File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1998/marxism-thaxis.9802, message 162


Subject: Re: M-TH: "Morality," Social Reproduction, and the Ruling Class
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 19:30:24 -0500 (EST)
From: "hoov" <hoov-AT-freenet.tlh.fl.us>


Yoshie:
> (1) Moralization of pregnancy, giving birth, and abortion is integrally
> related to moralization of sex; 
> sex/gender questions are made to appear as though they were
> "women's problems." Not only are working-class women asked to carry the
> double burden of paid and unpaid labor, women are also asked to shoulder
> the burden created by moral double standards in sex and reproduction.

Mike Males has point out, in *The Scapegoat Generation*/1996, that adults
(20 yrs old & above) father 70% of the births among school-age mothers...
seems this situation has escaped the attention of myriad blue-ribbon 
panels, foundations, institutes, secretaries of health, surgeon generals, 
health officials that/who have issued studies and reports, made public 
statements, and warned about "teenage pregnancy"...Michael Hoover 


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