Word: husbanded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lost in this bleak landscape is the vivacious Madame Von Loren. Supported by her hairdresser ex-husband (Raul Julia), she stumbles from one bottle of Stolichnaya to the next, oblivious to the craziness of the world outside her pink walls. Oblivious, that is, until she becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a man she doesn't even remember meeting, let alone killing...
...into their fiction. But they struggled against a male-dominated society that saw writing as a recreation for women only if they were recognizable freaks like the Brontes, spinsters like Austen or "immoral" rebels like Eliot, who shocked London society by living with a man who was not her husband...
Mary Beth Whitehead seemed perfect. A housewife with two school-age children by her husband Richard, she had wanted to become a surrogate mother to help a childless couple. She claimed to want no more children of her own. After she met the Sterns for the first time at a New Jersey restaurant, the three became friends, trading phone calls back and forth. Whitehead signed a contract, promising among other things that she would not "form or attempt to form a parent-child relationship" with the resulting infant. The Sterns promised to pay her $10,000, plus medical expenses. They...
...past few years, at least 21 states have groped toward legislation on surrogacy, without success. Laws defining and regulating the practice must somehow be distinguished from statutes in all 50 states against baby selling. Further, in the 29 states that have laws covering artificial insemination, the consenting husband of a woman who is artificially inseminated is deemed the legal father. The opposite is proposed under potential surrogacy legislation in which the semen donor is considered the father...
...right. We decided a hundred years ago we didn't want people bought and sold in this country." Some religious groups vehemently oppose the practice. The Roman Catholic Church, which condemns artificial insemination outside of marriage, regards surrogacy as a violation of the biological and spiritual unity of husband and wife. In a joint statement last month, New Jersey's bishops further contended that surrogacy "exploits a child as a commodity and exploits a woman as a babymaker...