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...worldwide search for adoptable children is driven by classic causes: faltering domestic supply and rising demand. The number of babies available for adoption in the U.S. and other industrialized countries has declined as birthrates have shrunk and legal abortion has expanded. In addition, the taboo against unmarried motherhood -- that mainstay of Victorian novels -- has virtually disappeared, removing another source of homeless infants. In the U.S., 65% of the white babies born to single mothers were given up for adoption in 1966, but 20 years later that figure was down to 5%. National statistics are not kept, but some experts place...
...Like a lot of young voters, I feel really inspired by what he's trying to get across and by his strong sense of integrity," Hwang said. "The [current] president isn't addressing health care or motherhood or environmental issues...
...have sex with Donna Rice, Jessica Hahn, Bob Dole. He can nuke Yugoslavia, legalize slavery, give ourselves back to England. He can abolish motherhood, apple pie, the American flag...
...Washington, and you'll find an Administration that loves the working class -- as a concept anyway. George Bush favors pork cracklings, and was probably munching on that well-known proletarian treat as he nixed the bill that would have extended unemployment benefits. Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders -- a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like...
...Working women pay a steep price for motherhood. Look what happens: if you take a 27-year-old American woman right now, she is doing very well. Whether she is a lawyer or a bus driver, she is earning almost 90% of the male wage. But the same woman at 35, with two children, working full time, is earning 46% of the male wage...