Governor’s Study Committee Finds
Psychological Needs Are Not Met
1. The venereal disease rate
among teenagers has increased
greatly. Figures supplied by the
Oregon State Board of Health
show an incidence in 1950 of 40.3
cases of gonorrhea in all ages per
100,000 population and 48.6 for
the 15-19 age group. While the
all-age incidence per 100,000 po
pulation increased to 53.1 in 1958,
the teenage figures was a start
ling 171 a 350 per cent increase
against about 33 per cent for all
ages.
2. The rate of births to mothers
not married to the fathers of their
children increased in Oregon
from 18.5 per 1,000 live births
in 1950 to 28.8 per 1,000 in 1957
for women of all ages; against
this is set an increase of 50 per
cent for girls under 20 and 52
per cent for the 20-30 age group.
(The committee noted that it
knew almost nothing about the
abortion rate, especially among
the teenagers in Oregon, and
nothing about the amount of con
traceptive information commonly
shared among teenagers, or any
thing definite about the relation-
Priority need of Oregon child
ren highlight a 125-page compre
hensive report released recently
by the Governor’s Committee on
Children and Youth and Gover
nor Mark Hatfield has recom
mended it as good reading for
all of Oregon’s thinking citizens.
He also expressed his apprecia
tion for the work of this com
mittee during the past two years
during which they gathered data
for the report.
The following is the first of a
series of articles about the facts
in the report which has been pre
pared by a committee member,
Ann Sullivan.
Psychological needs of many
Oregon children and youth are
just not being met either by their
own homes or the other institu
tions which contribute to family
life education.
So relates the Governor’s Com
mittee on Children and Youth
which has culminated two years
of work in a report for Oregon.
What evidence brings the Com
mittee to make such a flat state
ment as above? Consider these:
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lies to some extent are produced
or influenced by the total culture
of the nation or the community,
and to some extent by economic •
factors.
“But ultimately good and bad
ty, which influences so strongly
the marital relations upon which
the family is founded, is develop
ed through learning.”
The committee makes these re
commendations, which in the re
port carry considerable amplifica
tion and explanation:
1 . A carefully planned research
program should be set up, test
ing among other things social
and psychological causes for the
phenomena, the weight of the
drive for conformity among the
young people, evaluation of teen-
age marriages (good or bad), etc.
2 More family counseling ser
vices throughout the state.
families result from what the
individuals in them have learned
about family relationships from
life in their own families in child
hood. In a sense, even that hard-
to-define thing called personali-
There is almost total lack in
Oregon of family counseling
agencies where families with dif
ficulties could turn for help
There is no organized non-sec-
tarian family agency except in
the Portland area.
There is only limited unorgan
ized service, totally inadequate
because it lacks community back
ing and support. Children are
directly affected by the tensions
and turmoils of their parents.
Many of them are deprived of one
or both parents by separation or
divorce, and the juvenile courts
and other agencies “pick up the
pieces” at great cost.
3. School counseling services
under professionally trained per
sonnel should be provided
throughout the state . . . Class
room teachers in Oregon are un
able to get help in dealing with
behavior problems because "coun
selors" are either poorly trained
or non-existent.
4. It is recommended that in
stitutions of higher education pro
vide more adequate teacher train
ing programs in relation to family
life and sex education.
5. It is recommended that more
parent education programs be
provided throughout the state
with respect to family life, child
rearing and sex.
6. It is recommended that re
gional and local conferences and
workshops promote more under
standing and acceptance of the
basic tenets reflected by this re
port on the part of communities
and school administrations.
7. It is recommended that com
munities be led to recognize the
need for better law enforcement,
especially in connection with the
rising rate of VD among teen-
agers.”
DERREL ROSE
Former Resident Taken by Death
Mrs. Maudie Lena Duncan,
2445 SE 76th Ave., a teacher in
Vernonia and the Portland area
for nearly a quarter of a century,
died Saturday at Mt. Tabor Con
valescent hospital. She had been
ill for several months.
Mrs. Ducan, 60, had been an
eighth grade teacher at Powell
Valley school for the past 12
years. A well-known outdoor en
thusiast, she was also active
throughout her career in PTA
work.
She was a member of Rose City
Park Methodist church.
Mrs. Duncan was born in
Portland February 28, 1900. She
lived in Vernonia 35 years and
returned to Portland in 1941.
Funeral was at 1 p.m. Monday
at the Ross Hollywood Chapel.
She is survived by the widow
er, Ross W. Duncan; a son, Ross
W. Duncan Jr., Portland; a daugh
ter, Mrs. William Shea, San Fran
cisco; her mother, Mrs. Hettie F.
Raber, Portland; four sisters, Mrs.
Gladys Moritz and Mrs. Frances
Dorney, Portland; Mrs. Elma
Spencer, Seattle and Mrs. Thelma
Jackson, New York, and seven
grandchildren.
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ship between teenage pregnancies
and shotgun marriages.)
3. There is an increase in the
rate of teenage marriages. Be
tween 1950 and 1958 these mar
riages in Oregon increased by
one-third. The proportion of
teenage brides increased from
about 38 per cent of all brides in
1950 to 43 per cent in 1957.
4. There is an increase in the
birth rates for teenage mothers
From 1950 to 1957 the crude birth
rate dropped from 23.7 to 21.8
per 1,000. Within the same period,
births to girls in the 15-19 age
group increased from 92.9 per
1,000 to 116.4, a percentage gain
of 25.3.
The committee notes that good
families tend to reproduce them
selves as children from them are
married and in turn establish
their own homes.
“Unfortunately,” the report
adds, “the same may be said of
‘bad families. They tend to re
produce themselves in successive
generations.”
The report points out that the
“goodness” or “badness” of fami-
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