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...Norman Reider, head psychiatrist at San Francisco's Mt. Zion Hospital, having completed a study of bastards' fathers, has concluded that they, too, have a pretty rough row to hoe. All kinds of unsettling decisions suddenly confront the unwed father. Should he admit his paternity? Is he sure, after all, that he is the father? Should he marry the girl? Should he feel proud or ashamed of himself...
...type of man willingly admits that he did it and he feels all set up about it. Such a man, says Dr. Reider, often turns out to be a neurotic who has an unconscious desire to assert his virility. There is also the "Don Juan" type who tries to cover up a feeling of inadequacy with a life of carefree promiscuity. Some men, Dr. Reider believes, are even motivated in their illegitimate parenthood by a desire to get married...
...Reider found that there is a certain critical time when unmarried fathers are most amenable to the idea of marriage: when the sense of guilt is at its height, but the sense of being trapped has not yet set in. When that moment passes, it rapidly becomes more & more difficult to pin a father down...
...unwed father does not often become neurotic or insane (unless he was that way already), but Dr. Reider knows of two bachelors who were so shocked to learn of their paternity that they had schizophrenic breakdowns. Dr. Reider thinks that the father's nervousness-and the mother's troubles, too, of course-would be diminished if the status of illegitimacy were corrected by uniform law. Under present U.S. law, says he, the male tends to get the notion that the important thing is not to get caught. If he becomes a father, he can rationalize...
...Lincoln, Neb., Henry Peter Reider, 37, chief preparator of the University of Nebraska's museum, found that the rib bones of a prehistoric rhinoceros gave off a mellow sound when struck, assembled a few, built a "bonophone." With the ribs placed on a wooden frame, insulated by strips of rubber and held in position by rubber bands, the bonophone resembles a xylophone, but has a softer, resonant tone. Tuning his instrument by orchestra bells, Preparator Reider likes to play Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing, Chopsticks, America...