European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 european edition col Steven 3. Hoffman Usan. Commander publisher 1 Bernard a. Zovistoski a Edilow a news and editorial Deborah Absher nows editor Pill Walker european editor Bob Wicker sports editor George Manes City editor to write us unit 29400 Apoate 09211 or. Postrach 11 14 37. 64270 Darmstadt Germany news Tel fax 06i 55-601416 to Call us dial 06155-601 plus Extension or Dan 348-8 plus Extension As follows news ext. 237,255, 282, 226,326. Sports ext. 225, 269,263,332,321,221 features ext. 230, 245, 341. Letters to editor ext 208. Education Jimi Jones. Ext. 226. Business news ext. 326. News bureaus Heidelberg Germany Joseph Owen room 117, re Norstr 104, 69126 Heidelberg car 419. Box 1318, Apo a 09102 Telephone Dan 370-7010 or civilian 06221-23421 to Lomax 06221-27239. 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To Rapuan command Tho appearance of advertising a this publication including Insoft or supplements do to not constitute Enofio men by the department of Tulensa or the stars and stapes of the products or services advertised. Confusion reigns i read in the paper about the communities Here in Wurzburg and Kitzinger Germany starting a Tough policy on kids to get them to behave what about the Community itself a we live in Kitzing Cne a Marshall. Heights and where we live we have a building coordinator who said at a building meeting that kids can sit in the stairwell and talk. Then we have a stairwell coordinator who yells and uses foul language with the kids when they Are sitting in the stairwell or even when they ate  by the front door which is closed and locked at the time instead of going to the sponsor As he is supposed to do. A in be tried for Over a year making different complaints in writing about vandalism and other things happening in the building but nothing was done by going through the Chain of command As you Are supposed to do i think before the Community a building coordinator stairwell coordinator and even the upper Chain of command in the Community Start blaming All the problems in the housing areas on the kids they better Start getting their act cleaned up and in order first. No matter what anyone a rank is everyone deserves a Little respect. A Melody Kulm Kun Zingen Germany so amp maw iwo ulant a Van tvs to test  amp . This Mola  cu6ufs0a�awpf alb the jokes have been Compie Abiy unfair. / it i c editors note we encourage our readers a especially those who have never submitted a letter a to write to us. Letters expressing readers viewpoints or opinions Are published Dally on this Page. All letters must be signed and include address and Telephone number. Preference is Given to Shorter letters so that More can be published in a timely manner. We Reserve the right to edit letters for clarity length and taste. Send to letters to the editor the stars and stripes unit 29480, Apo a 09211. Or fax 06155-601463, Dan 348-8463, Good for morale my husband and i walk our dog every night and we have noticed that the Public Parks schools and other areas Are being neglected. This looks pretty bad. If they have been mowed it needs to be kept up. Why can t contractors be hired to do the areas that Are being neglected with everyone feeling the effects of draw Down if the housing areas look Nice maybe we wont feel so hard hit. Other people travel through the housing areas so what is this showing them about us . Clar Wiesbaden Germany. Commentary a in by Martha Burk fathers Day is usually marked with greeting cards and neckties but this year president Clinton a blueprint to Quot end welfare As we know it adds a sour note to the Celebration of fatherhood. His plan includes cracking Down on parents who Are delinquent in child support a the so called Deadbeat dads. But while nonpayment of child support by men is undeniably a serious problem it is time to think about How the courts and society a prejudice against men As caretakers hurts fathers Mother and children. No enlightened person today could endorse the paternal ownership of wife and children that was the foundation of family Law in the 19th Century but our cultural norms have swung to the equally untenable Polar opposite a maternal ownership of children Quot do right dads do not get enough recognition from society or the courts sometimes even turning them into dropout fathers who give up on the system. Even if All parties in a divorce Case acknowledge that the father can provide a More secure financial and emotional environment the father will Seldom get custody of the children unless the Mother is shown to be criminally negligent or abusive. Lazy judges make Little Effort to arrange visitation for fathers often handing out boiler plate photocopies of generic visitation arrangements and punitive support awards regardless of the merits of each Case. The judicial system is also notoriously sexist in punishing violations of court ordered child support and visitation. Fathers who More 44 memories the 1st and 29th divisions took the Brunt of the casualties on the 6th of june 1944. We All could not have hit the beaches on that Day. Lets give some credit to the  Pic who came afterwards. I thank god i Wasny sent in on june 6th. While standing in the front Row of the Landing Craft with two other platoon scr Grants a private from new York tried to strangle a platoon sergeant from Idaho. It took three of us to pull him off i told him to save his Energy for the enemy. Troops react in different ways under stress. Done to forget the truck Drivers who drove their vehicles through hostile fire to Supply and feed the soldiers. While moving our platoon through Saint Louis we passed a fuel truck where the Driver was trapped in the cab burning alive. He begged me to shoot him As we  get him out and he was suffering. My platoon Leader lieutenant told me to keep them moving. One of the members of our Rifle company claimed to be an atheist. He ridiculed my Catholic Faith. He became a casualty Early after the Omaha Beach Landing. When the medics told him there was not much More they could do for him he started Quot Yelling for the chaplain. How True a there Are no atheists in  a William j. Sheehan Wiesbaden Germany cases withhold support Are routinely jailed and publicly excoriated by having their pictures published on Quot wanted posters. Mothers who routinely violate court ordered visitation rights generally go unpunished. Mothers cannot Only deny visitation without fear of punishment they can also flout the moral and Legal contract to spend child support Money on children. Some treat the payments As a personal allowance forcing dad to pick up the Tab for shoes clothing school supplies and other items that their child support payments should have covered. And the courts look the other Way. Congress May even make it a felony to Cross state lines to avoid paying child support. Yet mothers can move children across the country a effectively denying the father any Access a without consulting a judge or even letting the father know ahead of time. Frustration by responsible fathers has spawned organizations All Over the country although they done to quite seem to know what to do with their anger. For the past three years they have picketed  organization for women conventions even though now while championing the legitimate concerns of single mothers has not been in the forefront of bashing fathers. The feminist movement is appropriately about equal rights for women but feminists should embrace dependable fathers and become their allies. Attempts to get men to take More responsibility for children Are at the Core of the struggle for social and economic Equality. That Effort requires supporting Good fathers. Whenever feminists blindly defend mothers rights in divorce and custody cases they perpetuate the stereotype of a Mother As caretaker a father As provider that the women s movement has fought so hard to erase in two Parent families. This insistence reinforces the economic second class citizenship of women and marginalizes men As incapable caretakers. It also helps consign children to poverty or near poverty when single mothers Are working in lower paying jobs without adequate child care or medical benefits. Care of children by fathers must be legitimized with custody hearings becoming More than automatic affirmations of maternal ownership. Since men however unfairly usually have greater earning Power and better Access to Good jobs Quot the Burden of single Parent child rearing would not impose the same economic hardship on them that it places on w Omen. Economics should not be the sole determinant of custody but deserving fathers should be Given equal Access to the Joys and struggles of parenting allowing mothers to get ahead and improve their own lives without sacrificing the Well being of the children a As a society we cannot attack men for abandoning obligations to their children without also recognizing that both our court system and our culture contribute to that outcome for Loo Many divorced families. Responsible feminists must acknowledge that occasionally the discriminatory shoe is on the Many a foot. Martha Burk is a politic a psychologist and co founder and Prasi Dant of one Center Tor advancement of Public policy in Washington  c Scripps Howard news service you be Hap a lot ofa1bpia exposure sir. 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