Word: parenthood
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...hold the conservative line in Supreme Court decisions. She had a reputation of approaching each decision on a case-by-case basis, rather than through a sweeping judicial philosophy (see "Establishing Her Independence", 1986). She was the critical swing vote in upholding Roe v. Wade in the 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision, but voted to end the presidential ballot recount in 2000's Bush v. Gore...
...explain this skittishness? "We are still very much governed by our puritanical heritage," answers Faye Wattleton, president of the New York-based Planned Parenthood Federation. "While European societies have chosen to recognize sexual development as a normal part of human development, we have chosen to repress it. At the same time, we behave as if we're not repressing it." In studying various cultures, the Guttmacher researchers found that the highest teen-pregnancy rates were in countries with the least open attitudes toward sex. "The ambivalence our society is projecting about sex is costing us a lot," concludes Institute President...
Even without the risk of being squealed on, many young girls are embarrassed about going to a public clinic. "I chickened out," confesses Debra Stinnett, 18. "I just never went back to Planned Parenthood for the pills." She now has a one-year-old daughter. Studies show that, on the average, teens wait twelve months after first becoming sexually active before they seek contraception. By then it is often too late. "When you're young," says Kim Adalid, 19, of Lawndale, Calif, a wise old mother of two, "all you think about is the weekend...
There is for many young girls another, less tangible factor in the sequence of events leading to parenthood: a sense of fatalism, passivity and, in some cases, even a certain pleasure at the prospect of motherhood. Such attitudes are especially prevalent among the poor. Take Zuleyma, 16, of Los Angeles, who gave birth last May: "I thought I might want to have a baby," she says. "I was thinking more in the future, but things happen." Or Derdra Jones of Chicago, who gave birth at 15: "Part of me wanted to get pregnant," she confesses. "I liked...
...frequent companion, as British newspapers phrase it, is Claire Tomalin, literary editor of the London Sunday Times. Frayn says he remains close to his daughters, one a novice BBC staffer, another a would-be journalist, the third applying to universities. He admits that his sour descriptions of beleaguered parenthood and the "squalor of middle-class domestic life" derive from memory. But he adds, in a line echoing the sensibility of Benefactors and his other work so aptly that it might be his literary credo, "One always has great nostalgia for experiences that were emotionally intense, even if one had mixed...