Word: wedlock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high school acquaintance. Gayle Beckstead, 55, who now works as a search consultant in Simi Valley, Calif., learned of a sister -- who hadn't been put up for adoption. When they met, Gayle found a depressed high school dropout who had given up four out-of- wedlock children. The sister regarded the middle-class Beckstead with obvious envy. Beckstead recalls, "Her anger was, 'How come I was kept, and you were given away?' She saw the advantages of my life...
...week four-term Mayor Coleman Young, 71, finished first in the city's nonpartisan primary in a campaign in which opponents hammered at Detroit's drug and crime problems. (The mayor's image was also tarnished when paternity tests forced him to acknowledge having fathered a child out of wedlock six years ago.) If Young is getting on in years, it has not cramped his boisterous style. At a victory rally last week, he urged his jubilant supporters to "go home, get some rest and come back tomorrow to kick some...
Things are somewhat better in Hastings' staging of When We Are Married, J.B. Priestley's satire of the Yorkshire bourgeoisie circa 1908. The premise: three long-married couples discover that their wedlock may not be legal and suddenly are able to reconsider, with the wisdom of hindsight, the choices of youth. Two browbeaten wives and one henpecked husband toy with ditching their spouses, a notion that is faintly feminist for its time. Fittingly, the best performances come from Fredi Olster and Joy Carlin as the resentful wives and the delightful Ruth Kobart as a domineering dragon. Randall...
Birth. More than half of all black infants are born out of wedlock -- and in the inner cities, that figure can reach...
...American values: generosity and self-reliance. Yes, we must offer the poor a hand. But doesn't such help undermine their ability to help themselves? Conservative scholars like Charles Murray contend that Aid to Families with Dependent Children provided an economic incentive for women to have babies out of wedlock and for men to avoid supporting their children. Murray goes too far, but his argument is now a tenet of the welfare debate. Experts no longer argue about how much money people should receive, but what work requirements should be attached to what they...