Word: parenthood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, the basics. "Parenthood is a very lonely business these days," says Ann Pleshette Murphy, editor in chief of Parents magazine. "There are so many different ways of being a 'good parent.' You can be married; you can have your first baby at 20, or at 40; you can be a single mom; you can be gay; you can be working; you can be at home. There are many options. But many options lead to much anxiety about what's the right...
...still not an everyday publishing event. The most popular guidebook, The Lesbian and Gay Parenting Handbook: Creating and Raising Our Families (HarperPerennial), was published in 1993. The author, April Martin, is a psychologist in New York City and a lesbian mother. She walks parents through the intricacies of homosexual parenthood. "The children of lesbians and gay men are the most considered and planned-for children on earth," she writes. "There is virtually no such thing as an unwanted child among...
Baby boomers and Gen Xers may have taken over parenthood, but their own parents are also living longer and thus extending the family as well. By the year 2005 there will be an estimated 80 million to 90 million grandparents in the U.S. Only those codgers won't be sitting in rocking chairs, talking about the old days. Boomer grandparents are likely to be "younger, healthier, wealthier and better educated," say Kathryn and Allan Zullo, the husband-wife authors of The Nanas and the Papas: A Boomers' Guide to Grandparenting (Andrews McMeel). The Zullos give grandparents advice about keeping...
...Depo-Provera works, and for many communities plagued by teen pregnancies, that's what counts. Says Steve Trombley, president of Planned Parenthood in Chicago: "The word is out in the community about the three-month shot." With nobody wanting to return to the soaring teen-pregnancy rate of old, that word is likely to remain out--at least until even more kids remember the option of simply saying...
...that Sanger's Planned Parenthood now brags about how they "help" minorities by placing the vast majority of their clinics in minority schools and neighborhoods? Why isn't anyone suspicious...