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WIGLAND WIGLAND May 28, 1986, Portland Observer. Page 7 Ixmg time activist He». John J. Jackson talks at the General Membership meeting of the Oregon Rainbow Coalition last week. Jackson spoke about commitment and the things that helped him over the sears. Reports were gisen on the National Rainbow Confrrence held in Washington, |).C . and hv the Rainbow International and Medical Task l-orces. Photo bs Richard J. Brown W IG L A N D W IG LAN D Nklt.il A N I) W IG LAN D 1106N.E. Broadway Dianetics Provides New Solutions to “Waggie and Friends” Teen Pregnancy and Child Abuse h\ Ronald H a rm Nearly half of America's Black girls are pregnant by the age o f 20. And 90 percent o f Black babies, whose mothers are between the age o f 15 and 19, are bom out o f wedlock But more signific antly. most o f these children arc raised in futhcrlcss homes Although the problem o f children having children spans all o f American toeiety, many Black leaders have de clared that it is their number one con cem John Jacob, President ot the Na tional Urban League, recently said that. “ We cannot talk about strengthening the Black community and lamily with out facing up to the fact that teenage pregnancy is a major factor in high un employment, the number o f high schtMil dropouts and the numbers ot Blacks below the poverty lin e .'' Researchers have determined that youngsters who get pregnant often have a history ot tee I mg deprived and neg lected Many have been abused or raped It is therefore not surprising to find that statistics for child sexual abuse are also rising throughout the U S O fficial reports o f abuse began to mushroom in the ’ 70s and betweeen 1976 and 1982 the number o f cases reported to the American Human Society increased more than tenfold While Assistant D i rector of the Family Violence Research Program at the University o f New Hampshire. David Finkelhor found in a Boston study that 47 percent o f those randomly surveyed knew o f occurr ences o f child abuse through acquain tances Such figures show that child abuse has reached epidemic proportions, and while lar from the only factor in teenage pregnancies, it is one o f the major causes Most abuse cases involve someone known to the child The Child Abuse and Family Crisis Center in L is Angeles is often called upon to work with Black families to curtail instances o f child abuse " I . A County figures show that there has been an increase o f reported abuse cases, from 16,(MM) in 1982 to 80,(MX) in I985 " says the Center's Information O fficer Al Jimenz. l ike other similar services in Black communities across the country, the Los Angeles center is caught up in at tempting to deal with individual cases and has little tunc to work on the more fundamental issue ot why child abuse is spreading However, some scientists believe (hat altitudes towards sex and children are largely influenced by inherited characteristics carried by the genes Snciobiologisls even go so far as to maintain that all social behavior has a biological basis But as yet. scientists have been unable to locate specific gene structuresthal coincide with sexual vio lence or other mental abnormalities And hard core sociobiologisls have come under attack from other scientists for their Nazi orientation Meanwhile new answers have emerged from quite another quarter Research, detailed in the book DIANETICS: The Modem Science ot Mental Health has revealed that an in dividual’ s altitudes are tashioned from experience, in c lu d in g prenatal memories, which lay below the level ol consciousness It was lound that un wanted attitudes, inhibiting to the indi vidual's survival, are passed through families and through society in general, not by the genes, but through moments o f pain and unconscloustiess When such moments are alleviated in Diane- tics counselling, mental aberration, such as would cause child abuse, disap pears The people of yesterday supposed that genetic insanity must exist, for it could he observed that the children o f aberrated parents were often them selves aberrated There is genetic insan ity but it is limited to the case ol actually missing parts A very small percentage o f insanity falls into such a category A the.itre/improvisalionul group w ill perform at Wilson te n te r Theatre, t i l l S W loth. May 28. I986 at 8 (M) p m Proceeds w ill benefit David's Harp, a social/recrcation.il program lor chrom cally mentally ill adults Cost $10.00 (tax deductible) Ticket outlets David's Harp. I 1261 N I Knott. Portland, call 251 8881 tor more information. Music M illenium l ast, 1158 S I Burnside (211 8926). Tickets also available at the door The nation * fir»« presidential mansion w aa at No 1 Cherry Street In N aw York City That city served a» tha U S capital from 1789 to 1790 'across horn Satmcsy lluyd Cantari Tel. 282 1664 Store Hour« JOOO e.m. til 6 00 p.m. Monday thru Saturda Tha first w adding to taka placa In tha W hite House w aa that of M r» Lucy Payne W ashington to Supram a Court Justice Thomaa Todd in 1112 Lucy was tha w id o w of Oaorga W ashington s naphaw and tha sister of Mr» Jamas Madison Ybu've g o t what I t takes. Many thousands of documented cases exists to support the discoveries and effectiveness ot Dianctics. A woman leading a morally loose life such that she cohabited with many d if ferent sexual partners In Dianetics counselling, it was found that this lifes tyle was totally the result o f beatings accompanied with accusations that she was morally I imisc Once such incidents are handled through Dianetics, the per son is no kinger subject to their influ ence. In Los Angeles, Ebony Awakening — an all-Black Dianetics group — has been formed to examine ways that Dianetics can be used to solve some o f The problems facing Black com munities “ We have conducted a number of surveys,” explains the group's Direc tor Mareia Perkins, "and we've found that Blacks generally want to feel good about themselves, they want to be able to support themselves with a good job, and they want the benefit o f a good education.” Perkins says that if there were enough trained Black counselors, skil led in the use o f Dianetics, there would be a sharp reduction in instances o f child abuse and child violence " I t 's all very well to blame social conditions such as poverty for the problems we lace But if Blacks are strong as indi viduals, they can rise above suchcondi lions Dianetics not only helps a person to live up to their potentials but also restores a person to a high ethical level where he or she can pursue life with vigor " ■ » -a . - TERRI’S FRESH FISH & SEAFOODS 3225 N.E. 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