Word: motherhood
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...senior high school to spot troublemakers and keep them in line. The foundation supports high school courses for prisoners in the county jail, runs the nation's largest Big Brother agency, in which some 900 men become companions of fatherless kids. A high school course on unwed motherhood progresses, logically, to a course on planned parenthood...
Even at this distance in time, to say anything less than laudatory about the founder of the Boy Scout movement may seem like sneering at motherhood, or burning draft cards. But now that historians are forwarding overdue accounts to the once-Empire, it probably had to happen. Brian Gardner, a young Englishman who has given up journalism for history, deserves a merit badge for his neat hatchet job on Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell...
...handed on to succeeding generations the intuitive experience of the tribe. In our sophisticated world, there is only one efficacious object lesson in sex education-the authentic, God-given magic of unselfish parents who are loving and faithful to each other and to their offspring. The girl who fears motherhood does not lack accurate information so much as she lacks the reassuring experience, in her own life, of that genuine mother love "that casteth out fear." All the factual information in the world shrivels beside the power, for good or evil, of early emotional experience...
...education classes is straightforward and clinical, with the result that parents are sometimes staggered by breakfast-table mentions of seminal emissions or clitoral excitation. However startling, such language is a vast improvement over the flights of icky imagery about the "mystery of growth" and the "joyous miracle of motherhood" that can still be heard from time to time...
Ever since the Federal Government adopted Financier Beardsley Ruml's ingenious invention of tax withholding back in 1943, the system has been about as unassailable as motherhood. Government officials love it, since paycheck deductions help disguise the size of the tax collector's take. Most taxpayers also approve of withholding as a relatively painless way of parting with their pelf. Only a non-politician of rare courage or naiveté-or both-would dare challenge it. Sure enough, a non-politician par excellence, California's Governor Ronald Reagan, did precisely that last week as he marked...