European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 1, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February the stars and stripes Page 19 modern living by Lacey Fosburgh new York limes baby May eat a sleep a be noisy or quiet or but for its Mother and they Are new its Mere presence leads to confusion and and doubt and the baby will make them fight and argue and even revert temporarily at to More rigid and traditional male female the baby will also make them feel All kinds of wonder fulfilling but the key finding of a University of California study at Berkeley is hat the time of the arrive of a firstborn child constitutes major and often insurmountable trauma for its to an intensive study of the ongoing development of 14 so called Normal couples in the 16month period before and after the birth of their a team of psychologists at Berkeley have come up with a Battery of insights and some conclusions about the und of emotional turmoil new parents should expect to far Tram being Ike information actually be Raa Turing to couples who either had a child or Are they at have the Comfort of knowing that they Are going through much the same kind of turmoil As All new in what is believed to be the first such study of its the Berkeley project has concluded that All this trauma is natural and inevitable even for so called Happy according to the the question then is what happens to this disequilibrium and the the doctors Are for it to either become an instrument for growth and regeneration of the relationship or to Foster increased marital this is probably the most difficult transition period an adult will have to make in his whole said Philip associate professor of psychology and director of the psychology clinic at the University of Cali fornia at taking on the role of being a Parent and at Ine same time changing ones intimate Reulo Oshop with someone from being couple to being a three part family is All very  in psychological be pointed just How much so is suggested by recent divorce Statis in for the study Points three Mil lion babies were half of them to new to the same there were about one million i Cowan said that he and his team of experts had been amazed to find that no previous work had chronicled the natural psychological changes people go through around the time of a baby most have fallen into several Dis Tinct some have focused exclusively on the others have studied both but Only at some Point Long after the birth of the others have studied the almost pathological problems some new fathers but most have dealt with already Dis Turbed the couples selected for this All from the san Francisco Bay represented a Cross Section of educational and economic the part several of whom were not ranged in age the study was conducted by two married couples with five children Between they began the the report out of their own awareness of the difficulty of maintaining a thriving relationship while facing the pressures of bringing up children and establishing Ca Reers in an Era of rapidly changing views about appropriate roles for men and the team includes Cowans a psychiatric worker John former visiting professor of psychology at Berkeley and now director of the clinical psychology program at Duke and his an obstetrical their findings will appear in a forthcoming the first child and family to be published by the University of North Carolina the which was released recently la Berke concludes that the arrival of a baby precipitates severe change in its parents thai is often a negative at least i also forces each Parent to confront Bis own i version of what a Parent should this invariably produces new and painful As if this was not difficult the two As a couple then have to juggle a whole new Battery of questions with regards to their work new demands on their communication and even neglect of each other As they make room for the in almost All cases the couple reverted after the birth to much More traditional with the regard less of whether she was employed or assuming greater care of the sex habits As the Mother at least a passive role and waited for the father to initiate sexual Cowan there was some indication the couples who Are the most old fashioned and have set ideas about their roles As new parents might have an easier time adjust future be should try to Analyse the specifically different patterns that do exist in various Cou everyone says you should be open and i personally believe he but i dont think that necessarily applies to All everyone deals with this period of change in their own he but from a scientific Point of the interesting thing is to determine exactly in that behaviour new research areas by Jane Brody new York times human sexual Long the subject of amateurish research tainted by preconceived notions and morality is today being scrutinized by an increasingly so  of they Are discovering that the Range of normality is far than most had Ever realized and Are gaining new of such aspects of human sexuality As the is of sexual the hormonal for sexual desire and the nature of female the effectiveness of different approach to and sexual functioning among the aged and with the exception of a few outstanding works no r masters and Johnson most of the sex re in this Century has been naive and poorly remarked Richard founding presi of the International Academy of sex research and Kossor of psychiatry and psychology at the state uni Wasity of new York at Stony in the last few the Field has attracted e and More Well trained researchers from a wide a i of disciplines who know How to apply the scientific no he pointed must a sex researcher be tenured and Well established in one held Kinsey acquired his reputation As a scientist by collecting wasps before he to sex Tore the secrets of human research is being done at most american universe and 95 percent of the studies of human sexuality Are Green at the same there More interdisciplinary for the of behavioural scientists Are being correlated with those of physiological chemists to produce a More cohesive picture of the nature of human sexual activity and what influences its this year the government will spend about million on research on including s5 million for studies of rape and Aid for rape million for sex re search in Man and and million to train sex re searchers and therapists to treat the in the the government supported studies of sex unusual sexual hormonal Cor relates of sexual sexuality among the among students and among rape and Public attitudes toward sex no research application is turned Down because it is too Auto Ufa there is a list of Nono including any project that uses surrogate sex partners or involves the researcher or therapist in sexual activity with us subjects or in Addi the government shies away from research involving Protection of human subjects is a chronic problem in All research observed Harold director of the Center for the study of sex education in Medicine and professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsyl Vania school of superimposed on this is the fact that sex research is an emotionally Laden area that May involve in invasion of but Lief has encountered surprisingly Little resistance from people asked to participate in sex generally these Days people Are pretty willing to talk about he noting that few who were asked to participate in his study of sexual functioning after age 50 had among the important new research areas Are the Fol lowing sexual development of preliminary results suggest that children raised by lesbian mothers do not develop atypical sexual interests As a Howe most of the children in the study Are still Young and All had lived for a time in Normal households with their mothers and studies of people with atypical sexual nearly All that was known about Homo sex for was derived from homosexuals seeking now detailed studies have been done of Normal homosexuals and heterosexuals outside of the therapeutic and no differences were found on established parameters of mental the Institute for sex research is expected to publish this year the first volume of its study of the living habits of homosexuals in the san Francisco also forthcoming Are the results of a 14year study by William masters and Virginia Johnson of sexual responses and treatment of sexual dysfunctions among changes in sexuality with age and the re suits of these which show that some form of sexual expression is possible for nearly Are being applied in been for exam that handicapped men and including those paralysed below the can still be aroused sexually and can experience mechanical aids and modified sexual techniques have been oped to help such people remain sexually diagnosis of studies in sleep laboratories have shown that Many men who seek therapy because of impotence continue to have erections during indicating that their impotency is of psychological rather than physiological while research techniques have decidedly Lief says there have been few conceptual we still dont have the double Helix of human he referring to the concept that revolutionized the understanding of