Mexico at first glance!

So I have chosen to do some work on the country Mexico!


Looking at what is going on in the country:

Mexico has the second-largest economy in Latin America and is a major oil producer and exporter.

Rural areas are often neglected and huge shanty towns ring the cities.

The Mexican economy is heavily dependent on the money sent home by the millions of migrant workers in the US.

Mexico has one of the highest rates of kidnapping.

Since 2006 35,000 people have died from drug related violence.

Powerful cartels control the trafficking of drugs from South America to the US, a business that is worth an estimated $13bn (£9bn) a year.

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/country_profiles/1205074.stm)




Mexico in the news...

• Death of drug gang founder at hands of marines will represent a major victory for Mexican authorities if confirme
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/09/zetas-leader-heriberto-lazcano-killed
• Salvador Alfonso Martínez Escobedo accused over massacre of 72 migrants and killing of US citizen David Hartley
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/09/mexico-arrests-zetas-heavyweight-martinez
• By 2025, the developing world, as we understand it now, will be home to 29 megacities. We explore the latest UN estimates and forecasts on the growth of these 'cities on steroids', and take a look at the challenges and opportunities megacities present for the tens of millions living in Lagos, Mexico City and Dhaka
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/interactive/2012/oct/04/rise-of-megacities-interactive

Children and Crime: childhood of serial killers

So im a little bit into anything crime!!

Because of this curiosty got me thinking...
so some of the stuff we have talked about and studied have mentioned attachent and a child needing appropriate attachment to thrive...

And because we already started on crime on mondays it got me thinking that known criminals like serial killers..what is the background of there childhood? did the lack of attachment make them unbalanced and cause them to become the person they are? and are there links to attachment? and does what they see as they grow up acceptable to them?

Ted Bundy: was born to an unwed mother and grew up beleiving his mother was actually his older sister, and his grandparents were his parents. Gf ended there relationship, who he is obsessed with and murders females who resemble her. Grew up with his grandfather beating grandmother. Bundy claimed he was molested by a male relative.

Ed Gein: him and his brother had a controlling mother and alcholic father. Father and brother died leaving him with his mother, she was a strict teacher telling them sex and woman were evil. Giving him the curiosty to experiement on female bodies.

Nannie Doss: father beat the whole family, father didnt allow any children to socialise with boys, keeping them isolated. Serial killer of men, as well as her sisters, mother, nephew and grandson.

Charles Manson: born to a criminal alcholic mother. Mother sent to prison and bought up by family with grandmothers fanatical religious standards, which was the reason his mother left (and turned to be a criminal herself) mother wasnt loving or affecinate. Sent to a school he claimed he was raped.
Got people who were emotional disturbed by parents to join him on a killing spree.

David Berkowitz (son of sam): adopted and felt rejected by parents.

Albert fish: family had history of mental illness, parents abandoned him. Exposed to sadistic brutality. reinacted some of this and worse on children.

John Wayne Gacy: had a abusive alcholic father who also tormented him with emotional abuse.

Carl Panzram: His parents were slaves and was seriously abused by there owners. They were described as chores but it was other acts. He has to do this as his mother didnt want to work so someone had to. Later sent to reform school after burlary at a neighbours house. Suffered torture here, when released was all alone and raped by 4 homeless men.

All these serial killers had upbringings that were traumatic. And some said it was the reasons they killed, focusing on family members particulary parents. If as children they had proper attachment and what we have said are the well being 'ingredients' would this of still happened?

Back to blog...current...

So some bits on our current sessions really, been reading up some peices!

So crime within fruit picking:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/revealed-scandal-of-britains-fruitfarm-workers-1740207.html


Health and weight:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1353521/Children-working-mothers-6-times-likely-fat.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/apr/16/mcdonalds-olympic-fitness-plan?INTCMP=SRCH

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/02/child-anorexia-size-zero

 http://www.emotionallyhealthychildren.org/



Hope some of this is useful :)

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CWDC

Childrens Workforce Development Council:
 http://www.cwdcouncil.org.uk/safeguarding

- So they say they are commited to keeping children safe
- They want britain to be best place for childen to grow up

They go by this which is the term for safeguarding...

 "The process of protecting children from abuse or neglect, preventing impairment of their health and development, and ensuring they are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care that enables children to have optimum life chances and enter adulthood successfully."(Source: Working together to safeguard children, 2006)

Doing there part they have help on recruiting safely and register for safer recruitment training.
 

