The pot and potty jokes are to be expected, while repeated, casual denigrations of the couple's Hispanic housekeeper (Lidia Porto) inadvertently suggest affluent, unthinking Los Angeles prejudice.
These mechanisms suggest affluent neighbourhoods with high income inequality might have higher material capital (i.e., "neo-materialist" pathway) that would be expected to be beneficial for birth outcomes.
Is it simplistic to suggest that affluent individuals adopt individual villages like these and mentor them out of their misery?
Rowan et al (2008) suggest that affluent men may have 'greater access' to PSA tests.
The concurrent increase in the difference in survival between affluent and deprived men, taken with the increase in incidence, similarly more rapid among men in affluent groups, also suggests that affluent men have had greater access to PSA tests than men in the more deprived groups.
However, account holders may take the distributions, and several advisers, expecting that top tax rates will rise, suggested that affluent taxpayers take distributions this year.
He has suggested that affluent blacks such as his own daughters should not get special treatment when applying to college, and that poor whites sometimes should.
In its portrait of a group of 30-ish male friends who don't want to grow up, "The Last Kiss" sometimes suggests an affluent contemporary update of Federico Fellini's "I Vitelloni".
SUSAN BURT-COLLINS Merion Station, Pa., Aug. 25, 2012 TO THE EDITOR: R. Scott Asen makes a valuable point in suggesting that affluent parents should be asked to pay the full cost of private school tuition.
Yet research by Suniya Luthar at Columbia University, for example, suggests that affluent children suffer high rates of emotional and moral troubles — delinquency, behavior troubles, drug abuse, anxiety, depression — in many cases as high or higher than low-income children, despite the many stresses low-income families endure.
Peter Singer has argued for this imperative, suggesting that "affluent nations would also benefit from cheaper drugs and from medical research that was focused on reducing disease rather than on maximising profits".
