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Ing moms, O’Hare found. And
supportive,”
Monday.
Both she and her husband
were raised by stay-at-home
moms. ‘"
-1994
23.0%
-2002
,25.3%
SOURCES: U.S. Census Bureau; 1994 AP
lata from bureau analyst Jason Fields
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Moms staying home
The percentage of stay-at-home
mothers has risen since 1994.
Percentage of children under
15 years old who live in a two-
parent home, where the father
works full time and the mother
stays home
after giving birth to her second High birth rates anti
child. Miller, 38, of Fairfax, increased immigration helped
Va., said the cultural perception the Hispanic population more
that raising kids full time does- than double in the United
n’t equate to work still exists, States during the 1990s. That
though not as widely as a may have also influenced the
decade ago. trend, as some Latino cultures
With unemployment low in place more emphasis on
the late 1990s, many compa- women staying home to raise
riles offered more work-from- children, O'Hare said.
home options or extended
leave as enticements to retain
qualified female workers, said
Joanne Brundage, executive
director of Mothers & More, an
organization for mothers who
have adjusted their careers to
raise children.
But Brundage said the flail-
ing econoiqy of recent years
may have forced more women
back into the work force, either
because their spouse has been • •
laid off or companies have cut
back on benefits.
Children with married moth-
ers who stayed home tended to
be less well-off economically
than those in two-working-par- ;
ent families, according to an
analysis of the March 2002
census data by William
O’Hare, a researcher with the
Stergos said children’s advocacy group, the
Annie E. Casey Foundation. <
For instance, about 16 per*
cent of kids with stay-at-home
________“It was mo rebeneficial moms lived ln P°W- 9uadn^
than having someone else take P^e ra^e Oiose with work-
care of your kids," she said. big moms, °’Hare found- Anfl
Kelly Miller, a stay-at-home 14 percent of kids With marriedx-
mother of a 4-year-old daugh- stay-at-home mothers lacked
ter and 16-month-old son, health insurance, compared
decided to quit working full with 8 percent of those with
time as a marketing director working moms,
after giving birth to her second I
By GENAROC. ARMAS
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Nearly
10.6 million children were
being raised by full-time stay-
at-home moms last year, up 13
percent in a little less than a
decade.
Experts credit the economic
boom, the cultural influence of
America’s growing Hispanic
population and the entry into
parenthood of a generation of
latchkey kids.
Of the 41.8 million kids
under 15 who lived with two
parents last year, more than 25
percent had mothers who did
not work and stayed home,
situations in 1994, a bureau
analyst said.
Full-time stay-at-home dads
took care of 189,000 kids in
2002, up 18 percent.
Heather Stergos, 29, of St.
Louis, quit her job as a child-
care worker six months ago so
she could stay home with her
own newborn full time. She
brought her infant son to work
with her for four months before
deciding she wanted to spend
more time with him.
While her family’s budget is
a little tighter, Stergos says she
is happy with the decision and
plans to stay home until son
Charlie is in grade school.
“There was a lot of ’Oh my
God, why would you want to
do that?’ I got a lot more nega-
tive responses from friends,
though my family was very
according to a Census Bureau
report.
That was up from 23 percent,
or 9.4 million children, in such
Roaring ’90s brought boom in
children with stay-at-home moms
!
Crime down but murders, rapes up, FBI says
with 2000.
dropped.
The FBI’s preliminary crime
store, ran outside and saw that
the last vehicle in a 15-vehicle
U.S. convoy had been hit. He
By NADIA ABOUEL-MAGD
The Associated Press
in pursuit of Saddam Hussein
loyalists who have been
ambushing American forces.
At least 59 Iraqis were
detained, most taken away
blindfolded and handcuffed.
The soldiers also dug up
backyards in a search for heavy
arms, but the U.S. military
announced no major weapons
discoveries.
Ten Americans were wound-
1.4 percent. But the number of 2002.
reported rapes rose by 4 percent
and the number of murders
grew by 0.8 percent, the FBI
said.
Murders grew sharply in sub-
urban counties, up 12.4 percent,
and in cities of between 50,000
and 100,000 people, up 6.7 per-
cent. They declined in rural
U.S. troops raid homes in
search of weapons, suspects
RAMADI, Iraq — Led by
informants, U.S. soldiers swept
into homes in Baghdad and
several outlying towns Monday have [,een target of hjt-and- said he saw two U.S. soldiers
run assault, most in the central being taken out of the truck,
“Sunni belt” north and west of apparently wounded.
Baghdad. About a dozen U.S. Later, Taha said, two Iraqis
soldiers have been killed by arrived on a motorbike and set
hostile fire since May 1, when the truck ablaze.
The U.S. Central Command
blamed the ambushes on hard-
core loyalists of the ousted
despite the U.S. campaign to
put down resistance across
Iraq’s Sunni heartland where
Saddam’s support was
strongest.
The two rocket-propelled
grenade attacks reinforced the
belief that Saddam loyalists
were reorganizing. Residents
of homes raided over the past Qusai Taha, 33, a grocery
two days warned that the U.S. store owner from Dujayl, said
operations were only fueling he heard gunfire while in his
hostility and anti-American
attacks.
For weeks, American forces
WASHINGTON (AP) — The areas — a drop of 1.2 percent percent. The largest declines
number of rapes and murders — and cities with fewer than occurred in arson, which fell by
rose last year, the FBI said 10,000 people, where murders 3.7 percent, and assaults, which
Monday, even as overall crime dropped by 14.7 percent. were down 2 percent.
