pregnant, fraught and questionable stream worthy of deep interrogation...family as a watchword for values or lack thereof; prime among them respect of persons and of human life; families of traditional or modern formulas is not the issue. that is irrelevant. also, the causes of crime are not either or. this duality, either or, simplistic, one cause, one solution thinking is the source of many of our ills, for if we cannot adequately identify a problem we shall never be able to address them. and so the record shows./capitalistic constructs may be the macro cause but there are many offshoots and roots to the causes of crime/the companionate value for violence, being primary...the legacy of brutality, the total lack of compassion for the least among us, for children, women, the sick and the infirm....which gets me to the mention of love and love in families. Really? What many call love others with sense and self would describe as assault, undermining, sabotage, abuse and every derivative and differential thereof. We are a sick society portraying one of happiness...the ever-present irreverent lime. is all masque, fake and carnivale...is it any wonder we are so twisted asunder
then talk of the lack of study, the lack of mental tenacity, real academics, researchers and statistics amassed of our numbers, experiences, stories and observations...no one is noting...no one to pose a hypothesis, research question and gather the responses, to clarify the truth from myth and facts by demographics...everyone is just posing for an idiot public who will imbibe anything it is given...so spare no thought--say anything, even nothing, and it will fly and be printed
...on trying to figure out the source of crime in trinidad
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Colin Robinson "Nah, I don't think this is about male-headed households... Maybe that's what Cadiz intended. But that's not why his remarks resonate with me. It's about how we strengthen and valorise the families we have. Poor families are in trouble. Ther...e's no childcare. Single parent-headed households face huge challenges that State policy can address. Young parents need skill-building. Young women need employment and the means to autonomy and incentives to plan pregnancy. Young men need alternatives to crime for income and dignity and a broader range of options than traditional masculinity and outdated curriculum allow, and cultural validation for being nurturing and intimate. Family life competes with imported media, a culture of consumption and advertised alcoholism. We need substance use and criminal justice programmes and policies that help people regain their families and jobs, that focus on rehabilitation and skillbuilding. I honestly think families are in trouble, especially the normative, non-nuclear ones."
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