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...realism between their dreams and their fears. A TIME poll of 505 men and women ages 18 to 24 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman found that 4 out of 5 believed it was difficult to juggle work and family, and that too much pressure was placed on women to bear the burdens. But among those with the education to enter the professions, the response often comes in the form of demands. "What's different between these women and my generation," says Leslie Wolfe, 46, executive director of the Center for Women Policy Studies in Washington, "is that they...
Parslow's ruling took the question of maternal rights one step beyond the celebrated Baby M. case in New Jersey in 1987. In that decision Mary Beth Whitehead was denied custody of the child she contracted to bear, but she was later granted visitation rights. Whitehead had been impregnated through artificial insemination by the husband of the couple who hired her and therefore was the infant's genetic mother...
...surrogates with no biological link to the children they bear is almost sure to grow. In the past three years, about 80 infants have been born to so-called gestational surrogates, most of them in the U.S. And as biotechnology proceeds, courts are likely to see more cases reinterpreting the once simple legal concept of parenthood...
Given this more somber assessment of a war's costs, it is no wonder that the parameters of a peaceful solution, a deal, are being explored afresh by some of those who would bear the brunt of conflict...
...ground-breaking decision, a California court says that a surrogate who contracts to bear a child to whom she is a "genetic stranger" has no maternal rights...