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There's
a difference
between working hard
and working smart, (A British woman could
say that American women have to do it all, In 1995, the United Nations estimated that the "invisible" unpaid work done by women around the world would be worth 11 trillion dollars at fair market value.
WORKThrough the eyes of developing individual, as suggested by the title itself, Infanzia: tempi di mutamenti describes and clarifies the situations of personal physiological changes in differentiation either realized or perturbed (it is to point out this menacing possibility that the previous edition was edited as contribution of a Round Table focused on every kind of Violence against the child). In their specular presentation both books tend to help to consider all human occurrences already underway: activities, not only life, as a wide range of developmenting paradigms that follow each other and connect in precise passages - diversified, but neither casual nor disorganized, rather regular, inevitable and consequential. Children from sons and daughters develop on "parents" and "citizens"; chores dedicated to act in short-sighted "to do" - seemingly to be self repeating and continually the same rerunning time of the QUOTIDIAN - are notwithstanding the basis of every way to work: till simplest temporary labours to reach also attainment of far-reaching future significance, even "immortal", as art. The Italian title mentions a TRUE work, together with the derived participle from a Latin verb faccende, meaning simply to be done, things to do which could be referred to every type of WORK or rather to a series of works, jobs and/or professions. In fact isn't significant the plural form of this derived noun at plural from a verbal Latin origin, in Italian: faccende, in English: chores? Whatever that may be, whether seen separately or in their complexity, the "things to do", the things "to be done daily", are neither irrelevant nor trivial activities; neither are they so obvious as to be considered an ending in themselves. The current title of the book speaks of a TRUE - capital letters - work: in fact not only human children and developing living beings but also adult activities, as well as every kind of work, have their initial founding bases biologically programmed with the main complexes acting as organizers: in full analogy - not only as metaphor - with the embryogenesis' biological Spemann-Mangold organizer. (The name organizer centre or organizer was given by Spemann to the formative stimuli which are exerted from one part of the embryo to another. For this discovery of the organizer effect in embryonic development, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1935). From such bases, diversifiable sequences depart: but they can unroll up and open, or get entangled in each step between the concrete to the sublimated (and vice versa). All these processes don't have a "program" related only to the growing of the body: they accompany step by step the full path of every life. They can either expand in broadening evolution towards increasing abilities and potentialities in order to reach true RIPENESS, or they cannot develop, rather they can embroil, narrowing a muddled life-stream; they can greatly enrich, but they can also contract and block capacities and resources. Besides also in term of advancing spaces and times they can worse, and worse: coercing evolution even into environmental damage and personal ailments, with menacing consequences for future generations. First of all considering the
PSYCHOLOGICAL
side, one must say that this work and these chores advance to actions
and shape situations drawing
directly
from nearby bio-psychological
INITIAL
NORMAL
DEVELOPMENT of
normal infantile
complexes (they too in the PLURAL)
also
to be
seen in their multiform and apparently contradictory becoming.
In effect already the complementary volume Infanzia:
tempi di mutamenti by the title itself
awards the relevance
of the dishomogeneity of
these fundamental
TRANSITIONS (i.e.:
in fact transitions that lay the foundations) and aims to stress the
importance
of their starting and becoming: analytically explaining their
appearance
and development, detail by detail. Summarizing three are the KEY concepts in this book for completing the parallel between personal and generational development, between "persons" and "activities": 1) HOUSE WORK is at the basis of every kind of adult's task, since in domestic chores one could find the very basic subjective foundations of many kind of work, job, craft, toil and even business; and all this in different ways according to different people's customs or every life-styles. (An American tv commercial reported that if life is messy, clean it up British women say that American women have to do it all while English women settle for muddling through)So to sum up, this book regards the consequences to grown-ups of their own phases of development, and alongside, also explains how they can help - and not OBSTRUCT - the restless, even if precisely cadenced thriving of the new generation. Children of YESTERDAY = today's adults. Today's adults->adults of TOMORROW PERSONAL WELFARE and ACCIDENTS AT HOME DOMESTIC CHORES. Ergonomy
and psychology of a REAL work: so
tells the title
of this book, pointing out that this organized - real - work is an All real WORK (or even the lack of work) is an essential component in the life of NORMAL ADULTS, and it plays a basic role in the psychosomatic situation of EACH INDIVIDUAL acting as:
A forceful good nature
turns work
into play: warm
and
fuzzy feelings of helpfulness well up like melted water in
spring, creating glorious long riverbeds that impel toward helping at
every turn.
