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Airfare cuts coming soon
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — American Airlines is cutting fares up to 40 percent starting next month.
American said Monday that discounts, ranging from 30 to 40 percent, will continue until mid-December. The longer flights will receive the deepest cuts.
United Airlines said it would match the discounts on routes where it competes with American.
American gave consumers until next Tuesday to buy tickets for trips between Aug. 15 and Dec. 14 in the mainland United States and Hawaii. Discounts on trips to Canada will begin after Aug. 24.
The sale also applies to flights to the Caribbean and those to Mexico starting Sept. 7. American included nine European destinations between Nov.1 and Dec.14.
Seats must be reserved at least 14 days before the trip and a Saturday-night stay is required.
Round-trip flights between Chicago and Honolulu are on sale for $578, down 30 percent.
Student to fight for daughter
Feminists outraged with judge's ruling over day-care option
The Associated Press
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. — A judge's order taking a 3-year-old girl from her college-student mother because the woman put the child in day care has outraged feminists and day care advocates.
"It illustrates an attitude toward women about where they should be — the bedroom, kitchen and those kind of places, not at college," said Jacquie Steingold, a National Organization for Women board member.
Circuit Judge Raymond Cashen said Monday the girl's father, Steve Smith, deserves custody because his own mother, a homemaker, has promised to take care of the child full-time.
Living with her mother, the girl would be "in essence raised and supervised a great part of the time by strangers," the judge wrote.
"A child gains the feeling of security, a safe place by virtue of permanency," he said.
Smith, 20, and the girl's mother, Jennifer Ireland, 19, never married.
Ireland moved to Ann Arbor with the girl, Maranda Kate Ireland Smith, last fall and put the child in day care
for about 35 hours a week while she took classes at the University of Michigan.
The judge is expected to sign the order today. It would take effect in 15 days.
Ireland, who would have visitation on alternate weekends, holidays and other times, planned to appeal. For now, Maranda is living with her mother.
"It's just unfair. It's a decision based on the 1950s," Ireland said. "She loves going to day care. She wouldn't be with strangers."
Levona Whitaker, a representative for the child advocacy program Michigan's Children, said the order encourages single mothers to stay home and collect welfare instead of bettering their lives.
"I think it's terrible," said Joyce Johnson, a representative for the Child Welfare League of America, a children's advocacy group in Washington. "She's doing what young people should do."
"In this day and time, day care is a way of life not only for single parents or parents on welfare. It's a way of life for our nation," Whitaker said.
But Philip Holman, National Congress for Men and Children vice president, said the judge was admirably "gender blind" and placed the child in the most stable environment.
"Had the genders been reversed, this would not be newsworthy," Holman said. "The only shocking thing is a judge did not adopt the unwritten code, which is that children belong with their mother unless she's proven unfit."
Ireland and her supporters say the decision is unfair because Smith also plans to go to school and work.
Smith's 43-year-old mother, Debbie Smith, believes her home is better than day care.
"Kids before never had to grow up with day care. They grew up with their mothers at home," she said. "If you have no choice, you do what you have to do. But in this case you have a choice."
Ireland got pregnant while in high school but has raised Maranda with the help of her mother. She has worked, completed high school and earned a scholarship to the University of Michigan.
Numerous studies have found that regulated day care centers can be better for children in teaching them independence, sharing and other social skills.
Ronald Dixon, one of Ireland's lawyers, said the order may prompt some women to give up career plans for fear of losing their child.
"The decision sends the wrong message for women who want to improve themselves and go to school," he said.
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