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Lite Out There
and immediately requested
Morals
is imperative we seek out and
1 am a researcher in physics
that he have a glance at it. He
Your magazine is one of the implement new solutions to
and have been a subscriber to
confessed that it was the most
most informative and
custody determination that
The Plain Truth
for the past
interesting magazine he had
intelligently written today. As
will not take the toll on
four years. Though 1 do not
ever read, but that for quite
a staunch Roman Catholic
children's lives, now occurring!
subscribe to a personal God,
sorne time now he has not
there are sorne things 1 cannot
Joint custody certainly has all
or your Bible-oriented articles,
been getting his copies. Just
agree with, but your morals
the element of a humane
1 have found sorne of your
before he finished his
are high and we need that
approach to this problem that
material to be objective and
statement, two other
today more than ever.
is supported by numerous
insightful.
colleagues of his joined him
A.
La
Fontaine
research studies showing its
1 must register my strong
and testified how the reading
Toronto, Ontar io
positive effect on children.
objection, however, to the
of the magazine has influenced
Author Dan Taylor should
recent article "Yes, There is
their lives. 1 was so thrilled
Smoking
also be commended for
Life Out There." The piece is
that 1 forgot to lay to the
Your article on smoking
attempting to give a balanced
police the complaint that took
presentation to the problem of
misleading, apart from being
me there.
stood out in a recent issue. 1
child-support, but the solution
the most arrogant,
May
J
on behalf of my
was a former smoker myself,
we're suggesting encom(.JSses
anthropocentric and provincial
police friends, humbly request
but 1 quit three years ago. 1
more than enforcement of
article 1 have seen in your
that you send sorne copies of
quit "cold turkey" and haven't
visitation. The studies of joint
magazine.
The Plain Truth
to the
lighted any of those "ugly and
custodia! families show
As far as your author is
address below.
obnoxious" sticks since. One
emphatically that children
concerned, the whole matter
Okey lgwe Cbukwu
factor that helped me most is
within this custody
begins and ends wíth the
Port Harcourt, Nigeria
God's guiding hand. l also
arrangement are financíally
Bible, a view both myopic and
made it a point not to sít
taken care of. The reason so
naive. lt is acknowledged that
Nuclear War
beside or group with smokers,
many fathers flee and hide ís
the Bible
is
a source of
J
really admired the recent
sínce 1 believe it's best to stay
that it is too painful to see
spíritual inspiration for
article on nuclear war. It is
away from temptation. 1 know
one's flesh and blood only
millions, but ít ís clearly not
really true that parents avoid
just one puff of that "weed"
intermittently and then very
an adequate standard for a
informing their children
will ignite the spark again of
often only at the whim of the
scientific method of objective
regarding nuclear war.
my cigarette dependency.
custodia! mother. The very
and rational enquiry.
When 1 was in elementary
Veronica
De
La Rea
one the ex-husband is at war
In the final analysis, ít will
school, 1 heard from my
Cavite, Philippines
with-the ex-wife-is the one
be empírica! science which
parents that ít would disturb
who controls when the
provides the answers to the
my study lo know too much
Children of Divorce
children are "available"!
lt
questions it asks, not any
about nuclear war.
Thank you! Thank you! For
doesn't make sense that the
book. This applies no less to
This article gives a lesson
your article focusing on
continuation of a parent's
the question of whether there
for parents.
children of dívorce- the group contact with his child is
exist other life forms in the
Marilyn B. Forio
probably most forgotten in our dependent upon a hostile
universe, apart from Horno
Bureau of the Treasury
culture's manía to accept
party. In a recent psychiatric
Sapiens.
Zamboanga City
divorce as a means to solve
profile of divorced fathers by
Phili p A. Stabl
Philippines
parents' problems, but creating Dr. John Jacobs , it too was
St. Michael, Bar bados
1 was reading an article
a host of new problems for
shown that this denied
about nuclear war in one of
our children.
visitation, along with the
New Subscribe rs
your magazines, and 1 don't
1 must commend author
intermíttent contact and the
1 wish to convey to you the
understand why man wants to
Dan Taylor on his cited
secondary status of father or
demand for the
Plain Truth
kili others like himself.
resource material, i.e.
parents, was just too much to
magazine by sorne uniformed
Jt makes me scared to think
Wallerstein and Kelly. That
take-they flee!
men in the Nigerian Police
that a nuclear war could
dramatically shows that the
Jobn A. Rossler
Force.
happen, especially when you
one clear factor that
North Syracuse, New York
One níght, 1 had a minor
think about what our future
ameliorates the trauma
complaint to make to the
children will have to face
children suffer is the
police, and as usual, 1 took
wben they are old enough to
continued involvement of
both
EDITOR' S NOTE
along with me a copy of
The
understand things and may
parents after divorce. In the
Tire plrotograplr on page 4 ofThe
Plain Truth
to read at the
have to fight in the war.
J
light that social researchers
Plain Truth
(November-Decem-
station while 1 waited to be
don't want to see that happen.
are pessimistic of the
ber) erroneously designated tire
attended. But just as soon as l
1 am only 12 years old, but 1
abatement of divorce, and that
person on tire riglrt as U.S. spe-
got at the police station's
still care.
our culture has turned to a
cial envoy Richard Stone ratlrer
reception desk, a sergeant saw
Sally Cardinal
bias and preference for sole
tiran President Belisario Betan-
The Plain Truth
in my hand
Fort McMurray, Alber ta
maternal custody in divorce, it
cur of Colombia.
March 1984
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