Word: parenthood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fletcher appeared on a panel with the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation and one of the inventors of Enovid (an oral contraceptive). The three debated possible changes in sex mores and discussed the social, legal, and moral problems that would result...
...Alan Guttmacher, President of the Planned Parenthood Federation, talked about the law. In 43 of the jurisdictions of the United States, abortion is legal only to preserve the life of the mother. Thus, for 1000 births, there are only two legal abortions. In Hungary, however, there are 920 legal abortions for every 1000 births, and abortions in Japan outnumber births. The highly restrictive U.S. laws Guttmacher concluded, unfairly favor those with the sophistication and money to get around them...
...Champagne Glass. According to their differing philosophies-and the product involved-admen appeal to vastly disparate human emotions: snobbery ("If they run out of Lowenbrau . . . order champagne''), the confusions of parenthood ("How Sears helps your daughter choose her first bra"), nostalgia ("Our beer is 50 years behind the times"), hypochondria ("Take Geritol to end tired blood"), and the competitiveness of childhood ("Every boy wants a Remco toy"). Inevitably, the most heavily used selling themes turn on three aspects of existence that particularly fascinate Americans: youth, sex and romance. Pepsi-Cola, once typed in the public mind...
...heart defects is about six times the normal average, said Dr. Taussig and Dr. Catherine A. Neill. Blue-baby mothers also had more spontaneous abortions (miscarriages) than the general population. But the researchers felt that the rates were not high enough to discourage former blue babies from attempting parenthood. Most of them can achieve it and have healthy offspring...
...this rate, the 38-year-old grandmother will soon be a commonplace. Our pattern of age at marriage and parenthood is now close to that which prevailed in the early years of the nation's history...