Page 10, The Herald, Friday, Ociober 20, 1978

Birth rate declining

WASHINGTON (AP) —
The world’s population time
bomb, expected to begin
exploding in the 1980s, may
have been defused by birth
control programs in some of
the most populous countries.

Chicago sociology
professors Amy Ong Tsui
and Donald Bogue, in a
report released Wednesday,
write that in most developing
countries, birth rates have
been declining faster than
expected.

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world war by [he year 2000,”
the report says. “Ef recent
lrends continue, the world
population crisis appears
resolvable.”

The report says that
contrary to demographic
predictions, the world’s
average rate of childbearing
declined significantly bet-
ween 1943 and 1975. As a re-

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148 countries the rate
dropped from 4,6 to 4.1 births
per woman of child-bearing
age in these seven years.

Some of the must
populated countries which
were viewed as seedbeds fur
population explosion, such as
China, India, Indunesia and
Egypt, were showing
evidence of major and
. continuing fertility decline,
lhe authors say.

They believe thal a key
factor behind the fertility
decline has been family
planning movements in
developing countries. By
1976, 63 countries in the de-
veloping world had launched
their own family planning
programs.

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“As of the year 2000, less
than a fifth of the world’s
population will be in the red
danger circle uf explosive
population growth—2.1 per
cent or more annually,” says
the report, published by the
Population Reference
Bureau, a nonprofit research
organization specializing in
population trends.

The bureau estimates that
in 1975 the growth rate in less
developed countries, which

make up three-quarters of .

the total world population,
was 2.3 percent, which would
double the population in 30

ears,
As aresult of the declining
fertility rales, the authors
predict that the total
lation of the world will
be 5.8 billion at the turn uf
the century, in contrast to
the World Bank's projection
of six billion and the United
Nation's projection of 6.3
billion.”’

The bureau estimates the
world population as uf mid-
1978 at 4.2 billion.

“Our optimistic prediction
is premised on a big ‘if'—if
family planning continues.”

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FROM THE CHURCH

by Lance Stephens

The first two articles of this series spoke of the
necessity for trust in any relationship to survive,
and trust required honesty and dependability
from the other toexist. There is a fourth element
required for relationshionships to survive. That
element is loyalty.

Loyalty is an unpopular term today. it goes
against the stream of self-awareness. It is not a
right we can demand, and worst of all it smacks
of self-sacrifice. Yet, ail of us need loyalty from
another. When a man and. woman stand up in
public ceremony and pledge their lifelong
layalty, come hell or high water, to each other,
it’s called marriage. .Each inwardly realizes
that if | am so important te him or her, then |
must be worth a lot to! them. Therefore | am
worthwhile. If this seems strange to you, you to
realize that all of us establish our identity and
value by what others say we are. If someone,
everyone, constantly tells us we are dumb and
stupid , we are most likely to accept that
valuation. Experiments have shown that pupils
tend to live up to their teacher’s expectations.

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We accept others valuation
when another is loyal to us,
very good about ourselv

of ourselves. So
it says something

es.

Conversely when someone we trust is disloyal,
it says something’s wrong with us. The Biblical

commandment against adultery

refers to this.

truth. However, our society lays emphasis on
the physical act. The physical act is transitory,

even fleeting, the real damage is inward.

How

often have ministers heard the cry of the injured
party--he or she took off with so andso. What‘s

wrong with me?

Loyalty is something

basic in relationships.

we all require, it is a
Loyalty is a right that

every husband or wife can expect of the other,
that every child can can expect fram their
parent, that every parent can expect from their

child. But not

blind loyalty. We can not nor

should not, expect those loyal to us to approve oF
condone wrong or stupid behaviour. We can and
should expect them to stand by us in the dif-

ficulties and problems of life.

Without loyalty

there is no depth nor durability to the relation-

ship.

Youthful suicides studied

OTTAWA (CP) — Brenda = proverbial svapbox, but

Rabkin hates to gel up un the Sumetimes she just can’t
help il.

‘Author of anewly released

buvk un adolescent suicide
entitled Growing Up Dead
(McClelland and Stewart,
$7.95), Ms. Rabkin can't
siress enough that children
need to be assured—both
verbally and physically-—
that they’re loved, that
they’re worth while.

“You just can’t stick kids
in front of the TV and hope
ihey'll grow up," said the
altractive 33-year-vld
Winnipeg native in a recent
interview. “Your kids have
lu be a priority, you have lu
tell them. ‘I leve you, you're

a great person.’ If you don'l
du that, who will?”

A muther of two, Ms.
Rabkin says the two years
she has spent researching
the topic— talking to leen-
agers whu tried to take their

uwn lives, discussing the |

experience with — their
families, psychiatrists and
friends—have taught her a
lot.” “I’m bound and
determined my Kids are
going to know I love them.
Initially, f might have been
embarrassed (u hug them
and tell them I love them,
but not new.”

Ms. Rabkin—nuw a cun-
tributing editor to Maclean's

magazine and cu-hust of The
Medicine Shuw to be aired on
CBC this fall—didn’l set vut
ta be an author.

A university _Engliss
teacher turned freelance
radius an relevision.
breadeaster, she first

broached the subject ofl
adolescent suicide in @
powerful radio ducumentary
she did fur CBC and later im
an article fur Homemaker’s
magazine. A twoparagra
article which said the
number vf adolescent suicide
altempts had tripled in the
last 20 years sparked her
interest.

Tue ducumentary won her
an ACTRA award in 1977, —

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reluctance within the
medical profession to talk
abuul what makes a 15-year-
ald want to end hielife, Ms.
Rabkin was overwhelmed
with the public response.

“There was ubviously a
need fur wider discussion on
the topic and since I'd
upened the whule can of
worms I felt a meral
obligation to carry the thing
through."

Hence the book. .

A collection of first-persun:
vignéttes/in- which the teens
agers lell their vwn stories
interspersed wilh comments
from their friends, families
and cvunsellors, it is almost
a direct extension of (he
radio ducumentary.

The teen-agers speak fur
themselves, with relatively
little comment from the
aulhor.

“If in writing this book I
have betrayed a bias
towards life,’ she states in
the introduction, “I have no
rebuital.

“The many leen-agers in
the buvk—whu are its true
authors—have demunstrated
that, at least fur me, such a
bias is justified.”

Most of the stories are told
by 1een-agers whe allempled
suicide, were saved, and
later found reason to live.

One-third of the bouk deals
with a 16-year-old boy—
identified as Peter Walker—
who didn't make it. He is
depicted as an intelligent,
athletic buy who was
growing up in a family that
cared. Sume of the infor-
malion was taken from
journals he had hidden under
his bed for publication after
his death,

“IT included Peter's story
because it was sv Lragic,"
she says. “Whal a wasted
life! Nu 15-year-old should be
able tv take his uwn life.

“Mure often for teen-agers
than for adults, suicide is a
coping mechanism—the
final altempl to cope with
prublems which have
overwhelmed them—the
final altempl to get sumeune
to nolice they're having
problems.

“Seventy per cent of
ladulescent suicide attempts
ake place in the home while
ne parents are there,

ie don't really want to

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Bomber
crashses

SUNNYMEAD, Calif,
(AP) — A B-52 bomber
crashed Into a field shorily
alter taking off frum nearby
March Alr Foree Base
Thursday, killing five uf the
six crew members.

The eight-engine crafi was
vn @ routine training flight
fur Strategic Air Cummand
and carried nu nuclear of
conventional weapons, said

-| Capt. Carl Rossman, a U.S.

Air Force spokesman.

The injured crew member
was repurted in stable
cunditiun at the -base
huspital,