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...large old house. The tight market also reflects changing American social values. The growing population of Splitsville-more than 1 million Americans got divorces last year, v. less than half that number a decade ago-has forced spouses to seek separate dwellings, and they usually want apartments. So do childless hetero-and homosexual couples and independent-minded women. In Los Angeles, the number of people per dwelling dropped from...
...Western standards, she reports, Israel's attitude toward women is regressive. Women are not allowed to testify in rabbinical courts, which handle divorce and marriage for all Jews. They cannot divorce without a husband's permission, and childless widows need a brother-in-law's approval for remarriage, sometimes gaining it with bribes. If a woman has been widowed three times, with all three husbands dying of natural causes, she is declared the isha katlanit, the fatal woman, and is legally forbidden to marry again. If a husband simply disappears, no matter how long he has been...
...Massachusetts' Democratic Governor Michael Dukakis thinks he may have a more precisely tailored solution. Having already cut off welfare payments for childless adults capable of holding jobs, Dukakis last week revealed details of a "work experience program" for men with families. Beginning in September, some 2,000 Massachusetts fathers who have been jobless for two years will have to work for a government or nonprofit agency for three days a week, 96 hours a month. The penalty for refusal: denial of the father's share of checks issued under the classification of "aid to families with dependent children...
...inhabitants of a town in a gothic tale who had been stricken by some mysterious pestilence. All nodded in agreement as Gyani Ram, 40, told how he had been forced to undergo a vasectomy, and then was denied a certificate after officials discovered too late that he was childless and should not have been sterilized in the first place. "I feel neither a man nor a woman," complained one man who had been sterilized. "The women tell us we are not men any more and that we should work in the kitchen while they work in the fields. My wife...
Where Playwright Rudkin eventually falters is in trying to make private grief a metaphor for public sorrow. In a long and wrenching monologue, he tries to link the childless couple's plight to the nightmare horrors of Northern Ireland. Nonetheless, Rudkin is a dramatist who welds theater to life as too few playwrights tend to do. With this production the Manhattan Theater Club reconfirms its status as an oasis of fresh drama under the venturesome leader ship of its artistic director, Lynne Meadow. She has been joined in this instance by Joseph Papp and his New York Shakespeare Festival...