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Show V . N W 1 ; ..v V: I ' H v V I Mama and Papa take precious hours between classes to spend time with their two children. Married students find little enough spare to spend among themselves. I . - 1 jestork schedule "Student's ask 'when?' University daddy takes time from hectic class schedule to share lunch break with a parcel heavier than his usual classroom studies load. disapproving cry and into the lorld of awarenesss. Today, a hild is born-pale, weak, and ieienseless. A gift to man; a iholenew set of combined genes :oshape and instruct. But, is it a ood and wise gift or should it uve not come so soon? Jieofthebig fears today is over-I over-I copulation. Who has the right to nave children, how many and .then. But to some the question is lot "Will my baby add to the nopulation explosion?" It is ather, "Is now the right time to .ave my child or should I have .aited?" truggling college student is rally concerned about two :s: money and time. Has he enough of either to make it ;h school? Married students the added responsibility of ng about each other as well melves. So what happens if dd a third party to this V struggling pair? Will it can it work or will all three icier the pressure. "I don't have anybody to take care of my son so I can't work. Todd makes about $70 a week. Luckily, he's on a scholarship or he wouldn't have the money to go to school. As is, we live in a $60 a month tenement slum. We never go out anywhere. We eat well enough but not extravagantly. We get our monthly complaint from the doctor and the hospital about the money we owe them. Oh, well, two and one half quarters more and Todd can graduate and find a decent job. I'm not worried. We'll make it." Time is an important element to some. It seems they never have enough. One unwed mother feels that is her biggest problem. "I had my baby last spring. I didn't want to marry the father of my son so I didn't. I'm not really hurting financially. A Government Govern-ment grant pays for school. I have a good job as a secretary so we have a fairly nice apartment and plenty to eat. The only problem is I don't get much time to see Sean, college-going family, can and will they make it? From all appearances ap-pearances it seems they will. Generally, the mother has to quit school andor work when the baby arrives. They have to tighten their belts and hope they can last until the one still in school gets out. For some the child even gives added incentive. "Before our first child, Lynn was. a C- student. Now he feels he can't afford to get bumped from school so he really works hard. Now his GPA is above a three point and he talked to a couple of companies who said they might hire him when he graduates." "So many people talk like babies are a bad thing. I know several couples that have been married four and five years and are scared to death to have a baby. It's the usual thing, not enough money or time. Hell, if I can take care of Sean without a husband, I don't see any reason why a married couple can't get by. All it takes is love." i I first found out I was "it, I was scared," one mother said. When we got d,we made an agreement: nildren until after Jim 'ted. However, after two Must couldn't wait so I quit e pill without telling Jim., he found out I was it he was furious. After a settled down and now "appy about the baby as I nation was a bit different mother of two whose ld is an undergraduate at iiversity. a"d I had been going 'or about a year. Well 'Weverybodywehad been und for quite a while ; t'me Then one night we '"avingsex. I wasn't on the filing so after a month misd a period. What else do? We got married .It's ather difficult making ends 'ut we're managing to stay ndereboth very happy." to be one of the oblems with most young ls"h husbands and 8 to school and also the burden of children. i my son. I have classes until noon and work until six. Mom takes care of him during the day. The only time I get to see him is after work and on weekends. That's just not enough when you love your baby as much as I do. I eventually hope to , find somebody worth marrying so I can send him off to work and I'll stay home with Sean." Those that can afford to go out by themselves or with friends complain com-plain about a unique problem. "You have one big drawback with children. Or at least we do. Whenever you want to go out to a movie or a restaurant or over to a friends house to play games or something, you have to find something to do with the baby. First you call the folks. Jim's will take Shelly once and a while, but mostly my folks end up with her. When neither of them have time to take her we have to call up Jim's sister. Sometimes we end up taking her (Shelly) with us. That can get to be a real hassle when you're einvited to a party. A lot of times we just don't go because there's no one to take care of her." If a child is brought into the |