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...saying right now." Hare balances Alice's bohemianism with Susan's purified idealism--as Susan becomes progressively disconnected, Alice straightens herself out, eventually becoming one of Susan's few emotional supports. Sting's cameo as a London prole whom Susan selects to father her a child out of wedlock is well worth the price of admission. With his mean, hungry good locks, the King of Rock fits right in against the gray backround of urban grime and poverty, swaggering through the streets with all the rights of ownership...
...violence as a way to manage dilemmas these and other situations pose; and the ready availability of lethal agents that can be used in violence against others or self." Social scientists see additional reasons: high unemployment, drugs, gangs, and the rise in female-headed households and births out of wedlock. The rate of black teenage unemployment in the nation's cities is more than 50% in some areas. The future is not cheering either. In those same cities, more than half the black children are born out of wedlock...
...female-headed households with one or more children under 18 doubled from 1970 to 1982, from 2.9 million to 5.9 million. During the 1970s the divorce rate shot up by half. Although it has dropped slightly, the U.S. rate remains the highest among all Western nations. Out-of-wedlock births jumped by 67% from...
...does, Ewing will be a mixed blessing: he will probably cost upwards of $1 million a year in salary, money that he may need to support a growing family. Days after the lottery, his high school sweetheart Sharon Stanford, 21, disclosed that last year she gave birth out of wedlock to Patrick Jr. At present there are no plans for marriage...
...American Revolution. There was, however, a dark side to the familiar beaming countenance, an aspect that might have come from one of Freud's case histories of an overheated family crucible. This provocative and enlightening account overturns the legend by examining William, Benjamin's only son, born out of wedlock in 1731. Once his father's closest confidant and potential partner, the younger Franklin nearly perished in prison because of a mutual that was, in the end, all that the two men had in common...