Word: parenthood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly before Easter in 1895, two English boys, aged 8 and 9, were wrenched from the security of a happy family life in Victorian London and sent abroad like fugitive criminals to forget their past, their parenthood and even their names. The crime from which they fled was that of being born the sons of Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, the most famous and quite suddenly the most notorious literary figure...
...95th annual convention of the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church (500,000 members), meeting in Los Angeles. Said the resolution: "An unrestrained production of children without realistic regard to God-given responsibilities involved in rearing children . . . may be as sinful and as selfish ... as is the complete avoidance of parenthood . . . The power to reproduce is His blessing, not a penalty, upon the sexual relationship in marriage...
...Planned Parenthood. In Bethel, Conn., a burglar broke into Dr. Albert J. Trimpert's office, ignored valuable drugs and a safe, took two books: Childbirth Without Fear and Obstetrical Techniques...
When the Planned Parenthood Com mittee applied for council membership in behalf of its Mothers' Health Centers, council directors turned the committee down, candidly explained that the Catholic agencies objected. But last week, after a long and bitter debate, an opposition slate of directors pledged to admit Planned Parenthood was elected 317 to 259. The 53 Catholic agencies duly announced that they will resign if Planned Parenthood is actually admitted. Said a Catholic spokesman: "The primary reason for the existence and a substantial part of the program of the Planned Parenthood group are to promote the gravely immoral practice...
...queen was furious. The Rumanian High Court declared the marriage null & void, but Carol lived with Zizi until his money ran out; when a son was born and the registrar refused to enter the prince's name as father, Carol wrote a letter to Zizi acknowledging his parenthood and vowing undying love. The vow lasted one year, until Queen Marie found her impoverished son a royal match: cool, blonde Princess Helen of Greece. In due course Prince Michael was born...