Word: nonsupport
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...sterilization a legal alternative to jail? Can a court require such an operation for a man convicted of nonsupport of his children? And if the man is coerced into submitting to the operation against his will, what if he later wants more children...
Aiding Taxpayers. Shortly before divorcing him last fall, Andrade's first wife charged him with nonsupport. He pleaded guilty, and the county recommended probation. But Pasadena Municipal Court Judge Joseph A. Sprankle took a firmer view: "I am concerned about all the children this man is producing without the ability to support them." He gave Andrade a choice: marriage to Elma Martello and sterilization by vasectomy-or jail...
...wants more children by his new wife, and he seeks to have the vasectomy undone-a feat successful in only about 50% of such cases. No one is more surprised than Judge Sprankle, who says he has "counseled" vasectomy in several hundred nonsupport cases...
...juvenile court judges, a quarter of them non-lawyers and most of them overworked. In 1957, Washington's Judge Ketcham found himself the low-paid Solomon in sole charge of the city's 225,000 juvenile cases, plus all of its paternity suits and nonsupport cases. By contrast, 31 other judges handled the city's 550,000 adult cases. "I had to hear 197 cases in my first three days of court," recalls Ketcham. "I don't want that to happen again to anyone...
With a few exceptions the supporting cast might be accused of nonsupport. Hume Cronyn's Polonius is devilishly fine, a battered human filing cabinet of platitudes who has achieved diplomatic immunity to everything but the sound of his own voice. And George Rose's First Gravedigger is a roguish, low-comic word prankster. But Alfred Drake's King Claudius is too suavely ingratiating to have killed a brother and seized a crown. He is more like mine host of the Elsinore Hilton. Eileen Her-lie is a middle-aged matron with diction; it is easier to imagine...