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Problems With Regard To Family-Life (Translated from the article by F. Liubinetzka) Looking back at almost 30 years of dispersment of Ukrainians throughout the world, we see how much they accomplished in building churches, youth camps, sporting grounds, buildings for scientific purposes, for women’s organizations, etc. All these have been done with hands of immigrants who arrived from the time of a hundred years ago to the time after World War II. We see among them old people, younger ones and quite a few of young ones. Let us look at ’’the temple of Ukrainian family”. This is well formed on the outside, but somehow it is not filled on the inside with children using the Ukrainian language. We read in a church bulletin that in 1976, 35 couples were wed, but among them only 13 Ukrainian ones. These are first objections about the ’’temple of Ukrainian family” which becomes more and more deserted. A young woman , professionally occupied, tells us how she enjoys a new house bought in an English section, forgetting that there is also a new Ukrainian location with a Ukrainian church and school. People living farther from Ukrainian centers find it more and more difficult to send children toUkrainian courses, they speak English at home in order to be like their neighbors and youngsters know less and less about their roots and mother-tongue. A young man who completed his studies moves over to another town for his new job; his girl-friend, who ran away from home, goes with him and they live Lieutenant Commander Kathleen Byerly, who was honored last year as one of Time magazine's 12 Women of the Year, has become one of the new plaintiffs in the case. Despite her im pressive accomplishments, the first woman ever to serve as flag secretary and aide to an admiral has found that 6015 rules out most top command level positions open to men with her training and credentials. Another new plaintiff, Lieutenant Su zanne Rhiddlehover, who serves as a legal officer, has also dis covered that the prohibiton on sea duty hampers her career possibilities. She cannot effectively compete for promotions and challenging jobs with men who have sea tour experience. According to Pentagon sources, the lawsuit has spurred Navy Secretary W. Graham Clayton, Jr., to approve a modification in the statutory prohibitions. The proposed law "would permit assignment of women to temporary duty on vessels not engaged in combat missions, and to permanent duty on vessels similar to hospital ships and transports which would not be expected to be assigned combat missions.” Women’s Rights Project staff attorney Jill Laurie Goodman called the proposed change minor. "All it does is permit the Navy, if it chooses, to assign women to some ships some of the time. That's not enought.” Six out of every ten teenage girls have started smoking — even if only one or two cigarettes a week — by the time they are thirteen. Despite heavy anti-smoking campaigns, a half-million more girls are smoking today than were in 1969. In view of these statistics, the facts disclosed by a research together, married or not. The young man is reluctant to marry, it being a big responsibility and financial burden. The young woman sees motherhood as a limitation of her self-expression, dependence from husband and financial drag. Those are the reasons of divorces, which are becoming more and more frequent. Middle-age parents both go to work, children go to school. They eat mostly outside the home, but not at the same time. Parents and children meet in the evening or not, they spend their weekends separately and home becomes a sleeping place. Everone has to work, but is there a reason to disregard all family ties, to turn the sacred home into a place to spend the nights in? Many will say, so it is nowdays, in this world of ours. Considering those facts, from every-day life emerge problems of confrontation of family-life with develop ment of industrial materialism. Prof. G. Bronfen- brenner* researcher on development of family-life in the U.S.A., finds that the biggest blow comes from the fact that women succeeded to enter the fields of economy, science, politics, fields which up to now were in the hands of men. Yet the world is changing and with it grows the percentage of divorces, and decreases the number of family units. Prof. J. Huber,** sociologist, predicts that monogamist marriages will continue to exist, but who knowns what marriage will look like in the years to come? Let us seriously consider what will happen to the future of Ukrainian family life. *U. S. News and World Report June 1976 **U. S. News and World Report June 1976 study conducted by Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc., for the American Cancer Society are of interest to parents. It appears clear that cigarette fumes rising around a girl’s head are a kind of smoke signal indicating' problems of an emotional nature. The survey found that: — most girls believe smoking to be dangerous and even as addictive as illegal drugs, yet they smoke; — girls who smoke are more likely to defy authority in any form; — one out of every four teen-girl smokers hasrun away from home, as compared to one out of ten nonsmokers; — girls who smoke tend to be poorer students, averaging C or D grades, while nonsmokers tend to be A or В students; — the number of smokers expelled from school is seven times higher than it is for nonsmokers; — nonsmokers tend to be teenage girls who feel strongly about being in control of their lives. Most school-age youths — one out of two — have attended some kind of anti-smokibg program. While the majority find these programs meaningful, the problem seems to be one of timing. By the 9th and 10th grades, when such classes are offered, most smokers have begun smoking. In as much as the smoking problem begins in the 6th through 7th grades and includes an attitude of "hating school”, the anti-smoking programs are a case of too little, too late. 28 НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ, ТРАВЕНЬ 1977 Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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