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Diana C. Walsh, executive secretary to the director of the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, co-authored the bill with Carter...
...other memorable story, When Everybody Was Pregnant, celebrates the '50s - Updike's time. A stockbroker on a commuting train muses (in the way a stockbroker would if he were John Updike) about the distant, incredible time of young parenthood. "Did the '50s exist?" he wonders. "Voluptuous wall paper. Crazy kids. Sickening sensations of love. The trains slide forward. The decades slide seaward, taking us along...
...policy of Planned Parenthood in New York City is typical. Before...
Then why so many illegitimate births? A principal reason, say behavioral experts, is unconscious ambivalence about pregnancy?both wanting and not wanting it. According to Planned Parenthood, teen-agers may see pregnancy as a way of remaining childishly dependent on others or, conversely, as a step toward adulthood. Besides, adds Chicago Youth Counselor Merry Allen, "it's still a way to get married, if that's what you want...
...Grant as Sophie Portnoy, the carnivorous Jewish mother, and Jack Somack as the resentfully respectable father can do no more than gesticulate their way through the clichés of Jewish parenthood. Surreal projections in Portnoy's mind, Sophie and Jack were never meant to be seen...