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...offshoot, the Council on Families. "They have a very explicit objective of getting these issues on the national-policy debate. I can tell you, though, there is no indication that public attitudes are swinging in a way consistent with this move." Other academics agree with Bumpass. Stephanie Coontz, who teaches family studies at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, derides the think-tank activists as old-fashioned social reactionaries in disguise. "Divorce is the entering wedge for these people. They found an issue that looked less mean than attacking unwed moms. Everyone is against divorce in the abstract...
...control group, wonder whether her subjects are any more miserable than the kids from troubled but continuing marriages she didn't track. A lengthy University of Virginia study recently found that children of divorce were better off than those of highly dysfunctional marriages, and family historian Stephanie Coontz is worried that Wallerstein's "scare tactics" may cause mismatched mates to "stick it out for the kids" and risk domestic violence...
Until then, we should be very scared indeed, and take any and all manifestations of bigotry deadly seriously. Otto Coontz Adams House Tutor for Bisexual Gay and Lesbian Concerns
...shone brightly as technicians aboard the destroyer U.S.S. Coontz checked over its complement of guided missiles. Suddenly, at 3:05 p.m. last Tuesday, a flash and a roar broke the quiet of the tropic afternoon. Officers on the bridge watched horrified as a 15-ft.-long Harpoon, loaded with high explosives, soared off over the blue-green waters of the Caribbean toward the resort island of St. Croix. It vanished completely...
...furniture manufacturers has already been considerable. Says A. Stuart Wood, an editor at Modern Plastics: "The use of plastic as plastic is changing the furniture business like the textile business was changed 30 years ago by the introduction of synthetic fabrics." As far as Chicago Department Store Executive Marcia Coontz is concerned, that change is all for the best. "I like everything to be honest," she says. "I don't like the plastic that's designed as wood. This new furniture is very honestly plastic -and that's why I like it. And that's funny...