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Word: motherhood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...older teachers are too embarrassed, so they tear out the pages about sex from the textbooks," says Hu Peicheng, secretary-general of the China Sexology Association in Beijing. With little knowledge of birth control, an increasing number of unmarried women are getting pregnant in a culture in which single motherhood is still taboo. A survey by Shanghai medical researcher Yan Fengting found that 65% of urban women undergoing abortions in 2004 were single, compared with just 25% in 1999. Rates of sexually transmitted diseases are skyrocketing too, with HIV infections growing most quickly among Chinese 15 to 24 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex and the Single Chinese | 12/5/2005 | See Source »

...mail to all department faculty last week accusing Penn Associate Professor Kathryn J. Edin and St. Joseph’s University Assistant Professor Maria Kefalas of committing “conceptual plagiarism” in their 2005 book “Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Choose Motherhood Over Marriage.” Bershady claimed that the two scholars had taken ideas without proper acknowledgement from works by Penn’s Day Professor of Social Sciences Elijah Anderson.Bershady circulated the allegations even though he was aware that Anderson and Edin had already resolved their differences over...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Accusations Roil Penn | 10/14/2005 | See Source »

...agree, we can have quite a bit: a 10-year career during which you’re constantly justifying paused motherhood, carpal tunnel syndrome (which I may have already acquired while editing this piece of work), a graying husband, a four-year period of needles and frozen sperm, a lower chance you’ll be able to chase your grandchildren around the yard, and much lower chance you’ll be alive to attend their graduations. Do I see the paint peeling on this white picket fence dream...

Author: By Victoria Ilyinsky, | Title: Now Comes the Bride | 10/6/2005 | See Source »

...only thing to fall, however, is my faith in the “older is wiser” mentality. And I don’t think I’m the only young adult fueling the backlash against late motherhood. We were, on the whole, brought up by youthful, energetic mothers who are now exploring pilates alongside us, buying mini-iPods before us, and planning to be present for our childrens’ childrens’ bridal parties. I want to give that security and that vitality to my little Christopher, Abigail, and Jack (almost all the girls I know...

Author: By Victoria Ilyinsky, | Title: Now Comes the Bride | 10/6/2005 | See Source »

...this article were saying, Well, we let women get jobs, and it didnt go so smoothly, so now the experiments over. Now we know the truth: women really do belong at home. It is this kind of sentiment in print and elsewhere that makes working-motherhood more difficult than it needs to be: our society still seems uncomfortable with the idea of the working mother, and thus isnt very supportive...

Author: By Jenny Tsai, | Title: Stay at Home, Misogynist! | 9/28/2005 | See Source »

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