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...Planned Parenthood for the pills." She now has a one-year-old daughter. Studies show that, on the average, teens wait twelve months after first becoming sexually active before they seek contraception. By then it is often too late. "When you're young," says Kim Adalid, 19, of Lawndale, Calif, a wise old mother of two, "all you think about is the weekend...
...thinking more in the future, but things happen." Or Derdra Jones of Chicago, who gave birth at 15: "Part of me wanted to get pregnant," she confesses. "I liked the boy a lot, and he used to say he wanted a baby." Or Marquel, 17, of Hawthorne, Calif.: "I had birth control pills in my drawer. I just didn't take them," she says. "My life was getting boring. I wanted a baby...
...many of the young men there is also a conflict between the desire to provide for their children and doubts about their own abilities as providers. Says Tommy Milladge, a counselor at the Youth and Family Center in Lawndale, Calif.: "The paradox felt by teen fathers is that while they want the young lady to receive services, they are ambivalent because they can't provide for them the way they should. It defeats their masculinity." Until recently it was thought that this same sense of masculine pride would prevent young fathers from participating in programs designed to help them...
...perfect functioning. If a vital organ such as the heart, lung or liver gives out, the support systems are weakened as well. Patients are unrealistic when they expect every operation to be a medical miracle. But doctors are equally unrealistic when they try to play God. Beatrice Warren Aptos, Calif. Women...
...year, three-pack-a-day habit in 1982, Galbraith had filed a $1 million product-liability suit against R.J. Reynolds, contending that the company that marketed the Winstons and Camels he puffed so prodigiously fueled his addiction and thus killed him. But last week a jury in Santa Barbara, Calif., voted 9 to 3 that Galbraith's lawyer Melvin Belli had not proved that smoking necessarily caused Galbraith's death or that he was a tobacco addict. The panel of eleven nonsmokers and one smoker agreed with Reynolds' attorney Thomas Workman that Galbraith "smoked because he loved it. He knew...