When I graduated from college, in the early s, friends started having them while I remained happily unencumbered. Even after I married, family planning was more like having no plan, other than putting it off until later. Should they try to have one anyway? The issue is obviously even more fraught for women of childbearing age who are having trouble conceiving and are asking themselves how far they should go with it, how much they want it, if their partner wants it more than they do. When I was in my mids, my then husband and I did try, and fail, to conceive a child. Though I would have welcomed a child, their yearning seemed foreign to me. My husband and I considered our options. So we just decided to stop focusing on having a baby, and a baby never came. In social situations around that time, when outsiders would nose into what I believe is private business, the fact that I had taken the path of least resistance gave me an easy out. And yet even today I rarely volunteer how utterly happy I am with the decision I made more than 20 years ago.
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Allardyce was unimpressed, saying in response: "Sean Dyche has taken Burnley from obscurity into Europe. You cannot work at a smaller club and expect to get a bigger job by winning trophies… it's an absolute nonsense. While that may well be true, Allardyce's advice to British managers seeking the most coveted jobs in the country was more questionable. Allardyce has never won a major trophy, though he has had relatively successful stints with Bolton , Blackburn, Sunderland and Crystal Palace over the years. Asked about the upturn in Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers' fortunes after his trophy-laden spell at Celtic , Allardyce made another comment which is likely to prove controversial. The way Steven Gerrard is going they will start winning trophies again Manchester United. Will Magee. Getty Images.
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Jamie Wong Baesa had been dreaming of her first year as a teacher since she was 7 years old, when she would line up her stuffed animals and launch into a lesson. Mikia Frazier, too, spent years envisioning the day she would get to walk into her own classroom. Each time that happened, Frazier was that much more certain that teaching was what she wanted to do. Kristen Stein and Lauren Bayersdorfer realized they wanted to be in the classroom midway through college, switching their majors from cybersecurity and accounting, respectively, to pursue careers in teaching.
Sometimes it may even be beneficial, since adversity can lead to personal growth, self-discovery, and a range of other components of a life well-lived. But other times, love can be downright dangerous. It may bind a spouse to her domestic abuser, draw an unscrupulous adult toward sexual involvement with a child, put someone under the insidious spell of a cult leader, and even inspire jealousy-fueled homicide. How might these perilous devotions be diminished? The ancients thought that treatments such as phlebotomy, exercise, or bloodletting could "cure" an individual of love. But modern neuroscience and emerging developments in psychopharmacology open up a range of possible interventions that might actually work. These developments raise profound moral questions about the potential uses-and misuses-of such anti-love biotechnology. In this article, we describe a number of prospective love-diminishing interventions, and offer a preliminary ethical framework for dealing with them responsibly should they arise. Abstract "Love hurts"-as the saying goes-and a certain amount of pain and difficulty in intimate relationships is unavoidable.
