European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Who inspects cafes Gas pumps my first question is in reference to cafes Gas pumps. When i was in the states All Gas pumps were inspected at least annually by someone in the site or a Federal government. They put an inspection sticker on the pump for the consumer to see. The reason i ask i recently filled up my car that has a 60-liter tank with 61 liners. It still had a 1/8 of a tank. The next question i understand advertising on arts is not allowed. Why is cafes allowed to advertise and a not a Uberman store for example also Why is cafes allowed to Send mail through the Apo without Stamps i though that this was for soldiers and official mail Only. Cafes is a commercial establishment and has a profit. Margin system. ,. Staff sgt. Dale l. Peet Pir Masens Germany in master sgt. Dayton p. Strickland customer relations he cafes Europe replies a the inspections conducted in the states or state government officials Are not required in Germany. Cafes Europe filling station manaois however Are required to make a Complete inspection of All dispensing equipment and storage tanks to ensure there Are no leaks. They Are also required to Check All fuel dispensers to determine if they re within the allowable tolerance. If not the dispensers must be shut Down until it s re. Calibrated. In addition dispensers Are checked anytime there s an indication of an inventory variance or customer comment. V. So if you think there s a problem Contact the manager of the filling station in question so appropriate action can be for your second question cafes is a military organization. We Are not a commercial establishment. Our profits or earnings. Go toward capital improvements rear 4 new and into the coffers of your local morale welfare and recreation fun to write us readers action line is the readers court of last resort Quot striving to answer some of the questions about life overseas in a military environment or. Questions about policies and guidelines Wetyen other. Avenues for answers Are not readily available if you have a question and Don t know where to turn for the answer write to readers action line cd the stars and stripes Apo 09211-4211. All letters must be. Signed and preference will be Given to those seeking information of general interest to our and children Long lasting scar by Paul Taylor a Washington Post a when Cathy Hicks of Crystal Lake iii., was Drifting toward her third divorce last year she kept telling herself it would be Best for the kids. Quot in be always thought that if parents can t bring a child up in a Happy Home everyone. Is better off if there s a divorce Quot Saiq Hicks 40, who has a 19-year-old daughter by her first husband and 12-year-old son by her second. A a until recently she would t have gotten a Futch argument in the United states from Piepho Logiste sociologists marriage councillors family scholars. America has always been the most divorce prone society in the world and As rates started to soar in the mid-1960s, a Good Deal of elite opinion focused More on the expansion in Freedom for adults than on the possible harm to children of broken marriages. Quot i think we were All real naive for a while in thinking that divorce have a serious Impact on kids Quot said Anna Beth Benningfield president elect of the. American association for marriage and family therapy Zamft which has been debating whether Counselor should bring a More anti divorce Bias to therapy a but i d say the Bloom is off the the second look has been triggered by new studies that show that the harmful effects of divorce on children Are longer jailing than once had been thought _ children of divorce perform less Well in school have More behavioural and psychological problems and a greater tendency once they become adults to divorce than children reared by both biological parents. ,. To be sure Domestic violence and other problems of High conflict marriages Are damaging to children and even experts intent on. Saving marriages acknowledge that divorce is sometimes the Best alternative Quot we want to be. Careful not to say that every child who has been through a divorce will be starred for life. ,. Or that every child raised in a traditional two Parent family will turn out said i Chola Szill executive director of child trends inc., a Washngton based firm that does research on children a issues. A Quot but if you looked at the kind of Long. Term risk factors that divorce creates for kids and translated them to say heart v disease people would be started Quot he. Said. A a. ,. A a a a Quot for years experts said once the initial trauma wears off kids make adjustments Well so do people in prisons and mental institutions a said John Guidubaldi a. Psychology professor at Kent state University and past president of the National association of school psychologists. A Quot the pertinent question is Are those a adjustments healthy the weight of the evidence has become overwhelming on a the Side that they Aren Guidubaldi argues that Laws and mores have gone too far in sanctioning no fault no guilt divorce. Quot people simply Arentt putting enough Effort into saving their marriages Quot he said. Quot i think the old. Argument of staying together for the Sake of the kids is still the Best such views Are still controversial. But in the past few years a rally round marriage movement has begun to stir among psychologists who worry about the Impact. Of divorce on children Legal scholars who argue that a children first policy should be written into divorce Law and marriage a Counselor who have come to believe that. Divorce is a cure worse than the disease. One sign of the times was the the title of. The keynote address at the annual. Meet tag of the 17,000 member Mamet last fall i m passionate about saving marriages Quot said Michele Weiner Davis a Woodstock iii., family therapist who i delivered the address. Her modes. Operand she explained is to Quot concentrate on what works in a couple s marriage rather than on what does when Cathy and Jerry Hicks came in to see her last fall Weiner Davis instructed them to draw up a list of the things they did together that made them happiest then rearrange their daily routines so they did Quot quoth Pic it to a people simply Arentt putting enough Effort into saving their marriages a says psychology professor John Guidubaldi. A i think the old argument of staying together for the Sake of the kids is still the Best not those things As often As possible. She told them to negotiate a specific number of. Hours each weekend that Jerry would do. Housework which i had been a source of. Friction. A and she suggested that if Cathy Felt she needed to ask questions about past. Conflicts that had led to her to Brink of divorce such conversations should havea a strict half hour time limit. Quot a lot of her Homework exercises seemed sort , but it turned out to be. Exactly what we needed Quot said Jerry an executive with a telecommunications company. Quot i feel More committed to our. Marriage than i Ever have Quot said Cathy. Quot not All cases have such Happy endings nor is there any guarantee that there Arentt rough patches ahead for the Hicks. But Weiner Davis is convinced that Counselor can a and should a make a difference in keeping marriages . This is causing conflict within the. American therapeutic Community. Classical clinical training teaches Counselor to be Bias free to help clients do whatever seems most appropriate Given their. Particular circumstances. Quot the trouble with therapists trying to impose their values on clients is that it s the clients who have to live with the a consequences Quot noted Benningfield the Zamft president elect. Some speculate that the research on the Long term consequences of divorce has led to social learning. Quot in be had family / therapists All Over the country Tell me they have couples coming in for counselling with my Book tucked under their Arm and a look a of concern on their faces Quot said Judith s. Wallerstein whose Best Selling 1989 Book. Second. Chances men women and children a decade after divorce popularized the alarmist View of the Impact. Of divorce on children. Among other findings the study by Wallerstein and Sandra Blakeslee of 60 Middle class divorced families in Marin county calif., showed that while boys Are Apt to experience the greatest trauma at a the time of divorce and suffer most from the father absence that typically follows divorce girls Are More prone to a Quot Sleeper effect Quot that makes it difficult for them to establish stable male female relationships once they become adults. It age 16 a the stars and stripes wednesday february 20,1991 a a