Baby P

Reading other blogs...

' I also thought I'd never say this but I actually agreed with David Cameron- social services receive £100million a year and yet there are still children dying. Authorities are failing these children and unfortunately it is normally social services that receive the blame, however is it just social services or is it multi agency neglection that is the cause. ' (off beths blog)


completly agree with everything beth posted about baby p and social services, also the lack of social workers because of the difficulty of the job is more than money and budgets you cant force someone to do the job...need more people to want to do the job as well as working together to avoid these things happening.

If its not big news..

If something isnt in the news as a big story with lots of media coverage its quite likely you wont know its happened.

We heard about baby P
We heard about victoria
                                        ...Both big in the media

I saw another story on the news of a man convicted in last few days of a babys murder in leicester so i when to look for more about it on bbc news website couldnt see it on screen so did a search for baby death.
What i came across...

In cambridge 2006 seven week old baby killed by father found with broken bones and bites to face. (convicted in 2009)

In Deven 2010 ten month old baby died. Mother and father currently being investigated.

In Scotland 2010 1 day old baby killed by mother. Convicted 2012

In Bolton 2012 6 week old baby died. Mother and father currently being investigated.

In County Durham 2011 thirteen month old died. Mother being charged with neglect and allowing childs death.

In Burnley 2011 four month old baby died. Man and woman being investigated for neglect.

In Blackburn 2009 seven month old baby died. Mother and father convicted 2011

In Worcestershire 2009 five and half month old baby died. Father being charged with shaking the baby to death.

In Lancaster 2011 four month old baby died. Man and woman awaiting trial.

In London 2010 six month old baby died. Woman convicted of neglect and allowing death 2011

In Leicester 2011 seven month old baby died. Mother charged with death awaiting trial.

In Abergavenny 2010 eleven month old baby died. Mother admits stabbing baby. Convicted to be held in hospital for life. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14591902 (video)


This was only a few pages in from the search...there so many more. Also this wasnt counting all the deaths coming up that are still being looked into to find cause of death or to find parents of dead babies found.

Tale of 10 children...

Looks like people have already been finding this but here we go...

The stories of children being abused starting in 1945 continuing to 2003

With statistics


http://www.wavetrust.org/key-publications/articles/tale-10-children-2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2003/jan/27/childrensservices.childprotection
http://www.212articles.com/what-is-your-opinion-as-to-why-this-happens-and-what-we-can/

Then some extra information on the children in the tales:

Dennis O'Neil http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2007/11/death-of-dennis-oneill-and-mousetrap.html
John Grey http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/3908419.stm
Ainlee Labonte http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2586097.stm
Jasmine Beckford http://jasmine-beckford.gonetoosoon.org/
Martin Nicoll http://www.thefreelibrary.com/For+months,+he+battered+his+stepson+black+and+blue+-+then+one+day+he...-a060821034

Just Pointing The Blame Again..?

Mp David lammy says smacking children could of prevented riots and feels the smacking ban should be undone.

Now to me its not as simple as that there was alot of things going on and there is alot of issues on going on in britain. You cant blame something like the riots on adults not smacking children...im sure some of the children were and there was adult involved in the riots...i wondered how many of them were smacked as children?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/2012/01/30/smacking-kids-might-have-prevented-riots-claims-mp-david-lammy-115875-23726897/

Article ritten by Tom Parry...
"I have to say when this was first raised with me I was pretty disparaging. But I started to listen. These parents are scared to smack their children and paranoid that social workers will get involved and take their children away."
I would say from this it isnt a smacking things its general disapline, if parents are scared to inforce any disicpline the result probly would be children running riot, theres no fear...no punishment, if there isnt consequences for your actions then why not just do what ever you want...

Safeguarding children

The Government has defined the term ‘safeguarding children’ as:
‘The process of protecting children from abuse or neglect, preventing impairment of their health and development, and ensuring they are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care that enables children to have optimum life chances and enter adulthood successfully.’


According to NSPCC
53 children a day are abused.
1 in 10 adults has been severely neglected as a child.
Disabled children or children with learning disabilities are 20% more likely 'than average' to run away.
As many as 1 in 9 mothers have shaken their baby and 2 in 9 have felt like shaking their baby.


