Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eastwood doesn't put a quick end to Locke's singing career, he may wake up one day to discover that he has created his own Cybill Shepherd. - Frank Rick
Nine out of ten children of divorced parents end up in the sole custody of the mother. Indeed, judges assign youngsters to the mother so routinely that lawyers usually advise their male clients not to bother bringing a case. A custody fight is "an act of futility," says New York Supreme Court Justice Sybil Hart Kooper, "unless the woman is a prostitute and practicing in front of her children, or a chronic alcoholic who falls down drunk, or a psychotic who is threatening the children's lives...
Joint-custody agreements depend so heavily on a spirit of give-and-take that most are worked out with assistance from mediation and reconciliation centers. The Los Angeles Conciliation Court and other divorce counselors estimate that 15% to 20% of their cases now end in joint custody. That percentage is likely to grow. Predicts Susan Whicher, a Boulder, Colo., lawyer who heads the American Bar Association's special committee on joint custody: "Legally it's terrifying for a lot of lawyers and judges, but by the end of the 1980s it will be the rule rather than...
...become a Washington fixture. Every January, tens of thousands of Roman Catholics and other foes of abortion gather in the capital for the March for Life. It protests the Supreme Court's 1973 decision guaranteeing the right of women to end pregnancy up to the point at which the fetus is "viable," or "potentially able to live outside the womb, albeit with artificial aid." But this week's marchers will have competition. On the same day, liberal Jewish and Protestant clergy in New York City plan to parade to St. Patrick's Roman Catholic cathedral...
...choice forces are now pressing their argument in McRae v. Califano, a lawsuit on the Medicaid abortion issue that is nearing decision in a Brooklyn federal court and will probably end up in the U.S. Supreme Court. The class action suit is brought by the Women's Division of the big (9.9 million members) United Methodist Church in concert with Planned Parenthood and various doctors and poor women. The Methodists are backed by a friend-of-the-court brief filed by 15 other national religious interest groups, including the American Jewish Congress, the synagogue unions of Conservative and Reform...