Word: parenthood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most women cited more than one factor in their decision to have an abortion. Among the reasons were concerns about how motherhood would change their lives, financial problems, single parenthood, the responsibility of parenthood, others knowing they were pregnant, maturity and how many children they already...
...openness is not just a media phenomenon. The Moscow City Consultation on Family and Marriage recently opened its doors, offering advice to the general public. The Family and Health Association, a voluntary organization, has applied for membership in International Planned Parenthood. Sex education, offered for the first time in just a few schools in the early 1980s, is now supposed to be part of a course on marriage and family life required in all Soviet high schools...
...American Civil Liberties Union and thePlanned Parenthood Federation of Americacoordinated and funded 31 pro-choice briefs, buthistorians supplied donations so that "ouramicus brief just about covered its owncosts," says Walkowitz...
Critics of the Mommy Track fear that employers might accept the notion that it is a bad investment to groom working mothers for high-level jobs. In fact, such corporations as Corning Glass and Merck have found that the costly career-track disruptions of parenthood can be reduced when companies help their employees balance the demands of work and family life. Thus the emergence of a formal Mommy Track strikes many people as archaic, especially at a time when companies are offering working parents a helping hand in the form of flextime, parental leave, day care and other programs...
...they are still quoting statistics." Doctors can start up clinics even if they have little experience or specialized training. "It's very easy for the medical profession to take advantage of infertile couples because they so desperately want children," observes Carol Peters, chairman of the Texas-based Advocates for Parenthood, a political-action group...