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_ Fathers protest judgement

BIRMINGHAM, England
Suigoptiinalanas
up many
parts of Britaln have reacted
angrily to the ruling of a high
court judge giving custody of
a twoyear-old girl to her
mother although the mother
had left her when she was
nine. months old.
“A. man cannot be a
mother,” Mr. Justice John
Payne told 36-year-old
‘Trevor Bradley, who is
-employed as a security
guard. :

Bradley told the judge he
had brought up his daughter
since his wife left them. He
considered he was better
qualified to look after her
than her mother, but Mr.
Justice Payne disagreed.

“A man ought not to give
up work to turn himself into
a mother figure or a nanny
and devote himself to
bringing up a little girl at the
expense of the state.”

One of many fathers who
criticized the judge's ruling

was Toby Lawson,38,. of:

WOMEN TRAVELLING

Croydon near London.
Before dashing out of the
house to pick up his eight.
year-old son and 11-yearold
daughter from school, Law-
son said: .

rong. I sa myti that the
wrong, amy
wife Is the only person who
can cook and clean and look
after children, Many fathers
have been conditioned this
way and are better qualified
to care for their offspring
than the mothers,

“I gave up my job in the

They find it hard to

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MONTREAL (CP)
Several § Mantreal
; eieeworen who travel
regularly say they mus
conniving, imaginative and
Gemariding to get hoteli’ to
treat them as well ag they do
- businessmen.

Others say restaurants -

and travel services present
the same frustrations,

Both arguments are at
least partly supported by a
study: for the American
Express company,

“Women often assume
they are victims of poor
service simply because they
are women,” says Saundra
Meyer, the company’s vice-
president of travel related
services. °

“But most are just in-
‘experienced travellers and
tend to be too timid to
‘demand things when they
don’t get them.”
set atuge Ap erican Ex
press study and one done by
Weatern Internatlonal Hotels
say the situation will im-

prove with time.

“It’s difficult for women
who are just beginning to
trave] because they didn't

gain enough experience .

while growing “up,” says
Gina Henry, author of the
Western study, .

“They had escorts —
fathers, boy-frlends or
husbands — to make the
arrangements for them,”

She adds that women can
blame themselves for some
of the problems they auffer
on the road.

They often pack more than
they can carry alone or
forget to keep loose change
at hand for tipping. And
perhaps most important,
says Ms. Henry, they often
don't complain when they
should, .

"We" found through
questionnaires, for example,
that women ~ wanted

retractable clotheslines, full-
length mirrors, writing
desks, lamps and electrical
outlets for their hairdryers

* often

even get a hotel room.

-. but they just suffer in
silence,” >

The studies found that the
travel industry also must
share the blame, because it
concentrates’ on
businessmen rather than

‘planning for businesswomen’

as well. Hotel employees still
were not used to the idea of
women travelling by
themselves, the studies
found.

The employees aren’t
alone, it seems, ;
Donna Mitchell, a CP Air

flight attendant manager, -

admits that ‘“‘women
business travellers still
demand some getting used

* “Once we could have been
sure & woman traveller was
with her husband, ... It's
hard to change your attitude

and begin giving her the
aame attention we give men,

Staft often find it easier
to make contact with men.

Dr. J. Donald Thatcher
says the need for a changed
emphasis in medical care
will begin to emerge
gradually as senior citizens.
place increasing pressure on
the total health care delivery
system, a trend that already
has begun to develop.

However, while
demographic: studies show
that the number of senior
citizens is rising toward a
peak in the 19008, they also
predict a decrease in
Canada's over-all population
in the 1960s to 1971's level.

The increased demand for
doctors treating the elderly
should be balanced by’ a
declining demand for
general practitioners,
Thatcher says. -

In Canada last year there
was a net loes of doctors
because of the large medical
emigration ‘to the United
States since the end of the
Vietnam war, he says, —

“We're looking at the situ-
ation very hard,” Thatcher
says. “It may be that we're
clee to being at
equalibrium,”* a far as
producing pum!
ns required by the re-

on, :

Motor trade because it was
too time-consuming and
joined an. electrical com-
pany, where the hours fitted
in with looking after my kids.
I'm convinced I've done
right by my children, and
others think so, too.” ;

Bill Beesley, 42-year-old
development engineer of
Nottingham, admitted that
he once had doubts as to kis
competence when he was
given custody of his boy and
girl, now 16 and 14,

“That was nine years ago,
“Beesley said. ‘Now I have
no. doubts whatsoever. At
first I thought I had ta give
up my .career for my
children and J toak-anly part-
time work. Then 1 ‘thought
part-time was too much, so I
went on social security,:
Eventually I knew it was
good for us all for me to go
back to work. .

