They provided marriage counseling and gave couples “guidance in adequate methods of contraception.” Local governments trained midwives and nurses to encourage family planning. Employers, unions, and nonprofits pushed the idea of smaller families and helped spread information about how to achieve them....
To avoid, she said, the almost inevitable evils of marriage, she had determined to remain single. In fact, as she was of a very ambitious disposition she had resolved to marry none but a man of high rank; but although she was very rich, her fortune was not found a sufficient bribe, ...
A legislative body works best when it consists of individuals of good will who recognize their differences—political as well as regional—and yet are willing to work together to hammer out viable compromises that address the needs of all Virginians. In November, I hope the voters elected to ...
This is a beautiful blog in both content and style! I happened upon your site while researching my own first cousin lines of the marriage between John Thomas Ballard (b. 1/6/1834) m. (9/7/1854) Effie Winlock (b. 5/13/1833). Her grandfather, General Joseph Winlock is my 4G grandfat...
To end on a more hopeful note, is a song from World War II, written in 1942, in fact. The United States had been at war less than a year, though it had been a long war in Europe already. I didn’t recognize this one from the title, “When the Lights Go On Again (All Over ...
West Virginia has the worst divorce rate among 100 cities in the nation. Stephen Smith, the executive director of the West Virginia Healthy Kids and Families Coalition, said poor employment prospects are to blame: "The pressure to make a good living puts strain on a marriage, and right now ...
The kidnapped woman was a striking, moonfaced beauty namedYut Ho. Evidence only recently brought to light by historianScott Zeschindicates she was a properly married woman who was kidnapped by a company to be sold into marriage. That company was led by a master manipulator named Yo Hing, who...
Hence, also, they argue that slaveholders had no right to the protection of that species of property in the territories, which were the common possession of the citizens of all the States; and that the federal government could not properly permit the growth of, or recognize, new slave ...
He stood before me; I knew something was off, but I didn’t recognize him in time, and Malik managed to send me to a dark place before they could stop him. Logan’s rage was the only thing that brought me back. But now that he has discovered my location, how can I escape him ...
One does not recognize it in the first place; often for some reason one fears it; one watches it with keenness and compares it jealously and suspiciously with the old feeling that one knew. Hence the difficulty of modern poetry; and it is because of this difficulty that one cannot remember...