But usually one cannot simultaneously
master
changing various attitudes
and capacities: one cannot be
at the
same
time a qualified professional or a unique artist; the owner and the
manager
of a concern or a diplomatic go-between; an accountant and an
interpreter;
a secretary and a cashier; an eclectic "jolly" and a precise
robot: and all
this
in different ways according to customs of each people or each family
life-style. Difficult to master all this? But house-work requests more than all these kinds of performance: not only are housework duties multiform, in the way of doing things, but also things to be done and ambits themselves vary greatly. Moreover: if the place where one lives is HOME for everyone, for the home-holder is something different: it is in reality almost always an "holding", that is to say a place of WORK, an organization, a factory of where one is at the same time OWNER, MANAGER, EMPLOYEE, and LABORER. At home the home-holder not only must all times act at these different "chores", she/he is yet compelled to manage every home living being in ways corresponding to each one: performing different tasks together with each relating character, with changing personal stage of life, with personal also offhand occurences, even to choose among other ones' true or pretended needs, to watch at everyone welfare.   Why then to put a pot with its handle on the wrong position? Why to get floors and carpets slippery? Why not to protect windows when there are at home little children or old people? What a fake "heroism" is to use ladders as mountain climbing show, or - simpler - to have staircase not well discernible? How to manage electricity, fire even water? How to cleanse windows and balconies? Chronicle of Saturday May 5 2007: in a city of less than a million
inhabitants as is Turin, 6 (six)
children
every day, it is to say every year
2400 (two
thousand four hundred) children of less than five years
old are
to be taken at a First Aid for domestic accidents....
In the
Italian Web files and in Italian
book the subject of Domestic
accidents
is more widely shared:
beyond the file/chapter regarding Domestic
chores
(almost mirroring this
one) another
file/chapter is particularly dedicated to the
serious problem of Accidents
at home,
presenting peculiar Italian laws
and Italian
Organizations against and for them. The variability of International
laws and the different milieus of readers lets as
more consistent only to allude at the crucial points of this
emergence: a true
danger surely worrying for the large unrelenting rate of DEATHS
not only of damages and wounds. Any way a mockery
perhaps is more
noteworthy than pedantic explanation, so dummy and exaggerate
overemphasizing caricatures can be more persuasive to
signify just the contrary of a joke: not "implements" by themselves are
"monsters"
but it is the unconcerned or rather meaningless behavior of absent
minded users which transforms normal utensils into
malignant and
harmful enemies.
To make
this question painless
but at
the same time more trenchant, this sub-chapter just proposes cartoons
sharing domestic tools
becoming threatening monsters, also suggesting a book
displaying a similar - half satirical - point of view: The Design of Everyday Things
by
Donald A.
Norman.  Do you need to know
how many children fall
down stairs or how many people aged over 65 have skateboarding
accidents each year?
