tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33494937885658044612024-03-21T20:03:10.366-07:00Family Heart of HumanityAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05047948302206297718noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3349493788565804461.post-87359674440277914142014-01-15T02:22:00.003-08:002014-01-15T02:22:39.843-08:00VIOLENCE IN THE FAMILY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Batang","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">VIOLENCE
IN THE FAMILY:</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Batang","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> (United
Nations International Year of the Family 1994, Occasional Papers Series, Family
and Crime No.3 1992)<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Batang","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> Prevention of domestic violence is of
utmost importance. Recourse to physical force by parents on children and by
spouses when dealing with each other promotes the use of violence outside the
family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Batang","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> Verbal and emotional maltreatment and
abuse can be as intimidating, demoralizing, damaging, troubling and terrorizing
as physical abuse. Verbal insults and humiliations, repeated constantly in a young
lifetime, are what socializes children into violence and sets them apart from
the other youngsters who learn quite different lessons in their family and
social interactions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Batang","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> Violence causes feelings of entrapment,
degradation and humiliation. Self-blame is common to all victims of family
violence. The deleterious effect of violence in the family underscores the need
for effective preventive and treatment strategies. Once family interactions
become dominated by violent processes, the situation is difficult to alter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Batang","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> However, numerous programmes around the
world prove that families can be helped even in these situations. Activities of
immediate protection and assistance include shelters, emergency telephones,
self- help and governmental groups for battered women and children, and therapy
programmes. For offenders, only limited therapeutic treatment is available. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Batang","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> In some countries, self-help efforts
have been the response to perceived police inactivity or insensitivity to the
occurrence of domestic violence. Numerous countries have voluntary mutual
defence groups. In one community, “habitant groups” take measures to prevent
domestic violence from escalating by placing the victim with another family for
a short period and disciplining the offender. “Neighbourhood watch” programmes
and other community self-help programmes can effectively expose and intervene
in maltreatment, diminishing the level of tolerance for it. The importance of
providing immediate protection has been borne out by cross-cultural studies
highlighting the readiness of kin and neighbours to intervene in violent or
potentially violent situations in societies with non-violent child-rearing
practices and relatively low incidences of wife battery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Batang","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> Special measures have been introduced to
protect children from both domestic abuse and violence outside the home.
Examples include neighbourhood car pools organized to drive children to and
from school and extracurricular activities and the designation of certain homes
in the neighbourhood with special decals as safe houses where a child in danger
or fear may seek refuge and assistance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Batang","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> What complicates the prevention of
violence is the fact that violence in the family is frequently influenced by
broader cultural patterns. Research suggests that battery in the family is
related to the general level of violence that exists in a particular society.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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often emerges from the desire to dominate, degrade, subjugate, possess and
control others. In the long run, the promotion of human rights, better
education and the improvement of the status of women are needed, as well as a
change of attitude towards domination, be it sexual or any other kind. Training
individuals in the dynamics of successful family relationships includes the
promotion of gender equality, equality in partnership between spouses and the
teaching of coping skills. The starting- point is to strengthen the strong and
well- functioning aspects of families.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05047948302206297718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3349493788565804461.post-30763023242596263762014-01-15T02:20:00.002-08:002014-01-15T02:20:44.869-08:00NURTURING FAMILES AROUND THE WORLD<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">NURTURING FAMILES AROUND THE WORLD<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Building a Culture of Peace<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Edited by
Dr. Catherine Bernard President and Director, Service and Research Institute on
Family and Children and John J Shea Practice Pastoral Care and Counseling,
School of Theology and Ministry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Nurturing Families around the World: Building a
Culture of Peace </span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">aims to offer insight and tools to initiate the
healing approach, so that the family finds a creative rebirth. This change in
the structure of the family can initiate change within a larger community, a
creative rebirth of the entire social community and neighborhood communities so
that a new kind of connectedness, mutual caring, empathy and healing is
nurtured and fostered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">This book
offers profound insights into ways and means of resolving issues of violence
and conflict around the world- we must start resolving it now and in this life.
The main argument is that families and societies can be provided with the
fertile field of a positive culture and civilization that respects diversity,
human dignity and uniqueness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">CONTENTS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Preface/Introduction
<b>Dr. Catherine Bernard</b>/ Nurture- Key
to the Security of the 21<sup>st</sup> Century Family <b>Joan Haliburn</b>/ Polishing the Jewels of Humanity: Sharing
Responsibility for Children <b>Victoria
Wyszynski Thoresen</b>/ Children’s Emotional Well-being in the Era of
Globalization <b>Sami Timimi</b>/Intimacy:
Stabilizing and Strengthening Family Life <b>Beverly
Musgrave</b>/ The power of the Individual in Building a Culture of Peace <b>John J Shea</b>/ Future of the Family and
the Family of the Future: The Unity-based Family and the Advent of a
Civilization of Peace <b>H B Danesh</b>/
Index<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05047948302206297718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3349493788565804461.post-40992043538774620342014-01-15T02:18:00.002-08:002014-01-15T02:18:46.944-08:00In Defence of the Family: Family, Children and Culture<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">This volume
is a compilation of key papers presented at the global conference titled “In Defence
of the Family: Family, Children and Culture,” held in Bangkok in June 2011. The
event marked the 25<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the Service and Research
Institute on Family and Children (SERFAC), headquartered in Chennai, India.
SERFAC was established by Dr. Catherine Bernard, MBBS, MS, and collaborators
from diverse backgrounds from India and around the world, committed to ensuring
the well-being of families so as to address the contemporary moral, spiritual,
institutional and technological crises affecting families, children,
communities, nations and global society.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">An
internationally registered non-governmental organization, SERFAC, which enjoys
Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC ( the Economic and Social Council) of
the UN, works towards creating awareness and sensitizing society to the fact
that a healthy family life and its allied institution of marriage constitute
the most important resource base and natural environment for the well-being of
its members, particularly children. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Families
and children across the world face a multitude of ever-changing challenges in
an increasingly internationalized culture due to globalization. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It is vital
for society to respect the autonomy, integrity, solemnity and sacredness of
every unborn child, of every person, individual and family, and for every
nation to work towards a meeting at different levels. A dialogue must occur to
enrich and celebrate this diversity of family, children and cultures, in order
to make the world a more humane and civilized place in which to live. In this
way, we can ensure a promising future for humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The Service
and Research Institute on Family and Children has made a start in this reversal
process by identifying and working with the smallest, yet, at the same time,
the most potent social unit- the Family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Dr.
Catherine Bernard, MBBS, MS, India, Founder- President-Director of the Service
and Research Institute on Family and Children ( SERFAC), Chennai, India. Dr.
Catherine Bernard belongs to Congregation of Sisters of the Cross of Chavanod,
France. She is a Medical Doctor by profession and holds a post graduate degree
in Religion and Religious Education from Fordham University, New York.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Dr. John
Shea, PhD, MSW, USA: Former Professor of the Practice of Pastoral Care and Counseling,
in the School of Theology and Ministry, Boston College, Massachusetts, USA. He
has over 30 years’ experience in the field of counseling. He is an
international lecturer and speaker and has authored several books and numerous
articles that focus on spirituality, experiencing and adulthood. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Both Dr.
Bernard and Dr. Shea are contributing authors in this volume. The authors of
the other papers contained in the book are all eminent and experienced
professionals in their respective fields. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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