1.   A few parents are having their children circumcised in hospital to save some time and expense.

2.   Adoptive parents often have little practical preparation for parenthood.

3.   After the initial shock of discovering their daughter is pregnant, parents have to come to terms with this.

4.   But parents also have to be smart about interpreting, and acting on, the new findings.

5.   Equally important, my parent had no one with whom to discuss child rearing or domestic crises.

6.   He was an only child whose parents had had an unhappy Marriage, with rows and infidelities.

7.   Her parents had had an unhappy Marriage.

8.   Her parents had had the sense to realise how unhappy she was, and had made alternative arrangements.

9.   If the parents have different cultural backgrounds, the tasks of reconciling the image to the reality is more complicated.