Word: children
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What seems to be determinant is changing fashions in family planning. After World War I, the ideal family became set at two children ("a boy for you, a girl for me"). During the Depression, hard economic realities held down the birth rate. After World War II, the vogue for large families, with three, four or more children, peaked in 1947 and continued for a full decade...
Today's pattern, according to Campbell, is for women to have children earlier and settle for fewer of them (average U.S. family is now 2.7 children). Says Robert C. Cook, president of Washington's Population Reference Bureau: "There is a growing realization on the part of younger couples in America that rearing children in this complicated and expensive world presents big problems." Among those cited by Cook: "Rising costs of living, increasing competition for education, especially at the college level...
Evers knows he must gain substantial white support and promises: "We're going to represent all of our people, black and white, 'cause we're all God's children." But the prospect is that whites, who scattered their votes in last week's election, will coalesce to defeat Evers in the runoff...
...hospitals are so crowded that only emergency cases are accepted, and even then the newcomer will probably have to share his bed with another patient or sleep on the floor. Coffins lie unburied for days because of a lack of gravediggers. Practically all the schools are still closed, and children either clog the streets while at play or are kept indoors by nervous, anxious parents...
...some a temporary change is enough. And for them the Peace Corps is one route. At 34, Lawyer Richard Enslen left his thriving practice in Kalamazoo, Mich., to head 150 other volunteers in Costa Rica. His wife stoutly enrolled their five children in native schools, went to a missionary clinic to have their sixth. Enslen says that "such service whets your appetite for more." Kalamazoo agrees: last fall the voters elected Enslen in absentia to a municipal judgeship that he has since returned to fill...