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Another traditional usefulness of older people is that they are capable of babysitting their grandchildren, thereby freeing up their own adult children, the parents of those grandchildren, to go hunting and gathering food for the grandchildren.
For example, there's particular emphasis on respect for the elderly in East Asia, associated with Confucius' doctrine of filial piety, which means obedience, respect and support for elderly parents.
One value of older people is that they are increasingly useful as grandparents for offering high-quality childcare to their grandchildren, if they choose to do it, as more young women enter the workforce and as fewer young parents of either gender stay home as full-time caretakers of their children.
And then she did very well for many years on lithium, and then eventually, she was taken off her lithium to see how she would do without it, and she had another psychosis, and then plunged into the worst depression that I had ever seen in which she sat in her parents' apartment, more or less catatonic, essentially without moving, day after day after day.
It's not that I'm so sad, but I get overwhelmed, I think, because I could have killed myself, but my parents kept me going, and so did the doctors, and I had the surgery.
It taught me so much about love, and my relationship with my parents and my doctors has been so precious to me, and will be always."
No one put a curse on my mother's uterus, and I didn't get it because my parents are first cousins, which they are.
A lot of people with CP don't walk, but my parents didn't believe in "can't."
If my three older sisters went to public school, my parents would sue the school system and guarantee that I went too, and if we didn't all get A's, we all got my mother's slipper.
My parents couldn't afford physical therapy, so they sent me to dancing school.
I spent my summers in a war zone, because my parents were afraid that if we didn't go back to Palestine every single summer, we'd grow up to be Madonna.
My parents reinforced this notion that I could do anything, that no dream was impossible, and my dream was to be on the daytime soap opera "General Hospital."
And I founded Maysoon's Kids, a charity that hopes to give Palestinian refugee children a sliver of the chance my parents gave me.
The other factor, by the way, those of you who are parents, was being teased by family members about their weight.
If you don't tie the knot, you can't move out of your parents' place, and you're not supposed to be having sex, and you're definitely not supposed to be having children.
In fact, my love of science itself began when my parents bought me a slime chemistry set and was then only enhanced by doing gross experiments in my sixth-grade biology class.
My parents taught me at an early age about giving back and being a good steward to the environment.
Pat Mitchell: So, you heard Maya talk about the amazing parents who are behind this incredible woman.
They talk to their kids as parents, as coaches."
Growing up, he saw his parents work so hard as farmers, but barely get by.
She has two loving parents, one of whom is standing right here.
Could be the neighbors, hotel room, your parents.
It was the first time that many in attendance knew I was gay, so in doing my maid of honor duties, in my black dress and heels, I walked around to tables and finally landed on a table of my parents' friends, folks that had known me for years.
If you tell your parents you might be gay, they will hold out hope that this will change.
Think about a lawyer who spends part of his time at school events for his kids talking to other parents.
So as parents and partners, we should be socializing our sons and our husbands to be whatever they want to be, either caregivers or breadwinners.
Now, the most strenuous of these trips are taken by the country's 290 million migrant workers, for many of whom this is the one chance a year to go home and see parents and their left-behind children.
Of course, now the answer often comes not at birth but at the ultrasound, unless the prospective parents choose to be surprised, like we all were.
That sometimes shows up in the first decade of life, but it can be very confusing for parents, because it is quite normative for children to act in a cross-gender play and way, and, in fact, there are studies that show that even 80 percent of children who act in that fashion will not persist in wanting to be the opposite gender at the time when puberty begins.
Sometimes their parents would reject them, siblings, their own children, and then their divorcing spouse would forbid them from seeing their children.
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