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One obvious reason that so many women are giving birth out of wedlock is the steady decline of the social stigma against it. Girls are no longer thrown out of most high schools for getting pregnant, or packed off to a home for unwed mothers. Now whites, like blacks, are...
A major cause of illegitimacy is more sex among younger people in a pleasure-oriented society. Says Jane Murray-of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, which specializes in family planning: "We live in a world of tight jeans." Specialists in the field also stress the inability of teen-agers to understand...
TO BEGIN, Heywood Gould has created a screenplay of almost magnificent incompetence. He had a promising premise: two dedicated cops Murphy (Paul Newman) and Corelli (Ken Wahl), confront crime, corruption, despair and death in the South Bronx; their turf is so dangerous that the precinct office is nicknamed Fort Apache...
Girls-and some boys-have taken to wearing lapel buttons inscribed NO. This flat statement may make for flat evenings, but the Catholic Archdiocese of Denver and a group for unwed mothers, which are distributing the buttons to students, report that the nay signs are catching on.
Like all good satire, the skit from Chicago's Second City Theater strikes within a hair of real life: young adults in America are coming back to roost. Among some ethnic groups, the Old World style of several generations living under one roof has long persisted. Until now the...