Word: parenthood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Research on birth rates shows that along with strengthening planned-parenthood programs, each country has to carry out additional strategies to slow the growth of population and urbanization. If infant and child mortality were reduced and if social security for the elderly were introduced, couples would not feel the need to have many sons with the hope that one or two would survive to care for the parents in their old age. Similarly, literacy, especially for women, would help delay the age of marriage and would also bring greater understanding and acceptance of family-planning methods...
...London-based International Planned Parenthood Federation (I.P.P.F.), the largest nongovernmental family-planning organization in the world, does not advocate abortion, but it condones the practice when it is part of an individual country's program. Under the new U.S. policy, the organization stands to lose some $13 million in U.S. aid, or fully 25% of its budget. I.P.P.F. Deputy Secretary General Donald Lubin pointed out that of the 89 countries receiving I.P.P.F. grants in 1983, only twelve had abortion programs. "If they do cut the money, that would mean cutting back on programs, and ultimately, more abortions...
...everyone who has made the mad leap into parenthood knows, it is not the first child but the second whose arrival skews life into a grotesque caricature of its former civility. When Bombeck was several months pregnant with Andrew, the family moved to a tract development a few miles from Dayton that she was to satirize as "Suburbian Gems." Its real name is Centerville. The Bombecks lived on Cushwa Drive ("probably named for some dentist") in a house like all the others except for one prized interior feature, a $1,500 "two-way" fireplace, and on the outside, a front...
Katrina's new mother and father are one of hundreds of couples who flock to Charleston every year, drawn by the promise of easy adoptive parenthood. In most areas of the country, adoption is a frustrating process, burdened by the red tape and interminable waiting lists of state adoption agencies. Although a few other states also allow adoptions in local courts by nonresidents, South Carolina offers a unique blend of lax laws, aggressive lawyers and open-minded newspapers that accept classified ads from couples seeking babies. Federal regulations that are more rigorously enforced elsewhere, like the requirement that state...
...Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts will also offer sex education training courses for teachers, guidance counselors, and other training administrators...