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...course, J.C. is not at all suited for motherhood (if she were, there'd be no picture), and there are some mildly amusing slapstick scenes in which she tries to feed the baby spaghetti and meat sauce and to change the baby's diaper. Eventually, though, J.C.'s maternal instincts begin to emerge when she decides not to give Elizabeth up for adoption--not a difficult decision, considering the frighteningly sober Minnesota hicks who want to adopt her. As J.C. tells Stephen (Harold Ramis), her yuppie love, she can't give up Elizabeth to a future of "frosted lipstick...
According to Markow, "All of the excitingscholarship that is being done now is being donein Women's Studies. There are a lot of things thatmale historians have ignored." Markow said thather senior thesis on Motherhood in France from1880 to 1914 is actually a bracketed course in the1987-'88 course catalogue...
...forged her career. They abused her mentally, physically and sexually, living it up on her earnings while denying her even a mirror because it might make her vain. Yet Duke, 40, forgives them because they also made her an actress -- the craft that sustained her through four marriages, unwed motherhood and repeated suicide attempts triggered by manic-depressive illness that remained undiagnosed until her middle 30s. She looks back not in anger or self-pity but with generosity of spirit...
...plants of Eindhoven, the Dutch, who have always loved a rousing moralistic argument, are indulging in just that heady passion. The debate, which focuses on the proper balance between freedom and license, is echoed in all the industrialized democracies. In fact, the rates of divorce, juvenile crime and unwed motherhood remain lower in the Netherlands than in most other European countries and the U.S. "Let us remember that we have an open society, a nice, friendly, clean country," says Cees van Lede, president of the Federation of Netherlands Industry. Nonetheless, the discussion has taken on a special urgency...
...absence of national policies to help working mothers reflects traditional American attitudes: old-fashioned motherhood has stood right up there with the flag and apple pie in the pantheon of American ideals. To some people day-care centers, particularly government-sponsored ones, threaten family values; they seem a step on the slippery slope toward an Orwellian socialist nightmare. But such abstract concerns have largely receded as the very concrete need for child care is confronted by people from all walks of life...