OCTOBER 1976

"Superficial attitudes may have changed, but it's consciousness which must ultimately change. Legalist reform is a drop in the bucket. The relative incomes of men and women have not been modified and last heard women as a whole are earning even less."

"A lot depends on what women in prominent media positions do. If they use their power and don't spread it to other women, it's to no avail. Accessibility is so important. A woman does no one any good if she puts herself in a position above other women."

PHOTOS BY AL MORRILL

HIGH GEAR

LESBIAN RESEARCH PROJECT

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scientist. for the Long Island Institute, and Dr. Mary Hotvedt, post-doctoral fellow with the Department of Psychiatry at SUNY at Stony Brook, will be conducting the interviews with mothers and children. Both women have been involved in sex research and teaching as well as in feminist groups. Richard Green, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at SUNY at Stony Brook is coinvestigator. He has testified on behalf of lesbian mothers in numerous custody cases.

I makes a woman an unfit The National mother." Gay Task Force has announced Jane Mandel, that it will cooperate with a research project funded by the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) which concerns lesbian mothers and their children. Researchers with the Long Island Institute and the Department of Psychiatry, SUNY at Stony Brook, hope to gather data which will be relevant to lesbian mothers in child custody hearings. The study will compare lesbian and non-gay mothers and their children's adjustments to living in a family where no adult male is present. The sample will include families from rural as well as urban areas, in the North and South, SO that the participants' adjustment under a variety of community standards can be seen. Data from this study will later be compared with studies in which men were present in the home setting.

The reason for NGTF cooperation, according to Jean O'Leary and Bruce Voeller, coexecutive directors, is that the project could be politically valuable in child custody cases. No such comparative studies exist, and women involved in legal action must rely on the testimony of "expert witnesses" in the field of sex research. Although this has sometimes been helpful, it has also been disregarded by judges. "This research study," O'Leary stated, "might provide data which would put to rest the concern of some courts that lesbianism

The researchers are seeking women who describe themselves as lesbians and have at least one child living with them who is ten years old or younger. The mother and children should have lived as a family unit for at least two years with no adult males (18 or older) in the house. However, other adult women may live with the family.

The interviews, about two hours in length for the mother and each child, will be arranged by appointment for convenient times and locations. All information will be kept confidential. Women interested in participating or finding out more about the study should write to Jane Mandel or Mary Hotvedt c/o Long Island Research Institute, Central Islip, N.Y. 11722; or call collect to Mary Hotvedt at (516) 444-2429. Women in the Midwest can call Jane Mandel at (312) 475-4773.

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