Why relationships end ?

Why relationships end ?

By Bundeswehr-Fotos – originally posted to Flickr as Leopard 2 A5, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11586260 https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-right-mindset/201803/the-5-reasons-relationships-fail It’s possible to reduce interpersonal conflict and improve communication with your main squeeze by avoiding verbal trespassing, maintaining respectful boundaries, and being mindful of how you give and receive information. It’s simple science. Studies show that consideration, kindness, and…

Should We Try to Predict Child Abuse–and Proactively Prevent It?

Should We Try to Predict Child Abuse–and Proactively Prevent It?

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/893821 Should we look forward, in this day of information, to more and more tests and predictions of the sort that the New Zealanders have started to explore? Should we start to say, I think that family is at high risk of going on welfare, or getting food stamps, or needing Medicaid support, or any…

Evolution and Altruism

Evolution and Altruism

https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/how-does-social-behavior-evolve-13260245?error=cookies_not_supported&code=d01bd919-8d8c-47e2-b054-76ac5635bf20 The benefits of social life typically occur when one individual is the benefactor of an act of altruism. An altruistic act is one that increases the welfare of another individual at an actual or potential cost of the individual who performs the act. An example of altruism comes from ground squirrels, who may warn…

Social workers to solely focus on child protection

Social workers to solely focus on child protection

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12017241 An extra team of social workers to solely focus on child protection has been established to work alongside police in the eastern Bay of Plenty. While staff from the Ministry for Children and detectives have worked together in the same building in Whakatane for several years, the new team is the first to be…

It is too easy, and simplistic, for communities to view youth offending as evidence of teenagers “gone bad”

It is too easy, and simplistic, for communities to view youth offending as evidence of teenagers “gone bad”

An article about youth offending from Youth Court Judge John Walker: “There is a very clear co-relation between exposure to family violence and going on… https://t.co/ZYwUKszAsv — WAVES Trust (@WAVES_Trust) March 20, 2018 It is too easy, and simplistic, for communities to view youth offending as evidence of teenagers “gone bad”, of an emerging generation…

I mean I was flashed, humped, bumped, grabbed. I think he probably did it to a lot of people

I mean I was flashed, humped, bumped, grabbed. I think he probably did it to a lot of people

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/mar/21/robin-williams-groped-flashed-me-on-set-mork-mindy-pam-dawber Williams would also wrestle her, break wind on her and come on to the set totally naked. He also once “goosed” an elderly woman playing Mindy’s grandmother by poking her between the buttocks with a cane. The revelations are contained in a new biography of Williams by New York Times journalist Dave Itzkoff, to…

“We demand that sex speak the truth,” wrote Foucault in The History of Sexuality.

“We demand that sex speak the truth,” wrote Foucault in The History of Sexuality.

https://qz.com/1230638/omnisexual-gynosexual-demisexual-whats-behind-the-surge-in-sexual-identities/ In 1976, the French philosopher Michel Foucault made the meticulously researched case that sexuality is a social construct used as a form of control. In the 40 years since, society has been busy constructing sexualities. Alongside the traditional orientations of heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual, a myriad other options now exist in the lexicon, including:…

Men get raped too…by women

Men get raped too…by women

https://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/09/living/chris-brown-female-on-male-rape/ He remembered feeling disoriented, and her suggesting a motel room to sleep it off. He even remembered lying down with his pants on, uncomfortable taking them off in front of a stranger, only to awaken later and find the woman straddling him. What he didn’t remember was saying “yes.” The morning after, that familiar…

Distinction Bias: Making Bad Life Choices

Distinction Bias: Making Bad Life Choices

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/automatic-you/201803/distinction-bias-why-you-make-terrible-life-choices In comparison mode, we’re pretty good at deciding between qualitative differences. For example, we know that an interesting job is better than a boring one or that being able to walk to work is better than having to suffer driving in rush hour traffic. When I asked you to pick between Options 1 or…