seis SS Jonvary 6,°1988 Castlégar News 87 5 younger men are less conventional, have probably been OLDER WOMEN 4g Mrried before, and may prefer a relationship without = Moms on marriage. “oay WO.L1EZ ullts-3z ; ZOLL-S96 11°09 1VOIWL0373 9 ONIGWAId — oz TL bs wrens moyeig ere eng “ch % NOSEID 9 a11uvE aed TGEs “icin; SLEs,,, yar) tia veveyes sei. osL6Es iis ili f ogee Th eye pint var Ba UE ne ane eee te Hf He i nt = aE Hl iat AUG He fl iar []94 84} 404 . $0 dp-aurz ist iff! ‘SED UO y| “uDr ‘Aopsunyy so Sup —aas ese wowaL -UD] S}OUY,, “@snoy po s, Ht Hn are it pun Aojry Ausoy me secu SONIGNV1 SLON» @Any Apoow euus: BBs é i nh a Lid tj i ial ny ‘any I va g j 00 it ti Vi 3 AL ZL-S9E Buyuysg jo;uewwo> TV soothe babies OTTAWA (CP) — Mothers can soothe their babies al- most as well on television as they can in person, a uni- versity research team has found. The finding could one day have dramatic implications for working couples, say the researchers at Queen's Uni- versity in Kingston, Ont. “If the video telephone ever becomes commercially available, it could allow par- ents to have contact. with their babies when they can't be at home,” Queen's psy- chologist Dr. Darwin Muir said in an interview. Though the findings are tentative, Muir says babies responded just as positively to pre-recorded images of Mom as they did to Mom herself. “We're not suggesting that , YOUNGER MEN MARRIAGES OK VANCOUVER (CP) — When an older woman strolls hand in hand with a younger man, people don't tut-tut the way they used to. Victoria Houston, author of the book Loving a Younger Man, says statistics show there has been a wave of social change about each pairings. “I was floored,” she said in an interview from Connecticut. “Once the stigma began to drop, it dropped quickly, signalling it was a fake notion to begin with.” Of two million marriages in the United States in 1983, 22 per cent involved an older woman marrying a younger man. About 40 per cent of women aged 35 to 44 marry younger men. In six per cent of those marriages, the woman was more than five years older, an increase of 67 per cent from 1970 Jean Veevers, a sociologist at the University of Victoria, says Canadian women haven't quite matched their counterparts in the U.S. for getting into younger marriages. About 11.3 per cent of Canadian women married younger men in 1981. Four per cent of those marriages involved men younger by five years or more. MAY NOT MARRY But the figures are probably misleading, says Veevers, since women who have relationships with Veevers says the trend will likely gain momentum in Canada, adding changes in marriage and family patterns start in Scandinavia, spread to the U.S. and then come to Canada. Houston, 42, and husband Brant, 33, an investigative reporter, are a case in point. They met seven years ago and have been married for five. “If had been aware that 40 per cent 6f women my age were marrying younger men these days, I would have been much less reluctant to do it myself,” she says. “While the age difference is hard to ignore, iso hard to ignore the pounding heart and tingling excitement of falling in love.” POSITIVE VIEW After conducting hundreds of interviews with couples, Houston said she has developed a positive picture of relationships between older women and younger men. “These are equal partnerships, right down the line. They know how to be best friends and because of that, their relationship is more likely to endure.” The younger man is a product of the 1960s — “probably the first generation of men who aren't conservative,” says Houston. Both partners are usually on guard initially, worrying the age difference will sabotage their marriage. “It's important to know that a good three years into suchr hips, the worry ” Houston adds. “But both partners feel that perhaps the age difference will surface at some time to sabotage what they've got. 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On an occasional basis, it could be effective.” Muir, working with other psychologists at Queen's and a team of graduate students, made the finding during a continuing three-year study into the social perception of infants. SEES MOM In the video experiment — one of several in the larger study — researchers placed mothers and infants in sep- arate rooms equipped with cameras and video screens so they could see and hear each other. The mothers were told to talk and gesture to the camera just as if they were actually with their children. The team tested more than 100 infants aged three to seven months. Those who watched the screen respond- ed just as they had when their mothers were in the room. “We took careful notes of their reactions and they made the same happy faces and expressions and body movements they had made when their mothers were sitting with them,” said Muir. He said the team was sur. prised by the results of the experiment, which he said is the first extensive, carefully controlled study of what he called “video interaction” be- tween parents and children. “We didn't think the babies SNOWY SLIDE... . Youngsters are taking ad Young sledder scoots down