The largest increase in rapes The biggest decline in over-
was reported in mid-sized and allcrime — 3.3 percent — was
statistics for 2002 showed a 0.2 small cities, the FBI said. Cities reported in the Northeast. The
percent decrease in the number of less than 10,000 people and West was the only region to
of crimes reported to the police cities with between 100,000 and report an increase in overall
or other law enforcement agen- 250,000 people reported crime — 2.9 percent,
cies over the previous year, increases of more than 7 percent
Overall crime had risen by 2.1 in the number of rapes in 2002 f
percent in 2001 as compared compared with 2001.
with 2000. - Property crimes remained |
Violent crimes decreased by constant between 2001 and |
Other increases were reported J
in buiglaries, 1.5 percent, and I
thefts of motor vehicles, 1.2 |
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President Bush declared major
combat over.
The latest ambushes came
Sunday. In the first, the regime who "continue to put
grenade fire set fire to a civil- innocent civilians at risk.”
ian bus that was passing a mil- Last week, the military
itary convoy near the town of launched its biggest combat
ed in ambusheson two convoys Mushahidah, about 15 miles operation since the war, send-
,u„ „ „ Bagdad seriously ing thousands of troops
wounding two soldiers and through central Iraqi towns. On
lightly wounding six others. Sunday, after banning Iraqis
The second attack hit a U.S. from having any weapons
convoy in Dujayl, a town 35 heavier than an assault rifle, the
miles north of Baghdad, lightly military began its latest sweep
wounding two soldiers, said — Operation Desert Scorpion
Army spokesman Capt. John — to root out arms and mili-
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Court: forced drugging of defendants OK in rare instances
including the
eminent can force medication on men-
medicatlpn. Even then, the treatment that the ruling would allow some crimi-
there is no other option but to force
ate only “in limited circumstances,”
face trial is not enough.
The court split 6-3 in ruling that a
ByANNEGEARAN
The Associated Press
majority. risks that ordinarily attach to freeing ically appropriate.
The government must establish that it without punishment one who.has com- ~
has an important interest in prosecuting mitted a serious crime."
the crime and that it effectively has no On the other hand, Justice Antonin who do not want to take anti-psychotic
The court did not go as far as Sell’s
Sell, once a practicing dentist in sub- supporters wanted, since the ruling
a “delusional disorder, persecutory Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist
type.” He once told doctors that gold he and Justices John Paul Stevens,
Ruth Bader Ginsburg agreed with
“The justices put a pretty high bar for Breyer. Joining Scalia in the dissent
the government to meet,” said Barry were Justices Sandra Day O’Connor
rarest of circumstances, ruling that pros- unlikely to produce side effects that tunistlc behavior " to thwart prosecu-
t tions.
forced to take antipsychotic drugs that in bringing to trial those it has chaiged were later deemed competent to stand than four years in a federal prison med-
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The government must meet a series of cial circumstances in the case of men- 200 others accepted drugs willingly,
conditions before it mandates treatment, tally ill defendants, Breyer said. In a series of decisions more than a
the court majority said. F
buy into what the government wanted,
The latest ruling dealt with the rights the right to medicate them under any
r.— -o of people facing nonviolent Chaiges circumstance.” . ?
WASHINGTON — A divided fte crime and that it effectively has no On the other hand, Justice Antonin who do not want to take anti-psychotic Sell’s backers, including the
Supreme Court said Monday the gov- choice but to demand involuntary Scalia, writing for the dissenters, said drugs. The standard set out by the jus- American Civil Liberties Union, argue .
emment can force medication on men- medicatipn. Even then, the treatment that the ruling would allow some crimi- t ' " ,
tally ill criminal defendants only in the mUst be medically appropriate and nal defendants “to engage in oppor- Inal defendants, lawyers said.
ecutors’ simple desire to see a suspect might hurt the defendant’s ability to get
a fair trial, Breyer said.
tices in the case could apply to all crimy that he has already been locked up
’ longer than the maximum sentence on
The ruling concerned Dr. Charles , the fraud chaiges. Sell was later chaiged
Sell, who faces Medicaid fraud and i with attempting to kill an FBI agent and
The ruling should not have a broad other chaiges. Sell may yet be forced to a former employee who planned to tes-
Breyer, whose wife is a psychologist, immediate effect. The Bush administra- take drugs, if Missouri authorities satis- tify against him in the fraud case.
mentally ill dentist — he once called said COurts must evaluate such cases on tion said in a court filing that in a recent fy the high court’s new standards. The court did not go as far as Sell’s
police to report a leopard was boarding an individual basis. While the govern- 12-month period 59 people were given F “
a bus outside his window — cannot be ment undoubtedly has a strong interest drugs against their will. Of those, 45 urban St. Louis, has been held for more leaves room for the rare case in which
L 12 4^ ' " ' „ —o-- -- ' --j there is no other option but to force
might make him sane enough for trial, as serious criminals, there may be spe- trial, the government said. More than leal center. He has been diagnosed with medication.
“delusional disorder, persecutory Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist
For example, the mere’fact that a decade ago, the Supreme Court ruled used for fillings had been contaminated Anthony M. Kennedy, David Souter and
Involuntary administration of drugs defendant refuses to take drugs may that inmates considered dangerous by communists.
solely for trial competence is appropri- mean he or she would be confined for a could be forced to take medication and
ate only “in limited circumstances,” long period in a mental institution, that defendants in criminal trials could
Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the Breyer said. “That would diminish the be required to take drugs if it was med- Short, Sell’s lawyer. “The justices didn't and Clarence Thomas.
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