Word: motherhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Junior's central joke. Sure, this is formulaic, describe-it-in-one-sentence movie-making, but nevertheless, there is a certain irresistible curiosity about seeing Arnold Schwarzenegger mime the rituals of expectant motherhood. Go ahead, surrender to it. It won't make you a better person, but it might, very briefly, make you a happier...
...indeed, we have all been flailing about for explanations, trying to make sense of a seemingly incomprehensible act, wondering why a young mother might kill her offspring. And therein lies our problem. By focusing on the fact of her motherhood and by assuming that this biological position confers greater moral responsibility on a person, we lose sight of some of the real issues at hand...
...poet Adrienne Rich '51 has written of "the invisible violence of the institution of motherhood to mothers: the guilt, the powerless responsibility for human lives, the judgments and condemnations, the fear of her own power, the guilt, the guilt, the guilt...
...More girls in the U.S. are postponing motherhood. For the first time since 1986, the number of births to girls age 15 to 17 fell 2%, from 188,226 in 1991 to 187,549 in 1992. The number of abortions was also lower...
...uproar alone. Not that he's sheepish. After Reaganites discovered his 1984 book Losing Ground, which said poverty programs actually worsened the problems of the poor, he became the sociologist liberals loved to hate. More recently he introduced himself into the debate on welfare reform by insisting that unwed motherhood, not joblessness, was the key problem. His solution was to get rid of welfare altogether. Murray says when he and his co-author started work on The Bell Curve, "((Herrnstein)) said to me, 'You know, we're the only two people in America who can write this book because they...