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Some experts see such reversals as signs of a mini-revival of family life. The divorce rate, which doubled from 1950 to 1982, has leveled off, though it still hits 1 of every 2 U.S. marriages. "People may be taking marriage more seriously," suggests Barbara Wilson, a federal demographer. Similarly, the number of unmarried couples living together has stabilized. After soaring from 523,000 in 1970 to 1,988,000 last year, the out-of-wedlock cohort actually declined slightly in this year's survey. Demographers attribute this mostly to economic and age factors. Said Author Bryant Robey...
...company was in trouble. Leanne Lachman, president of the Chicago-based Real Estate Research Corp. (estimated 1985 revenues: $7.8 million), recalls that her promotion in 1979 triggered such stories about her firm. Says she: "Appointing a woman as president was a high-risk thing to do at the time." Barbara Gardner Proctor avoided the problem in 1970 when she founded her Chicago advertising agency by naming it Proctor & Gardner. Some early clients, she recalls, "assumed that there was a Mr. Gardner who ran the business, and I was in sales. I did not dissuade them from believing this...
...adapt to the special demands of the Japanese market. Says Byron Battle, an undersecretary of economic affairs for the Massachusetts Office of International Trade: "In Japan, you have to sell it their way, not the Great American way." That is a lesson as old as world trade. --By Barbara Rudolph. Reported by Yukinori Ishikawa/Tokyo, with other bureaus
...complications occur and the patient's quality of life becomes marginal. Says he: "We thought it was going to be either yes or no. That he was either going to live or die." No one counted on a state of existence somewhere in between. --By Claudia Wallis. Reported by Barbara Dolan/Louisville
...teenagers do. According to the Children's Aid Society in New York City, one of the oldest family agencies in the country, a large number of babies delivered to teenage mothers wind up in foster care. "Teenagers get excited about this little, adorable person that's all theirs," explains Barbara Emmerth of the New York City-based Citizens' Committee for Children, "but when the kid is in the terrible twos and the mother wants to go out on dates instead of taking care of the little monster, they change their minds...