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...women who fell for Taylor were, to put it mildly, unlucky in love. He abandoned his first wife when she was nine months pregnant and tried unsuccessfully to chloroform his second to death. Taylor brutally assaulted his third bride -- bright, insecure, eager-to-please Teresa Benigno of Staten Island, N.Y. -- on their Acapulco honeymoon. A year later, he bludgeoned her to death with a barbell, drove about the country for four days with her , disfigured body in the trunk and then abandoned car and corpse in eastern Pennsylvania. Under police questioning, he confessed to the crime but claimed that...
...Houston a stay-at-home dad kisses his pregnant wife goodbye as she heads for the office, and then turns back to the task of getting their four children fed, washed and ready for the day ahead. In Long Branch, N.J., parents work alternate shifts -- she during the day at a hospital accounting office; he at night, as a security guard -- so that their three kids won't be left with strangers. In Lincoln, Neb., a divorced mother of four -- one of the nation's 9.3 million single parents -- depends on her eldest daughter to fill in while...
...family of any type is subject to sudden change. Social historian Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, writing in the journal Family Affairs, points out that just as today's at-home mother may be tomorrow's working mom, today's career woman may soon be pregnant and thinking about remaining at home. "One day the Ozzie and Harriet couple is eating a family meal," says Whitehead. "The next day, they are working out a joint-custody arrangement...
...lack of it, is a crisis in some women's prisons. The federal system's only hospital for women, in Lexington, Ky., has not consistently employed a full-time obstetrician-gynecologist -- a shocking deficiency given that Justice Department figures show that 1 in 4 women entering prison is pregnant or has recently given birth. Pregnant inmates typically get little or no prenatal care, though many are drug abusers with a high risk of medical complications...
...ignored. Some steps have been taken. Rikers Island, for example, maintains a nursery for babies born to prisoners, allowing the babies to stay with their mothers for up to a year. Hardwick and other institutions have parenting and outreach programs for inmates' children. Federal legislation enacted last year makes pregnant prisoners and their newborns eligible for special food supplements. And more prisons are expanding drug- and alcohol-treatment programs...