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...paterfamilias comes home to his young wife. The baby boom that will fill maternity wards to bursting until the mid-1960s is just beginning. A child plays at her feet and the rounded belly beneath her apron suggests another is on the way. Fast-forward to the present day. What lies behind the front door? The nuclear family is not dead - some 29% of E.U. households still include dependent children - but the age gap between parents and children is widening. Mothers with old faces and young children are now a common sight on the high street. The average...
...French are placing an ever greater value on family life. Research done by French sociologist Christine Castelain Meunier has shown that fathers in the 30 to 40-year-old age range are less likely to be remote, disciplinarian figures than their predecessors: "These men spoke to the fetus, were present at the birth; they refuse to accept the idea of their children growing up without them." Professor Chaumier has noted an increasing emphasis on home life. He says "People withdraw into their family as the last bastion capable of giving meaning to their lives because they don't find much...
...pieces were joined by long hoses and cables. "We called it our garage model," says Martínez, "because it looked like something a mechanic would put together." So dubious was the machine's appearance that, when the team was stopped for a road inspection on its way to present the Gastrovac at a conference in San Sebastián, they spent two hours convincing the Civil Guard that the contraption in the trunk was intended for cooking vegetables, and not, say, blowing up train stations. The newer, sleeker version of the Gastrovac, developed earlier this year, still looks like...
...physician, there are few experiences that are as extraordinary as being present at the birth of a baby and serving as part of the noisy team. It is one of the most personal and intimate moments of a family's life and yet one that we as doctors are invited to attend. In sharp contrast to the joyful, noise of the usual delivery room, there are also few experiences as dreaded by physicians as a quiet delivery room. Mothers whose conditions are precarious may require emergency C-sections and general anesthesia which renders them mute and requires their family members...
...power to the warrior class centuries ago, but it has always been the center of Japan's cultural traditions. Japan's literature and history are intertwined with the Emperor and his court, and the educated class has always revered the imperial house as a symbol of Japanese culture. The present status of the imperial house is in accord with that tradition, while the modern political and military role of the Emperor is rather an anomaly. Shunichi Watanabe Sendai, Japan...