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...some U.S. urban areas, older parents are becoming the norm. Author Martha Fay, 41, mother of a five-year-old daughter, says of her West Side Manhattan neighborhood, "Some of the mothers look so old they don't appear biologically capable of having had these children. We have 50-year-old men teaching soccer teams." For both sexes, the benefits of postponing kids are greater financial security and well-established careers. What is more, there is no question that late children are wanted -- often badly wanted. Says Susan Fillin-Yeh, 45, an art historian at Yale and mother...
...students are as diverse as their courses. Divinity school graduate degree candidates represent more than 40 religions. Tolerance, not tension, is the norm, said Admissions Officer Ann Romberger, a 1986 graduate...
...Hollywood is in a powerful position to reinforce these emerging trends by writing occasional script lines that model a new norm of social behavior," Winsten said in a prepared statement...
...operator, Norm Chwat, an officer with the American Red Cross Radio Club, said there was an unconfirmed report that a tourist hotel on Jamaica's popular north coast had been wrecked by the hurricane...
...reason, suggests Stets, is that such couples "may be more likely to be isolated from relatives. When violence occurs in such a relationship, it's less likely to be communicated to people who might intervene." Another factor may be that live-in arrangements, which are still not the norm, put added pressures on the couple. "It's possible that there's still a lingering stigma to living together," says Stets...