Word: antichild
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Dates: during 1979-1979
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...commercial were assaulted by angry telephone calls and letters denouncing them for having six children. All over the country, school budgets are being killed in tax revolts. That may be more an indication of disastrous inflation and a protest against bad educational systems than a specifically antichild gesture, but such refusals suggest something about a community's priorities...
...beginning of the '70s came a convulsion of disgust at what some regarded as the tyrannical conventions of the American family. Both the need for population control and the urgency of women's rights impelled various writers to launch polemics against having kids. It was not an antichild so much as an antiparent movement. Among the voices raised against the tyrannies of automatic motherhood was that of Betty Rollin, who is now a correspondent for NBC News. "Motherhood is in trouble, and it ought to be," she wrote. "A rude question is long overdue: Who needs...
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