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...Spock has swung to the left on many issues, his sexual politics remain fundamentally unchanged. The growth of communal living and the women's liberation movement have not shaken his earlier views on the role of the mother in child care. According to Spock, "Here you'll find me a traditionalist. I'm sure the structure of the family is going to change some more; I know all the weaknesses of family living; I know we don't have a society we can be proud of. But I think up to the age of three a young child needs continuous...
...Spock thinks communes should be experimented with, because "we've gone too far in the other direction-isolating the mother and child from other women and children." Although he approves of community day care for older children, he said of child care in the USSR and Israel, "To me, a skeptic, they haven't proved they can produce superior children. They've proved you can bring up average children that way, but I'm an elitist when it comes to raising children...
WOMEN'S liberation has forced some change in Spock's views, however. "Men have to try to understand-I say this autobiographically-try to empathize. Women have to get more justice out of the system." As the interview ended, he suggested that I read the paperback version-just out-of Decent and Indecent, since the hard cover edition "still has the old reactionary stuff...
...admit I was tactless," he added, apparently chastened after pointed questioning on April 14th at the Law School, where he addressed a course taught by Leonard B. Boudin, visiting professor of Law, a noted constitutional lawyer and Spock's attorney in the Boston conspiracy trial...
...difficult to simply pigeonhole Spock as a "liberal." He's contradictory but conscious of some-though not all or even most-of his own contradictions. His political effectiveness is limited by his sketchy, occasionally naive, analysis-and to some extent, he knows it. But he can take a "flat-footed stand" without being immobilized by doubt...