Word: option
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...None is fun." That is the slogan of the National Organization for Non-Parents (NON), a new association formed to promote "childfree" marriage and make non-parenthood "not just a word but an option." The nonparents' group is still small-only 400-but it hopes to grow. All of the members, even the parents among them, are committed to childlessness as a way of creating "social space." That means "a combination of time, money and energy" that can be used to conserve planetary resources, beat the high cost of living and free husbands and wives for political activism...
...women are to be allowed to participate professionally and intellectually during their child-bearing years, the option of good, parent-controlled day care is essential...
...patient plan his own funeral if he wants to. He should also be allowed to talk about his grief at dying and the probable reactions of his survivors without being told that he is morbid. Lastly, Weisman writes, dying patients must be granted the option of seeking out or refusing to see particular people...
...rules give bishops the option, though not the obligation, of consulting with individual lower clergy and laity within their regions on the type of candidate needed. (Collective consultations with groups like priests' councils, though, are ruled out, to avoid any semblance of an electoral process.) The rules also increase the number of bishops involved in each nominating process. National episcopal conferences may henceforth approve, disapprove or add to lists of local nominations that previously went straight to papal representatives and on to Rome. In addition, any bishop anywhere may forward his own nomination directly to the Pope. The Pope...
...young or grow old-so far there seems to be no other option. Yet society regards old age as "a kind of shameful secret," complains French Novelist and Treatise Writer Simone de Beauvoir, now in her 65th year. Old people, she argues brilliantly and bitterly, are condemned not only to decrepitude but to poverty and loneliness. In the face of this, they are also asked "to display serenity" so that their juniors will be spared guilt...