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Lemann deals directly with the messy question of whether the sharecropper culture the migrants left behind helped lead them into the trap of ghetto poverty. He sides with those who believe that a high number of unwed mothers, female-headed households and short-lived marriages were characteristics of sharecropper life...
Not that the workadaddy-housewife family is dead. Homemaking mothers married to breadwinning fathers still make up the largest category of families with young children. The "Ozzie and Harriet" arrangement represents one-third of the nation's 14.8 million families with preschool children, although dual- income households (28.8% as of...
Last week the Supreme Court faced these tough questions in its first abortion rulings since the landmark Webster decision last July. In a 5-to-4 vote, the Justices upheld a Minnesota law requiring unwed teenagers to notify both parents before an abortion if the law allows minors to go...
"We approach the issue from a position of care and concern for women," said Whitman, adding that she "would like to see parental issues addressed. Society is not very receptive to unwed mothers."
"We hope to raise awareness on campus that society is not really providing a choice, that abortion is the only choice...society just doesn't provide for unwed mothers," said George P. Cassidy '90, the secretary and treasurer of the Alliance for Life.