Welcome to RoSPA's home and leisure accident web pages. For the first time home and leisure accident data is available for you to search independently. Data is provided for the years 2000 to 2002, taken from a representative sample of hospital attendances around the UK. National estimated figures are given. Here you will find more detailed information on the Home and Leisure Accident Surveillance web database. RoSPA provides this service under contract to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). All data was collected and collated by the DTI. Therefore we regret that RoSPA cannot accept responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or content of the information provided. Click Proceed to find out more about the RoSPA web database. Home
and Leisure
Accident statistics
You
are about to carry
out a query using the Home and Leisure Accident
Surveillance
(HASS/LASS) web database. Before you go ahead, please read
the
following important information, and then click Proceed.This database is a simplified version of the full DTI HASS/LASS database. It enables you to search for basic statistics, but does not give you access to case study information. The web database allows you to browse a list of articles, locations, injuries, etc, and formulate your query by combining the listed items. Some choices may be restricted to ensure you receive accurate statistics. The database will provide you with the number of accident victims for your chosen query during the years 2000, 2001 and 2002. Please read our help pages for further assistance, or contact RoSPA’s Information Centre. Infocentre staff will be happy to guide you through the search process, or carry out complex queries using the full DTI HASS/LASS database. Community- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2004, Issue 2. Art. No.: CD004335. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004335.pub2. Burns and scalds are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in children. Successful counter-measures to prevent burn and scald-related injury have been identified. However, evidence indicating the successful roll-out of these counter-measures into the wider community is lacking. Community-based interventions in the form of multi-strategy, multi-focused programmes are hypothesised to result in a reduction in population-wide injury rates. This review tests this hypothesis with regards to burn and scald injury in children. Objectives:
To assess the effectiveness of community-based interventions, defined
as coordinated, multi-strategy initiatives, for reducing burns and
scalds in children in children aged 0-14 years.
Modification of the home environment for the reduction of injuries Injury in the home is extremely common, accounting for around a third of all injuries. The majority of injuries of children under five and people aged 75 and over, occur at home. Multifactorial injury prevention interventions have been shown to reduce injuries in the home. However, few studies have focused specifically on the impact of physical adaptations to the home environment and the effectiveness of such interventions needs to be ascertained. Objectives:
To review the evidence
for the effect
on injuries of modification of
the home environment with a primary focus on interventions to reduce
physical hazards.
RA Lyons,
LV Sander,
AL Weightman, J Patterson, SA Lannon
S Jones,
B Rolfe, A Kemp, A Johansen
Cochrane
Databse Syst Rev
2003CRISIS AND FAMILYAn e-mail asked why a simple relocation was accompanied by too much profound and unexpected reaction.
For many people, to move into a new house of one's own coincides either with marriage or with some major changes, such as emigration. Usually the blame for the crisis is attributed to changes of habit and above all of personal RELATIONS. In concurrence with marriage, obviously, several factors come together: but then why do many couples NOT live cheerfully in the house, while they felt happy during their "honeymoon"? Why often they feel again pleased during subsequent travels? The crisis of habitation ownership is felt as negative? On the contrary it is POSITIVE, it has a meaning, it has typical modes and times: it usually lasts at least for few months and can be very much like the biological crisis of the ADOLESCENT. As teens age it does bring and assure a veritable ENLARGEMENT of identity: it coincides really with the ethological, animal, occurence of expanding the “den” into surrounding areas. The sense of SOLITUDE and the more than alive consciousness of DEATH (excuse the deliberate pun about life and death) are due to this jump into maturity, to this new profound existential crisis (crisis or rather catastrophe in the Thom's mathematical dynamic systems sense - Structural Stabiltiy and Morphogenesis). This is a crisis of a more completely acquired IDENTITY, and even a