Word: parenthood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FATHERS, by Herbert Gold. A long, loving search-both forward and backward-for the essence of parenthood; a tribute to that most neglected figure in American fiction -the Jewish father...
...Lifetime. For every American woman who has rejected the pills because of conscious doubt or uncon scious fears and guilt, a dozen have accepted them. Says Dr. Richard Frank, medical chief of Chicago's Planned Parenthood clinics: "More than five million women can't be wrong about the acceptability of the pills." This impressive total, according to the 1965 National Fertility Study,* means that of all white American women using any form of contraception, 24% are on the pills. Broken down, it shows 27% pill use among Protestants, 22% among Jews, 18% among Roman Catholics. This last figure...
...cost $11 for a month's supply, automatically limiting its use. Today, with mass production, smaller doses and intense competition, the pills are cheap enough to be dispensed to hundreds of thousands of women, either at nominal cost or at no cost, through clinics operated by Planned Parenthood and some public agencies...
...Alan Guttmacher, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation, for his efforts to awaken humanity to the awesome problem of overpopulation...
...executed a crisp about-face on birth control. Until two years ago, Washington hewed to Dwight Eisenhower's blunt 1959 decree on the issue: "That's not our business." But Ike, who has been honorary co-chairman (with Harry Truman) of a private group called Planned Parenthood-World Population for the past two years, has had a change of heart. Only last week, he declared he would "personally support all programs, public or private," that offer birth-control information to families...