European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Child care Michael Rothenberg by Glenn Collins new York times he makes it Clear right away that he hates being called the new of Michael of understands Why some peo ple might want to Call him after he trained As a paediatrician and a just As Benjamin Spock Rothenberg is also an outspoken childrens advocate and an indefatigable peace and he will become the sole author of stocks classic baby and child but 1 am not the new Rothenberg stirring soldering logs in his living room fireplace to take the chill off a Dank puget sound he in still the same old he and in getting older by the maybe but if the 58yearold Rothenberg radiates one it is Boyish he loves he loves the idea of stepping up to a National he loves his new Young and he is exuberant about the literary Challenge awaiting that task is to guide the Fate of one of the bestselling books in publishing ensuring that it be kept medi Cally making sure that it continues to speak directly and simply to Rothenberg a professor of paediatrics and psychiatry at the univer sity of Washington school of he is on the staff of childrens orthopaedic Hospital and medical Center in perhaps the Best word for my role is he not unlike a living the Book must grow and develop or it will he since june 30 million copies have been printed in 38 this time the Book is titled stocks baby and child care and carries stocks byline Over together they have reworked More than half the 741page which had gone since 1976 without a major a hardcover edition is soon to be Rothenberg and i see Eyet Eye in virtually All wrote Spock in the new As 1 neared my 80th i realized this revision of baby and child care might be my last Chance to work closely with a successor and ensure a smooth who is now had considered nine people for the Job he has declined to reveal their names and when he chose the Seattle paediatrician it was As if god had called and was giving you an Opportunity to rewrite the Rothenberg he had seen Little of Spock since the As a 28year old paediatric resident in Cleveland at Western Reserve University school of As it was then Rothen Berg first met Spock in 1955 when he came there to Spock became his suggesting that the resident spend additional years training As a psychiatrist at the Al new York times photo Michael Rothenberg with Terren Bert Einstein College of Medicine in new Rothenberg became a Pioneer in the medical movement to treat children not As isolated Hospital patients but in the context of their families and comm much of his career has been spent caring for dying children and training Hospital staffs to be sensitive to their although subsequently Rothenberg encountered his Mentor at peace rallies after moving to Seattle in they had Only peripheral he a charter member of the committee for a sane nuclear policy and physicians for social respond Rothenberg said he was weaned on the bottle of social conscience by my Mother during the de pression while growing up in the Boston in those he said of his she Mig fat Best be described As a parlor Pink her radicalism was confined to our she was very intense about she was also frequently at theage of 5 i would Tell anyone who asked that i wanted to be a doctor so i could cure my Mother of her migraine he it was the kind of jewish family that believed that to respond to the needs of other people you didst just Send up a prayer you had to get mud on your Rothenberg during world War when he was rejected for army service due to a dislocated he became a combat ambulance Driver in Burma for the american Field it was without the he As a Harvard undergraduate after the he was he for helping Issue a report blasting the quota systems of Ivy league universities for discriminating against women anyone who want a after graduation in he was rejected by 19 medical schools primarily because of his he believes before finally being Rothenberg has been a and of tsp crusader for these Are bad times for children and he charging that the Reagan administration has Cut to ribbons the programs that help women and Chil Dren while favouring plans like the Star wars defense system he is not wont March 1985 work and will bankrupt our like he believes that the greatest single threat to children and families in the world today is the threat of nuclear his activism seems tame compared to that of who was convicted in 1968 for conspiracy to Aid and abet violation of the selective service a judgment that was overturned on the 18month collaboration that resulted in the books fourth major revision was carried out by letter and and was a wonderful private tutorial from Ben Rothenberg he smiled at his As she sat near the fireplace stroking Cocoa the and said that she played a critical role in his revision of the the 31yearold his wife of two is a freelance editor and the Rothenberge live in a modest but handsomely restored 77yearold House near the he has three sons Ages 26 and 19 from his first stocks first Jane Cheney charged in a 1976 new York times interview that her husband had not Given her proper credit for helping him with the in the revision that appeared that Spock added a full Page acknowledging her and that dedication appears in the new did Rothenberg sympathize with the first Spock i prefer not to be quoted because in a very private Rothenberg Rothenberg said that he is contractually bound to update the Book every six to eight years if i live Long enough to carry out the terms of the by the age of when i Bow ill have helped to train someone to carry the Book its not going to make me he commented on the arrangement that will Accord him what he said was a Small percent of stocks and what will happen when the Book comes out under his name no one Rothenberg he does not believe that the unique conjunction of stocks Book and the baby Boom parents of the 1940s and 1950s can be he i think i can carry the Book Forward the Way Ben 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