crisis of consciousness of the PRECARIOUSNESS and SEPARATENESS that identity - i.e. ontological existence in philosophical terms - implies. Solitude or separateness? Separateness? Are separateness and stress on separateness negative terms from which to run away? Why then, having reached that kind of material separation, is everyone so jealous of PRIVACY? Why is everyone so often frightened of thieves? Why is every body so interested in HOUSE KEYS as if they formed part of the self? And why does everyone be so engaged in furnishing doors with reinforcements, and windows with curtains??? How different is death itself even in conceptualisation, when it conclude a significant life and not a parasitic one, longing for a “non-solitude” using "others" as a sort of PROSTHESIS of one’s incompleteness! MOTHERHOOD
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Antenatal
and postnatal
mental health: clinical management and service guidance
 Chombart de Lauwe, P.H. 1956 La vie quotidienne des familles ouvrières, Paris, Cnrs. Wilmott. P., Young, M.1960 Family and Class in London Suburb London, Routledge and Kegan Paul 1964 Family and Kinship in East London London |
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Women in the Home W.I.T.H. (Visit our European sister organizations.) WITH is an organization for Irish stay-at-home mothers who are interested in child development and the social and economic rights of the partner at home. WITH Aims Article 41.2 of Bunreacht na héireann recognizes the value of theunpaid work of women in the home.WITH therefore seeks: -
recognition for the
unpaid work carried out in the home and community
in all aspects of
the economy - equality in practice, not simply in theory, with other working men and women - parity for single-income families under the tax code - the extension of benefits under the social welfare code to women and men working in the home caring for the young, elderly or handicapped - to hold the current government to their promise of a pension for women in the home - a stay-at-home parents’ benefit - to create an awareness of the needs of children and the importance of the mother/child relationship to the emotional and intellectual development of the child - to support women in their struggle against the social and economic pressures which often force them to seek outside employment - the restoration of tax allowances and/or credits for dependent children - extended career breaks to facilitate those who wish to take time off to care for children or members of the family in need of care - maternity benefit payable with child benefit for the first three years of a child's life recognition for the skills acquired in running a home and family - opportunities for women in the home to reenter the labor market and to access education and training courses - the provision of affordable housing for young families If
you support these
aims,
and
would like to join us or get more information, please contact us!WITH
is
active on a national, European Union, and international level.WITH, c/o
11 Wyattville Park, Loughlinstown, Dún Laoire, Co Dublin,
Ireland Telephone
+353 1 282 6460 or +353 46 943 0314 email: womeninthehome@eircom.net
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Statement of a Pre-Congress session's presentations XV ICAES 2K3 Humankind/Nature Interaction: past, present and future - Florence July 5th - 12th, 2003 : 66. BREAST-FEEDING: Donatella SCHMIDT Università di Padova, Palazzo Maldura Via B.Pellegrino 1 35134 Padova Ph:049-612366 (home)> Fax:049-8274937 e- mail:dschmidt@lettere.unipd.it Mara MABILIA Università di Padova e- mail: maramabilia@tiscalinet.it Location: Florence This
panel aims to look at breastfeeding
as a composite and complex
process resulting of the interrelationship between physical
and socio-cultural factors. What appears to be just as a worldwide
spread infant nutrition practice belonging to the realm of
the "natural", is actually embedded in distinctive social milieux
able
to transform a characteristic feature of the female body into
an
expression of culture. Moreover, breastfeeding practices, as part
of a wider system which include other reproductive matters, should
be seen in relation with pregnancy, labor and delivery. The
casestudies presented will follow this perspective, which is necessarily
holistic, and will try to embrace both the northern and
the southern hemisphere.
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Second European
Feminist
Research
Conference
1994 Graz / Austria Feminist perspective on TECHNOLOGY WORK+ ECOLOGY
July 5-9
1994 Graz University of Technology Austria. TECHNOLOGY, HALTH
AND THE BODY
Any way to be a file of this site and a chapter of this book, the Author offered this Conference - whole text and Postscript - under the same title: What is EMOTIONAL LABOUR? Costantino
Battistina.
