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| Cheney & Gonzales: For Profit Deprivation of Liberty prisons in TX |
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November 20, 2008
Willacy County district attorney, Juan Angel
Guerra
He leaves office on December 31st.
A Texas judge has set an arraignment date for
Friday (11/21) for Vice President Dick Cheney and
former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. They
were indicted this week by a Texas grand jury on
state charges accusing them of responsibility for
prisoner abuse in a privately-run federal jail.
Cheney, Gonzales and the others named in the
indictments will not be arrested, and do not need
to appear in person at the arraignment, the judge
said.
Half of the eight high-profile indictments
returned Monday by a Willacy County grand jury are
tied to privately-run federal detention centers in
the sparsely populated South Texas county and the
other half target judges and special prosecutors
who played a role in an earlier investigation of
Guerra.
The grand jury traced a sketchy line between
Cheney's influence over the U.S. Immigrations and
Customs Enforcement agency, which oversees the
county's federal immigrant detention center, and
his substantial holdings in the Vanguard Group,
which invests in private prison companies.
    Combining those interests, the grand jury
accused Cheney of a conflict of interest because
the more the prison companies were paid to hold
inmates, the better he did financially.
    "It is appalling to find that numerous
elected officials from different levels of our
government throughout our country to our U.S. Vice
President Richard B. Cheney, defendant, are
profiting from depriving human beings of their
liberty," the indictment said.
Tags : Cheney Gonzales Indictment TX Texas Willacy County Juan Angel Guerra |
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| John Bowlby and Maternal Deprivation - Fathers' Rights |
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'John Bowlby and Maternal Deprivation' First
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SEE BOWLBY'S ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT;-
http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/classics1986
/A1986F063100001.pdf
"Working as a child psychiatrist before the Second
World War, I was struck by the high incidence of
seriously disrupted mother child relationships
during the early years among delinquent and
sociopathic children. This led me to make a study
of the problem and to publish a monograph 1, 2.
After the war, there was much concern about
homeless children, which led the Social Commission
of the United Nations to make a study of their
needs. When the specialized agencies were
approached for their suggestions, the World Health
Organization offered to contribute a study of the
mental health aspects, and, because of my known
interests, the organization invited me to prepare
a report. Engaged as a consultant for six months
during 1950,1 Visited professionals dealing with
homeless and/or disturbed children in Europe
(Switzerland, France, The Netherlands, Sweden, and
Britain) and the US. A proposal to visit Eastern
Europe was not agreed to by the authorities there.
At that date, there was little recognition in
psychiatric or psychological circles that
disrupted emotional relationships during early
childhood could have an adverse effect on mental
health, and those dealing only with adults were
deeply sceptical of any such idea.
Nevertheless, there was already published evidence
additional to my own—e.g., from William Goldfarb
3 and René Spitz 4 —and the problem was well
recognized by child psychiatric and child care
agencies. In the first part of the report, I
therefore reviewed the evidence pointing to a
causal connection, and in the second, considered
measures to prevent or ameliorate ill-effects,
notably by supporting a child's family to enable
it to care for him or her and, if that was not
possible, by arrangements such as adoption and
fostering. For children in hospital, unrestricted
visiting by parents was recommended. My report was
accepted by the organization without change and
published as a monograph the following spring.
Reception was mixed. Those with practical
experience of the problem, notably social workers,
psychologists, and psychiatrists dealing with
children, were enthusiastic. Learning theorist
psychologists were bitterly critical, pointing to
the deficiencies of the data and the lack of
theory to link alleged cause and effect (made good
later in my work Attachment and Loss 5).
To my surprise and disappointment, most of my
psychoanalytic colleagues were also critical Freud
had long since turned his back on childhood trauma
as a cause of neurosis, and emphasis was now
insistently on fantasy.
Nevertheless, the report proved a best-seller, was
translated into 12 languages, and appeared in an
abridged English version 6'.
I believe the monograph has become a Citation
Classic because it focused attention on the
relationship of a young child to the mother as an
important determinant of mental health, with
far-reaching practical implications, and has given
rise to widespread controversy and extensive
research. For a recent evaluation in the field (by
an erstwhile critic) see Rutter 7.
For my work, I have received many honours,
including appointment as a Commander of the Order
of the British Empire and an honorary doctorate
from Cambridge University."
1. Bowlby J. Forty-four juvenile thieves: their
characters and home-life (I & IT). litt. I.
Psycho-Anal. 25:19-53; 101-28, 1944.
2. Forty-four juvenile thieves: their characters
and home-life. London: Baillitre. Tindall &Con,
1946. 56p.
3. Goldfarb W. The effects of early institutional
care on adolescent personality. Child Develop.
14:213-23, 1943.
4. Spitz R. Hospitalism: an enquiry into the
genesis of psychiatric conditions in early
childhood.Psychoanal. Stud. Child 1:53-74. 1945.
(Cited 360 times.)
5. Bowlby J. Attachment and loss. New York: Basic
Books, 1969-1980. 3 vols.
6. Child Care and the Growth of Love.
Harmondsworth, England: Penguin. 1953. 190 p.
(Cited 155 times.)
7. Rutter M. Maternal deprivation. 1972-l978: new
findings, new concepts, new approaches. Child
Develop. 50:283-305, 1979. (Cited 95 times.)
CITATION CLASSIC;-
http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu...
'even Toddlers Need Fathers'
'Helping fathers sustain a parental relationship
with their child or children through the courts'.
Kingsley Miller is the author of 'even Toddlers
Need Fathers'.
Website: http://www.eventoddlersneedfathers.com
Tags : John Bowlby maternal deprivation monotropy fathers fathering father dad dads mothers mothering mother attachment theory work life balance even toddlers need child psychology mental health parenting tender years |
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