- Working Parent Stress-Catalyst Study
According to a Catalyst study, about one-third of the U.S. labor force is less productive at work because they are concerned about what their children are doing after school. The study estimates these worries cost businesses between $50 billion and $300 billion a year in productivity. This article discusses viable solutions. - We Are All Connected
The unexpectedness of the attack on the WTC and subsequent pre-emptive war in Iraq has left people feeling helpless and vulnerable. Other than donating money, many wonder what else they can do to help the victims. There is something you can do. - To Spank Or Not Spank—Debate Irony
The CALIFORNIA NO-SPANKING BILL: A Bid to end discrimination against children has raised a debate unlike any other. What seems like an obvious conclusion—"Let's…give our children the same right…we adults have been reserving for ourselves," Dr. Kerby Alvy, Exec. Dir of the Center of the Improvement of Child Caring in California—is not obvious to others. The following letters to editors and news reports clearly illuminate this fierce debate. - To Spank Or Not Spank - What The Experts Say
The debate to spank or no spank rages on and on-in spite of a plethora of experts who have studied and reported, as far back as ancient, Rome the overwhelming, profound and dire negative consequences. -Quintilian, circa 40-118 A.D., Institutes of Oratory, Ancient Rome - Stages of Spousal Verbal Abuse
This article clearly identifies the pattern of spousal abuse. - Sexual Child Abuse Prevention - To Catch A Predator
Do child predators bamboozle you? Is the headline from an email I received this morning from Yello Dyno. "We've been bamboozled long enough. The old saying 'out of sight, out of mind' has become the social norm, much to the delight of child predators."-The Yello Dyno email continues.This article identifies how we are bambozzled by sex offenders, the media, organizations who are promoting child sexual abuse prevention and what to do. - School District Bans Corporal Punishment
The United States professes to be the most humane country for its citizens, yet the barbaric practice of corporal punishment is practiced in the majority of homes and is still legal to administer corporal punishment in school in twenty-two states. The majority of industrialized countries worldwide have prohibited corporal punishment in school for more than a century. - Protect Your Child from Sex Offenders—Practice Appropriate Suspicion
If you fail to heed your intuitive signals you will then accept its diabolic competitor, the denial process. Denial protects us from what we do not want to know. Denial eliminates the discomfort of accepting the horrific reality we do not want to acknowledge. As with intuition, denial prompts recognizable signals. If you detect these signals within yourself, you can stop and ask yourself an empowering and powerful question: “What am I stopping myself from knowing?” - Pedophiles/Ephebophiles Extend Their Reach
Today pedophiles go online to seek tips for getting near children—at camps, through foster care, at community gatherings and at countless other events. They swap stories about day-to-day encounters with minors. And they make use of technology to help take their arguments to others, like sharing online a printable booklet to be distributed to children that extols the benefits of sex with adults—"Straight Talk for Boys." - Pedophile--Characteristics and Behavior Patterns
The most common response when I speak about the prevalence of sexual child abuse is in the form of denial: "I don't have to be concerned about that in my community. That would never happen in my family."Through numerous case studies, the Department of Justice has developed characteristics and behavior patterns of a pedophile. - Oprah-Right To Privacy or Secrecy?
Privacy and Secrecy has merged into one definition if one is to believe what is propagated by the media. A news flash recently hyped Oprah Winfrey's 'secret' regarding her childhood. - More Evidence: Obfuscation Rules the World
Unless, and until everyone accepts sexual abuse for what it is and sexual child abuse is adjudicated on the merits of the standard child sexual abuse definition, sex offenders will abuse children under society's nose without fear of being arrested or found guilty. - May - National Mental Health Month
The reality is that today's insurance policies are designed by accountants to discourage access to mental health services. The irony of this policy is mind boggling as the root cause of all physical dis-ease is mental/emotional distress. It is time to end the rampant discrimination against the millions of Americans with mental/emotional distress. - Legislating Vaccination of Eleven Year-Old Girls for HVP
The proposal to mandate vaccination in California, AB16, is giving young girls the wrong message, because HPV is transmitted only through sexual contact. Not all 11 and 12 year-old girls have sexual contact, yet they will be "forced" to be vaccinated and suffer the short and long-term side effects. - Is Your Child a Sex Offender's Target?—Learn Their Ruse
Most sex offenders "groom" their victims prior to any sexual abuse for a period of months or even years. After gaining trust in the parents, the offender offers to baby sit the child or provide fun activities. During this time, he/she proceeds to groom the child. The perpetrator is aware that the child must be controlled to the extent where he/she can sexually abuse the child without fear of disclosure to another adult. This manipulation may be obtained in many ways: favors, threats, guilt, etc. - Healthy Chocolate For Valentines
Valentine's Day could qualify as a national holiday. Love is in the air and more than $1 billion in candy will fly off the shelves. You can give your 'love' healthy Chocolate. - Gambling - Expensive Pass Time or Guilty Pleasure
Internet gambling is popular among several age groups, however, teenagers have shown a special interest in the sites. "Statistics prove that teen-age Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day, akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s," said David Robertson, former chairman of the National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling, on the Web site www.cnn.com. "It's pernicious, it's evil, it's certainly one that feeds on those who are the weakest members of society -- and that's the young and the poor." - Clergy Sexual Child Abuse Crisis—Fifth Anniversary
As many of you know the media and many Catholics will mark the five year anniversary of the clergy sexual child abuse crisis January 7th. The majority of people, who have followed this story, see the first major story on Fr. John Geoghan by the Boston Globe's Spotlight Team, January 6, 2002 as the 'beginning' of the scandal, at least in a national, public sense. - Cause and Effect —The Missing Link
While Americans have more access to health care practices than ever before, Traditional Western Medicine when compared to 13 countries the United States ranks an average of 12th (second from the bottom) for 16 available health indicators.
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