Word: childless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brave new science of reproductive technology has been a mixed blessing for childless couples. Women who were once told they might never conceive are now able to become pregnant. But fertility drugs or surgery can produce three or four, sometimes even eight or nine, fetuses. Not only does such a pregnancy threaten the mother's health, but each extra fetus increases the risk of miscarriage or premature birth, which can cause an infant's death or irreparable brain damage. In a widely publicized 1985 case, Californian Patti Frustaci gave birth prematurely to septuplets; only three survived...
...alternative; Nova has already received numerous queries from prospective adoptive couples. With less than 5% of unwed American mothers willing to put their children up for adoption, the small number of women who cross the boundary from abortion clinic to adoption service may seem like a bonanza to childless couples...
...when the nation was being flooded with European immigrants, President Theodore Roosevelt advocated a federal family policy. He declared that the one-child family "spells death, the end of all hope," and in his 1906 State of the Union report he advocated that taxes "be immensely heavier on the childless." Yet the nation not only absorbed the influx of immigrants, it thrived on their dynamism. And many present-day critics have little patience with born-again nativism. "The trouble with Wattenberg's argument," says Bruce Schearer, president of the Population Resource Center, "is that it is exclusionary rather than inclusionary...
That was the conclusion reported last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association by a team led by Gynecologist Daniel Cramer of Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. After studying past contraceptive use by 283 childless women with tubal infertility and 3,833 new mothers, the researchers found that women who had used barrier contraceptives had 40% less risk of tubal infertility. The explanation, suggests one of the report's authors, Harvard Epidemiologist Marlene Goldman, is that these contraceptives prevent any germs carried in the semen from reaching the upper genital tract and causing pelvic inflammatory disease...
...from black civil rights lawyers, who say that it seriously underplayed their role in the case. Elman says he is "shocked" by the current commotion. Frankfurter "didn't regard me as a lawyer for any party," he told his Columbia interviewer. "I was still his law clerk." Indeed, the childless Frankfurter was renowned for treating former students and law clerks as an extended family, finding them influential jobs in Washington and turning to them as a sounding board for his thoughts...