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...Mitzvah every year. That's not even correct on a religious level. People knit their dogs things. Now I've never knitted anything, but it looks like a pretty serious endeavor. If getting married meant knitting something instead of buying a ring, there would be even more out-of-wedlock births...
...women, Cindy and Mary; two lives in turmoil because of adoption laws written in another era. Before the late '60s, states thought they were doing birth mothers a favor by confining their identities to dusty registrars' books. At the time, only "bad" girls got pregnant out of wedlock, and they were cloistered with fake names until they gave birth. Today, of course, that attitude seems quaintly outmoded. What's more, we have become sensitized to the rights of adoptees, who as they grow up want to know what everyone else already knows: who they are. "We are besieged by ghosts...
...this remarkablefigure. But instead the film presents Elizabeth'sreign as the results of the actions and failingsof the men around her. She refuses to marry not soshe can better exploit her eligibility as awildcard in international affairs but because herchoices are a sterile marriage of convenience withSpain or shallow wedlock with a Frenchtransvestite. She denounces sex not to reign moreeffectively, but only when her lover is revealedas a married man. Given that the real QueenElizabeth once stated flatly that she "wouldrather be a beggar and single than a queen andmarried," the film's presentation of Elizabeth'saversion...
...Sports Illustrated publicly wonders where daddy is. In an article exposing the strong paternalistic instinct of certain athletes, black basketball players with absurd numbers of out-of-wedlock children seem the running joke. The magazine mockingly forms an "NBA All-Paternity team"-nine black players and Larry Bird-who have been the subjects of paternity-related lawsuits...
...Every eight seconds a child drops out of school, every 15 seconds a child is arrested, every 34 seconds a child is born out of wedlock, every hour and a half a child is shot, every four hours a child commits suicide," he said...