An article i read into...

'Emma was 14 when she met her first 'boyfriend'. He – in his 30s – bought her presents, picked her up in his car, told her he loved her.
But he soon changed. He became violent and before long was forcing her to have sex with his friends. Then, like a toy, Emma was passed on, shipped around the country and raped by countless men. "I got taken to flats. I don't know where they were and men would be brought to me," she said. "I was never given any names and I don't remember their faces."

Emma's story is one of unimaginable horror, but according to children's charity Barnardo's there are many more victims like her, and numbers are growing. "Barnardo's knows that sexual exploitation is going on in every town and city in the UK," said chief executive Ann Marie Carrie. "Child victims continue to go unidentified as tell-tale signs are overlooked from the front line of children's services to the corridors of Whitehall.'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jan/17/childprotection-children

Link with some pretty horrific storys of abuse/torture to children:
http://www.imperfectparent.com/topics/2007/11/21/one-of-the-most-horrendous-child-abuse-stories-ever/

Adoption / Fostering

Watching the news there's a lot on about fostering and shortages and the amount of children in care. This morning Iv seen something im torn about, that government will tear away some of the red tape and make adoption easier. It's good to think that more children will get family's but if they stop being as picky are children goin to be put into safe homes are they going to be put at risk?...




And just wanna wish a merry Christmas to everyone xxxxx

Blogging on my phone!

Woo got an app for that! Can blog all time now :)

Defending gay marriage!

Found this really interesting and hes an inspiration, im sure his mothers are proud!

Racism infront of you...

I really felt quite angry this morning... enough to ring my dad and tell him how discusted i am to related to a particular family member of ours and he completly agreed and said hes had several rows with this person.

This morning i had a very headed conversation on the internet with my family member who is going to be moving over, i seen alot of things on his fb i dont agree with so as he told me this i think he may of been expecting a nice reply of something along the lines of ...im so happy to hear that cant wait to see you. Instead from me he got 'england doesnt want you if your going to bring them edl views with you'.
He got a bit denfensive when i told him i felt he was racist and posted things i dont agree with and went on a rant of i have mexican freinds and muslim freinds...etc
and gave the usual babble about how this country is, i told him you dont study anything you dont learn about how many people are here and we only let a small amount of people from other countrys in compared to some others and he hasnt got a clue how it is over here.
He to my digust replied with 'the only different there to here is we have mexicans and you have filthy muslims'
...i said straight away that comment straight away proved my point and ur have no repect for your own freinds you have said are muslims.


And that was my rant over!

Abit of tv watching...with some learning

So i watched these couple weeks ago but only just blogging, did mention it to couple of people i found it just on one night and watched so couldnt pre warn people it was on!
So one was pregnant and bi-polar and the other was pregnant with eating disorder, so managed to find them on internet for people :)
From what i seen theres a whole series of them with more like pregnant and in prison...etc there on site to!

http://health.discovery.com/videos/im-pregnant-and-lifts-im-pregnant-andbipolar-options.html
http://health.discovery.com/videos/pregnancy-pregnant-with-eating-disorder.html

This is a clip with previews of others ones they have

Lancan

\Writing a blog with a kitten on a laptop lol :D

Lacan
"For Lacan, it is only when the child accedes to castration and the Law of the father, that s/he becomes fully competent as a language-speaker within his/her given social collective."

http://www.iep.utm.edu/lacweb/#H3

Had a read from this about how there are set rules to learning lauguage, refered to as 'laws'

Gender Dysphoria

Childhood and Gender, iv been looking at an article about a little boy who from the age of 8 was living as a little girl at home, and at 9 started school as a school.
Born In The Wrong Body - Accessed 3.11.11

Along with this article is a clip of the mother speaking and talking about how they tried to keep there child as a boy and took away the choice of female stuff//toys. And how she heard there child upset and ashamed when the child couldnt control what was happening and when they gave into girls toys she was a much happier child. As a child of 8 new what was happening was different and not 'normal'.

As a female the changes mentioned are shes bouncy and smiles, a much happier life as the person she wants.
When listening to the child...now 16, she even sounds female has a life, the freinds and a bf and is comfortable as the person they are.

