The Wages Of Sin

February, 1984

In a New York case titled In Re Alice D., a judge of the small-claims court decided just what is appropriate to say and do when your lover becomes pregnant; and, perhaps even more important, he also set down, for possibly the first time, the standards, warranties and legal etiquette required of today's consenting adults.Alice D. met William M. in 1979. Their relationship evolved from being "good" friends (as compared, I suppose, with being "bad" friends) to being lovers after...