Word: parenthood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mary. It is an idyllic existence. Too idyllic, perhaps, for it is a world created to serve the plot-a happy, integrated limbo unsullied by social pressures until Julie's worthless first husband reappears, armed with a giant Teddy bear and some mealy platitudes about the joys of parenthood...
...been known for a century that a foreign body in the uterus can prevent conception - at least in animals. But how could such a process work and be put to safe human use? Even though modern medical men have no sure answers, the cautious and respectable Planned Parenthood Federation of America announced last week that its medical advisers are now giving "strong, though preliminary" approval to the newest form of birth control. Information accumulated from more than 10,000 women during 90,000 woman-months of observation, said P.P.F.'s medical committee, "indicates that the modern intrauterine contraceptive devices...
...Responsible Parenthood." From the time of St. Paul, who said, "It is better to marry than to burn" (meaning, with passion), Catholic teaching on marriage has implied that sexual pleasure was a reward that God gave to married couples for producing children. The canon law of the church describes the primary end of marriage as the procreation and education of children; the mutual love of husband and wife and what the code grimly refers to as "the allaying of concupiscence" are essential but secondary ends. Many a priest still preaches that a house-cramming brood is the goal...
Within the last three decades, however, the church has significantly qualified the more-is-better ideal in favor of "responsible parenthood." In a 1930 encyclical on marriage, Pope Pius XI declared that Catholic couples had every right to sexual intercourse during times of natural infertility. His successor, Pius XII, defended the right of parents to limit or space their children for medical, economic, eugenic or social reasons. But even as church leaders came to ac cept the idea of family limitation, they held out against mechanical and chemical means of achieving this goal, arguing that they violated natural...
...Charging me with being soft on Communism makes as much sense as saying I'm an officer of the Planned Parenthood Federation," Brooklyn Democratic Congressman Hugh Carey, 44, once answered to a campaign charge. And saying that would make no sense at all because Carey is Capitol Hill's champion father. Last week his brood of twelve became a baker's dozen, but he still passes the test that often confounds fathers with only half a dozen. Says he: "Alexandra is 18, Christopher's 16, Susan's 15, Peter's 13, Hugh...