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What triggered Dole's spiritual rebirth remains shrouded. In an interview, her sister-in-law Bunny, who is married to John, is asked whether it had anything to do with her not having children. Bunny, who is religious and also childless, says softly, "We've discussed this off and on. She loves children, but she took not having them in stride. She never breathed the idea that God had another plan." Bunny pauses before finishing her thought, adding, "But women's arms are made to hold children. There's always an emptiness." When asked the same question about her daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIDDY MAKES PERFECT | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

John Harvard migrated to Massachusetts in 1636, the 29th year of his life. Married but childless, he died of consumption only two years later, leaving half his estate to a newly-founded college. As the Biblical proverb would have it, so long as Harvard lived, he lived alone. But in dying he brought forth great fruit...

Author: By Steven A. Engel, | Title: The Self-Assertion of Harvard University | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...fact, one of the owners of the manuscript rights is Ziegler Professor of Business Administration John W. Pratt, the great-great grandson of Louisa's father Branson Alcott. Louisa died childless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houghton Librarian Clarifies Alcott Book Status | 5/2/1996 | See Source »

...satisfaction of Japanese women have greatly increased in recent decades, but this has brought problems of its own, since Japanese men have not adapted their expectations accordingly. Husbands rarely perform family duties, leaving them to their wives. Rather than accept that division of labor, some women prefer to remain childless and unattached. The result is that, on average, women in Japan marry later and bear fewer children than do women in virtually any other country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FAILED MIRACLE | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

...last April 19 has mostly healed. But for those without the advantage of distance--for the families of the 168 people killed and the more than 600 injured; for the thousands of people who actually felt the earth shudder and heard the screams; for the now parentless children and childless parents--the balm of time hardly seems medicine enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA CITY: LIVING WITH THE NIGHTMARES | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

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