Scholastic Update articles from March 1995

Scholastic Update archives from March 1995

The endangered American family.
March 10, 1995... The facts speak for themselves: Half of all marriages end in divorce. A third of all kids are born into single-parent families. Today, only a quarter Of American families fit the traditional mold of two parents living together with their...

Portrait of the changing family.(Illustration)
March 10, 1995... The American family is in the midst of dramatic change. Today only half American children live in a traditional "nuclear family": a married couple living with their children. Skyrocketing divorce rates, growing numbers of unmarried teen mothers,...

Families in crisis. (families discuss their economic problems)
March 10, 1995... With two cars in the garage and a swing set in the backyard, Craig Miller and his family fell easily into the suburban rhythms of Overland park, on the outskirts of Kansas City. He was a sheet-metal worker for TWA, earning $15.65 an hour. But...

Bring back the orphanage?(Government/You Decide)
March 10, 1995... Kenyatta Ivy vividly recalls the night three years ago when her already troubled family life fell apart. "I was 16. My mother left me in the house for four weeks by myself - no food, no money, no nothing." When her mother and her mother's...

Surviving in the system. (two children without families)
March 10, 1995... Angi Baptiste Age 16 I've been living in a foster home for about a year. There are certain things that make me very unhappy, like I have a roof over my head and a hot meal, but no love or affection. The thing I hate most is the way my foster...

Can we reform welfare?
March 10, 1995... Roslyn Hale, 30, a single mother from Chicago, Illinois, and her 4-year-old son live on government food stamps and a welfare check of $270 a month. Not because she can't get a job - she's had plenty of them. She just can't manage to keep them....

Book bags and baby bottles. (teen pregnancy)
March 10, 1995... Every year, about half a million teenage girls have babies. While some give their children up for adoption, most take on the responsibilities of motherhood. And for most teen mothers, the future is grim. About half will drop out of school and...

War and remembrance.(remembering World War II)
March 24, 1995... On February 20, 1945, 21-year-old Marine Private Peter C. Hand waded ashore onto the beaches of Iwo Jima, a tiny speck of an island in the Pacific Ocean. For the next three days, Hand and 75,000 fellow Marines fought 21,000 Japanese troops for...

Witness to war.(memories of World War II)(Cover Story)
March 24, 1995... The six long years of World War II left in their wake a legacy of staggering proportions. Somewhere near 50 million people had perished, another 21 million wandered homeless, and whole cities lay in ruins. Vast invasion forces had been assembled...

The power of persuasion.(World War II posters)
March 24, 1995... On December 7, 1941, when Japanese bombs suddenly rained onto the decks of the sleeping U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor, Americans were startled into action. In San Francisco, people crowded into the streets, throwing rocks at street lamps to black...

The final act.(dropping the bomb on Hiroshima, Japan)
March 24, 1995... This May, a blockbuster exhibit was supposed to open at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. The Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945, had been restored and...

The legacy of defeat.(Germany and Japan react to 50th anniversary of the end of World War II)
March 24, 1995... JAPAN Nearly 50 years after the war's end, Japanese officials have finally begun to apologize for their country's wrongdoings in World War II. "It is imperative for us Japanese to look squarely at our history," says Prime Minister Tomiichi...

Remembering the Holocaust.(Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC)
March 24, 1995... The doors of the elevator close quickly behind you. Inside, the walls are paneled with plain gray steel. You get the feeling that you're trapped - that something bad is about to happen. A video monitor mounted to the ceiling flickers on as you...