European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 1685 the stars and stripes Page 17 modern living suppl we it to a photo activist Geraldine Jensen the terror of Ohio g by sue Cross associated press Eraldine Jensen of who is less than 5 feet tall in her stocking Doest look but when she gets on the subject of child her voice sounds like it could Knock Down Brick her attacks on the bureaucracy and determination to squeeze answers out of dry legalese have made her the terror of Ohio courtrooms and attracted nearly 100 new members a month ago advocates for children for enforcement of the 32yearold Mother of two had in her pocket and a Pound of hamburger in her refrigerator As she tells a prosecutor said he could do nothing to collect More than in overdue child support from her a husband in if she wanted her he she should get a Bunch of women together and do something about she she took part of the in March 1984 and advertised for other women in the same by mid May there were aces chapters in three countries by the end of june there were almost 200 23 aces chapters plan to bring together 900 to members at meetings throughout Jensen appears frequently on radio and television talk trains county coordinators and oversees aces education programs on the rights and responsibilities of separated she also directs its support groups for parents who Arent getting child support and circulates Legal advice provided by the the Toledo based advocates for Basic Legal Erm Bombeck his week Marks the 20th year this column has been in during that time marriage has gone out and come Back in technology has invaded our cars and women have staged a major the wizard of of has been shown 27 i still have the same cookie thumbing through two decades of i cannot help but note the demise of trends that were a part of our lives but Are no somewhere along the line they became obsolete and we got tired of kicking them into the next year like a piece of heavy Luggage at the in one of the last Girdle factories in Amer Ica shut Down and no one it was to give new meaning to the phrase of the let it All hang the last joke was reported in you know what mixed emotion its watch ing your Mother inlaw go Over a Cliff in your new and not a moment too i might a 200yeartradition ended in when women refused to dance backward As one woman if god had meant for us to dance he would never have invented the open toed in three fourths of All the children in the coun try sent mothers Day cards to Sara within an announcement was made that kitchens had become obsolete and would never be the same mothers had to decide whether to eat out or have a child prop their Mouths open with a Fork and yell into three malted and three whammy burgers to go Plain Ordinary mice that used to hang out under the sink became an endangered they All became research rats and were plied with Cigar birth control too much snack food and loud most of them never wanted to go Back under the sink she sees aces role As a guide through such agencies As bureaus of county prosecutors the Ohio human services juvenile or Domestic relations courts and court Jensen quit her Job in january As a licensed practical nurse and nursing Home administrator and works for aces although she is yet to be she spends several Days a week travelling to boost new attend meetings in Columbus with state officials and sessions of the Ohio commission on child to which she was appointed by Richard she considers the appointment aces biggest Victory so in a Grant from the Campaign for human a National organization affiliated with the Catholic and a contract with the state to help pub Lize child support have been added to the voluntary aces dues collected from most the Money pays for a three room office in the downtown Owca that replaced Jensens Kitchen table the name Gerri Jensen causes judges in the Lucas county courthouse to i can Tell you that from talking with other there not impressed with their aces says judge june Rose Galvin of Lucas county Domestic relations the target of aces picketing outside her they walk into court and Start telling judges How they want things and i think for most that a aces members Are encouraged to ask Why when officials Tell them their cases have been and to demand Jenson credits her stance As a court pest with the solution in less than two months of a support Case she had sought to resolve Over several she says it want like her Case was but that until she made herself known it was just one of thousands of backlogged cases handled by understaffed government Williard a county welfare supervisor who pursues such says there is a backlog of cases like Jensen says she was pestering officials who could do nothing about her Case because she didst know who was responsible for paperwork needed to collect Money from her i found out that since june 78 i had been talking to the wrong she she Hopes to educate other single parents on the com plex Steps a support order can take through numerous collecting Money from absent parents in other states is More difficult because of Lack of uniformity be tween state agencies and difficulties enforcing support orders across state aces Hopes to found chapters for it is targeting Ohio for statewide changes in the child sup port Jensen Points to a Federal published in the 1984 Federal that rates Only two states below Ohio in the Success of child support collection and says Shes determined to Force improvements in the Galvin May be aces Best they have to be effective by getting on state commissions and demanding that child support payments be treated like that there taken out to begin Galvin until All youre doing is putting the court in a no win Jensen says improvements Are More Likely to be made in correlation to How loud aces members can complain about bureaucratic to a judges agree with Treyve done one Galvin Treyve made our Job Ever time there on the it makes it easier to collect child support because people know there is no available men began to disappear in at one time the ratio of eligible mates to single women was to and he didst even know his childhood was a casualty of the late 70s and like the a child was expected to hit the ground running to the child of the 80s is fingerprinted at age works a microwave at 3 and has his own door key at within the last several grandmothers have joined the endangered species who May not be Able to feed themselves by the time they Are Given grandchildren to what does 1985 hold this just came Over my a woman set up her ironing Board and was about to plug in the Iron when a visiting 5yearold when you turn that thing on could you turn it Down Low so i can still hear the cartoons add ironing to the list of things facing and try to control your c ant Ltd Syndicate