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...adoption and artificial insemination are becoming increasingly popular among lesbian couples. Maria Cristina Vlassidis, 31, a Chilean-born law school graduate in Manhattan, has a son Erick, 8, from her former marriage, whom she is now raising with her lover, Marie Tatro, 29, a law student. Both women attend parent-teacher conferences; both support the child financially; they tell his playmates that they are both "Erick...
While abortion has been a galvanizing issue for women candidates, it is far from the only one: these days, there are plenty of problems to go around. Lots of men care about education, health care, pay equity, child care and parental leave, of course, but in a theoretical, not a life-altering, way. As Schroeder puts it: "Most Congressmen come from Leave It to Beaver families and go back to the district and talk to Leave It to Beaver fathers at the Rotary Club and the Chamber of Commerce, in other words, to people just like themselves. Women's issues...
Women who embark on single motherhood cannot overestimate what "a tremendous undertaking" it is, says Suzanne Bates, 42, a Manhattan certified public accountant who has adopted a Paraguayan baby girl. Every parental concern, from finding child care to coping with illness, weighs more heavily on the single parent. As for the children, no one can yet say what the psychological consequences will be. Will these families be any different from the countless American households in which a father is missing through divorce or death? Many single mothers argue that the truly wanted child of a single mother is better...
...breadwinning fathers still make up the largest category of families with young children. The "Ozzie and Harriet" arrangement represents one-third of the nation's 14.8 million families with preschool children, although dual- income households (28.8% as of 1987) are rapidly catching up. Also gaining is the single-parent family, because of divorce and the explosive rise in births to unwed mothers: up from 5% of all births in 1960 (and 22% of all black births) to 22% in 1985 (60% of blacks...
...result, no parent is immune to the uncertainty and guilt that make the child-rearing dilemma the No. 1 topic of conversation among young mothers today, and of more than passing interest to fathers. The job is a tangle of double binds. Should a mother stay at home, providing the values, discipline and security her children need, and let her hard-earned job skills go fallow? Or should she take a chance that her kids will be O.K. and pursue a life that brings more personal satisfaction and economic advantages? "It's very hard," says Stephanie Burchfield, a Los Angeles...