Word: incestousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush calls abortions "killings," and supports a constitutional amendment that would prohibit abortions except in cases of rape or incest or when the mother's life is endangered. If elected, he said he would punish those who administer the abortions...
Admissions of taboo, often criminal behavior pose a more serious dilemma. In fact, the line has become a repository for confessions of rape, incest, child sexual abuse and murder. The phone company's sole restriction is a ban on playing back such calls to other callers. "I just stabbed my wife and two daughters," one man screamed into the phone. "I buried my wife and daughter in the backyard. My other daughter is buried under the pier." The Los Angeles police, who do not monitor the line, say that it is up to the operators to report likely crimes...
...According to Masson, Freud had initially believed his female patients during the 1890s when they told him of being sexually abused, often by fathers or other relatives. But under strong pressure from a male colleague, and knowing how little his fellow Viennese cared to hear or to talk about incest, Freud later changed his mind: these women had not been molested or seduced; they had fantasized such experiences...
...perspectives inconceivable to a child 50 years ago: computers; longer life expectancies; the entire planet accessible through television, satellites, air travel. But so much knowledge and choice can be chaotic and dangerous. School curriculums have been adapted to teach about new topics: AIDS, ADOLESCENT SUICIDE, DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE, INCEST. Trust is the child's natural inclination, but the world has become untrustworthy. The hazards of the adult world, its sometimes fatal temptations, descend upon children so early that the ideal of childhood is demolished...
Next month the policymaking General Convention of the Episcopal Church (2.7 million members) will consider a resolution that decries casual abortions and their high numbers, now put at 1.5 million a year, while retaining a "moral option for termination of pregnancy" in some extreme circumstances, such as rape and incest. Two weeks ago, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), with 3 million members, called for a task force to review its strong, 18-year-old prochoice position. And last May the General Conference of the 9.3 million- member United Methodist Church officially moderated the church's prochoice position. The denomination continues...