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Page 8 THE BATTALION MONDAY. SEPTEMBERS, 1980 Research trying to find, then help incest victims United Press International SAN DIEGO — Eight-year-old Tami tells in her child’s words how Daddy touched and kissed her and how he warned her not to tell M onnny. It went on for three years. Now she is undergoing therapy at a San Diego Child Sexual Abuse clinic. Tightly clasped hands expose nails bitten to the quick. She has dark streaks under the eyes. The lines on the young face represent the marks left by nights of staying awake on guard against the possible return to her room by her father for one more sexual assault. It is impossible to estimate the actual number of youngsters who, like Tami, are victims of their own parents and unable to find security AS ITAT'E o Prescriptions Filled Glasses Repaired 216 N. MAIN BRYAN 822-6105 Mon.-Fri. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. 8 a.m.-l p.m. What is a MANSKE ROLL? Only at Schmaltz’s Sandwich Shop ^ Culpepper Plaza and safety even within their own homes. Experts agree, however, that cases which finally reach the ears of authorities barely scratch the sur face. Now that there are laws on the books making it mandatory for the reporting of such incidents, they are hopeful they will be able to reach and help children before their ex periences leave permanent scars. “It is common knowledge in the field that incest is one of the most under-reported types of child abuse,” said Dr. David Sears, tech nical information specialist of the Na tional Center on Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. “We can make a national estimate of60,000 to 70,000 cases, but we consider this a basement figure. Other experts as well feel this report figure is too low.” Sears said the number of reported incest cases has almost doubled from 1976 to 1978. Child Victimization Study Highlight report — gives a profile of the incest offender. and I think we’ve just scratched the tip of the iceberg there. ” M M By R1 “All professionals are listening to the children more now and listening to them in terms of maybe it really did happen and not that it is just a fabrication on the part of the child to get even with a parent, ” said Gerald Vernon, director of San Diego’s Child Sexual Abuse treatment program. Sgt. Bill Dunn, head of San Diego Police Department’s Child Abuse team, said reports of molestation av erage one a day in San Diego. In 1979 there were 293 reported cases. San Diego was targeted by Drs. Marvin Bohnstedt and Peggy Smith of the Social Research Center of Sac ramento for a study on child abuse. One of the results of their study — a He is “most often a natural father, an unrelated male, or step-father liv ing with the victim’s natural mother. While many are unemployed, the typical suspect is working, several are employed in white collar jobs. Average suspect age is 32, and victim age 10 or 11 years. The molestation is most likely to be reported by a family member other than the victim.” Researchers say the incest victim may suffer a variety of traumas: often has trouble sleeping, may have nightmares; is unable to eat properl- y; often becomes emotionally un stable; may regress in behavior and become introverted. “Up until very recently,” said Smith, whose study is funded by the National Center on Child Abuse, “we have assumed that incest is something that only happens to girls and now that we are making it acceptable to talk about, we re find ing out that there are an awful lot of young men who are molested also. Girls experience difficulty in establishing normal relationships with boys, the study continues. They may become runaways or truants, may occasionally turn to drugs or prostitution or may even attempt suicide. they don’t even know howl and usually don’t have any* When this happens, thev'J the fence. They alternate Hjie first 1 jealousy and concern wherrull season a that the ‘other’ woman int ! J r sity wasn band’s life is their own datjeld against Victims’ fathers, on tlJA numbe hand, steadfastly denv the a ^ . , • • , ..flemonal b the very beginning. lncesli*Q()()f anS) in California and can resiilt;K|ent dre terms of up to nine years. Liutf''. on ^ may recant and rationalize®! 111 , 111 ' , ishake the Kippi stuc Victims’ mothers “suffer horr ibly,” according to psychologist Ver non. “They’re women who are usual ly emotionally and financially depen dent on their husbands. Sometimes tions by saying theywerel didn't know what they i n t Sometimes they accusetliceft or the re ters, claiming they wereseiMAggies > them. 