irc MEMORANDUM TO; The Coalitions FROM; Connie Marshner DATE: May 20, 1981 SUBJECT: Yale Conference This week I participated in a conference at Yale University sponsored by the Rush Center for Child Development on the topic of "What is Pro-Family Policy. The list of speakers with their biographies is attached. The Bush Center for Child Development is a project supported by the Bush Foundation which is the 3-M Corporation Foundation. There are four such centers at universities around the country: Michigan, California, North Carolina and Yale. This conference was one of several they have during the year at which Bush Center people from all over the country come to hear and to participate. Mv talk on Tuesday was a straight-forward explanation of what principles shoul4 quide the formation of any social policies, particularly those affecting families, from a conservative/pro-family point-of-view. I had been expecting a much more lively controversy to be provoked than I ended up getting. In fact the wh 1 conference was more staid and dull than I had expected, even for an academic environment. I am not sure to what to attribute this. Perhaps the profession 1 child development types there felt there was no point in trying to ar^e with me. Perhaps they had anticipated what I was going to say or perhaps they don t ca e what the principles of pro-family policy are, but in any event it was less lively a conference than I had been expecting. I might note in passing that the afternoon speaker on Monday, Alan Crawford, made sort of a fool of himself and did not provoke any interest on the part of the audience either. Crawford's presentation was proceeded by that a Sociologist from Yale. Rieder had already examined and discredited Crawford s theory of the New Right before Crawford ever spoke and had done so from a very good intellectual perspective. Furthermore after Crawford spoke, when he was asked questions on Family Policy, he said you know,_"I don't know." At one point he was asked, "Well what does your kind of conservative feel about, say, teenage preg nancy." He said, "Well you have to understand that my kind of conservative is me and one other person," and then went on to say that he didn't know anything about teenage pregnancy but he guessed that he was against it unless teenagers wanted to be pregnant. So Crawford himself stated that he doesn t represent respectable current of thought and his attitude was so flip and so casual through out that he ended up with the respect of nobody there. Lewis Koch was on the program at my request and he was a definite asset to the program. Koch had been the public affairs officer for the White House Conference on Families who left in disgust at the way that charade was conducted.^ He is knowledgeable about the intellectual issues that this conference was discussing and he was very critical of the professional establishment and the callousness of government policies. Being a former SDS sympathizer as he is, Koch's creden tials to now critize the Human Services establishment were impeccable. He also got little argument from the audience on his points. In conclusion, then, I guess the most interesting thing about this symposium at Yale was not what went on at it but the fact that it happened at all and the fact that they were so interested in hearing the pro-family point-of-view that they would have a relatively balanced program. Also that they would adjust their schedule as they did to put on Lew Koch at my urging. But unfortunately I was Memo to the Coalitions, from CRCM, May 20, 1981, Yale Conference, Page 2 not able to give information on the Family Protection Act in any detail at the symposium contrary to the indication on the schedule because Senator Jepsen had not yet signed off on the provisions on the bill so I was not at liberty to dis cuss the current version of the Family Protection Act. PRESENTERS Bush Interest Group/Sjnmposium What Pro-Family Policy? May 18-20, 1981 Monday, May 18 JONATHAN RIEDER is assistant professor of sociology at Yale University. His field of interest is American politics and culture, and he is the author of the book The Trials of Liberalism: The Making of Middle America in Canarsie, 1960-1980, forthcoming in 1982 from Harvard University Press. He is currently doing research on the New Right. AT.AN CRAWFORD is a journalist and author of Thunder on the Right. He has worked as a reporter for The Washington Post and as editor-in-chief of a West Virginia daily newspaper. Mr. Crawford has also been editor of New Guard, the magazine for Young Americans for Freedom, and first assis tant editor of Conservative Digest. He has published articles in The .National Review, The Nation, Social Policy and Inquiry. He wrote speeches for former Senator James Buckley, and has also been a press secretary for three different Republican Congressmen. Mr. Crawford is at work on a second book. LEWIS Z. KOCH is a broadcast and print journalist. From 1967 to 1972 he was a writer-producer for NBC News in Chicago. From 1972-1975, he wrote a syndicated column on the problems facing the American family. Mr. Koch has also been an editor of the Chicago Journalism Review and a contributing editor for Chicago Magazine. From July 1979-January 1980, he was a public affairs director for the White House Conference on Families. Mr. Koch has published numerous articles on marriage and the family in Psychology Today and other magazines. He and his wife Joanne wrote the book The Marriage Savers. Tuesday, May 19 CONNAUGHT MARSHNER is director of the Family Policy Division of the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation and editor of the Family Protection Report. She is chairman of the Pro-Family Coalition, and she helped develop the strategy for sending pro-family delegates to the White House Conference on Families — a responsibility she shared with Phyllis Schlafly. Mrs. Marshner was instrumental in the formulation of the Family Protection Act, introduced by Senator Paul Laxalt in the 96th Congress. Prior to joining the Free Congress Foundation, she worked for the Office of Economic Opportunity, for Congressman Philip Crane, and for the Heritage Foundation. Trained as a teacher, she is also an education critic and the author of Blackboard Tyranny. ELLEN HOFFMAN is director of Governmental Affairs at the Children's Defense Fund. From 1971 to 1977 she served as staff director and professional staff member for the former U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Children and Youth chaired by Walter F. Mondale. In that capacity, she was responsible for a wide variety of domestic policy issues in the area of children and youth womens' rights and education. She is author of the Child Abuse Prevention' and Treatment Act, the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Act, the Senate version of the Women's Educational Equity Act and the Women's Vocational Education Amendment of 1976. Prior to her legislative activities, Ms. Hoffman worked for five years as a reporter for the Washington Post, specializinp Tn education and urban affairs. " CATHERINE ROSS is assistant professor of history at the Child Study Center of the Yale School of Medicine and assistant head of the section on hiistory and social policy sponsored jointly by the Yale Bush Center and the Child Study Center. She was an editor of Child Abuse; An Agenda for Action published last fall by Oxford University Press and of numerous chapters and articles on social history and social policy concerning children and families. She is currently writing a book on the social history of child welfare. NATHAN GLA2ER is a professor of education and sociology at Harvard University. Prior to coming to Harvard, he was a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also held non—academic positions as a staff member of Commentary Magazine, as an editor for Doubleday Anchor Books, and as an urban sociologist for the Housing and Home Finance Agency in Washington, D.C. Professor Glazer is well known for his numerous books and major monographs. These include The Lonely Crowd (with David Riesman and Reuel Denney); American Judaism; Beyond the Melting Pot (with Daniel P. Moynihan); Remembering the Answers: Essays on The American Student Revolt; Ethnicity; Theory and Experience, (co-editor with Daniel P. Moynihan); Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy; and The Urban Predicament (co—editor with William Gorham). EDWARD ZIGLER is Sterling Professor of Psychology at Yale University, where he also serves as Director of the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy, and as the Head of the Psychology Section of Yale's Child Study Center. In the sixties, he was a member of the national planning and steering committee of Head Start, and served on Head Start's first national research council. Professor Zigler was responsible for administer ing the program from 1970-1972 in his capacity as the first Director of the Office of Child Development of the U.S. Department of Health^Education and Welfare. He was also formerly head of the U.S. Children's Bureau. Author of several books and numerous articles in scientific journals and popular periodicals. Professor Zigler's research interests include motivational determinants of children's performance, cognitive development and mental retardation, developmental theory of psychopathology, effects of socio economic deprivation, and the impact of social action programs on child and family life.