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...come as a surprise to learn that while the initial grief can be profound, people who have had happy relationships often find it easier to go on with the rest of their life once they have mourned their mate. At least those are the findings reported in Spousal Bereavement in Late Life, a book based on a longitudinal study of 1,500 older married couples. "We found that almost half the people who reported satisfying marriages grieved--sometimes devastatingly--immediately after the loss but by six months later had few major symptoms of grief," says Deborah Carr, a researcher...
However, the study also determined that only one-third of tenure-track faculty members responded positively to clarity of tenure standards, assistance in obtaining external grants, and quality and availability of certain benefits—such as spousal hiring assistance, personal leave time, and child care...
...central policy.“I might have been hoping for more centralized control, but I wasn’t aware of how deeply decentralized the University is,” Mansbridge says. The committee created an electronic consortium of universities in the Boston area to facilitate spousal hiring in response to data showing that women have a harder time finding new jobs when families relocate.The consortium is the first of its kind in the area and is modelled off of arrangements already in existence in California. The report also sets aside family funds for faculty and students engaged...
Between her time as Barbarella and Hanoi Jane, among the Oscar wins and spousal losses, Fonda kept journals. Using those diaries along with media interviews and biographies of her famous family members (such as father Henry, brother Peter, and niece Bridget), she wrote her memoirs. Of course, the 22,000 pages of FBI files (kept on her because of her involvement in Vietnam) didn’t hurt either...
...Beginning with Planned Parenthood v. Danforth in 1976, then in Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992, state efforts to require that fathers be notified before women have abortions were struck down by the Supreme Court as placing too great a burden on women. A majority of Americans approve of spousal notification, provided there are exceptions for women in abusive situations, and when he was an appeals court judge Sam Alito upheld such a provision. But the Supreme Court ruled in Casey that "it cannot be claimed that the father's interest in the fetus' welfare is equal to the mother...