“All this time we have
worked together as a family.
My daughter came to me
with her puberty problems
and I helped her, I no longer
believe it just'a mother’s

functiontodo the explaining.  Apances
Fathers can manage if there rea
is & proper bond of sympathy a
between | them and their #435)

dren.’ .
Child ‘psychiatrist Dr.
Stanley Vincent supports
this view,

“Parental competence
should not be assessed in the
law courts,” he says.
“Certain family situations
need greater understanding
than a judge can give. He is
competent to interpret the
law, but not delicate family
relations. -

"Life
work an

repares man’ to
provide money,

and women to be mothers _
looking after babies, But the
most important factor is not | 4
who is the better housewife,
but who has the most love to |.

give,”

HALIFAX (CP) — What

CHILD ABUSE a
Manitoba studie
still continues to happen

province has more than
doubled during the last five

pr. But experts say the
figures leave a lot of

Elaine Gelmon of the
Winnipeg Children’s Aid
Society attributes. the
statistical rise in child abuse
Selden

cation and reporting
of cases, and a general in-
crease in the incidence of
child abuse,”

_, She says the official
- figures

of child

ww

ly
represent “only tha tip of the
iceberg,

time staff of eight.
In most cases, the children

‘are between four and 10 |

years old, Bruises and burns
ara the most common in
juries, but 17 cases last year
involved children with
broken

Doctors play a major role

in spotting possible cases of —

childabuse, by taking note of
unexplained injuries and the

abused physically

emotionally when they were

young. .
“They are often

who were deprived a ths

opportunity of being a child

and grew up being a parent
rather than a

versal,

Ma, Gelmon says
cases involve a parent wi
unrealistic expectations.
When the youngster fails, the
parent may hit out from a
feeling of frustration.

ao many wating ne
perents are repea
own childhood; experiences

child, |
something we call role re-

The Herald, Friday, July 6, 1979, Page 15

Bul tho epmreach adopted
a a

In Sweden, where the law
bars parents from using
physical punishment to

discipline their children, .

might not necessarily work

“Attitudes must change if
calla peracid stamped
out comp! ," says
Ross, Manitoba director of
child welfare. He says
physical reprimanding of
youngsters alll is regarded

as socially

“It's not looked on as a
serious act when an adult
tits a child for misbehaving.
We must realize chikiren are
pecple in their. own right,

The following are exa

FITNESS: Disco
Program.

Ballroom, etc,

and Tle Dye, Candie
f Lapidary, Sculpture,

Needlecraft, Embroidery.
a MUSIC

INSTRUCTORS NEEDED

The Terrace Recreation Department is now planning
its FALL PROGRAMS, andit requires INSTRUCTORS
In any fleld of Recreation. If you are Interested in
feaching @ course in the r
GENERAL INTEREST AREAor leading a SPORTS or ,
3 FITNESS program thee. we
must be finalized by July 27 0 call now. Please fee!
free to call Mary-Margaret Smith for Information on
im how you can get Involved. The success of & good
community recraation program Is dependent upon the
entire community Input so we taok forward to your

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Mans Programs - indoor, Dancercize, Yoga, Mens

OUTDOOR RECREATION: Backpacking,
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S find it

inner contro] at they must
know when enough
enough.” :

She says during the last
five years the society's
abuse unit has handled more
than 4,000 cases. Only 10 of
those cases were repeaters.

“But if you want to know if
we are turning abusing
parents Into kind, loving,
concerned parents, that’s
another thing. We can
usually prevent further acts
but we can’t

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Macrame,

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your morning newspaper. The spider
is merely looking to see which of the
town’s merchants is
not advertising. He
will then go to that

store, spin his web

across the door and

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