites decide to marry each other. In all the studies of ... ...

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... focuses on her friend. All Jane wants is attention from her dad, but Lester is preoccupied with being irresponsible and chasing after Angela. Marine Corps Colonel Fitts and his wife, Barbara, are the Burnhams' new neighbors. He is very emotionally remote, subject to violent rages. The colonel is even more sexually frustrated than Lester. His rigidity and abusiveness, which is aimed ... ...

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