July 11, 2011
Stars and Stripes|by Nancy Montgomery
The number of reports of family violence within the military, which had been in decline over several years, has been rising over the last two years, and reports of abused children and spouses increased significantly last year, a report by the Defense Department’s Family Advocacy Program shows.
But what it means -- more people reporting who had kept silent in the past, better record-keeping or more people in the military abusing their spouses and children -- is unknown.
“It’s really hard to say at this point,” said Tib Campise, analyst at the Family Advocacy Program, the armed forces program set up decades ago to prevent and treat domestic violence and child abuse within the military.
“I don’t think I could answer whether anybody has a good sense of the prevalence (of family violence) across the military.”
In fiscal year 2010, the rate of confirmed spouse abuse was 11.2 per one-thousand couples, up from 10.1 per thousand in 2009 and 9.4 per thousand in 2008. Prior to 2008, the rate had been steadily declining from 16.5 per thousand in fiscal year 2001.
The report said 16 domestic abuse deaths were reported to the Family Advocacy Program in fiscal year 2010. In 81 percent of the cases, the alleged perpetrator was an active-duty troop.
Also, 2010 saw an increase in the number of substantiated child maltreatment cases reported to Family Advocacy, from 4.8 incidents per one-thousand children in 2008 and 2009 to 5.7 per thousand in fiscal year 2010.
“That’s a big jump,” said David Finkelhor, a sociologist and family violence expert at the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire.
“It doesn’t look like year-to-year bouncing around. It looks like it means something.”
Substantiated child maltreatment cases include physical, sexual and emotional abuse and neglect. Nearly three quarters of the cases -- 72 percent -- were classified as neglect or emotional abuse.
The report said 29 child deaths from abuse or neglect were reported to Family Advocacy last year. Twelve of them were under a year old.
An active-duty troop was responsible in 76 percent of the killings, and in 65 percent of them, the alleged perpetrator was male.
According to Defense Department spokeswoman Maj. Monica Matoush, the mounting reports could be related to more military social workers and other FAP personnel using a standardized format to determine whether cases are substantiated with evidence supporting the claims of abuse.
“Allegations that may have been diverted or unsubstantiated under previous criteria are now classified as [substantiated],” Matoush wrote in an email.
But the overall number of reports also has been increasing since 2008.
It’s possible, Matoush said, that more people are reporting because of increased awareness. Or, it could be more actual abuse and neglect “related to (the) cumulative wear and tear effect of eight years of combat-related operations and deployments on military families with young children, reflect stressors related to the current national economic climate, or (be) a combination of these or other factors.”
Deborah Gibbs, deputy program director of the Women, Children and Families Program for Research at the research institute RTI International, who has done studies on Army families, said numerous studies have produced conflicting reports of abuse rates. She said the social science consensus, however, was that spouse abuse rates are higher in the military than in civilian life, but that, paradoxically, child maltreatment rates are lower.
“The best data around show they have higher rates of spouse abuse, which may have negative repercussions for kids. But the best evidence is that rates of child maltreatment are probably lower in military populations than civilian populations,” she said. “I think that surprises people.”
However, she added that it was clear that deployments increased child maltreatment rates, especially neglect. “It’s just common sense. These parents left at home are dealing with huge stresses,” she said. “Most do heroically well. Some run into difficulties.”
According to a September report by the Government Accountability Office, the Defense Department is lacking in efforts to understand how much spouse abuse exists within the military and whether its prevention and treatment efforts are effective. “DOD’s leadership lacks the visibility over information needed to understand the magnitude of the domestic abuse problem, identify trends in domestic abuse, and use fact-based information to improve the effectiveness of its efforts,” the report said.
Among the biggest problems the report found was deficient data.
Matoush in an email disagreed with the GAO criticism.
“With respect to targeting families most at risk of domestic abuse, DOD shares this problem with the civilian sector, since there is not yet a consensus on risk factors for individuals, nor for couples, in part because the range, frequency and severity of behaviors subsumed under the terms ‘domestic abuse’ or ‘domestic violence’ vary widely,” she said. “FAP also notes that deployments should not be overemphasized as a risk factor, since domestic abuse occurs in families that haven’t experienced deployments, and many military families have had multiple deployments without domestic abuse.”
Numbers reported to the Defense Department’s Family Advocacy Program are just one part of the puzzle, though. In addition to those who can’t or don’t report their abuse, worried about the abuser’s career or their own safety, are an unknown number of reports made to civilian authorities, military law enforcement or commanders, which are not also reported to FAP.
