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
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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
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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 "
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