Word: adoptionism
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Increasingly, conservative religious organizations have got into the business of aiding pregnant teenagers as a way of discouraging abortion. Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority has, for example, developed a nationwide $4 million program called Save-a-Baby, run in conjunction with an adoption agency. "We agree to assist girls who...
To understand the nature of the problem, one must look beyond statistics and examine the dramatic changes in attitudes and social mores that have swept through American culture over the past 30 years. The teenage birth rate was actually higher in 1957 than it is today, but that was an...
All this has changed. Today if a girl does not choose to abort her pregnancy (and some 45% of teenagers do), chances are she will keep the baby and raise it without the traditional blessings of marriage. "The shotgun marriage is a relic of the past," observes Mark Testa, of...
With the stigma of illegitimacy largely removed, girls are less inclined to surrender their babies for adoption. In fact, fewer than 5% do (compared with roughly 35% in the early 1960s). "In earlier times if a girl kept her child, society would treat her like an outcast," reflects Sister Bertille...
These and other complex questions have been raised by the widespread adoption of no-fault divorce laws. When the first such legislation was implemented in California in 1970, it was hailed by many for permitting a marriage to be dissolved simply through one partner's decision to do so. It...