In ten battleground states, undecided Boomers and older generations are waiting for presidential candidates to address immediate concerns, which increasingly include taking care of mom and dad, educating offspring without selling the house to pay for it, and reinventing careers for a long, strange trip ahead.
She attended Beijing's élite 101 Middle School, which had once educated many offspring of Party cadres.
Another triumph came in 1979 with Old Story Time, which explored changing attitudes towards race and social class in post-independence Jamaica, and the inherent tensions between the ways of isolated country folk and their educated, cosmopolitan offspring.
The most striking feature of kibbutz education was that the parents forgo rearing and educating their offspring themselves and instead hand the children over to professional educators, sometimes immediately after birth.
(Its other big draw is schools, with Russia's elite privately educating its offspring here).
At the same time, senior officials and tycoons vacation, bank and educate their offspring in Europe rather than Eurasia.
Thursday's attack at Garissa University College struck a particular nerve because, in a country with no significant natural resources and a scant social safety net, parents make huge sacrifices to educate their offspring in the hope that they in turn will support their families – and in many cases whole clans.
Some fret that schools for children of a particular faith foster segregation; others cite parents' right to educate their offspring as they see fit, adding that religious schools outperform secular ones (though opponents say that is because richer children go to them).
It is a great pity, Mrs McAllister sometimes reflects, that she should have fallen victim to the great unwritten law of child-rearing: that you can raise, clothe and educate your offspring as you wish, but you cannot choose their friends.
Chances are, she's educating your offspring on the reality of the glass ceiling right now.
