Word: motherhood
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...most successful female dynast has been Indira Gandhi of India, daughter of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Over a span of 16 years, Gandhi proved herself the most formidable Prime Minister India has ever had, masterly melding the charisma of her family with the subcontinent's rich religious images of motherhood and successfully passing her office to her son Rajiv. Six years after her assassination, she is still idolized. Says Sudhir Kakar, an Indian psychoanalyst: "She is looked upon as the sacrificing mother of the joint family." Born to privilege, Gandhi believed she was born to rule as well. She once...
...National Center for Health Statistics reports that from 1980 to 1988 the birthrate among unmarried white women between the ages of 30 and 34 surged 68%, and 69% for those 35 to 39. Merle Bombardieri, a Boston-area psychotherapist, says that of the almost 1,000 women contemplating single motherhood whom she has counseled, about two-thirds are heterosexual and one- third lesbian...
...Angeles accountant, had been through a divorce and several failed romances when she began contemplating her decision. "My relationships were not developing along the course I had hoped," she says. "I really love kids and feel I have a lot to offer." She discussed the idea of single motherhood with her own mother, friends and a psychotherapist. But it was concern about encountering fertility problems as she grew older that convinced her that "the time had come." She was impregnated by donor insemination, and was expecting a baby in late October...
...challenge was familiar to King Solomon: how to choose between two women, each declaring herself to be the child's mother. This time, however, one claimed motherhood because she had donated her genes, the other because she had donated her womb. That was the issue last week before California Superior Court Judge Richard Parslow, who broke new legal ground by awarding a test- tube baby to the genetic parents rather than to the surrogate mother. The woman had contracted to carry it for $10,000 and then changed her mind, saying she had "bonded" with the infant. "A three-parent...
...takes over, Bush's response to the controversy set off by the Wellesley seniors may be what is remembered. While the First Lady's official cause is literacy, her unofficial mission is to convince a new generation of women that there is honor and a deep, sustaining pleasure in motherhood, that a life-style is no substitute for a life. "At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, ((not)) winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal," she said. "You will regret time not spent with a husband, a child...