What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

She sued the jail and the mayor of DC for sex discrimination. She was born in Manchester Connecticut and attended Bryn Mawr College. The negative perceptions continued into the 21st Century.

At the time his books were criticized by Vietnam War supporters for allegedly propagating permissiveness and an expectation of instant gratifications that led young people to join these movements a charge Spock denied. In addition to his pediatric work Spock was an activist in the New Left and anti Vietnam War movements during the 1960s and early 1970s. Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2 1903 – March 15 1998) was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care publiBenjamin Spockd in 1946 is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time.