By the time Lilian had been graduated from public school, her parents were doing quite well.

It met a serious rebuff in New Orleans, where the two schools selected for the first moves toward integration were boycotted by white parents.

Amy had to be safe, had to come back to them -- if only to reap that share of life's experiences that were her due, if only to give her parents another chance to do better by her.

Their two boys were `` well adjusted '' and, like their parents, always did the right thing at the right time and damn the consequences.

and they censured parents who `` never disciplined and were too permissive '' or who `` never explained how easy it was to get pregnant ''.

`` -- had enough brains to call ya up so as ya could do sompin about it when the parents -- I coulda let her go go '' -- His eyes were lowered, so he couldn't have seen the narrow, pointed face of his companion suddenly writhe with fury ; ;

It was one thing to awaken outside a restaurant where your parents were eating and quite another to awaken in a strange garage and know your parents had gone on home without you.

Now prosperous, his parents were able to send Nobel to private tutors and the boy excelled in his studies, particularly in chemistry and languages, achieving fluency in English, French, German, and Russian.

His parents were working-class Rusyn emigrants from Mikó ( now called Miková ), located in today ’ s northeastern Slovakia, part of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.

His report of life there covers a wide range of topics, such as marriage in heaven ( where all angels are married ), children in heaven ( where they are raised by angel parents ), time and space in heaven ( there are none ), the after-death awakening process in the World of Spirits ( a place halfway between Heaven and Hell and where people first wake up after death ), the allowance of a free will choice between Heaven or Hell ( as opposed to being sent to either one by God ), the eternity of Hell ( one could leave but would never want to ), and that all angels or devils were once people on earth.

His parents were Joseph Chatfield Alcott and Anna Alcott ( née Bronson ).

His parents were Scots-Irish colonists Andrew and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, Presbyterians who had emigrated from Ireland two years earlier.

Certainly his parents, who had worn the purple, were slain by it.

According to Porphyry, the parents of Ammonius were Christians, but upon learning Greek philosophy, Ammonius rejected his parents ' religion for paganism.

According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites – the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; Aaron – the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids – couldn't be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses ( brother of Aaron ), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that both his parents were Levites ( without identifying their names ).

We are not certain that the word " democracy " was extant when systems that came to be called democratic were first instituted, but around 460 BC an individual is known whose parents had decided to name him ' Democrates ', a name which may have been manufactured as a gesture of democratic loyalty ; the name can also be found in Aeolian Temnus, not a particularly democratic state.

He believed the poor possessed an advantage over the wealthy due to their receiving more attention from their parents, and were taught better work ethics.

* No foreigner, even if naturalised ( unless they were born of English parents ), shall be allowed to be a Privy Councillor or a member of either House of Parliament, or hold " any office or place of trust, either civil or military, or to have any grant of lands, tenements or hereditaments from the Crown, to himself or to any other or others in trust for him.

His parents were Abdallah's son Muhammad and Muzna ( or Muzayna ), a Christian concubine.

His parents were Mahmud II and Valide Sultan Pertevniyal (" Partav-Nihal ").

Hoshiar and Ibrahim were the parents of Isma ' il Pasha.

To address the concerns of parents that home computers were a better investment than consoles, the system was designed to be upgraded to a full-fledged home computer.

He was discharged from the hospital after a two-day checkup and he and his parents had what Mr. McKinley described as a `` celebration lunch '' at the cafeteria on the campus.

Paintings such as Family ( 1955 ) show a woman seated and a man standing with two children – the parents seem almost solemn while the children are described as hopeful and with a use of color made famous by Cézanne.

The Principia Discordia states that her parents may be as described in Greek legend, or that she may be the daughter of Void.

Freud ‘ s main discussion of female homosexuality was the 1920 paper “ The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman “, which described his analysis of a young woman who had entered therapy because her parents were concerned that she was a lesbian.

Terms such as " stolen " were used in the context of taking children from their families – the Hon P. McGarry, a member of the Parliament of New South Wales, objected to the Aborigines Protection Amending Act 1915 which then enabled the Aborigines ' Protection Board to remove Aboriginal children from their parents without having to establish that they were in any way neglected or mistreated ; McGarry described the policy as " steal the child away from its parents ".

As an only child of well-to-do parents living in the San Remo on Central Park West, he is described in Meryle Secrest's biography, Stephen Sondheim: A Life, as having had an isolated and emotionally neglected childhood.

The song " Daddy " was described by lead singer Jonathan Davis " When I was a kid, I was being abused by somebody else and I went to my parents and told them about it, and they thought I was lying and joking around.

The 2002 report's criticism of the legal defence of ' reasonable chastisement ' of children by parents, which the Committee described as ' a serious violation of the dignity of the child ', was rejected by the UK Government.

" For him " the installation of the super-ego can be described as a successful instance of identification with the parental agency ," while as development proceeds " the super-ego also takes on the influence of those who have stepped into the place of parents — educators, teachers, people chosen as ideal models.

In 1912, in what Céline described as an act of rebellion against his parents, he joined the French army, two years before the start of the first World War and its mandatory French conscription.

" Witherspoon is described as a " multi-achiever " and was given the nickname " Little Type A " by her parents.

He described his parents as " indios de la raza primitiva del país ," that is, " Indians of the original race of the country.

Victor is described as a " fusion " of the lowest characteristics of his parents ( his mother was a prostitute ).

In these lists, critic Simon Reynolds described the album as " Fifteen Cali-core paroxysms that anatomize dork-dude pangs with haiku brevity ", while Andrew Beaujon called it " Super clean, super tight, super poppy hardcore about hating your parents, riding bikes, and not wanting to ' smell your muff.

In an interview with People, Phoenix described his parents as " hippieish ".

He was brought up by his mother, Doris Agnes Mary Pike, and her parents, Montague and Edith Kathleen ( née O ' Keefe ) Pike, whom Crawford described as a " close-knit Roman Catholic family ".

The birds are responsible for bringing human babies into the Mainland, whose human parents send folded paper boats along the serpentine " with ' boy ' or ' girl ' and ' thin ' or ' fat ' ( and so on ) written ", indicating to the official birds which species to send back to transform into human children, who are described as having an " itch on their backs where their wings used to be " and that their warbles are fairy / bird talk.

In the April 2008 issue of Tatler, Eugenie described her grandmother as " one of the most amazing women ever ," and her parents, as " the best divorced couple " she knew.

Chambers described his childhood as troubled because of his parents separation and caring for their mentally ill grandmother.

As described in his biography, Toohey had already in early childhood developed a talent for subtly manipulating his parents and elementary school class-mates in order to gain power over them.

Letters to her parents described a happy-go-lucky existence with both Lane and her husband traversing the US several times and working a variety of jobs, both together and separately.

Broadbent's parents were both amateur actors who co-founded the Holton Players acting troupe at Holton cum Beckering ; the two were described by the BBC as conscientious objectors who " worked the land " rather than participate in World War II.

Sumner's parents were described as exceedingly formal and undemonstrative.