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CRABBE United Press International PEKING — In Peking, the school day begins when you sit down at your desk with your hands clasped behind your back. Our woman teacher says good morning and starts the lesson. She speaks only Chinese, of course. For the past year I have been going to the Chinese International School in Peking, where I never heard a word of English. Its job is to teach foreign children in China to learn Chinese. There were 18 of us in our clas sroom, all about 10 or 11 years old. Three are Americans. The rest came from North Korea, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Peru, Japan, Italy, Romania, Ireland and France. All are children of news persons, diplomats, or foreign experts work ing in Peking. Most foreign kids go to embassy schools. We were in this one because our parents thought it would be a good idea for us to learn Chinese. The school works. I did not know a word of Chinese when I started in September 1979. By the time school was out, I could understand most of what the teachers said. I could go around Peking shopping and using buses to travel. I could talk to the Chinese kids. It would take another year to be come really good at Chinese. I would like to have stayed longer. We shared our playground with a Chinese primary school. Both of us were in red brick buildings. We foreigners were a little bit spoiled. Our building was nicer than theirs and its washrooms are better than most in Peking. Yet the Chinese school is better than many others I saw. We often did sports like soccer dirty and nobody ever goes there. The whole year I was there we never had an air raid drill. In class it is different from Amer ica. When the teacher talks, you hold your hands behind your back. You put them on the desk only when it is time to write or to read a hook. To ask the teacher a question, you raise your hand by putting your In class it is different from America. When the teacher talks, you hold you hands behind your back. You put them on the desk only when it is time to write or read a book. with the Chinese kids. We never saw them outside school. They couldn’t come to our apartments in the diplo matic compound. They didn’t invite us to their homes. The two schools have a brick wall around them. At the start of the year it was painted with slogans from Chairman Mao. Now some of these have been erased. Inside are a basketball court, a playground and a small soccer field. This year the Chinese paved the bas ketball court and a part of the play ground for small children. The rest of it is dirt. Under the playground is a big con crete bomb shelter. It could hold all the children in the school. It is very LAWRENCE'S HAIR STYLING SALON Presents SUSAN O'NEILL A Hair Designer Specializing In Hair Shaping, Creative Perming, Coloring And Luminizing. A UNISEX SALON 'We Take Our Time To Style Your Hair" elbow on the desk. You never hold your hand above your head. Besides being students we were also janitors. Each day after school three of us swept and dusted the clas sroom. In the morning we mopped the floor before school started. We called our teachers only “laoshir, ” the polite Chinese word for teacher. We never called them by name. I don’t know the names of most of them. Neither did the other kids. Besides Chinese, we had art, sci ence, math, music and sports. Most kids also study English. The Americans don’t have to do this. The teachers who aren’t married live in a house on the school grounds. They have an old woman who cooks for them. The others come every day by bicycle. In winter you can see a big pile of cabbages by the teachers’ house. Cabbage is one of the few vegetables you get in Peking in win ter. I guess they ate a lot of it. We went to school six days a week. Monday through Saturday. Tuesday and Saturdayafte My mother and the'other asked why they didn’t han Tuesday afternoon andle Saturday. The teachers wasn’t the Chinese way. In the morning before® had us do slow, gradej physical exercises. A Chines a platform led us. I In cold weather theysoid would have us run aroundlM A Chinese kid earning a rail the way. Late in the morning, scU ped for five minutes, a Hj played music, andwemassia eyes. Chinese textbooks haul covers. The quality isjwi learned to make book mi them out of magazine papen tect them. Twice a month we would] half a mile to an old movielk see a film. We went eveuft or snowed. My favorite fii “Ten Days,” a pictureabw Chinese kids lost in thecirl There were seven North in the whole school, sivlrn girl. They all wore the bria scarf of North Korea’s Coni Club for kids. Every day at theendofsdi six boys gathered at thegakB marched together backtoiOi rean Embassy. Thegirlwas® home on her own. 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