Word: parenthood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dunne), inaugurate their marriage is blasted by a Tokyo earthquake which injures her and leaves them facing a childless future. They return to the States, where Roger buys a small-town newspaper. Their life together is unhappily aimless until they adopt an orphaned infant and encounter the problems of parenthood...
...huge advertisement in the press last week. Sponsor: the National Committee for Planned Parenthood in behalf of Margaret Sanger's Birth Control Federation of America. It was the first time in the U. S. that newspaper space had been sold to advertise birth control. The ad urged that birth-control information be given to parents in "homesteads, mining districts, slums and migrant camps," asked citizens to donate money and services to the Federation. Within two days, the Birth Controllers received almost 500 letters-all but five sympathetic...
...organizations - all of which lessen the economic burden of having children. But these programs are all uncoordinated. Because "in an industrial society large families lead inevitably to lower levels of living for all but a few favored parents," Frederick Osborn believes the only sound population policy stresses "freedom of parenthood" - freedom not to have chil dren unless they are wanted, and freedom (with the aid of services rendered to mothers and children by the State) for responsible parents to have children with out their being an economic burden...
...efts." During this phase they are immature and cannot reproduce. After three or four years, they go back to the water, slough off the red skin of adolescence, assume the olive-green garb of adults, acquire the keeled tail of an aquatic animal, and tackle the business of parenthood. Question: What impels them, after so long a time on land, to go back to the water? Scientists of an older generation would have answered, "Instinct...