European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 19, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and stripes july Modem living the military and the Wyleah Lankin staff writer they used tit be called unwed in Many they Lull into the category of single they Are not divorced or they never had a Seine do not particularly want sometimes the children they or plan to have Are not not the end product of a night of passion in the Back seat of a car or a Motel these Are women who Are Content to be mothers with out being its not a massive but Marc women look around and see their friends trapped in marriages that Are anything but they who Needa 11 vet they do want in recent years military policies toward pregnant women have now pregnant women in the serv ice Are permitted to continue military regardless of their marital 1 Admire women who dont need in go through marriage to ban said Laura social worker with Ibe Frankfurt dependent i think us marvelous that there tag for thence Loci what they want u do and Mcfall in into the traditional of not falling into the traditional Mold int psychiatrists and unmarried mothers attest its just nut thai said Elliot a psychiatrist at the army Hospital in our value system says you do not have children unless you Are a single woman May be Well equipped to handle a but she May not realize the discrimination a Counselor with a Community drug and alcohol assistance Center in Germany said Many single women who have children do so for the wrong Oljey see the baby As someone who will stay with them and meet heir emotional its As if  have their own Barbie but i you have a child to meet your you will be bitterly youve got to meet its needs m hours a whatever uie unmarried women who opt for children know it will be a rough but they think they can manage on their i dont want to get said a shortly alter giving with to a All names have been altered la this Fli too much of a i look at every aes tile and messed 1 fee Girt friends get married and they they dont have any Lua 1 am Ute i be Gata lot of living la do Jeff Wool in single and an army has Emon Thold i knew when i was pregnant i  gel now i realize j dont need a were doing Good without babies bring big changes to parents but the changes May be More dramatic when the new Mother is alone with her without the support and help at the single women who have children discussed some of the Julie was surprised at the when you Are pregnant and everyone gives you strange she when i would go to the they kept ing me i kept its i am not i went to get a with the woman at the personnel Center said very it that your illegitimate cmdr Pat said there was pressure put upon her by during her pregnancy my Captain believe you could be 8 Soldier and a Mother at the same the Captain and urged her to give up the child for she now that she has the there seems to be Little understanding or she she moved off so to her Job now involves a Long Watt and a bus she carries the baby with taking the child to a Sitter on base while she she in Given night although her superiors know the transportation not to mention the baby Sitter Are rough on an ii to j pal cart Dued vat her  her Job a cd to be Tot teels extra pres Van to perform its As ii ugh win Una eager to nod mistakes or look Tor ways to nuke thing def Luck for Ibe i have to be 1 cant afford to Mouth off like i used now t have to put up with now i kiss ass to stay in the 1 have to keep Clear to care for my an army unit commander who was familiar with pats As Well As those of other unmarried military believes Many of Ibe problems Are related to prejudice on the part of As ii they think the Young lady has committed a Cardinal being unmarried and Shes not the kind of woman they want so they try to encourage her to gel out of the not All supervisors adopt toll unlike Julie encountered no problems with her in they have been helpful they am pretty under they give Roe time off to take the baby i the v her supervisor talk the is doing a fantastic he feed she handles the problem of being Tingle with a clump she continues la do her Job lust As a working mar ried woman i cant see that her being single makes any Pat found it want just Job supervisors who were eager to find fault with her Cru can seemed to come from most just once she took the baby to a club with her for her daughter fell asleep so she decided to stay a bit people kept coming up and telling me the dub is no place for a yet you always see married couples there babies and no one says they we always trying to Tell me How to raise my then theres the the demands a child makes on a being 21 and single and free ii you can go out every night Aad dance and you can late weekend when not you do what you a child changes Alt i know what Roy we was said liked it 1 bad no now Jeff depends me for bit i Cali have my Freedom and if i bad to cd take Pat said she used to party All the now 1 hardly feel like going i could get but t Reg time not spent with t get jealous when 1 1 laughing arid playing with Many of these feelings might be common Amor Young married but one thing they have t single woman does not is a Man to help support the an the financial Setnan stoutly of nosing a child i s heavy particularly for voting military women a 10yearold is not married Ai months she wants to get out of the Aeryk her child is she has no particular Job is certain she can find some kind of i have though Money saved to lost in a Yeai half if originally it was intended for pals Money and plans for College were redirect the birth of her so were her spending Hab i used to spend a lot of Roomy on s i Lite wearing the latest Nowalt i thl saving i want the baby to have he things Herto havea stable yet another problem it Man ready to accept the tact thud their daughter to nut and not much Tew that she to unfit and keep Ibe pals parents wrote and told her to get on abort see a psychiatrist when they Learned she was sex if she planned to have the they wanted no Contact with they her child is now six old and she has never heard from her it Betty Hast told her parents that she Wilt Navi in the its a big i expect there will she admitted because it is b big step that Bucks tradition valves a big share of the single won gets pregnant and keeps her child is relatively ran Many Are like who recently mob up i for the army ii no place to raise she in not ready to handle a id her Altitude about the future and children i Bly not 1 really want a Little fun do u when pm of the and Shell Doit we lab she dont want two of 1 dont want to get married until pm would have no qualms about a ving Achild on Tny with or Wilbut Ibe feelings j 1 Over Hal Job lad said holding her infant when he was just 1 cant believe Hes sometimes 1 Jua u t sl8rts w if i am babysitting for someone else we what Hett be like when Hes the fact that Julie and Pat and Mary and of them Are not afraid or ashamed to be unmarried has to be related to the women liberation m it s just one of the numerous changes women Equality has brought to How Sieni Tea Zeeb that is opine t whet of Ufa you can there Are i Nile parents who can afford r bring kids