Parents chose to let the child make there own choice and unlike an article i previously blogged Gender Neutrality on the boy who had mistake in surgary, the choice was made by the parents and eventually returned to his biologal gender as he was unhappy. Gender being changed from looking at these needs to be something in the child that they feel needs to be done, not just done for convience.

Gender, some articles on girls and boys being compared.

Girls Believe they are better than boys from aged 4

Gender Bias increases poverty 

Male teachers does not help boys 

Gender - comparing girls and boys

Child Poverty

 Some information how goverment want to deal with child poverty and there plans to get rid of it.
They want it gone by 2020, ans this has some useful links to different articles on child poverty, and the connection to education :)

In lesson i kept asking about different areas and whats considered a low income in one area may not be in another...so the article on Child Poverty Date was interesting to me about local needs assesment and helping areas that need it.

http://www.dwp.gov.uk/policy/child-poverty/

http://www.education.gov.uk/childrenandyoungpeople/families/childpoverty

3.11.2011

'Gender Neutrality'

Been looking into previous shows shown about gender in young children and the problems that can occur for young children...

Found one about a boy who was turned into girl because of an accident, not sure if this was the story previously mentioned to us.

A surgical accident ment the boy was bought up as a girl but eventually when an adult went back to living as a male.


The Boy who was Turned into a Girl
First shown: BBC2 9.00pm Thursday 7th December 2000
In 1965 in the Canadian town of Winnipeg, Janet Reimer gave birth to twin boys - Bruce and Brian. Six months later a bungled circumcision left Bruce without a penis. Based on a radical new theory of gender development the decision was taken to raise Bruce as a girl. In 1967 Bruce became Brenda and for the next three decades this case would be at the heart of one of the most controversial theories in the history of science.

The man behind this work was world-renowned psychologist Dr John Money. In the 1950s Dr Money developed a theory that revolutionised our understanding of gender. Money believed that what he called our 'gender identity' - what makes us think, feel and behave as boys or girls - is not fully formed by the time of birth. While we may have some innate sense of being a boy or a girl, for up to two years after birth, our brains are, in effect, malleable and we can be taught to grow up as either a boy or girl by how we are raised - by the toys we are given, the guidance we receive from adults and the clothes we are given to wear. This became known as the 'theory of gender neutrality'.

Dr Money had reached this conclusion by working with a rare group of individuals born with ambiguous genitals - people known as intersexuals or hermaphrodites. Dr Money studied groups of intersex children, and concluded that these children could be brought up as either boys or girls regardless of their genetic or physical sex. The legacy of Dr Money's work was a revolution in the treatment of 'intersex'. From the 1950s to the present day many intersex children born with a tiny penis are reassigned as female even if they are actually genetically male.

But not everyone agreed with Dr Money's theories. Since the 1950s a small group of scientists including Dr Milton Diamond have questioned John Money's work. Diamond believed that our sex is already defined in our brains before we are born. He was convinced that the power of our genes and hormones was so strong that no amount of nurturing could override them.

But John Money's theory had already become firmly accepted around the world and the most dramatic confirmation of the theory came from one particular case - the case of Bruce Reimer.

Bruce was a normal boy, not an intersex child, and yet the decision was made to turn this boy who had lost his penis, into a girl. Under the guidance of Dr Money and his team at Johns Hopkins University this baby boy was surgically changed into a girl. After surgeons at Hopkins had castrated baby Bruce, he became baby Brenda. The family were instructed how to bring up Brenda as a normal little girl. According to Dr Money's theory she would grow up believing herself to be female and would go on to live a normal happy life as a woman. It seemed the ultimate test that nurture could override nature.

Thirty years after Bruce became Brenda, the impact of this extraordinary story continues. After almost 14 years living as a female, Brenda Reimer reverted to her true biological sex - the case of the boy who was turned into a girl had failed. Brenda took the name David and for the last twenty years he has lived anonymously in his hometown of Winnipeg. For almost all this time no one knew the outcome of John Money's celebrated case. But now that David has gone public, the case is being widely discussed once again and its impact on John Money's theory of gender development and the treatment of intersex children is being hotly debated. 


http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2000/boyturnedgirl.shtml
(accessed 19 october 2011)

'Words are easy, like the wind' W.Shakespeare

Find my self here lying in bed thinking i cant sleep as im over thinking...cant stop thinking over and over about everything to be done!

So might as well do sumin useful.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/beveridge_william.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12360045