TORRANCE TRIBUNE February 8, 2018 Page 3
Calendar of Events
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Thursday by noon. Calendar items are $1
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THURSDAY, FEB. 8
• Biography and Memoirs Book Discussion
Group, 10:30 AM. – 11:30 AM., Katy
Geissert Civic Center Library, 3301 Torrance
Blvd., Call: 310-618-5959.
• Mayhem in the AM Mystery Book Group,
10:00 AM., Henderson Library, 4805 Emerald
Street, Call: 310-371-2075.
• Biography & Memoirs Book Discussion
Group, 10:30 Am. – 11:30 AM., free, Katy
Geissert Civic Center Library, 3301 Torrance
Blvd., Call: 310-618-5959.
• Hairspray The Musical (North Torrance
High School), 6:30 PM. – 9:30 PM., Tickets:
$15, James Armstrong Theatre, 3330
Civic Center Drive, Call: 310-781-7171.
FRIDAY, FEB. 9
• Toddlertime, 10:15 AM. & 11:00 AM.,
children 18 months to 3 years, free, Katy
Geissert Civic Center Library, 3301 Torrance
Blvd., Call: 310-618-5964.
• FUN-tastic Fridays: Superhero Smash,
4:00 PM., free, Katy Geissert Civic Center
Library, 3301 Torrance Blvd., Call: 310-
618-5964.
SATURDAY, FEB. 10
• Torrance Certified Farmers’ Market at
Wilson Park, 8:00 AM. – 1:00 PM., 2200
Crenshaw Blvd., Between Carson St. &
Sepulveda, Call: 310-781-7520.
• West Basin Free Rain Barrel Distribution
Event, 8:00 Am – 12:00 PM., 17140 S.
Avalon Blvd., Carson, CA.
• Perla-Batalla- House of Cohen (The Torrance
Cultural Arts Foundation), 8:00 PM.
– 10:30 PM., Tickets: $35/$30/$25, James
Armstrong Theatre, 3330 Civic Center
Drive, Call: 310-781-7171.
SUNDAY, FEB. 11
• The Not –It’s! (The Torrance Cultural
Arts Foundation), 2:00 PM. – 4:30 PM.,
Tickets: $20/$15/$10, James Armstrong
Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Call:
310-781-7171.
• Tea at Two –A Valentine’s Day Tea, (The
Torrance Historical Society), 2:00 PM. –
4:00 PM., Tickets: $30, seating is limited,
reservations are required, CHADO Tea
Room, 1303 El Prado Ave., Call to reserve:
310-328-5392.
• FREE Family Drive-in Movie, 6:00 PM.
– 8:00 PM., free open to everyone, first
come first serve, Torrance – South Bay
YMCA, 2900 W. Sepulveda Blvd., Call:
310-325-5885 X 2771.
MONDAY, FEB. 12
• All Torrance Libraries Closed for Lincoln’s
Birthday – ALL DAY
• City Hall CLOSED for Lincoln’s Birthday
TUESDAY, FEB. 13
• Torrance Certified Farmers’ Market at
Wilson Park, 8:00 AM. – 1:00 PM., 2200
Crenshaw Blvd., Between Carson St. &
Sepulveda, Call: 310-781-7520.
• City Council Meeting, 7:00 PM. – 9:00
PM., City Hall, 3031 Torrance Blvd.
• Family Storytime, 10:30 AM., free, Henderson
Library, 4805 Emerald Street, Call:
310-371-2075.
• Family Storytime, 11:00 AM., free, Southeast
Library, 23115 Arlington Ave., Call:
310-530-5044.
• Family Storytime, 10:30 AM., free, North
Torrance Library, 3604 Artesia Blvd., Call:
310-323-7200.
• Pajama- Rama, 6:30 PM., free, for ages 2
years and up –wear pajamas, Katy Geissert
Civic Center Library, 3301 Torrance Blvd.,
Call: 310-618-5964.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 14
• HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!!
• Valentine’s Day Story & Craft, 4:00 PM.,
free, El Retiro Library, 126 Vista Del
Parque, Call: 310-375-0922.
See Calendar of Events, page 4
There Has Been a Bump
in Motherhood
By Rob McCarthy
More women are having children, though
it’s too early to call it a baby boom, says a
new report about motherhood. And while the
bump in babies isn’t huge, it halts a steady
20-year decline that had economists and
employers fretting.
The Pew Research Center compared how
many women by age 44 had become mothers,
using 2006 and 2016 data. What they found
dispelled the myth about a post-recession
“baby bust” -- the assumption that couples and
single women couldn’t afford children after the
financial collapse in 2008 that claimed jobs
and homes. “Not only are women more likely
to be mothers than in the past, but they are
having more children,” the Pew report found.
A sizable 86 percent of women by 2016 had
become mothers -- higher than before the crisis.
Ten years before, 80 percent of women had
given birth by the time they reached age 44,
U.S. Census data showed. The great majority
of women bear children before age 45, even
though medical technology has extended fertility.
Women of all ages are waiting longer to have
their kids, too. That includes what Pew calls
“never-married” mothers, a lifestyle choice of 15
percent of American women. Matrimony isn’t
the barrier to motherhood it once was either:
Pew found that a majority of women -- 55
percent -- who never wed choose to become
mothers. “This marks a dramatic change from
two decades earlier, when roughly a third …
See Motherhood, page 8
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