Dipartimento di
Scienze Sociali Università di Torino
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A classic -
till 1903 -
and famed are Author and book:
The Home: Its Work and Influence
(Classics
in Gender Studies) by Charlotte
Perkins Gilman
Any way
historical,
sociological data of the early 20° Century are to be considered,
since the assertion:
economic
independence and specialization of women also to better raise children
advances a strange "conciliation" among this famed and active
"feminist"
and the conclusion of the also famed and often denigrated book Sex And
Character: An
Investigation Of Fundamental Principles by Otto Weininger:
a young
philosopher - young since suicide at twenty three years old -
furiously hostile against women - mostly against mothers and their way
to raise daughters. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Home is a scathing attack on the domesticity of women in the early 20th century. Her central argument, that the economic independence and specialization of women is essential to the improvement of marriage, motherhood, domestic industry, and racial improvement resonates in this work. Throughout, she maintains that the liberation of women -- and of children and of men, for that matter -- requires getting women out of the house, both practically and ideologically.  Unpaid Work in the Household: A Review of Economic Evaluation Methods by Luisella Goldschmidt-Clermont (Studies and Reports - International Labor Office GENEVA: New Ser. November 1, 1982; ISBN: 9221030857)  Published with the financial support of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities UNFPA
 Women confined Sociology of Housework by Ann Oakley Look a classic
sociological
and feministic point of view by the Founding
Director Professor
Ann Oakley of
Social
Science Research
Unit
history and nature of
this unpaid
occupation, from the pre-industrial period until today
(quotation from the back cover of the first book).
To find Ann Oakley's
other books go also to Wikipedia . 
Old fashion
books covers,
old
fashion housework tools, past - and no
more present - houseworks organization and housewomen's dresses and
look...: but any way something is ever the same!
World War II and Italian womenFrom: The Historian
| Date: 3/22/2005
| Author: Pojmann, Wendy
(1) The unique case of Italy, with its often tumultuous twentieth-century history, provides an exciting focal point for studies of women's movements throughout the world. When the fascist government of Benito Mussolini fell, and a democratic government was established in June 1944, Italian women could not vote, divorce was not recognized, and abortion was illegal. (2) Today Italian women enjoy the benefits of advanced political and social rights, but few Anglo-American readers are familiar with the women's movement in Italy. The Italian "RESISTENZA": Woman writings
During the
Italian "resistenza" the
role of women changes radically. The Italian woman is abruptly involved
in
politics, social and cultural issues. To this purpose the war acts as
triggering agent. It is, in fact, the war to create a space for women
on a
public front: women get the chance to be productive, to bear public
responsibilities and to be brave; they make their own way through those
social
roles which were once restricted to men alone. At the same time women
keep
their traditional positions as mothers, wives and sisters.
Abstract This article examines the figure of the housewife and domestic work in post-World War II Italy. Fascism promoted two images of the housewife: the middle-class, urban homemaker inspired by American conceptions of home economics, and the rural farmwife destined to prevail during the thirties. These two images offer both continuity and disjuncture with the image of the housewife in the post-1945 period. The social and economic context in postwar Italy favored the diffusion of the image of the full-time homemaker, an effect of the family policies promoted by the two principal political parties. Instruction manuals on home economics appeared in great numbers during the 1950s and 1960s. Examining these manuals prompts the following questions: How was the role of the woman in the home defined? What was her relationship with the world beyond the family? How was she supposed to perform her work? Domestic work expands in these decades to a few ultimate practices, becoming a totalizing mission and a value in itself, but resulting in the exclusion of women from any large-scale participation and activity in the life of the nation. On 12 April 1945, just days before the Liberation, Ada Gobetti, a prominent figure in Turin's anti-Fascist Resistance, wrote in her Diario partigiano (Partisan Diary) that the most difficult problem will be that of the housewife--refractory to every political preparation and the most difficult to reach--it will be one of the most difficult to resolve if one wants to create a new society. Was it possible among the ruins of the war to propose a different relationship among women, the family, work, and society... ? |
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World War II and Italian womenFrom: The Historian
| Date: 3/22/2005 | Author: Pojmann, Wendy
(1) The unique case of Italy, with its often tumultuous twentieth-century history, provides an exciting focal point for studies of women's movements throughout the world. When the fascist government of Benito Mussolini fell, and a democratic government was established in June 1944, Italian women could not vote, divorce was not recognized, and abortion was illegal. (2) Today Italian women enjoy the benefits of advanced political and social rights, but few Anglo-American readers are familiar with the women's movement in Italy. The Italian "RESISTENZA": Woman writings
During the
Italian "resistenza" the
role of women changes radically. The Italian woman is abruptly involved
in
politics, social and cultural issues. To this purpose the war acts as
triggering agent. It is, in fact, the war to create a space for women
on a
public front: women get the chance to be productive, to bear public
responsibilities and to be brave; they make their own way through those
social
roles which were once restricted to men alone. At the same time women
keep
their traditional positions as mothers, wives and sisters.