Another DOD database, the Defense Incident Based Reporting System, compiles law-enforcement cases of family violence in which alleged abuse is a crime, and is compiled by the services from military police reports.
But “the services are providing only a fraction of the required data, and reporting from the services has not improved significantly in the last several years,” the GAO report said.
The GAO recommended in 2006 that the databases be reconciled and that a central database be created. That never happened, and still isn’t feasible, the report said “because of the condition of the data in the law enforcement system.”
FAP’s data are also incomplete for use in trend analysis or targeting at-risk families, according to the GAO. While it does capture things like age, rank and sex of offenders, it has little information about circumstances thought to increase risks of domestic violence, including deployment information.
A better database has not been a priority, a DOD official told the GAO in a letter last June, because other “operational requirements that affect much greater numbers of military personnel have had higher priority.”
Matoush said that those problems were being addressed.
“The database issue has received constant attention over the last half decade, thus the fact that all Military Departments are now reporting to and compliant with DIBRS (Defense Incident Based Reporting System),” her email said. “The length of time it has taken to reach this point is attributable to system complexities and resource priorities within the Military Departments.”
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Sunday, January 29, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
How to fill in your Facebook Timeline gaps
How to fill in your Facebook Timeline gapsBy Molly McHugh Digital Trends – Thu, Jan 26, 2012EmailShare4Print It’s time to accept it: Facebook is hitting the Timeline switch and the new format is coming. There is no use arguing, if you want to keep using Facebook you’re going to have to get on board with this monumental change.Once you’ve gotten past the “I’m going to quit Facebook!” phase (which most of you will), you can start filling out your very own Timeline. You can manually go through the entire thing, uploaded pictures and write pithy statements as you go, but that’s going to take some time and you’ll probably burn out around year four.Or, you can use the new class of apps to do the work for you. There are (or will be) apps for everything, but to get started you should try some that will make your Timeline actually reflect your life—not just what 80 songs you listened to last week, what you watched on Hulu last night, or your Word With Friends activity. If you’re past the point of caring about the intense amount of data this gives marketers, here are the best apps to help you fill out and fill up your Facebook Timeline.The basicsTimeline will leverage the Open Graph and everything it comes with to show what you’re doing now – but for all those past events you can now use 1000memories’ Shoebox app. If you’ve already used it, you know it’s an app for scanning and collecting film photos, and adding details like written notes or voice recorded stories to accompany them.If you’ve done all that, great. Shoebox just announced its integration with Timeline, so give it your permission and it will do all the work for you. If you haven’t used it, then think of it as a much more entertaining way to go about using Timeline. It’s especially useful for those that want to catalog film prints and want to avoid the scanner—it really just streamlines the process if this is the type of content you want to add to complete your Timeline. For many of us, photos from our childhood and teenage years aren’t digital, and you’ve got to get them there somehow if you want a more thorough look at your life.LocationArguably the most important aspect of our lives is where we live and where we travel. Location and travel applications will fill this in for you. Regardless of your lifestyle, Where I’ve Been covers all the location bases. It helps you catalog past trips or homes easily with options for where you’ve gone, lived, and want to go. It doesn’t just pigeon-hole you with a list of places you’ve gone; you’ve got a lot more freedom to document why you were somewhere, what you did there, and when you went. It tells a story much better than the other currently available options. Food Now some of us are sick of the food updates: we get it, everybody eats. Sometimes the food is really good. Must we all be briefed on your daily intake? But if food has been or is an important part of your life, then you’ll want to install Foodily or Foodspotting. These are quickly becoming Facebook favorites, and while it can collect your food habits, it’s also a benefit to be able to interact with your friends’ activity on these apps. EventsUnfortunately, there isn’t anything to troll our profile and pull from past events you’ve attended. But if you want to start keeping track via your Timeline, Ticketmaster is your best bet. In addition to showing off what you’ve done, it will also show you popular upcoming events, direct you to ticket sales, and then reach your activity to predict things you’d like to attend. This article was originally posted on Digital Trends
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
When Sex Becomes a Chore
