Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marriage license; their appeal of the authorities' refusal to grant a license is before the Minnesota Supreme Court. Meanwhile, like a good lawyer, Baker has sought some other means to establish a legal relationship with McConnell. Last week he found one. A judge in Minneapolis allowed McConnell to adopt Baker...
...three children and we wanted one more. I was about to go off pills when I read an article about American Indian children and I thought, why not?" That, as Housewife Judy Meredith of Boston explains it, is how she and her husband-both white-came to adopt a 13-month-old Indian called Tommy and a two-week-old black baby named Jackie. The Merediths' decision is part of a growing phenomenon known in sociologist's jargon as transracial adoption. Last year 2,200 black babies were adopted by white U.S. families, compared with only...
Between Worlds. Most whites who adopt children of other races are managing the problems remarkably well. But there are opponents of mixed adoption. Most vocal among them are the black separatists, who fear loss of the Negro's heritage through assimilation. Even integrationist blacks and whites worry about the ability of white parents to equip black youngsters for survival in a prejudiced world. They are concerned over all sorts of seemingly minor problems, such as a white parent's lack of experience in combing a black child's kinky hair ("There's just...
...import of goods. In Washington, there is much discussion of imposing surtaxes on imports. Any of these steps would damage the system of free trade and investment, which has done so much to promote postwar economic growth. A much more prudent move would be for the U.S. to adopt an incomes policy, centered on wage and price guidelines. This would show skeptical Europeans that the U.S. is serious about curbing inflation-and thus strengthening the dollar...
...Unlike Millett, who drew on fiction, or Greer, whose examples came mostly from pop culture, Janeway borrows from academic sociology to explain how society maintains itself by means of roles and myths. One of her basic themes, applicable to either sex, is that individuals find it easier to adopt a ready-made self than to create...