Lois wyse biography thirdage

  • Dear Lois: I am 81, and I can still recall vividly the morning when I was awakened with the extra announcing that Lindy arrived in Paris!
  • An energetic grandmother of nine, Wyse is the best-selling author of more than 60 books, ranging from collections of her poetry to business how-tos.
  • If you want to ask Lois a question, share your favorite grandchild story or comment on anything of interest to families, write: Lois Wyse, Third.

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    What is with our sexual mores?

    Dear Readers: Maybe it was the story about the teenage girl who delivered her baby and went back to dance at her prom that made me so angry.

    Or maybe it was going into the bookstore and finding a book detailing a daughter's sexual experience with her father (and then finding that book on the best-seller list) that did it.

    Or it could have been the case of Kelly Flinn, who resigned from the Air Force rather than face a court-martial after her affair with a married man.

    Whatever specific event was _ or wasn't _ the trigger, the whole ugly mess we call our current sexual politics leads me to write directly to you to ask all of you (meaning parents and grandparents) to raise a voice of moral outrage in this sexual wilderness.

    I find it incomprehensible that responsible, watchful parents cannot recognize a daughter's pregnancy (good heavens, what did they think was going on with their daughter?). I do not understand the permissive attitude toward

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    Adoption stirs the greatest response ever

    The greatest number of letters I have ever received on a subject came after I printed letters from birth mothers, adoptive mothers and children (some in their 60s and 70s today) on their feelings toward adoption. A large number of adopted children responding are seeking birth mothers, with the approval of their adoptive parents, and many of them are forging new relationships with new families. Almost without exception, however, they continue to love and respect the parents who raised them as their true parents. Every once in a while, though, a new question is raised.

    Not everything

    is in the genes

    Question: I was born out of wedlock as was my mother. When I was 18, I met and married a girl whose parents were opposed to our marriage. She was obviously rebelling. As immature kids we had a son, then broke up after a year of problems that only got worse. She sued for divorce and asked the judge to deny me visiting rights because of my vi

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    Muhammad Ali

    A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at