When "Amy" and her husband decided to start trying to have a baby three years ago, the sex was fantastic. They did it three to six times a week, and a year later, she became pregnant but promptly miscarried. The couple continued to make love just as frequently over the next couple of years, but Amy didn't get pregnant again. During sex, she couldn't stop thinking about her infertility, and over time, she felt disconnected from her husband. "We normally like to tease each other, switch positions and cuddle before and after," says Amy (not her real name), 28, a teacher from Milwaukee. "There was far less of that."Anyone who has had trouble getting or staying pregnant knows that infertility is hard on relationships; however, a new study from Stanford University has documented the extent to which it hurts women's sex lives. Forty percent of infertile women suffered from sexual problems that caused them distress, compared with 25 percent of a control group of healthy women. They experienced low desire and had trouble becoming aroused. They engaged in sexual intercourse or masturbated less frequently. The research is important because it highlights a problem few women talk about. Also, the data make a clear case for fertility doctors to collect couples' sexual histories and refer them to counseling, especially given the growing awareness of how patients' emotional health affects their chances of treatment success, explains Janet Takefman, psychologist and chair of the mental health professional interest group of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Advertisement
In the Stanford study, published last month in Fertility and Sterility, researchers surveyed 119 women with an average age of 36 and found that infertile women were less happy with their sex lives, compared with a group of 99 healthy women. However, the infertile women had similar levels of sexual satisfaction as the healthy women before being diagnosed. Infertility is defined as the inability to become pregnant after one year of regular intercourse if a woman is younger than 35 and six months if she is older. Since fewer than half of the women had received IVF treatment, it was unclear whether hormone shots depressed their libidos, though the researchers believe the cause was mostly psychological. Women with infertility suffer from depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem, and their distress is compounded with each unsuccessful treatment attempt. In the Stanford study group, the average length of infertility was 3.4 years. Ronny Diamond, a therapist based in New York and the co-author of Couple Therapy for Infertility, says that women's sexual desire is further dampened if they feel unattractive or unfeminine because they can't conceive. "Sex, rather than being a place where you can escape the world, becomes a reminder of what you can't do. You can't make a baby," she says. As a result, women are less likely to feel close to their partners. Worse, they might feel they're disappointing them.When sex is so fraught with failure, it quickly becomes a casualty. When it does occur, it may be the on-demand variety that feels like a chore for both men and women. "When the woman calls her husband at work and says 'I'm ovulating. Come home. We've got to do it now,' it ruins people's ideas of romantic conception," says Diamond. There's little room for foreplay, and men may have trouble performing under so much pressure. Alice Domar, a psychologist who developed a popular mind-body program for infertility patients (which DoubleX previously wrote about), advises patients to protect the pleasure of sex by designating one bed for baby-making sex and another for fun sex. Or they can try to strive for "mindful love-making" and focus on their partners' touch and smell rather than think about the purpose of the act. Domar even counseled one couple to have their doctor inject the husband's sperm into the wife's vagina to make the functional distinction clear. "Making love can just be about making love now," she says. Although medical intervention can be an added source of stress for couples—fueling arguments over how much money to spend for treatments and whether to use donor eggs or sperm—one DoubleX reader says it helped her sex life by relieving her of her baby-making duty. "The doctor is essentially barging in the reproductive cockpit and taking over," writes "Shayla" (also not her real name), a 30-year-old artist from San Diego, who has tried unsuccessfully to become pregnant for more than two years. "Since sex no longer serves a practical purpose, i.e. getting the woman pregnant (that's handled in the lab), it is all of a sudden just for pleasure again. That can be really, really nice after months of pressure-filled and timed intercourse."The question remains, however, whether couples' sex lives bounce back once a couple gets past infertility, whether by conceiving, deciding to adopt, or making peace with not having children. There is some good news on that front: A 10-year follow-up of couples who completed IVF treatments—successfully or unsuccessfully—rated their sexual satisfaction as being adequate or somewhat better than adequate. Although one-third of childless women in this study reported that infertility had a negative impact on their marriages, Takefman notes that infertile couples have a lower divorce rate and can recover from sexual stress. "You're fighting a crisis together and learning how to cope quickly with something traumatic," she says. "If you survive that, you'll be in good standing for the rest of your marriage."Amy says her sexual bond with her husband returned once they decided to register with an adoption agency and she stopped following her ovulation cycles. She and her husband currently are waiting placement. "I can snuggle with him, and we can play around without having to worry about when and where he ejaculates," she says. "My period stops being the center of my life."Become a fan of DoubleX on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.
