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...Census Bureau, 32% of all births today are to unmarried women, up from just 5.3% in 1960. While teenage pregnancies have declined, there has been a dramatic upsurge among college-educated career women like Marianne. Some got pregnant by accident. But many more have made the conscious decision to have a child on their own because they haven't found Mr. Adequate, let alone Mr. Right. "Now almost everyone seems to know someone firsthand or secondhand who has done it," says Jane Mattes, founder of Single Mothers by Choice, a 4,000-member international support group. "That's a huge...
...child alone is far from easy. Marianne first began considering single parenting in her late 30s, after she broke off a four-year relationship. "I decided I wasn't going to turn 40 without at least exploring having a child," she says. "I wanted it to be a conscious decision, as opposed to something that just didn't happen to me." Money was not an issue--she was part owner of a thriving software company and owned a condo in Cambridge, Mass., and a house on Cape Cod--but she still underwent two years of therapy before she made...
BUSH: I don't know if it was a conscious decision. It's a world apart. Greenwich to Midland. I often say of the difference between me and Dad is that he went to Greenwich Country Day and I went to San Jacinto Junior High. In Midland there was no class structure...
Fitzsimmons believes that some summer programs are used as recruitment devices to get people to apply, but "certainly Harvard has no conscious policy to do that...
...with a dinner scene that brought together five members of the hilariously obese Klump family--all played by Murphy. It was Baker who put the lumps in the Klumps: the movie's 400-lb. hero Sherman, brother Ernie, Mama, Papa and Granny. Baker also lobbied the cost-conscious producers to shoot the scene, which added about $1 million to the budget but proved to be the film's comic high point. The first Nutty grossed $270 million worldwide, revived Murphy's career and earned Oscars for Baker and his assistant, David LeRoy Anderson...