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...pairs upon the doorstep of Britain's National Council for Unmarried Mothers that recently got the Home Office to issue a free pamphlet offering concisely stated advice in seven different languages. Now the generally accepted last word on the subject, a sort of Dr. Spock for au pair parents and charges, the text decreed that a girl should be given a separate bedroom and a place at the family table, that she should work, in exchange, no fewer than five hours...
...University invested ten million dollars in the Complex; it expects to recover half. "But when the bridge clubs get going and Dr. Spock starts coming to lecture, this project will really start paying off with a decent social life for married students," Whitlock said "This will be a great deal more than simply an apartment house...
...reporting of my talk at Lowell House was generally excellent but I was uneasy about the statement"...Spock...discouraged people from idealistic backgrounds from feeling guilty about sex." This is a condensation which suggests something different from the point I was trying to make. Sexuality in human beings is incredibly complex. In families with higher education and higher ideals it is more strongly repressed in childhood and adolescence, more sublimated throughout life. It is infused with tenderness, devotion, inspiration, and also guilt. It is the principal force behind scholarly, scientific, and creative drives. The patterns vary, of course, in different...
...Spock went on to say that clarity was particularly important in advising parents. "Mothers in America are in a peculiarly difficult position, and are easily disturbed and confused. The trouble is that in America, unlike most other societies, newlyweds are expected to be immediately independent of their parents. Grandmothers are not allowed to help much in the rearing of children; in fact, their help may be resented by the mother. As a result, American women are plunged into motherhood, rather than assuming their role gradually...
Discussion around the table turned back to children, and Dr. Spock was asked what he thought of kids. "I have great respect for them--they're much harder to confuse than parents--and great affection. They're wonderful conversationalists; they haven't become all hot air and platitudes, and they are truly noble. If we could only find how to bring them up right, we could have a very good world...