Word: ager
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...troublesome teen-ager or even a loner. Indeed, in the seventh and ninth grades he was elected president of his home room, and as an eighth-grader managed the basketball team. John Hinckley was no aloof oddball then. Says his junior-high friend Kirk Dooley: "No one rooted louder than Hinckley for the Highland Park Red Raiders...
...breadwinner in the family. Some are alcoholics, others have drug problems. What is to happen to these cases?" In addition, there are the special personal problems posed by teen-age pregnancies. Warns a Planned Parenthood ad: "What if your baby is going to have a baby? Each pregnant teen-ager is somebody's daughter, with her entire life in front of her. Yet the Right-to-Life movement wants to force her to have a baby. No matter how young she is. No matter how she, her doctor, or her parents feel. Even if the pregnancy resulted from rape...
...access to abortion is a serious threat to the breakdown of family values. Says David O'Steen, director of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life: "Clearly, abortion as a means of birth control is going to encourage sexual activity. It is the ultimate out for sexual irresponsibility. A teen-ager can have an abortion and her parents will never hear of it." About 40% of females who turn 14 this year are expected to become pregnant while they are still teenagers...
Across the Pacific in California another rape case involved more judges than rapists. When a Sonoma County teen-ager allegedly forced a 16-year-old girl to make love to him on a park bench one spring night in 1978, he had no idea that his sexual initiative would eventually be weighed by the U.S. Supreme Court. But the girl told her story to the police. The boy was officially charged with statutory rape for having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor. California is one of eleven states that still punish only the male in statutory rape cases. Accordingly...
...children, are heartrending. One pictures a leaf blowing off the tree of life. Adults often choose occupational symbols: a sewing machine, a policeman's badge, a B-52 in remembrance of a Boeing employee who was loyal to the bitter end. There are also golfers, fishermen, a teen-ager's customized 1965 Mustang complete to the license plate BAD NUZ, and a skier taking off on a jump, above the legend BILL WENT FOR IT. One woman had her stone engraved with four aces over the Christian symbol of the fish. "She might have been a Christian gambler...