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http://bit.ly/2J9dhE9 Mental Health Advocacy and Peer Support service director Fiona Clapham Howard said she was interested in the focus on increasing the peer support (from those with first-hand experience relating to suicidal thoughts) available as it could be powerful for those struggling to hear from someone that has been there. She said setting a hard…
Kinds of irreligion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreligion Secular humanism embraces human reason, ethics, social justice, and philosophical naturalism while specifically rejecting religious dogma, supernaturalism, pseudoscience, and superstition as the bases of morality and decision making. Secular humanism posits that human beings are capable of being ethical and moral without religion or a god. Freethought holds that positions regarding truth should be…
Still more socially acceptable for adolescent girls to hit or slap boys in dating relationships
Study: Boys are more frequent victims of dating violence than girls https://t.co/bfFLeMbfbD — PsyPost.org (@PsyPost) October 2, 2018 We found that physical violence in dating relationships has decreased over the past decade among youth. In 2013, only one in 20 youth had reported experiencing dating victimization, down from one in 14 youth in 2003. Although…
Pope decrees bishops must be directly accountable for sex abuse or cover-ups
Pope Francis issued a landmark decree on Thursday making bishops directly accountable for sexual abuse or covering it up, requiring clerics to report any cases to Church superiors and allowing anyone to complain directly to the Vatican if needed. Tackling sexual abuses that have battered the Catholic Church’s reputation has been a major challenge for…