Word: parenthood
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Like planned parenthood and Daniel Berrigan, Harvard has never been very popular with Catholic America. There are a few who don't mind the great bastion of Eastern intellectualism--the kind of people who read Playboy and don't say so in confession, who snicker wickedly when the bishop belches into the pulpit microphone during his Christmas sermon and especially the ones who root for USC against Notre Dame every November. But real Catholics aren't so kind. As a sign of serious spiritual decay, a Harvard education ranks right down there between nymphomania and a marked distaste for fish...
Besides, the Church had learned to live with Berrigan and planned parenthood, even if it was an uneasy truce, so it could probably learn to live with old-line heretics like Ignatius. No sweat--it might even learn to live with Harvard, which isn't easy. Everybody living with everyone else in peace and truth and veritas! It sounded like either the Sermon on the Mount of something from the Gazette. I couldn't figure out which. But it didn't really matter...
...jealousy and betrayal when one after another his heirs began to leave the fold. In the past 15 years a similar scenario has been played out in the "psycho-historical" movement that has grown up around Erik Erikson and his work. Yet in Erikson's case the parenthood was unplanned...
Your story on Zero Population Growth [Feb. 28] is laudable. With the "miracle of science" offering no solutions, responsible parenthood should surely now be fashionable...
...very few-demographers think that there will soon be a mini-boom in the U.S. birth rate, as couples who have deferred parenthood decide to start families. Most experts, however, discount an end to the birth dearth. With the exception of the aberrant twelve-year postwar fertility surge, they point out, the birth rate has been declining in the U.S. since...