How do you get parents to pay for their child to come study in a city that was so badly damaged?

By the end of our time here, saying goodbye, Lynn and I were clinging together, crying. It was a horrible thing that happened, this hurricane, but something good came out of it. We got to spend time with a near-and-dear family.

I talked to an Episcopal priest who said everyone's lost something. We're all in grief together. To try to compare one loss with another is not a useful activity.

You could see the high-water mark on the side of the house. Anne Marie went to look at it and came back to the car in tears.

The predominant emotion here, I think, is one of great sadness. The city is never going to be the same.

Parents may feel that they don't matter to their teens, but this study indicates, they really do. It shows that such factors as not smoking, having good family management skills in setting rules and monitoring behavior, and having a strong emotional relationship with their children matter until the end of adolescence.