Word: parenthood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seldom articulate and usually all but invisible, America's poor are the losers in what Connecticut's Democratic Senator Abraham Ribicoff calls "the lotteries of parenthood, skin pigmentation and birthplace." In a society and an age that demand ever higher skills and more sophisticated minds, the poor, simply by standing still, are caught up in a kind of geometric regression. For the most part, they are those whom the welfare state never brushed, a residual minority tucked away in rural backwaters and urban ghettos: the Cumberland's dirt farmer, the Mississippi cotton chopper, the migrant farm worker...
...used in large numbers until a year later. Nonetheless, nearly 4,000,000 women are now using the pill, and, points out Boston's Dr. John Rock, a pioneer in birth-control development, "they're not getting pregnant." Steven Polgar, research director of the Planned Parenthood Federation, confidently credits the pill with at least one-fourth of the drop since 1961. In selected poverty areas where the pill has been distributed wholesale by social workers, results have been as dramatic as Polgar suggests. At medical centers in New York's Spanish Harlem and Corpus Christi, Tex., births...
...inhibiting them. The advent of birth control pills has tranquilized the fear of pregnancy among young girls who have no moral reservations about sexual activity. "What are parents and what is the community doing to fill the gap?" asks Mrs. Eileen Strutz, director of the city's Planned Parenthood center. "Nothing...
...Beau Bridges, and she, execrably played by Barbara Dana, are about to become parents in name only. Their immediate life plan consists of divorce for themselves, adoption for their unborn child. In intellectual hock to his psychoanalyst, Beau has convinced Barbara that he and she are emotionally unready for parenthood. A hotter squarehead prevails. Hiram Sherman is a proper-minded homosexual, more censorious than Cato the Elder. He has raised Beau since the lad was a 15-year-old pickup in a gay bar, and he is disgusted with Beau's flibbertigibbet irresponsibility. Sherman's performance...
Teachers' unions are also objectionable because teachers, unlike factory workers or coal miners, are working with human beings. The "things" they "produce," educated people, can be irrevocably damaged by protracted haggling. Mothers do not try to solve the problems of parenthood by striking; teachers, too, should look for other means. The most viable answer is to have the American Association of University Professors clearly outline the needed reforms at St. John's and, if necessary, impose sanctions to insure that they are carried out. There is presently a three-man team from the organization's national office--the AAUP chapter...