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National Enquirer
Catacombs Reference LibraryThe National Enquirer is a weekly tabloid, published since 1926. This edition is from 14 March 1978, p34.
Her children are totally free and open, in striking contrast to the way she was at their age, says beautiful Barbara Bain, who starred in the long-running TV series, "Mission: Impossible.'
Miss Bain, who also starred in the TV science-fiction series, "Space: 1999, says: "My two young daughters are better adjusted than I was at their age.
"They really express the way they feel," she said, referring to her daughters, - 17-year-old Susan, and Julie, 12.
"When I was a child," - Barbara said, "I felt very confused about everything and unwilling to ask anybody for explanations.
"There was a kind of assumption that adults were right and you weren't to question them.'
In contrast, she said, her daughters Susan and Julie "speak to each other and to their friends in a frank way that I never did.
"They talk about their feelings, and what they want to do, or don't want to do, in a given situation. They're free today in a way I never was."
Barbara said she's particularly impressed with the way with her daughters feel free to go up to their teachers and, with-out fear of punishment, complain that they think their grades are unfair.
"In my day teachers were so forbidding, they were terrifying. I couldn't discuss grades with a a teacher," Barbara said.
As a result of their freedom to express themselves completely, Barbara said, her daughters are so well-adjusted that they are not wrapped up in themselves, but really care about what happens to other people. "My kids are both vital and excited about life," Barbara added.
- TOM SMITH