Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Laws like the "squeal rule," requiring federally supported clinics to notify parents when they give contraceptives to minors [Feb. 7], will widen the existing gap between parent and teenager. Girls who seek professional guidance should not have their privacy violated. It is far wiser to have a girl 16 and counseled than 16 and pregnant...
...energetic chairman, doubted that it could achieve by its Feb. 18 deadline what the Pentagon, the Ford, Carter and Reagan Administrations and Congress had been unable to do in seven years: find a technically practical and politically acceptable home for the MX missile, the intercontinental bird that only its parent Air Force seems truly to love. Last week, in a chat with President Reagan, members of the commission won an extension of the deadline to the end of March...
...losers. Although TWA dropped $101.3 million in 1982, for example, it announced plans last week for an offering of 5 million shares of common stock, designed to bring in up to $85 million. Moneymen treated that news with interest rather than as a sign of financial chutzpah. U.A.L., the parent of United, which lost $66.7 million last year, said it would offer 3 million shares...
...artists. But the first issue of Vanity Fair does not seem to have a point of view, which may leave readers puzzled as to what the April issue will offer. Part of the problem is that the inaugural is stacked up against some of the best of a vaunted parent. The liveliest bit of journalism in the new magazine is a portrayal of Malibu Beach by James M. Cain. It was first published-in Vanity Fair...
...which a child is created because somebody wants him. The essential difference between such a procedure and an opposite one like abortion is that in the surrogate situation someone does want the child, the desire being compelling. Indeed, everyone concerned wants the child; the prospective family and the surrogate parent too, either for profit or as an act of philanthropy. It may be argued that adoption is a cleaner and less cumbersome method, for all its bureaucratic impediments, but this is not an issue enhanced by taking sides. A couple wants a child. If the insemination is artificial, the parental...