Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TIME: There's a story in the paper today saying that the stigma has been removed from teenage pregnancy and that Democrats are responsible. What would you say to these children having children...
...pregnant, it's better to have an abortion than to have the child. Secondly, I think we have to recognize that a lot of ((these young women)) are living in a world very different from the one we live in, not only because there's no stigma but because there are also not the kind of structural day-to-day moral supports for not having children out of wedlock. What we need is an approach that recognizes the whole problem: the family breakdown, the moral breakdown, the total absence of traditional economic opportunity...
...argues that paying for interviews is a legitimate way of competing with the networks, whose offer of prime-time national exposure carries more clout. "To level the playing field, we have to offer incentives to some people to come on our air." Some journalistic watchdogs agree that the traditional stigma against pay-for-play reporting may be breaking down -- and for good reason. "It's hard to argue that the ordinary person shouldn't share in the benefit of what's going to be a commercial product," says Everette Dennis, executive director of Columbia University's Freedom Forum Media Studies...
...homeless people suffer from alcoholism, drug abuse or mental illness. The authors' stated aim is to force society "to stop making distinctions between the deserving and the undeserving poor" and address the underlying problems head on. More often, their book has served to deepen the homeless stigma...
Prejudice. The foremost reason that awareness and understanding are so weak in our society is that there is still quite a stigma carried by anyone labelled "mentally ill." Almost everyone at times, and some folks all of the time, will regard anyone labelled "mentally ill" with an uneasy fear of craziness. But the fact that a brain may fail to regulate a neurochemical at optimal levels has nothing whatsoever to do with personal worth or character evaluation. If anything, the mentally ill endure such huge obstacles to ordinary functioning that any particular level of achievement requires exceptional fortitude, striving...