hill at Nancy Greene Lake. ge of cold her to ski and tobaggan. CosNews Photo Women left out in technological dark WATERLOO, Ont. (CP) — If Thomas Edison's wife had invented the light bulb it might have turned on a whole generation of female inven tors. But a lack of female role models has left women out in the technological dark, says Farag Moussa, a spokesman for the United Nations-spon sored World Intellectual Property Organization. “There's still the idea that a woman's invention is not high quality, not serious, not so important,” he said, add ing that Marie Curie is per haps the only high-profile example of a female scientist inventor. He said one of the major interests of the Geneva based organization is in pro- viding role models that will help to encourage female inventors and draw more fe. adding: “We have to look to future generations.” Moussa was in Canada re- cently to honor Shelly Beau- champ, the director of the Waterloo-based Women’s In- ventors Project which has been trying to encourage Canadian women to turn bright ideas into practical in- ventions. The organization awarded Beauchamp a gold medal for her work on the project, which Mopssa described as the only one of its kind in the world. With financial assistance from the federal Department of Employment and Immi- gration, the project has pro- duced a 122-page, step-by. step guide to planning, mar. keting and _protectipg—in-— ventions called The Book for~ Women Who Invent or Want To. female inventors gain cred ibility they face difficulties securing financing for their ideas. “Financiers trust women less,” Moussa, said in an interview. “I have tried to find women inventors every: where in the world... Many women will say, ‘For the sake of my product, I better hide.’ Beauchamp, whose project recently received an addi tional $50,000 in funding, said she has sought new ways to reach women and encourage them to develop and market their ideas. But old attitudes die hard. Girls are often streamed by schools into steréotypical oc. cupations and away from sig: nificant positions in the fields of—stience, math and: tech nology, she said She said there have been some female inventors in Canada and their innovations passed BOSTON (AP) — Most survivors of childhood cancer can safely have children without fear of passing the disease. to the next gen. eration, a study concludes. The research, conducted by the U.S. National Cancer Institute, js the biggest sur. vey ever conducted on the offspring of men and women who were treated for cancer during childhood and adole- scence. Except in a few limited types of cancer, there was no evidence that the youngsters inherited cancer from their parents. “I think it's a good news article for cancer survivors,” said Dr. John Mulvihill, who reported the findings in the British journal Lancet. journal Lancet. Doctors have been con cerned over whether cancer survivors are likely to afflict their own sons and daughters with the disease, either be- cause they pass on the same genetic defect that caused their cancer or because their reproductive organs were damaged by their treatment. Dr. Frederick Li of the Dana-Farber Cancer Insti tute in Boston said the latest findings are important be- to kids cause they rule out any large increase in the risk of cancer in the next generation. “If a man or woman who's had cancer wants to have children, they can probably proceed with a reasonable level of confidence that they are not going to produce a child with cancer except in certain circumstances that can .be recognized before. hand,” Li said. “You can sort out those at high risk from those who are not.” The researehers studied the cancer victims’ children and compared them with the children of the victims’ brothers and sisters. They reviewed the cancer rate among 2,308 offspring of 2,283 men and women who survived cancer, Their rate was compared with that olf the 4,719 children of 3,604 siblings of the cancer victims. There were seven cancer cases among the former can: cer patients’ children, and 11 cases among their brothers’ and sisters’ children. RUBBER STAMPS Made to Order CASTLEGAR NEWS 197 Columbia Ave. Phone 365-7266 being studied NEW YORK (AP) — A substance that appears to trigger immune defences against some of the viruses that cause colds demon. strates the feasibility of a cold vaccine, says a report in a British scientific journal. Researchers found that a synthetic chemical con structed to mimic a portion of a certain cold virus induced rabbits to produce antibodies against the cold virus. They also found the chemi. cal could induse an antibody response against other cold viruses. About 60 per cent of 48 cold viruses tested were recognized and attacked by the antibodies, said Joseph McCray and Gudrun Werner of the Sandoz Science In- stitute in Vienna. In an accompanying art- icle, however, a U.Srscientist said many difficulties remain before such a substance could lead to an effective cold vaccine. THE Coming Soon. . . See the Castlegar News of Sun., Jan. 17 Province-Wide Blanket B.C. 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