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Your article on the falling birth rate [Sept. 9] stressed the selfish reasons (not wanting to give up careers, free time, money), while ignoring a very real reason that many young couples are remaining childless. They are taking a good look at what type of person can be a good parent...
...good mother or father, that parenthood like any other career is not something that everyone can do well, and that persons who are not suited to being parents can damage or destroy a child if they go ahead and have a baby. This attitude shows self-sacrifice rather than selfishness. People who blithely have children and then ignore them or handle them ineptly-these are the selfish ones...
...times of the day, responsible in a large measure for this state of affairs. They are, generally speaking, undisciplined, disorderly to a high degree, and extremely inconsiderate of the rights of others, for all kinds of reasons which they rationalize no doubt into being excellent, but are usually purely selfish and very limited, I consider...
...title The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is an apt one but at the same time it leads us to expect more from the movie than it gives us. "Apprenticeship" implies a period of development, a time during which a young person grows out of his childish impulses and selfish desires. But young Kravitz shows little sign of any development at all, and we are left to guess whether or not he will serve out his apprenticeship and become a master or as Cohen would call it, a mensch...
...drawn. By all means let the girls have the advantages which we posses. We should be glad to have the scanty salaries of our instructors increased; we should be glad to see the bright faces of the young ladies in Cambridge, and we would not even be so selfish as to envy them a Harvard degree; but we have too much respect for them to wish to have them associated with us in our college course. Many examples of the success of coeducation have been quoted, but it has had some results which are not so satisfactory, and the reports...