1.   I believe a great deal of advice is available to adoptive parents these days.

2.   In any case, every state is having trouble finding foster parents these days.

3.   In the old days parents packed their kids off to the first day of school with a new metal lunch box and an apple for the teacher.

4.   The actor speaks to his parents every day.

5.   The job of raising caring and generous children falls squarely upon parents these days.

6.   Though this may sound self-evident, parents these days do not seem to realize it.

7.   Parents these days do not spend enough time talking to their children.

8.   Sixty children in Racak lost a parent that day.