Word: adoptionism
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That is abysmal compared with what other industrialized nations allow. Salaried women in France can take up to 28 weeks of unpaid maternity leave or up to 20 weeks of adoption leave, though they are less likely to need it since day care, health care and early education are widely...
Though routinely maligned as a decade of swinish greed, the 1980s also produced a kinder, gentler brand of storytelling, one that might be described as "eco-feminist" fiction. The central plot of this evolving subgenre has become reasonably clear. Women, relying on intuition and one another, mobilize to save the...
Gorbachev has decided to throw the issues out for public debate, arguing that "the people must make their choice." There seems little doubt, however, that Shatalin's radical 500-day program, with some modifications, will prevail. The most telling vote came last week in the parliament of the Russian Republic...
Critics argue that adoption of voucher plans would sound the death knell of the public school as a democratic institution that melds children from all classes, backgrounds and races in a modern-day melting pot. In truth, that pluralistic dream died years ago in most districts. Today 63% of all...
Like the other 6,500 East German Mauerhunde, or Wall dogs, along the old fortified borders, Asta, 4, faced an uncertain fate after the barriers came down. Then an animal-protection society arranged adoption by the Ahrndt family of Hannover. Alas, the German shepherd has turned out to be a...