C6 - Wednesday, May 19, 1982 - North Shore News

WHEN MOM'S AWAY

Leave lists and lots of junk food

Someone just asked me,
“How do you get the in-
spiration to write two
columns every week?”

Easy! Ali I have to do is
travel a lot and leave the
family at home. Or, bring
them along. Either way, |
have yards of matenal.

Our family is planning a
vacation, the whole
screaming works of us. Not
our usual fly to Maui and
flop sort of thing — we're
going to “Love Boat” our
way from Puerto Rico to Los
Angeles for two weeks, with
three days in San Juan on the
way down and three more in
Los Angeles on the way
back. Have you ever coped
with three teen-aged
daughters preparing their
wardrobes for THAT?

But, I remember well the
days when I left three
toddlers and a husband at
home when I “flew the coop”
for a month in Europe or

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wise

by Ba rbara
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South America. You should
have seen my checklist.

GOVERNMENT STUDIES LEGISLATION

Little protection for women

OTTAWA (UPC) —
federal government is
studying legislation to
remove wife-beating from
the jurisdiction of the family
courts and make it a
criminal offence, Solicitor
General Robert Kaplan said
Wednesday.

Kaplan told the House of
Commons that the changes,
proposed in a report by a
parliamentary committee
Tuesday, was being closely
examined by government
lawyers. He added that
RCMP officers were already
being trained to deal with
increasing incidents or
family violence.

New Domocratic Party
MP Margaret Mitchell said
there were only two con-
victions for every 10,000
reported incidents of
violence. She suggested that
men who assault their wives

The

should be treated like other
assailants.

Judy Erola, the minister
responsible for the status of
women, agreed with the
proposal, vowing to push for
the legislative change. “I do
feel that men who beat their
wives should be charged
with assault the same way
men who beat other people

are dealt with,” she told
reporters.
Under current law, the

offence is handled in family
court. But the case might not
even get that far because the
committee found women
may be beaten as many as 30
times before they report
their husbands to the police.
Mitchell said women are
being assaulted daily and
have little protection.
“Battered wives rarely
have any refuge,” she said

“They have no safe place to

A sign of the times

PHILADELPHIA (UPI)
The city health com
missioner says the school

board should face the facts
of life and consider having
public school nurses hand
out condoms “as casily as
they give out aspirins”

In fact, he said. “we
belicve condoms are less
dangerous to the health of
people than are aspirins ©

But a school = district
spokesman said the budgct
cant be stretched to cover
existing programs. let alone
new ones

“Not having a condom
does not produce chastity,”
Dr Stuart Shapiro = said
Wendesday at a conference
on tecnage pregnancy “Tt
produces unwanted babies
and Icads to the propagation
of venereal discase ”

My freezer stands alone as
the one piece of equipment
essential for an absentee
mother. Lasagna? Yep. Lots
of it. Frozen pizzas were
popular — who cares about
food value when you're ten
thousand miles away? All
you care about is that they
all eat.

I started with a big, BIG
list: 23 dinners, 16 packed
lunches and 23 easy-to-make
breakfasts. That meant that !
prepared a lot of casseroles.
And froze lunchbox sand-
wiches. And bought one
helluva lot of heat-and-eat
rolls.

And, lists. The family got
used to reading the chart for
tomorrow while they were
sull trying to figure out the
chart for today. Did kid
number three remember that
it was Thursday and she was
in charge of thawing the
stew? Likely not. Dad,
Grannie or babysitter didn't
either so everyone ate grilled

go with their children. Police
are called on an emergency
basis but rarely respond to
domestic calls. Charges are
aot laid in the courts and
there are very few instances
of prosecutions.”

She said women need
immediate

action, not
“reports, research and
conferences.”
Erola replied that she

would look into increasing
the number of shelters for
women who have been
beaten by their husbands —
another key recom-
mendation of the com-
mittee.

She also said that in
general “very httle”; had
been done for victims of

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cheese. Ever come back
from a vacation to find 15
assorted frozen casseroles —
what-in-hell did they eat
while you were gone?

Bnan doesn't cook. Re-
heating a pizza is a bit much
for my financial genius. If all
else fails, he bundles the kids
in the car and heads for
Yic’s. Or McDonalds.

The kids, now, cook as
well or better than I do. But,
if left on their own with
nothing by way of a list,
they'd probably end up
looking like an egg sand-
wich. Anyway, it’s nice to be
indispensible. I guess.

Now, my advice for the
parents who are leaving for a
couple of weeks holiday:
Bring on the junk! Fill your
freezer with frozen pizzas,
french fmes, hamburger
patties, wieners and buns,
sweet rolls and juices. Add
cans of beans and spaghetti
to your cupboard — and
don't forget the Hamburger

wife-beating and that she
was pleased that a recent
conference had emphasized
the need for action.

“There is a great catch-up
that needs to be done,” she
said. “I have been speaking
with my colleagues and I
have concluded a lot of
consciousness-raising must
take place.”

Helper. Cheese gets
devoured at twice the
normal rate, especially
slices. Pack in the bacon,
eggs and frozen hash-
browns.

I get so embarrassed when
someone looks at my
grocery carts prior lo a trip.
Who would believe the

cartons of cool-whip and ice
cream?

Three weeks isn’t going to
run them down the path to
junk-food-itis. If the menu is
junky enough, you can be
sure that they'll come home
to eat it.

“Hey, Mom! Don't forget
the Chef Boy-Ar-Dee.”

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