Abstract This article examines the figure of the housewife and domestic work in post-World War II Italy. Fascism promoted two images of the housewife: the middle-class, urban homemaker inspired by American conceptions of home economics, and the rural farmwife destined to prevail during the thirties. These two images offer both continuity and disjuncture with the image of the housewife in the post-1945 period. The social and economic context in postwar Italy favored the diffusion of the image of the full-time homemaker, an effect of the family policies promoted by the two principal political parties. Instruction manuals on home economics appeared in great numbers during the 1950s and 1960s. Examining these manuals prompts the following questions: How was the role of the woman in the home defined? What was her relationship with the world beyond the family? How was she supposed to perform her work? Domestic work expands in these decades to a few ultimate practices, becoming a totalizing mission and a value in itself, but resulting in the exclusion of women from any large-scale participation and activity in the life of the nation. On 12 April 1945, just days before the Liberation, Ada Gobetti, a prominent figure in Turin's anti-Fascist Resistance, wrote in her Diario partigiano (Partisan Diary) that the most difficult problem will be that of the housewife--refractory to every political preparation and the most difficult to reach--it will be one of the most difficult to resolve if one wants to create a new society. Was it possible among the ruins of the war to propose a different relationship among women, the family, work, and society... ? |
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Fatherhood
and home-men.
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 Modified, enlarged Logo of the Italian Association of Men taking care of home chores. |
A book regading "home-men" for not-Italian readers:
Father Courage: What Happens When Men Put Family First by Suzanne Braun Levine
Editorial
Reviews Amazon.com Suzanne Braun Levine, a
founding editor
of Ms. magazine, gives voice to a largely
unsung
revolution -- uplifting the nurturing role of men -- in her wisely
written
first book, Father
Courage.
Observing, for instance, the trend of more and more fathers walking
their children to school with a "profusion of pink and yellow and red
cartoon-character backpacks slung over their shoulders," Levine notes
that fatherhood
is changing. And so begins her quest to investigate the
often-contradictory challenges and motivations that grip and sometimes
baffle today's fathers.
Using batteries of interviews with fathers from various walks of life, Levine shows how men -- in the struggle to succeed at work and in parenthood -- are reinventing what it means to be a father. Readers meet fathers who explore new ways of child rearing, split time with their wives to cover household chores, and cope with sacrifice when it comes to careers. Father Courage is both about and for these fathers, "who are discovering the pleasures of a dynamic relationship with their families" and who are "beginning to suspect that there are more men like themselves, although most are too busy putting one foot in front of the other to speak up."
Using batteries of interviews with fathers from various walks of life, Levine shows how men -- in the struggle to succeed at work and in parenthood -- are reinventing what it means to be a father. Readers meet fathers who explore new ways of child rearing, split time with their wives to cover household chores, and cope with sacrifice when it comes to careers. Father Courage is both about and for these fathers, "who are discovering the pleasures of a dynamic relationship with their families" and who are "beginning to suspect that there are more men like themselves, although most are too busy putting one foot in front of the other to speak up."
Drawing from
social science, anthropology, media, psychology, and many other
sources, Father Courage
wades into the currents of modern society, not only to recast our
understanding of fatherhood, but to remind us that changes in
fatherhood also alter motherhood and the very fabric of family life.
