Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sexual behavior in the U.S. has changed markedly in the past 25 years, says U.C.L.A. Psychiatrist Ralph R. Greenson-and not for the better. "It is my definite impression," Dr. Greenson told the American Medical Association last week, "that women are becoming sexually more assertive and demanding, and men are more indifferent and lethargic." His observations, he added, are as valid for the youth of the current "cool" generation as they are for the middleaged...
...their free and easy public behavior, said Greenson, does not lead to private satisfaction. And the blame, he said, should be placed largely on the parents. They are overanxious for their children to be popular; they urge them to date early, at a time when they are emotionally unprepared for the experience...
Simons rejects Bible-based morality on the grounds that Jesus himself imposed no detailed code of behavior, but rather gave a general injunction that man should live according to the highest standards and seek perfection through love. He likewise feels that the conventional Catholic approach to natural law is too abstract and impersonal. The traditional natural-law moralist would call lying a sin because it perverts the purpose of speech, which is communication. Simons' general-welfare theory suggests a more plausible reason, similar to the thinking of Protestants who reject natural law: that "mankind would be gravely harmed...
...view of the contents of natural moral law." Some moral law is virtually self-evident and thus constant through history-for example, respect for life and property. But there has also been change and development in man's understanding of morality. The modern consensus establishes as sinful certain behavior patterns, such as slavery and polygamy, that previous ages accepted as moral. Now, Simons believes, a consensus is developing outside the church that permits abortions when a mother's life is in danger, birth control and even sterilization for parents whose family welfare would be threatened by another child...
...emotionally dependent and less repressed than their neighbors, average less than half the suicide rate of Sweden and Denmark. Dr. Hendin found Swedes bottled up emotionally, extremely ambitious, and prone to despair and self-aggression when their goals have not been achieved. In Denmark, Hendin declared, mothers control the behavior of their children by making them feel guilty; hence, suicide in Denmark, he theorized, is typically motivated by the attempt to establish guilt in a love object...