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...Responsible Parenthood." From the time of St. Paul, who said, "It is better to marry than to burn" (meaning, with passion), Catholic teaching on marriage has implied that sexual pleasure was a reward that God gave to married couples for producing children. The canon law of the church describes the primary end of marriage as the procreation and education of children; the mutual love of husband and wife and what the code grimly refers to as "the allaying of concupiscence" are essential but secondary ends. Many a priest still preaches that a house-cramming brood is the goal...
...Charging me with being soft on Communism makes as much sense as saying I'm an officer of the Planned Parenthood Federation," Brooklyn Democratic Congressman Hugh Carey, 44, once answered to a campaign charge. And saying that would make no sense at all because Carey is Capitol Hill's champion father. Last week his brood of twelve became a baker's dozen, but he still passes the test that often confounds fathers with only half a dozen. Says he: "Alexandra is 18, Christopher's 16, Susan's 15, Peter's 13, Hugh...
...sexually promiscuous and as hard to satiate as the ape. But sex in the human being consists of that indefinable attribute called love." The natural law of the Judaeo-Christian tradition, he said, demands that this love and the humanitarianism into which it is channeled be translated into responsible parenthood in a society based on monogamy...
...these measures do not work; the population rises. Government despairs of society's perfectibility and becomes harshly repressive. Parenthood becomes a political crime; pregnant women are executed. Grey-shirted population police, effeminate and giggling, swagger insolently through the streets...
...stresses and strains is a consensus, by many school authorities, some courts and most Negroes, that de facto segregation must go. The problem is to break the low-income Negro's vicious circle of slum birth to slum school to bad education to low-paid job and parenthood of more slum children. The widely accepted premise is that the circle can and must be broken at the school stage. Equally important is that segregated neighborhood schools refute the original aim of Horace Mann's "common school," strengthening democracy by serving all races, creeds and classes. Integrationists believe that...