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...motherless child grew up to become, at first, the childless mother. What Mary knew of idealism and birth was darkened by what she had learned, painfully and young, of despair and death. In the clearest, most succinct essay in The Endurance of "Frankenstein, " Critic Ellen Moers points out that Mary was one of the few women authors until recent times who wrote and published successfully during the same years that they were having babies. Mary's pregnancies, Moers notes, "record a horror story of maternity of the kind that literary biography does not provide again until Sylvia Plath...
...months became years, Giuseppe remained generous in his fashion. A childless couple wanted a baby. No problem," said Giuseppe. He thumbed through his nursery of a dozen or so offspring of diverse parentage and gave the couple No. 5's newborn child Massimo. Giuseppe's father-in-law Antonio was lonely and just a little envious: "You mean all these women are just for you?" No problem. Giuseppe lent the old man No. 6. Giuseppe's father Carmelo, a widower, was also lonely. No problem. In exchange for Fortunata, Carmelo, 64, traded his secondhand truck, worth...
...book can be read by any parent, married or divorced, gay or straight, working or unemployed, traditional or experimental. Open-mindedness is the watchword, and the authors view all family arrangements, even childless ones, with approbation. This openness makes the book generally accessible, an accessibility widened by the book's scope--from pre-parenthood to being the parent of an adult. In short, Ourselves will interest anyone in any stage of bringing up children...
...biggest factor behind that phenomenon has been the rise of two-income families, in which neither spouse has much time to spend prowling through stores. Other converts to catalogues are affluent singles and childless couples whose active working and social lives similarly leave little room for shopping. To reach these busy big spenders, retailers are increasingly resorting to the mails, and the result has been an explosion not only in the number of catalogues but also in the variety of goods that can be bought through them...
...technique produces a healthy infant and is repeatable, it will be a boon to many childless couples. But it will also intensify debate on the ethical implications of tampering with nature. Some observers are sure to see in the world's first test-tube infant visions of the baby hatcheries in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World...