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...women's efforts to keep their children out of trouble, however, were not entirely successful. Just three weeks ago, Nancy's 16-year-old son was wounded in the leg when shooting broke out at a dance. Katherine's daughter Teresa gave birth to a daughter Janai out of wedlock five years ago. But showing the determination she got from her mother, Teresa works full-time in a food- service job while studying to be an accountant...
...show- and-tell. At the Democratic Convention, Al Gore relived the car accident that nearly killed his young son, and Paul Tsongas told us about his battle with cancer, which he now must face again. For years Jesse Jackson has been telling us that he was born out of wedlock. No major political function these days, Democrat or Republican, is complete without at least one AIDS sufferer. Clinton is not alone in evoking familiarity; he just does it better than anyone else. The only people who might challenge him for that distinction are the TV-talk-show hosts. There...
...have a robot maid, but the chances are good that it will also be interracial or bisexual, divided by divorce, multiplied by remarriage, expanded by new birth technologies -- or perhaps all of the above. Single parents and working moms will become increasingly the norm, as will out-of- wedlock babies, though there will surely be a more modern term for them. "The concept of the illegitimate child will vanish because the concept of the patriarchal nuclear family will vanish," says Leslie Wolfe, executive director of the Center for Women Policy Studies...
Medved's bloodshot rage makes it hard for him to perform the crucial job of a film critic, which is to see movies -- to figure out what's going on -- and report it. Here is his analysis of Sleeping with the Enemy: an "indictment of conventional wedlock as a cruel and unhealthy arrangement." Well, it's not; it is a melodrama about wife abuse -- a social disorder Hollywood didn't invent. Medved, determined to alienate even his core audience of people who think Disney cartoon features are innocuous entertainment, proclaims that The Little Mermaid "effectively encouraged children to disregard...
...have twice torpedoed so-called "sex surveys" considered vital to planning the government's response to the AIDS crisis because they included questions about contraception and sexual behavior. In 1990 an interagency task force proposed funding school-based clinics "in high-poverty areas with high rates of out-of-wedlock births." A White House official acknowledged that such a program could reduce teen pregnancy and the number of single-parent families, but the Administration feared being seen as "encouraging promiscuity" and worried that the plan could "cause political problems among groups that are opposed to birth control." At the same...