Word: motherhood
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...kids keep talking about participation democracy. Because when something is about to go, it has its sunset. It has its most beautiful, passionate colors and then disappears. When the railroads are coming in, people write poems to trees. When people are talking about sexual automation and the elimination of motherhood, that's when you have a sexual explosion. Now that democracy is going, every naive kid says "participatory democracy," and it's an absolute fantasy...
Looking the very model of modern motherhood, Actress Catherine Deneuve, 28, posed with her new daughter Chiara, whose father is Actor Marcello Mastroianni and whose older brother is Christian, whose father is Movie Director Roger Vadim. Miss Deneuve never married either Vadim or Mastroianni, but she once was wed (from 1965 to 1970) to British Photographer David Bailey, so she invited Bailey to take the first photographs...
...these days, favorite nonparents are to be honored with flowers and cigars. The organization has begun to publish a rather juvenile newsletter, Non-Sense, which, for example, recently charged that the March issue of Pageant "exceeded the bounds of all decency in extolling the virtues of motherhood." One member, Ellen Peck, has written a book that disparages motherhood mostly because it gets in the way of the glamour of a free life...
...Motherhood was almost a dirty word here-but it had its defenders. At the scientists' Environment Forum, Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich blamed half the world's environmental problems on increases in population. A woman biologist from Nigeria, aided by four burly colleagues, startled the audience by seizing Ehrlich's microphone and declaring that birth control was merely a way for the industrial powers to remain rich by preserving the status quo. Peace was restored only after Ehrlich conceded that the U.S. should curb its own consumption of natural resources before urging population controls on developing countries. Brazilian...
...tantalizing mockeries that cannot be exercised." For centuries, organized medicine did little or nothing to ease this biological bondage-as it is regarded by many women today. That situation has changed drastically. Today new medical and legal attitudes are rapidly giving women virtually complete freedom from involuntary conception or motherhood...