This connection, deeply feminist at its core, explains why a woman
would be invested in championing the rights of fathers. Levine even
offers fathers a rallying cry: Pick up your power, she says. Use it
to turn around the very institutions that are bestowing it on you.
Why? Because as Gloria Steinem once put it, You will
never have a true
democracy without democratic families to nurture it. --
(Byron
Ricks)
From Publishers
Weekly : Can
men
have it all?
Raised to be breadwinners and also nurturing parents, many contemporary
fathers "disappoint those they mean to impress more than either would
like." Levine has talked to fathers who are challenging "the
traditional separation of church (home) and state (paid work)" about
the rewards and frustrations of trying to co-parent. Frequently letting
the men speak for themselves, she draws a convincing picture of an underground
movement just waiting for the right moment to coalesce and
set about the unfinished business of the women's movement: "It is all
of a piece, the entry of women into the workplace and the integration
of men into the family." Many fathers in this transition generation
feel they face their difficulties alone and are surprised to find how
many others are like them. From the birth experience at the hospital
through the early months of parenthood and beyond, men often receive
conflicting messages from society that encourage them to be supportive
but not to get too closely involved in the dailiness
of
raising
children. Women, too, are often unwilling to "relinquish the mystical
powers attributed to motherhood" that is for many the only power they
have. Levine also contends that a double standard in the workplace
favors women who need to take time to be with their families but
discourages men from putting family first. Writing at the equity
frontier of family
politics,
Levine provides a useful sourcebook for
would-be revolutionaries and makes an eloquent plea for more public
conversation about private pressures. Agent, Michael
Carlisle; 10-city
tour. (Apr.) Copyright
2000
Reed Business Information, Inc.
Today's fathers versus those old time models? Old style strictness (???) against present easy-going education (???)? Or the other way round...?
Look at this picture from the Italian translation of a page of My Magazine. Being the Continuation of the Children's Encyclopedia 1919 , Enciclopedia dei Ragazzi edition of 1924 - page 4142 - also printed on previous years.
Riding
the father? Isn't "my dad" the
best toy, dog, cat, horse?
To play with dad? IT IS THE FOREMOST!
To play with dad? IT IS THE FOREMOST!
Today's fathers versus those old time models? Old style strictness (???) against present easy-going education (???)? Or the other way round...? None of these common-place assertions can sustain any confrontation with the variable reality: very demonstrative in this dirction is the picture with its childish poetry found only in the Italian translation of My Magazine. Being the Continuation of the Children's Encyclopedia; to overhaul this lack we quote thereunder another poetry by Author Unknown:
Anyone can
be a
father, but it takes someone
special to be a DADDY!
What
Makes A Dad
God took the strength of a mountain, The majesty of a tree,
The warmth of a summer sun, The calm of a quiet sea,
The generous soul of nature, The comforting arm of night,
The wisdom of the ages, The power of the eagle's flight,
The joy of a morning in spring, The faith of a mustard seed,
The patience of eternity, The depth of a family need,
Then God combined these qualities, When there was nothing more to add,
He knew His masterpiece was complete,
And so, He called it ... Dad
... In response to the call for action, the health and education units of San Joaquín began work on a programme called Skills for Life.
God took the strength of a mountain, The majesty of a tree,
The warmth of a summer sun, The calm of a quiet sea,
The generous soul of nature, The comforting arm of night,
The wisdom of the ages, The power of the eagle's flight,
The joy of a morning in spring, The faith of a mustard seed,
The patience of eternity, The depth of a family need,
Then God combined these qualities, When there was nothing more to add,
He knew His masterpiece was complete,
And so, He called it ... Dad
The Lancet
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Vol. 366,
Issue 9493, 8 October 2005, Pages 1324-1329
Child
protection is an
important social issue in Chile. In response to the results of a study
that showed that, in 2000, 74% of children living in Chile were
maltreated in their homes, the Metropolitan
South Health Service called
on the primary-care units in the municipalities of South Santiago under
its control to develop a comprehensive programme of interventions, the
objective of which was to
strengthen
family relationships and to lend support to families and children
vulnerable to abuse.... In response to the call for action, the health and education units of San Joaquín began work on a programme called Skills for Life.
