Word: wassersteins
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Playwright Wendy Wasserstein recalls the clamor raised against her 1989 Pulitzer-prizewinning play, The Heidi Chronicles, because it concerns a woman who decides to have a baby alone. One female critic returned more than once to trash the play. "She said this was a cop-out, my saying women could be happy having a baby alone," the playwright says. Last year Wasserstein, still single at 49, gave birth to a daughter, Lucy Jane, conceived with the sperm of a friend she won't identify. "If I put Heidi out now, people would just say, 'Yeah, that's true,'" she says...
...while many women who have embraced the single life are, like Wasserstein, well educated and economically independent, they cross social and class lines. Last year the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University released a report showing that the marriage rate among women had fallen one-third since 1970 and that young women had become more pessimistic about their chances of wedding. "The reality is that marriage is now the interlude and singlehood the state of affairs," says Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, a co-director of the center. For this summer's study, Whitehead chose to focus on blue-collar women...
...people in the relationship know what it is like better than anyone else.” It helps that their families get along very well, the couple says. “Our mothers are like giggly sisters,” says Hsu. —Staff writer Scoop A. Wasserstein can be reached at wasserst@fas.harvard.edu...
...York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s office, the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, and various law schools from across the country. The conference was intended to shed light on children’s issues, which is one of the most underserved areas of the law, according to Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law Elizabeth Bartholet, who is the director of CAP. “That’s a large part of why we decided to do this conference,” Bartholet said. “We want to get the word out that we?...
...discovered over her three-month stay that many laws designed to help children were actually hurting them. Today, her first adopted son, Christopher, is 21 years old. But the laws handicapping the adoption process in Peru remain in place.That’s why Bartholet, who is now the Wasserstein public interest professor of law, created the Harvard Law School Child Advocacy Program (CAP), tailored to draw students to less glamorous—or lucrative—legal niches. Though only three years old, the program has already established courses in the new field and persuaded some up-and-comers...