Word: adult
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...beneficial role where it facilitates choice in such matters. His argument begins to unravel when he speciously compares the use of public money to facilitate abortion, with its use to facilitate access to a synagogue or church. The risk of pregnancy is an unavoidable, inherent condition of normal adult female life. The risk of not finding the religious facility of one's choice is not an inherent condition of one's humanity...
...disposable pads and undergarments. Manufacturer Kimberly-Clark estimates that sales of all such products will reach $200 million this year. Procter & Gamble's Attends, once sold only to institutions, went on sale to the public nationwide last year, after consumers urged the company to make its Pampers in an adult size. P & G has a nurse-staffed 800 line that answers 300 to 400 calls a month. One despondent young man called in daily for coaching on how to tell his fiancee about his incontinence. He broke the news to her just before the wedding; they were married as planned...
...blacks, and those four were confined to criminal and psychiatric populations. The test also needs better adaptation to the psychology of adolescence. For almost 40 years, some psychologists have noted that the MMPI profile of the normal youngster temporarily caught in adolescent turmoil is similar to that of the adult psychopath...
...chroniclers manage to narrate two centuries of picturesque student shenanigans (to set against the serious troubles of the 1960's) or to commemorate fabled teachers, such as the Mr. Chips-like "Copey." They do not recall how before American entry into World War I, Charles Copeland, who lived his adult life in an undergraduate dormitory and never traveled in Europe, unremittingly goaded his comely, impressionable students into volunteering for often lethal service in rickety biplanes and ambulances in France...
Rhonda Issler chose the Pill as her first contraceptive when she was a young adult in the early 1970s. But after five years, news of the Pill's potentially harmful side effects made her switch to an intrauterine device. Soon after, she suffered severe menstrual cramps and a pelvic infection. Issler eventually turned to the diaphragm, but she found its use messy and inhibiting. Now 33 and living in North Hollywood, Calif., the working mother of one relies uneasily on a combination of the rhythm method and the condom. "Birth control is a very important decision, but also a very...