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In the Stanford study, published last month in Fertility and Sterility, researchers surveyed 119 women with an average age of 36 and found that infertile women were less happy with their sex lives, compared with a group of 99 healthy women. However, the infertile women had similar levels of sexual satisfaction as the healthy women before being diagnosed. Infertility is defined as the inability to become pregnant after one year of regular intercourse if a woman is younger than 35 and six months if she is older. Since fewer than half of the women had received IVF treatment, it was unclear whether hormone shots depressed their libidos, though the researchers believe the cause was mostly psychological. Women with infertility suffer from depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem, and their distress is compounded with each unsuccessful treatment attempt. In the Stanford study group, the average length of infertility was 3.4 years. Ronny Diamond, a therapist based in New York and the co-author of Couple Therapy for Infertility, says that women's sexual desire is further dampened if they feel unattractive or unfeminine because they can't conceive. "Sex, rather than being a place where you can escape the world, becomes a reminder of what you can't do. You can't make a baby," she says. As a result, women are less likely to feel close to their partners. Worse, they might feel they're disappointing them.When sex is so fraught with failure, it quickly becomes a casualty. When it does occur, it may be the on-demand variety that feels like a chore for both men and women. "When the woman calls her husband at work and says 'I'm ovulating. Come home. We've got to do it now,' it ruins people's ideas of romantic conception," says Diamond. There's little room for foreplay, and men may have trouble performing under so much pressure. Alice Domar, a psychologist who developed a popular mind-body program for infertility patients (which DoubleX previously wrote about), advises patients to protect the pleasure of sex by designating one bed for baby-making sex and another for fun sex. Or they can try to strive for "mindful love-making" and focus on their partners' touch and smell rather than think about the purpose of the act. Domar even counseled one couple to have their doctor inject the husband's sperm into the wife's vagina to make the functional distinction clear. "Making love can just be about making love now," she says. Although medical intervention can be an added source of stress for couples—fueling arguments over how much money to spend for treatments and whether to use donor eggs or sperm—one DoubleX reader says it helped her sex life by relieving her of her baby-making duty. "The doctor is essentially barging in the reproductive cockpit and taking over," writes "Shayla" (also not her real name), a 30-year-old artist from San Diego, who has tried unsuccessfully to become pregnant for more than two years. "Since sex no longer serves a practical purpose, i.e. getting the woman pregnant (that's handled in the lab), it is all of a sudden just for pleasure again. That can be really, really nice after months of pressure-filled and timed intercourse."The question remains, however, whether couples' sex lives bounce back once a couple gets past infertility, whether by conceiving, deciding to adopt, or making peace with not having children. There is some good news on that front: A 10-year follow-up of couples who completed IVF treatments—successfully or unsuccessfully—rated their sexual satisfaction as being adequate or somewhat better than adequate. Although one-third of childless women in this study reported that infertility had a negative impact on their marriages, Takefman notes that infertile couples have a lower divorce rate and can recover from sexual stress. "You're fighting a crisis together and learning how to cope quickly with something traumatic," she says. "If you survive that, you'll be in good standing for the rest of your marriage."Amy says her sexual bond with her husband returned once they decided to register with an adoption agency and she stopped following her ovulation cycles. She and her husband currently are waiting placement. "I can snuggle with him, and we can play around without having to worry about when and where he ejaculates," she says. "My period stops being the center of my life."Become a fan of DoubleX on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.
