Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Auto-Adultery. Women can play this game too, says Rostand. Parthenogenesis -self fertilization, by techniques such as supplying an additional nucleus from the mother, would permit a woman to have a child that is not the child of any male. She would accomplish a sort of "auto-adultery...
...science has changed this traditional concept of the human species, says Rostand. Artificial insemination raises the possibility that husbands separated from their wives for long periods may arrange to have them inseminated during their absence. This requires a change in laws that now permit a husband to disown a child that he could not have begotten in the usual manner...
...test-tube babies are only the beginning. "What would become of the notion of maternity," Rostand asks, "if surgeons transplanted a fertilized ovum or a young embryo from one woman to another? If a woman bore a child that was not genetically hers, who would be the real mother? Would it be she who carried the child or she who furnished the germ cell...
...biology develops there may come a time when a child can develop from an ovum whose nucleus has been removed and replaced by the nucleus of another individual. The genetic mother in this case would be the person who supplied the substitute nucleus. This changeling nucleus can come from a person of either sex. Thus if the father supplied the nucleus and also fertilized the ovum, he would be the child's only genetic parent...
Untitled principal of the out-of-hours school is Mrs. Stephen J. Knerly, 33, onetime bright child in Cleveland elementary schools, where gifted students are fed large helpings of science, foreign languages and math in special classes. She did much of the early tilting with school officials, then, with a neighbor, organized the French course. For a fee of $5 an hour the school hired Louise Burke, a retired Cleveland French teacher. Miss Burke runs her classes without texts and entirely in French, fining youngsters a "sou" (actually 1?) when they lapse into English. Says Mrs. Knerly's daughter...