Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offering an alternative: aborting some of the fetuses in order to save the others. So far, fewer than 100 women have undergone the procedure, called fetal reduction, at a handful of U.S. hospitals. Usually performed before the twelfth week of pregnancy, it requires that the doctor pierce the mother's abdomen with a needle and, guided by an ultrasound image, inject a lethal drug into the fetus. It dies within minutes. The remaining infants, usually two, then have a much improved chance of developing normally...
...phone has been ringing off the hook at Kayode Owens' house in Teaneck, , N.J. Owens, 17, a black football star and high school senior with strong SAT scores (1,320 out of a possible 1,600), has told his mother to let it ring. Representatives of Cornell, Columbia, Swarthmore, Yale, Brown, Bowdoin and Harvard -- all of which have accepted him for next fall -- have been urging him to come. Bowdoin flew him to Brunswick, Me., gratis, for a two-day love feast for minority prospects, complete with a dance at the Afro-American house and a coq au vin dinner...
...this? What is wrong with me that I didn't want a baby all along?' " (She notes, however, that she also counsels many women who regret having had children.) Some discontented women blame feminism for encouraging their childless state. Feminist Author Betty Friedan, who relishes her role as the mother of two children, sharply disagrees. She insists that feminists are addressing the problems of working mothers. "Half of the women who are childless at 40 are not childless by real choice," says Friedan. "They have not had children because they are in male-structured jobs with no good day care...
...Hemingway or the shoulder-padded heroines whom Rosalind Russell used to play in the movies. Those female legends of the '30s and '40s may have been superwomen, but consider the perfections of Claudia Hampton, war correspondent, popular historian, prized sexual partner to many men. (Claudia is also a terrible mother, but that seems to go with the territory...
...observes one of her lovers, a multimillionaire entrepreneur. "Men are envious -- women are impressed." Claudia is also formidable. Her only child Lisa cowers in the knowledge that she is too "pallid" to be a worthy offspring of this latter-day Artemis. Lisa's husband is understandably terrified of his mother-in-law too. "Damp handshake, damp opinions," sighs Claudia with a snob's sere accuracy. "At the very sight of me his vowels falter...