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While Massachusetts has one of the lowest rates of out-of-wedlock births and divorce in the country, 14,000 children see their parents separate, and 20,000 children are born out of wedlock in an average year in the state, according to panelist Marilyn Ray Smith, a legal counsel for the state's Child Support Enforcement Division...
...personal demons. Adopted as an infant, Jobs spent his early adulthood on a classic '60s-era quest for personal identity, seeking transcendence and self-realization through drugs and meditation, founding Apple and establishing a New Age "family" of fervent Macintosh partisans while keeping his own out-of-wedlock daughter Lisa and her mother at a sad remove...
...Rutgers University indicates that young people are increasingly pessimistic about achieving marital bliss. The percentage of high school girls who expect to stay married for life dropped from 68% in 1976 to 64% in 1995. Fifty-three percent say it is worthwhile to have a child out of wedlock, compared with 33% in 1976. Why? The study cites the growing economic independence of women and the rising number of children of divorce who are wary of marriage...
...cards wrong. Marcus Garvey preached racial separatism and opposed interracial marriage; his ideas seem almost quaint now. Whether Hugh Hefner was a pioneer of the sexual revolution or just piggybacked on it is impossible to know, but in the age of AIDS and poverty caused by out-of-wedlock births, his hedonism-without-tears philosophy makes him look like Austin Powers with better teeth. Timothy Leary preached the liberating power of psychedelic drugs, but aside from Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, the legacy of LSD seems to be a lot of boring baby-boomer anecdotes and some black-light...
CLAIMANTS: Cher, ex-wife; Sean Machu, alleged out-of-wedlock...