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...baby boomer on hallucinogenics could have dreamt up. The ideal of family life celebrated at the Elysées Palace and in town halls across France - of the nuclear family, that is, a man and woman, plus the offspring that they alone produced - is being toppled. In its place, Europeans are developing their own, innovative models of family. For millions, that means delaying the decision to have children until later in life - or not having them at all. For others, it means accepting a union between a gay or lesbian couple as a family, whether or not the Catholic Church...
...this playing out in European homes? Consider the family of 60 years ago. The paterfamilias comes home to his young wife. The baby boom that will fill maternity wards to bursting until the mid-1960s is just beginning. A child plays at her feet and the rounded belly beneath her apron suggests another is on the way. Fast-forward to the present day. What lies behind the front door? The nuclear family is not dead - some 29% of E.U. households still include dependent children - but the age gap between parents and children is widening. Mothers with old faces and young...
These are not supermodels we're talking about here. (Hello? They're working in Madrid.) They're very young girls, often teenagers, often from East European countries (the "emerging economy" look is big right now), who are in a strange land, away from home and surrounded by people who want to make money off them. So what they really don't need is someone assigning them the blame for being too thin...
...Imperial Influence Re "Japan's Mystery of Majesty" [Sept. 4]: It is ridiculous to cast the Imperial Household Agency as a shadowy and mighty institution that dictates the behavior of the Japanese royal family. It is only a minor government department. The royal family is more reserved than its European counterparts because Japan does not want a colorful monarchy like the one the British have. Moreover, the bond between the Emperor and the people of Japan is far stronger and more deeply rooted than your story suggested. The imperial house lost political power to the warrior class centuries...
...presidents of two Eastern European nations urged integration with the rest of Europe at the Institute of Politics last Friday, the first time two heads of state have ever shared a stage at the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum. In their remarks, President Stjepan Mesic of Croatia and President Boris Tadic of Serbia focused on the normalization process currently underway in the region, which is still struggling to recover from the wars and ethnic cleansing of the previous decade. “If your hatred were to be transformed into electrical energy, it would be enough to light an entire...