Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the laws of Massachusetts and of the Roman Catholic Church, the fact that a child is being used as a pawn is shocking. Being a real parent involves far more than bringing a child into the world. To uproot little Hildy McCoy [TIME, July 18] from the only security and love she knows and transplant her is like putting a family pet into the city dog pound...
...Gross deprivation of love, severe punishment and brutality at home, enforced submissiveness and isolation, learning difficulties and organic disorders-especially of the central nervous system." True enough, some of these causes involve the home, but it takes a combination of several, said Dr. Bender, to push "a particular child along the road to delinquency." Even under such a malign constellation, some other factor is still needed to turn a child into a delinquent, Dr. Bender emphasized. Putting psychiatric jargon aside, she called this simply "happenstance...
Born. To Julie Harris, 29, elfin stage and film actress (The Member of the Wedding, East of Eden), and Manning Gurian, 41, theatrical manager: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Peter Alston. Weight...
...novel, End as a Man, a couple of seasons ago into an unexpected Broadway hit. Incident is about a married woman, incapable of having children, who pours her maternal affection on a 19-year-old boy, causes a painful scandal, finally realizes that she ought to adopt a child. The writing was aimless, the plot pointless, and Actress Stapleton had the ungrateful chore of playing a woman of monumental stupidity...
Born. To Joan Naomi Benny, 20, adopted daughter of Comedians Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone, and Seth Baker, 27, Manhattan stockbroker: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Michael. Weight...