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...despite the law's good intentions, it actually limits childless couples' chances of finding a surrogate, while also infringing on the rights of the adults involved. Moreover, it does nothing to remedy the main problem of most surrogacy situations, which is not financial but emotional: the surrogate mother's wish to maintain ties to her child...
...bearded balladeer began turning up at kindergartens and day-care centers, and Blowin' in the Wind was replaced by songs such as Five Little Ducks. Childless himself, he had no idea how to woo his audience. "I thought you were supposed to attract their attention," he says, screwing his thumbs into his ears. "Hey, kid, watch this!" But with Debi's help, he made a discovery. "I realized you don't have to impress children," he said. "They make up their minds very quickly whether they like...
...Study data shows that close to 6000 families with children have been displaced from large Rent Control apartments by single adults and childless couples and that almost half of all rent control tenants pay rents lower than 20% of their incomes...
Raising children is another major hurdle, since day-care centers usually run for only eight hours and baby-sitters are expensive. No wonder many women with careers are not married. A 1989 Labor Ministry survey found that 60% of management-level women are single, and 36% are childless...
SAFE DEPOSITS. A decade ago, California tycoon Robert K. Graham caused a stir and a few snickers when he established the Repository for Germinal Choice. Its purpose: to make the sperm of brainy men (preferably Nobel prizewinners) available to brainy, childless women, who would then theoretically bear superintelligent babies. Three Nobel laureates contributed to this experiment, although the only one to announce his deposits was William Shockley (physics, 1956), a proponent of crackpot theories about the genetic inferiority of blacks. After ten years the repository has spawned 111 children, with 30 more on the way, but not a single...