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...hurdling gender barriers last week. For the first time since the U.S. began naming a poet laureate, in 1986, the position has gone to a woman: Mona Van Duyn, 71. Van Duyn, a 1991 Pulitzer prizewinner, has often written about human relationships, drawing on her 48 years of wedlock to versify about "the complexities, bumps and humor of marriage...
...Danforth Quayle its Vice President and send him forth to lecture on public morality and cultural health? Last month's sitcom episode in which the Vice President mistook Candice Bergen, a.k.a. Murphy Brown, for the Scarlet Woman of Babylon has already passed into history. A baby out of wedlock! The Veep blew his chance to link this fictional infant to the agenda of the antiabortion lobby -- MURPHY CHOOSES LIFE! -- and scolded the fictional mother for getting pregnant in the first place...
...election could accomplish seems hopelessly naive -- and not just in Los Angeles. The high expectations that greeted the election of thousands of African Americans to local, state and federal offices over the past three decades have been displaced by frustration. By every statistical measure from joblessness to out-of-wedlock births, the plight of the poorest blacks has deteriorated in nearly all the cities that blacks control politically. Black elected officials and black voters alike have discovered the harsh limits of their power. As the violence in L.A. showed, many of them remain as alienated from the political process...
...never before on taking the family apart. The divorce rate is more than twice what it was 30 years ago. More than half of , American children will live in a single-parent home sometime before age 18. A quarter of all births in the U.S. occur out of wedlock, five times the rate of 30 years...
...welfare refrom for years. Even Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) admits that many welfare recipients are caught in a "cycle of dependency." In Thursday's Boston Globe, Ellen Goodman came out in support of using welfare reforms to discourage women on welfare from having children out of wedlock. Are they too using code words...