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Liberalized adoption laws are also making it possible for single and divorced women to have children and to set up housekeeping without the necessity of a father. Ruth Taylor, a secretary at a hospital in suburban Warrensville township, near Cleveland, was divorced shortly after her daughter, Kelley, was born three years ago. Because she did not want the girl to grow up as an only child, she adopted a little boy who was listed as a "slow learner" by the agency (there was a three-year waiting list for normal Caucasian children). But in the year that...
...woman they name as Amelia is Mrs. Guy Bolam, widow of a businessman and now living in Monroe Township, N.J. She emerged long enough last week to ridicule the book as a "poorly documented hoax." Hoax or not, the people's appetite for myth and mystery seems insatiable. Before her press conference was over, the woman from New Jersey had convinced many she was not Amelia Earhart. But some wondered whether she was really Mrs. Guy Bolam, either...
...perils of parenthood, four Detroit-area communities have added the risk of 90 days in jail and a $500 fine. Mainly at the insistence of local police, Troy, West Bloomfield Township, Madison Heights and Pontiac have all recently enacted similar ordinances that hold parents responsible for preventing the sins of their children...
...Detroit area is currently undergoing a wave of public frustration at the inability of many parents to control the activities of their offspring. "We're constantly running into kids wandering in the streets after midnight and getting into trouble and raising hell," says Joseph Brennan, the West Bloomfield Township attorney. "Their parents don't know and don't care where they...
Another obstacle to opening up the suburbs is each township's power to block any increase in its population of poor people-black or white. The means is restrictive zoning laws. If a suburb does not want excessive development, for instance, it can pass large-lot (two-to five-acre) zoning requirements. This sends the developers to more leniently zoned neighboring communities-with disastrous effects on regional land...