Word: childlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most adoption agencies no longer insist that applicants must be affluent and childless. In Texas, families with incomes as low as $3,000 have been allowed to take children, and Los Angeles County has placed some with families on relief. The old thumb rule that the parents' combined ages could not exceed 80 is largely gone. California and several other states have permitted a few unmarried women to adopt children...
...under the portraits of some of Jimmy's old acquaintances-Molotov, Roosevelt, Stalin and Eisenhower. Long retired from statecraft, Jim keeps active by overseeing the James F. Byrnes Foundation, which he organized in 1947 to provide college scholarships for needy students. The youngsters, in turn, have given the childless Byrneses a bronze plaque inscribed: "To Mom and Pop Byrnes from your foundation children...
...Ready." Also under review are the 68,369 childless men between 26 and 35, married as well as unmarried, who have not been called because of age. A third group being re-evaluated is made of 3-A "extreme hardship" cases, including Actor George Hamilton, 27, Lynda Bird Johnson's boy friend, who has been exempt on grounds of being the sole support of his four-times divorced mother. Hamilton and some others in this bracket have been ordered to report for physicals and possible reclassification. (Fathers, also classified 3-A, continue to be exempt...
...inducting men for "any but military service has to be looked upon very suspiciously." Hershey rejected outright a suggestion by Committee Chairman Lucius Mendel Rivers of South Carolina that the induction-age ceiling be lowered from 26; in fact, he favors raising the ceiling to include single men and childless husbands...
...only state with only one ground for divorce: adultery as proved by third-party testimony. As a result, divorces that are contested by one of the parties roil in perjury and mudslinging. In uncontested cases, New Yorkers can get divorced by hiring a professional "other woman," but many childless couples prefer to seek annulments based on phony claims of refusal to bear children; New York has more annulments than any other state. Whatever their other disagreements, affluent couples usually agree to flee to divorce in easier states. A strong drive is being conducted in the New York legislature to reform...