Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possession that Jimmie covets above all is a white wife. When he gets one-a dim, sniveling, pregnant teenager whose child does not even turn out to be his-a murderous rage is born. Jimmie realizes that the white side of his nature is as doomed to suffocation as the black. Cheated by his employers, taunted and humiliated beyond endurance, he undertakes mayhem as a sort of mad ritual, an attempt to be for once the white man's priest and judge instead of his willing nigger...
...sister Pat, on the other hand, was just 15 and in high school when she first went to bed with a boy. Only one thing bothered her: fear of getting pregnant. She appealed to Sue, who helped her get contraceptive advice from a doctor. Since then, Pat has had one additional serious relationship that included...
...most teenagers. Though the number of very youthful marriages appears to be declining, a fourth of all 18-and 19-year-old girls are married. More often than not, they had already had intercourse: more than half of them got married because they were pregnant. But on the whole, teen-agers actually are not very active sexually, in spite of the large number of nonvirgins...
They may believe that "most teen-age boys can almost go crazy if they don't have intercourse," that "you can't get pregnant if he only comes one time," or that urination is impossible with a diaphragm in place. Other youths cherish the notion that withdrawal, douching, rhythm or luck will prevent conception. Overall, "the pervasiveness of risk taking" is appalling, Zelnik and Kantner discovered. More than 75% of the girls they interviewed said they used contraceptives only occasionally or never...
...time to vaccinate her is right after the birth of her first child. So says the Medical Letter, an ad-free newsletter published by a group of authoritative physicians. The reason behind the suggestion is simple: a woman who has just had a baby is not likely to become pregnant again for at least two months (although contraception should still be continued), and is therefore equally unlikely to expose her fetus to the risk of congenital rubella. Rubella vaccination of young women at other times is hazardous because they may be pregnant and not know it, or may become pregnant...