Besides, it would cut into their Playboy-reading time. Doctors “don’t read very much [about breast-feeding] because they think they don’t need to know it,” Dr. Lawrence Gartner of the University of Chicago told Chicago Parent in January.

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No mention was made of Amish sources of heroin in the immediate vicinity. A press release from “Pennsylvania Dutch Country” highlighted the “quirky British hobby of trainspotting” and promoted Strasburg, Pennsylvania, as a place to do it.

Family values according to Newt and Bill. “Just as studies are showing the stimulation children receive in their first few years to be crucial, [welfare] mothers are being forced to put children into child care and return to work,” wrote Elizabeth Agnvall in Chicago Parent (September). She quoted Teresa Nihill of Metropolitan Family Service: “If these women had financial means, many people would expect them to stay home with their children.”