Word: motherhood
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...Denver's Juvenile Judge Stanley H. Johnson. Judge Johnson discreetly hired two impeccable Denver physicians to advise him. Last week Judge Johnson's medical advisers told him that the child, by now in the sixth month of pregnancy, was physically able to proceed with her involuntary motherhood. Social service workers reported that "the child mother wants to keep her baby because it will be like having a big wonderful doll to play with." So Judge Johnson also forbade the abortion. The tenor of most of the indignant comments on the Denver case, which rose from all sections...
...precocity of Mildred Morgan, 11, of Kodak in the foothills of Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains. Last week the child, who weighs 82 lb., bore a healthy 7½-lb. baby whose father was a 14-year-old-boy. Only two dozen similar cases of young motherhood are known to have occured in this country...
Nura's evanescent, occasionally rhymed tale traces the history of a grave, unearthly, mild-mannered girl from birth beneath a Buttermilk Tree to motherhood. More interesting to most readers will be Nura's black and white pictures which achieve charm by combining a simple mysticism with an awareness of actuality. Animals, playthings, schoolbooks surround the solemn child as she grows up. At 15 she stares into space, a mirror on her lap. She emerges into starry light, the world at her feet, on her bridal night. "Full Bloom" shows her, arms outstretched in the shape of a cross...
...telling caricature, the work of an artist who will undoubtedly do even better. Miles and Margaret lived unhappily together. He wanted to love her but he had a New England conscience which was always shutting her out. In the end, when he persuaded her to prefer abortion to motherhood, it was he who was shut out. Jeffrey, whose time was spent getting himself seduced against a literary background, had luckily acquired a solid woman in his wife Norah. He was always thankful to come home to her, but neither would he let her have any baby but himself. Bruno...
...natural for some people to be decent as for others to be indecent. I is essentially a matter of taste. They become Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts because they like that sort of wholesome thing. They grow up with a flair for clean living and a respect for pure motherhood, for the same reason. In their business dealings they are straight shooters. They look you fair in the eye. Honestly, they are made, or have made themselves that way, just as Nemo is made, or has made himself the other...