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...unnecessary instead of banishing those who deviate from the party line. Candidates might consider discussing their beliefs instead of their positions and acknowledge what both sides know to be true: a late-term abortion is almost always wrong; but forcing a 13-year-old who accidentally becomes pregnant into motherhood by making first-trimester abortions illegal is its own kind of evil. Then maybe we could get somewhere. The Bennetts and the Powells have made an admirable start...
...jarring cinematography at least distracts from Hutton's childish interviewing. So far, she has demonstrated a knack for questions it would take whole university faculties to answer. To Kathleen Turner: "Tell me about motherhood." To Gabriel Byrne: "Tell me about love." To L.L. Cool J.: "Tell me about the start-up of rap in the black community." Her later, less competitive time periods may ease the pressure, but if Hutton wants to be a late-night combatant, a few tutoring sessions with Oprah might help...
While feminists and many of their liberal allies portray single motherhood as a fully viable and acceptable alternative to the two-parent family, the facts tell a strikingly different story. A study done by the National Center for Health Statistics in 1988 found that children in single-parent families are far more likely to drop out of high school, get pregnant as teenagers, use drugs, and break the law than their counterparts in two-parent households...
...percent. In many poor urban areas the percentage is well over 50 percent and growing. A welfare system that does not address the growing problem of illegitimacy is bound to fail. Yet the current system not only ignores illegitimacy, it actually contributes to the problem by encouraging single-motherhood. Since only unwed mothers can receive benefits under most government programs, the system discourages marriage and encourages teenagers who want financial independence to get pregnant...
...what does Powell believe? All the same motherhood-and-apple-pie bromides Ike intoned all the way to the prize. "I believe frantically in the American form of democracy, which rests upon free enterprise," said Eisenhower. "Everything I observe affirms my belief in free enterprise," writes Powell. Like Ike, Powell bemoans high taxes and government bureaucracy. When pressed for details, Powell and Ike meander. "It seems necessary to walk around some of the questions presented," Ike told colleagues. "I sense a difference between a man's convictions and what he believes is politically feasible." Hearing those words last week, Powell...