Word: births
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Muggeridge, who recently resigned as Rector of Edinburgh over student demands for free birth control pills, also said that he would only allow certified promiscuous girls to have them. Morgan asked him, "Wouldn't you give just one to a nice girl...
...birth rate, falling steadily for the past decade, reached an alltime low last year, and is projected to drop even further in the years ahead. The 1967 rate, announced by Washington's National Center for Health Statistics, is 17.9 births for every 1,000 Americans, a figure below the previous record low of 18.4 set in the Depression years...
...downs of the U.S. birth rate (see chart) have experts pondering the mysteries of cause and effect. After both World Wars, there was a predictable surge after servicemen returned from overseas. But how to account for the drop during the prosperous 1920s and the affluent late '50s and '60s? The lowering birth rate has nothing to do with fertility, says Natality Statistics Chief Arthur A. Campbell; in fact, women are proving more fertile than the mothers of 30 years ago (88 babies for each 1,000 women of childbearing age v. 76 a generation...
What seems to be determinant is changing fashions in family planning. After World War I, the ideal family became set at two children ("a boy for you, a girl for me"). During the Depression, hard economic realities held down the birth rate. After World War II, the vogue for large families, with three, four or more children, peaked in 1947 and continued for a full decade...
...first developed it as a basis of Christian faith. After a generation of neglect, Schleiermacher, who died in 1834, is now being reassessed as the most significant Protestant theologian since Luther and Calvin. Last week Vanderbilt University sponsored a four-day conference commemorating the bicentenary of Schleiermacher's birth...