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Alcoholism in familyNEW YORK (UPI) - Children of alcoholics are four times more likely than other people to become alcoholics, and 25 percent of those children grow up to marry alcoholics, a study by two California researchers indicates.Dr. Steven Bucky, director of an alcohol program at Mission Bay Hospital in San Diego, said the study-involved 400 men and women raised by alcoholics He said there are 28 million adult children of alcoholics in the United StatesThe study, reported Monday in the October issue of McCall’s magazine, found that children of alcoholics are four times more likely to become alcoholics than those raised in nonalcoholic homes.One of the study's authors, psychotherapist Claudia Black, said many children of alcoholics marry alcoholics because they are accustomed to abuse and do not see a chance for a better lifeFires at catcherNASHVILLE. Tenn (UPI) - Police were not amused when a 98-pound mother jokingly fired a toy cap gun foiling a dogcatcher’s attempts to catch Muffin. the neighborhood mutt.Debra Waddey, 28 and the mother of two. was charged with breach of the peace and ordered to appear in court Oct. 19.I mean, can you believe that’ I think this whole thing is very funny, but my husband doesn't. This may be your first story about me. The next will be called divorce. Waddev said Monday.Waddey said she was babysitting five children in her yard last Tuesday when Metro dogcatcher Bobby Beard began trying to capture a dog she described as • Muffin, the neigborhood mutt Using Sure-Shot caps and a silver-plated cap gun. Waddey frightened the dog and caused it to flee from the dogcatcher several times.Waddey said Beard told his partner to call police and shortly after they left, two cruisers arrived. Waddey said she hid inside her house.When the dogcatcher returned later, Waddey said she helped him catch the dog. “All I had to do was say, Here Muffin,’ and he came and Jumped in my arms. she said.Muffin escaped, however, when Beard slammed the truck door and frightened the dog.He begged me to go get her again, which I did.” Waddey saklDisability changesWASHINGTON (UPI) - House and Senate negotiators are in agreement on legislation that would make it more difficult to throw people who cannot work off the Social Security Disability Insurance rolls.This legislation will allow all those (covered under the program) to look with confidence to the future, Rep. J.J. Pickle. D-Texas., chairman of the House Ways and Means subcommittee on Social Security, said in a brief House speech Monday.Details of the agreement were to be announced today.Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan„ chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and leader of the Senate conferees, praised the cooperation of the administration in forging the compromise.
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