Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ironing, and the suave purring of the Somerset Strings, boosted real high, drowned out the snarl of the washer. When it was time for a midday snack, she returned to the built-in record cabinet and selected Music for Gracious Living and Music for Expectant Mothers (her second child was on the way). Late in the afternoon it clouded over, and she barely had time to slip on Music for a Rainy Night before her husband came home...
...opposite sex, and all socially unacceptable forms of overt behavior such as exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, transvestism, homosexuality and bestiality. To understand the origin of these disorders, the two psychiatrists say, "the physician must face a disquieting but demonstrable fact: examples of all degrees of parental seduction of the child occur more commonly than it is comfortable to contemplate . . . The seduction may be as subtle as a caress or as blatant as actual incest...
...that most doctors, like laymen, react with anger and revulsion to accounts of seduction. But, they insist-and this is where they differ most markedly from many other psychiatrists-that sexual deviation is invariably the result of seduction as they broadly define it, ranging from lascivious permissiveness when a child engages in sexual stimulation to outright coercion...
...Stimulated by this parental behavior," the psychiatrists say, "the child finds no outlet for his aroused sensual impulses. Eventually, mounting frustration and anger force him to follow one of two courses. One is regression to the relative safety of more infantile attitudes and behavior patterns . . . The other is physical aggression toward women. Neither course resolves the rage nor dissipates the overstimulated unconscious sexual drives...
...size of their families, and the size they are planning for, on the average, is three children. So reports the University of Michigan, after a survey of 2,700 women living with their husbands and aged 18 to 39 (this age group includes 94% of the nation's child-bearing women). At this rate, noted Survey Sociologist Ronald Freedman, the baby boom will continue: it would take only 2.2 children per couple to maintain the population at its present level...