Word: childes
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...This is not so in much of the First World: such countries as the U.S. and Japan are only slightly above zero population growth. The result: a "rising average age of the population and increasing proportions of the aged." The phenomenon will require a shift in social spending from child health and education to welfare systems for the old, but a smaller working population will have to bear the increasing cost. Moreover countries with dwindling populations, the report suggests obliquely, may face necessary "changes in political attitudes toward immigration...
Lucy, who has been a bossy, precocious child for the past 29 years, is now a fallen woman. Or at least about eight months pregnant, judging from an advertisement promoting maternity fashions in Chicago. Quick to defend her honor, United Feature Syndicate, which distributes the Peanuts comic strip created by Charles Schulz, has sued Maternity Shop Owner Bernard Poticha. Charging copyright infringement and unfair trade practices, the lawsuit demands that Poticha stop using the ad and seeks $50,000 damages. Lucy "has been consistently and continuously portrayed ... as a young, unmarried girl," says the complaint. To portray her as pregnant...
When Victoria's adoptive parents, Albert and Isabelle Pittorino, learned of the secret, incestuous marriage, they pleaded with her to talk to a priest before she got pregnant and had "an imbecile child." Said the Pittorinos' lawyer, Margaret Mahoney: "We're all Catholics in this thing. We told her, 'You can't have a child, you can't abort. You have to get counseling.' " But Victoria insisted she had a right to marry her brother...
Besides, she insists, there is no danger of a defective child-David plans to have a vasectomy. Says David: "We set our minds to separate...
...offspring. Indeed, doctors have long assumed that the mother alone is responsible for chemically induced birth defects. The father was considered blameless. At worst, a male's lifestyle-whether he took drugs, for example, or smoked or drank-might affect his own health but not that of his child. Now some doctors are beginning to suspect that dad's habits may be as damaging to the unborn child...