Topic: Children’s rights
How “Push Parenting” Becomes Child Abuse
October 15, 2014 ·
Worldwide, pressure on children to succeed has negative effects. Published on October 13, 2014 by Susan Newman, Ph.D. in Singletons Bravo’s latest reality show, “Extreme Guide to Parenting,” is making waves by featuring one Long Island mother of one who prides herself on being a “push parent.” Marisa Silver-Eisenberg, mother to 5-year-old singleton Austen — who plays five sports, is routinely […]
Read More...The most important in the Kingdom
September 19, 2014 ·
September 6, 2014 10:44 pm Recently I was talking to a group of forty young boys who had been taken out of filthy jails and sub-human conditions in the so-called youth detention centers of Metro Manila. I told them, “You are the children of God and the most important in God’s family. That’s why […]
Read More...Border children need immediate cooperation: Column
August 5, 2014 ·
What I saw on a recent visit to a detention centeralong our border was children, many just five or six years old, essentially imprisoned. Vulnerable children separated from parents, susceptible to bullying and sickness, and held like criminals. They were exhausted, lonely, and dazed. I have been in many refugee camps throughout my career in global development, and this center rivals each of them. But this one is right here in the United States.
Read More...Over 500 children found at vermin-infested shelter in Mexico
July 31, 2014 ·
The raid was ordered after more than 50 complaints were filed against Verduzco for holding people against their will.
Read More...Study Tracks Millions of Child Brides
July 24, 2014 ·
By RICK GLADSTONEJULY 21, 2014 More than 700 million women alive today were married as children, and about 250 million of them — more than one in three — were wed before they reached 15, Unicef said in a study released Monday, on the eve of an international meeting in London, the Girl Summit, sponsored by Unicef and the […]
Read More...Researchers show how early stress hurts brain development
July 9, 2014 ·
(manilatimes.net) — MILWAUKEE — A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has shown that chronic stress of poverty, neglect and physical abuse in early life may shrink the parts of a child’s developing brain responsible for memory, learning and processing emotion.
Read More...THE MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL
June 14, 2014 ·
There is one day of the year set aside to remind us of the horrible painful truth that there are millions of children around the world working in the fields, factories, brick kilns, construction sites and sex clubs. The clothes we wear, if made in a poor developing nation, are likely to have been made with some form of child labor.
Read More...PHILIPPINE DEATH SQUAD KILLS MORE CHILDREN.
April 25, 2014 ·
By WILLIAMOR A. MAGBANUA April 20, 2014 2:48pm Cotabato City KIDAPAWAN CITY -Philippines. The bodies of two minors believed to be victims of summary executions were discovered by joggers in Purok Saranay, Barangay New Rizal, Mlang, North Cotabato on Sunday morning, police said.Mlang chief of police Inspector Sunny Leoncito identified the victims as Christian […]
Read More...The Meaning of Easter
April 14, 2014 ·
Fr.Shay Cullen This is the sacred time of year when we recall the life and death and resurrection of Jesus,the man from Nazareth. His life commitment to goodness and self-sacrifice as a champion of the poor and the oppressed led to his arrest torture and execution at the hands of the unjust and cruel authorities. […]
Read More...Filipino youth worse off than peers in Asia, Africa
April 7, 2014 ·
By Cheryl M. Arcibal (philstar.com) MANILA, Philippines – The Filipino youth are worse off than their counterparts in countries such as Vietnam, Indonesia, Morocco, and Ghana, – countries, like the Philippines, that are also classified as “lower-middle income” – a study said. According to the Global Youth Wellbeing Index, released by the US-based think tank […]
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