Word: parenthood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patients to him for abortions in his Baltimore practice. From 1920 to 1951 he performed 5,210 of the illegal operations. The abortionist's testimony appears in Abortion in the United States (Harper-Hoeber, $5.50), the record of the 1955 international conference on abortion sponsored by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the New York Academy of Medicine...
...rest had viewed their homes as façades, papier-maché creations erected to cover a desiccated relationship, devoid of love between father and mother. Since most had seen their fathers leave home, their mothers had never made them feel welcome but had always emphasized the burden of parenthood. In rage and desperation, some girls turned hopefully to their fathers-not in an Oedipal attachment, but in hopes of nurture which, again, was denied them...
...from all four wives." When in 1954 then Prime Minister Mohammed Ali took a second wife, irate women stoned his car. Throughout the country, women are stepping out into a bright new world of universities and industry, of monthly paychecks and partnership in the home, of planned parenthood and Max Factor makeup. In the red-light districts of some larger cities the veil, instead of being the hallmark of respectability, is now worn chiefly by harlots as protective coloration...
...shortening life, and he sometimes spotted epidemics-in-the-mak-ing in faraway cities before local health officers did. A stocky, peppery father of four, he cried alarm in the '30s over the declining U.S. birth rate, persuaded birth-control proponents to change their pitch to planned parenthood, and was delighted when the post-World War II baby boom invalidated his forecast that the U.S. would become a nation of oldsters...
...Contraceptives. Aside from the temptation presented to Catholics to use forbidden methods of planning parenthood (a temptation reinforced by such factors as the high cost and close quarters of modern housing), contraception puts an extra strain on a union by disassociating sexual pleasure and responsibility in marriage, Father Thomas suggests. "We cannot simply assume that physical union restricted to mutual gratification produces the same stabilizing and unifying effects as normal intercourse...