Word: wedlock
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...trying to get away from home," says New York City Welfare Caseworker James Silvers. However, black families rupture along various fissures: the mother of one of Silvers' 17-year-old clients, for instance, recently kicked the daughter out of their Harlem apartment when she became pregnant out of wedlock; the baby's father left town...
...exhibit a set of attitudes and norms which prevent them from escaping poverty. Proponents of this view single out one phenomenon in particular as evidence of the self-perpetuating nature of Black poverty; unwed pregnancy. Indeed in 1981 fully 55 percent of all Black children were born out of wedlock, up from 24 percent in 1962 and 38 percent...
...ABRUPTLY, the film takes an unsettling plunge into gloom, as the beleaguered couple arrives in Buffalo to see Paula's parents (Burnard Hughes and Jessica Tandy.) In her old home, Paula finds her vague dread about wedlock confirmed: her parents now live in a sadly senescent twilight, paying little attention to each other on the eve of their 40th anniversary. And Richard has to suffer sleeping by himself on his honeymoon, not to mention Paula's mother's well-meaning attempt to serve him grits in homage to his Southern background. The fledgling marriage, nurtured in the hedonistic sunlight...
...official wedlock, it seems, has choked off their former love and friendship. But the deterioration is never made clear by the script; both characters pout and mope for a while, and in the end the marriage is not so much broken down or negated as merely shrugged...
...Alfred Bloomingdale apparently also liked to walk on the wild side. He met Morgan in 1970, when the tall, svelte blond was an usher at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. She was married at the time, with a son born out of wedlock, but her circumstances did not discourage Bloomingdale. He promised to make her a movie star. In a 234-page deposition, parts of which have been made public in other court papers, Morgan says that she and Bloomingdale became intimate at their third meeting, supposedly in an encounter that also involved two other women. After that...