Look then this excerpt of the outstanding and imposing document funded by the Chile Ministry of Health through the Metropolitan South Health Service: one of the images of the article depicting the Public-health campaign to raise awareness of children's wellbeing with images drawn by children. (Look for copyright pictures in the original article)
The
good things about my dad: he helps me, he defends me, he cuddles
me, he
cares for me a lot, and, finally, he plays with me. The bad things
about my dad: he shouts at me, he fights with my mum, when
he doesn't
speak to me (expressed as the law of ice), and he is hysterical and
selfish.
"Mother" is the best, the "symbiotic" unique partner? What a mystification!
The Lancet - Vol. 366, Issue 9493, 8 October 2005, Pages 1324-1329 For
the child, the mother is the pillar of the family, therefore it is
important if the mother mistreats them. But the child returns the
maltreatment with acts of love (kind words and drawings of hearts). The
child needs to feel loved by the parents.
Scandal on National
Gallery of London!
Really
happened! During a visit to the
gallery last year, a breast-feeding mother was ordered by an attendant
to stop.
-
Do
you find breastfeeding
offensive?
- If you do, tough. New
laws will make breastfeeding in public every
mother's right.
Marie
Woolf reports Published: 18 December 2005If one can enjoy good examples, it is difficult likewise not to be influenced by the bad ones. Actually and unfortunately it is difficult to take oneself away - and often even : "to rescue oneself" - from the couple's, family's, or social lifes' style (especially home-life's) and work 's pathways in general (homework in particular) when received as "imprinting" in one's own home-factory.
To make matters worse both grown-up partners - the more as PARENTS - bring to their new home-hold their prejudices, inhibitions, puerile and partial solutions, and all existential compromises and neuroses acquired in their parental home.
Veronica Alvarez,
Nurse,
Head of the Child
Health Programme, Sor Teresa de los Andes Family Health
Centre, San Joaquín, Chile: In
2005,
San Joaquín has been rotating
the campaign posters in
the
family health-care centres and schools, and will continue
to
work with
families and community organisations, though a series of interventions,
to build a healthier paradigm for family and interpersonal
relationships.
Hello,
mum. What
I don't like about you: you yell at me, you scold me,
when
you want to tell me something you shout, you hit
me. What I
like about you: sometimes
you cuddle me, at times we play, we go out, we go to the plaza. (Mum I
love you because you give me what I want, I don't like it when you and
dad fight. Bye, mum.)
Different
Children,
Different Needs: Understanding the Unique Personality of Your Child
by Charles F. Boyd (Author), Robert A. Rohm (Author) WHY CANT MY MOTHER accept me for who I am?...
by Charles F. Boyd (Author), Robert A. Rohm (Author) WHY CANT MY MOTHER accept me for who I am?...
Why can't my
mother accept me for what I am?
Besides and worse: are "mothers" as for simply to be "mothers" the main leading character in the "family scene"?
And furthermore: how noteworthy should be not only every cub by itself, but also every factor in every moment!
 Pigeons and children: wealthy children and - on the background - "poor" ones. Venice July 20 1912 |
Turin:
play-ground 1960
years
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How gets the individual
temperament during the progression of ages?
And what place for brothers and sisters?
Look at the composed little boy photografied
with his mother and sister on 1862,
and on Spring 1934
as
dignified great-grand-father showing the same composed countenance as
himself when little boy; look rather in this same
picture the joking demeanour of
both grand-daughter and grand-father. And what place for brothers and sisters?
Children "working" conscientiously
 Istria 1934: engagement and concentration. |
 a little - city dweller - willing to become a real country man (Piedmont 1965) |
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