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Monday, January 16, 2012
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I Have a Dream" delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
"I Have a Dream" delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Data Use Policy: Facebook
Information we receive about youWe receive a number of different types of information about you, including:Your informationYour information is the information that's required when you sign up for the site, as well as the information you choose to share.Registration informationWhen you sign up for Facebook, you are required to provide your name, email address, birthday, and gender.Information you choose to shareYour information also includes the information you choose to share on Facebook, such as when you post a status update, upload a photo, or comment on a friend's post.It also includes the information you choose to share when you take an action, such as when you add a friend, like a Page or a website, tag a place in your post, find friends using our contact importers, or indicate you are in a relationship.Your name, profile picture, networks, username and User ID are treated just like information you choose to make public. Learn more.Your birthday allows us to do things like show you age-appropriate content and advertisements.Information others share about youWe receive information about you from your friends, such as when they tag you in a photo or at a location, or add you to a group.We may also receive information about you from the games, applications, and websites you use, but only when you have given them permission. If you have given a game, application, or website permission to post information on your Wall, you can remove it from your Apps you use setting.Other information we receive about youWe also receive other types of information about you:We receive data about you whenever you interact with Facebook, such as when you look at another person's profile, send someone a message, search for a friend or a Page, click on an ad, or purchase Facebook Credits.When you post things like photos or videos on Facebook, we may receive additional related data (or metadata), such as the time, date, and place you took the photo or video.We receive data from the computer, mobile phone or other device you use to access Facebook. This may include your IP address, location, the type of browser you use, or the pages you visit. For example, we may get your GPS location so we can tell you if any of your friends are nearby.We receive data whenever you visit a game, application, or website that uses Facebook Platform or visit a site with a Facebook feature (such as a social plugin). This may include the date and time you visit the site; the web address, or URL, you're on; technical information about the IP address, browser and the operating system you use; and, if you are logged in to Facebook, your User ID.Sometimes we get data from our advertising partners, customers and other third parties that helps us (or them) deliver ads, understand online activity, and generally make Facebook better. For example, an advertiser may tell us how you responded to an ad on Facebook or on another site in order to measure the effectiveness of - and improve the quality of - those ads.We also put together data from the information we already have about you and your friends. For example, we may put together data about you to determine which friends we should show you in your News Feed or suggest you tag in the photos you post. We may put together your current city with GPS and other location information we have about you to, for example, tell you and your friends about people or events nearby, or offer deals to you that you might be interested in. We may also put together data about you to serve you ads that might be more relevant to you.When we get your GPS location, we put it together with other location information we have about you (like your current city). But we only keep it until it is no longer useful to provide you services.We only provide data to our advertising partners or customers after we have removed your name or any other personally identifying information from it, or have combined it with other people's data in a way that it is no longer associated with you. Similarly, when we receive data about you from our advertising partners or customers, we keep the data for 180 days. After that, we combine the data with other people's data in a way that it is no longer associated with you.
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Borderline personality disorder
DefinitionBy Mayo Clinic staff Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is an emotional disorder that causes emotional instability, leading to stress and other problems. With borderline personality disorder your image of yourself is distorted, making you feel worthless and fundamentally flawed. Your anger, impulsivity and frequent mood swings may push others away, even though you desire loving relationships. If you have borderline personality disorder, don't get discouraged. Many people with borderline personality disorder get better with treatment and can live happy, peaceful lives.
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
FBI takes over investigation of Florida powder incident
FBI takes over investigation of Florida powder incidentBy the CNN Wire Staffupdated 4:34 PM EST, Tue January 3, 2012
(CNN) -- Three people reported falling ill Tuesday after exposure to a suspicious powder in the mail room of the state attorney's office in West Palm Beach, Florida, a city spokesman said.Initial reports indicate the powder was not hazardous, but the investigation will continue, said Margaret Williams of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.Two of the three workers who were sent to a hospital after the exposure complained of headache, nausea and vomiting, Scott said. The third worker complained only of a headache.A firefighter who responded to the incident was also hospitalized with cardiac problems, city spokesman Chase Scott said. The firefighter was equipped with an air tank, he said, and it was unclear whether his symptoms were related to exposure.Other employees were in the mail room the envelope containing the powder was opened, but they did not complain of any medical problems, Scott said.A portion of the building evacuated during the scare was reopened after workers sealed off an air duct connecting it to the mail room.Scott said the powder was contained in an envelope, but he said authorities were not releasing information about the intended recipient or where it came from.The FBI, U.S. postal investigators and the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office are jointly investigating the case, Miami FBI spokesman Jim Marshall said.
CNN's Sara Pratley contributed to this report.
(CNN) -- Three people reported falling ill Tuesday after exposure to a suspicious powder in the mail room of the state attorney's office in West Palm Beach, Florida, a city spokesman said.Initial reports indicate the powder was not hazardous, but the investigation will continue, said Margaret Williams of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.Two of the three workers who were sent to a hospital after the exposure complained of headache, nausea and vomiting, Scott said. The third worker complained only of a headache.A firefighter who responded to the incident was also hospitalized with cardiac problems, city spokesman Chase Scott said. The firefighter was equipped with an air tank, he said, and it was unclear whether his symptoms were related to exposure.Other employees were in the mail room the envelope containing the powder was opened, but they did not complain of any medical problems, Scott said.A portion of the building evacuated during the scare was reopened after workers sealed off an air duct connecting it to the mail room.Scott said the powder was contained in an envelope, but he said authorities were not releasing information about the intended recipient or where it came from.The FBI, U.S. postal investigators and the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office are jointly investigating the case, Miami FBI spokesman Jim Marshall said.
CNN's Sara Pratley contributed to this report.
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