Abandonment Issues: Signs, Causes & How to OvercomeDo you ever feel like you're walking on eggshells, afraid that your loved ones will leave you? Do you have a hard time trusting people or forming close relationships? If so, you may have abandonment issues.In this episode, we'll talk about what abandonment issues are, the signs and causes of abandonment issues, and how to overcome them. You'll learn:What abandonment issues are and how they can impact your lifeThe signs and symptoms of abandonment issuesThe common causes of abandonment issuesHow to overcome abandonment issues and build healthy relationshipsJoin us for this informative and empowering podcast.#abandonmentissues #mentalhealth #relationships #selfcare #healing

There are several common myths and misconceptions about mental health illnesses that can perpetuate stigma and hinder understanding. It's important to challenge these myths to reduce stigma and promote understanding and empathy for people living with mental health conditions. Mental health should be treated with the same compassion and care as physical health.Here are some of the most common myths about mental health illnesses, along with the truth:

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – Officer Rex Engelbert was the first officer to open the doors to The Covenant School after reports of a school shooting on Monday morning in Nashville.Engelbert, a four-year Metro Police veteran, quickly unlocked and opened the door after a school staffer told him that at least two children were missing.As the door opened, Engelbert was met with the blaring sound of a fire alarm echoing inside the school. Engelbert, not knowing what was inside, turned back to his team and yelled, “Let’s go!”Two minutes and 15 seconds later, the threat was over. The events that unfolded Monday happened quickly. The shooter entered the school, opened fire, killed six people and was killed by officers less than an hour after leaving home.https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126333https://www.facebook.com/emmett.glasbrennerhttps://www.instagram.com/faith_and_sweat_88/https://www.tiktok.com/@faith_sweathttps://gofund.me/c2b27a2c00:00 Introduction00:30 Entry into school by shooter00:55 Police officer on the scene01:23 Clearing the 2nd Floor02:00 Suspect down02:42 The Aftermath 05:34 The call for gun control05:59 The Good, the bad, and the ugly15:53 This is what we can do Now

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – Officer Rex Engelbert was the first officer to open the doors to The Covenant School after reports of a school shooting on Monday morning in Nashville.Engelbert, a four-year Metro Police veteran, quickly unlocked and opened the door after a school staffer told him that at least two children were missing.As the door opened, Engelbert was met with the blaring sound of a fire alarm echoing inside the school. Engelbert, not knowing what was inside, turned back to his team and yelled, “Let’s go!”Two minutes and 15 seconds later, the threat was over. The events that unfolded Monday happened quickly. The shooter entered the school, opened fire, killed six people and was killed by officers less than an hour after leaving home.

4 Reason I don’t Support the War in Ukraine Under President Obama we Supported for the 2014 Maidan revolution: The United States supported the pro-Western Maidan revolution that took place in Ukraine in 2014, which led to the ousting of the pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych. Russia viewed the revolution as a Western-backed coup and has since taken a more aggressive stance towards Ukraine.Non-interventionist policy: Some Americans believe that the United States should not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries and should follow a non-interventionist policy. They may view providing aid to Ukraine as meddling in the internal affairs of another country and feel that the United States should not get involved. Economic and military aid to Ukraine: According to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. government has provided over $75 billion in assistance to Ukraine since the invasion. This aid includes a mix of financial, technical, and humanitarian assistance, as well as military aid to support Ukraine's efforts to defend itself against Russia.The money could go to our failing education system, Infrastructure: we are all aware of the environmental disaster in Palestine Ohio, and Florida.Police reformThe VAFighting against Inflation Immigration reform to include the border, and DACA.National Mental Health issuesAnd fighting economic disparities in the US. AMERICANS STILL SUPPORT AIDING UKRAINEWhen it comes to Ukraine, according to Gallup, one year into the war, 39% of Americans say the U.S. is doing the right amount to aid Ukraine, 30% say not enough, and 28% say the U.S. is doing too much. Additionally, nearly three-quarters of Americans support continuing economic (71%) and military (72%) aid to Ukraine, and 58% are willing to continue to support the country “as long as it takes,” even if U.S. households will have to pay higher prices for gas and food.Let’s contrast this with supporting Reparation to the African American citizens of the US.Only 15% of white Americans are for reparations both Republican and Democrats. Compare to around 74 % of Americans support the war in Ukraine .US welcome tens of thousands of Ukrainians fleeing war, but country continues to deport scores of African and Caribbean refugees back to unstable and violent homelands where they’ve faced rape, torture, arbitrary arrest, and other abuses.Ukraine Racism at the Center Stage: Black people seeking to leave the country have been abandoned at border crossings and have been discriminated against in their attempts to board public transport to evacuate the country.Since the hashtag #AfricansinUkraine  was started, videos and images of Black and African citizens being denied evacuation from Ukraine have flooded global social media timelines.Ukrainian conflict highlights the racism that sill persist in Europe: The EU nations were crying about migrants from Africa but has no issues with millions of Ukrainian refugees.Diversity in the UK and the US is even too much for Ukrainian.US welcome tens of thousands of Ukrainians fleeing war, but country continues to deport scores of African and Caribbean refugees back to unstable and violent homelands where they’ve faced rape, torture, arbitrary arrest, and other abuses.I pray for the day that the American government would care for all it’s citizen like they do the ones that are white and wealthy. We know they don’t care about Black, brown, and poor whites. #ukrine #African Diaspora News Channel #Faithandsweat #russiaukrainewar #antiblack00:00 Introduction00:38 2014 Median Revolution 02:33 Non Interventionist 03:53 Aid to Ukraine11:13 Highlight of racism

#passportbros  #thefilipinapea  #filipinapea#passportbros #filipinapea #thefilipinapea #betterbiatchesThe men that choose to leave their home countries in search of love are often misunderstood by the women they've left behind, causing hurt feelings and animosity.  A group of these men known as 'Passport Bros' have found themselves under attack by the women back home, who accuse them of misbehavior and bad intentions.  But what do they really want?  Why did they choose to leave their native land?  What do the women say about the men that choose to leave?A growing group of thousands of Black men is preaching to more men on social media platforms that women in other countries are the best source for a “traditional woman” to settle down with. Just follow the hashtag, and you’ll see Black men of all ages describing their experiences with the opposite sex in other countries compared to the women in the United States.00:00 Introduction01:13 The Beginning of the Passport bros07:39 Words from the haters17:38 They're Mad20:45 They're not mad they say24:18 Conclusion

There is a disturbing new advancement of the normalization of pedophilia. Miranda Galbreath is a Sex Therapist from Pennsylvania who tells us what a Minor Attracted Person is. Is the world going crazy? This was trending on TikTok so I thought I would do a reaction and I am in shock that a professional therapist would make such wild claims. Non-offending pedophile is a term used to describe an adult who is attracted to children but has never acted on those feelings with a child. Allyn Walker is an Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice. Their book The Long Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity is one of the first scholarly studies of minor-attracted people who do not offend. I talked to Allyn about their research, the stigma attached to this population, and what they learned about strategies to prevent offending.

New research by #CarolSwain, professor of law and political science at Vanderbilt University,  found that illegal immigration is hurting African Americans. In her essay in the newly released volume #DebatingImmigration, which Professor Swain edited, she said that 1. African Americans are losing more jobs to illegal immigrants than to other racial or ethnic groups, yet low-income black workers don’t have political input in the debate.“African Americans have been left devoid of a strong black voice in Congress on a topic that affects them deeply, given their high unemployment rates and historic struggle to get quality housing, health care, education and other goods and services,” Professor Swain based her comments on a study conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center, which found high unemployment rates among African Americans and Hispanics were partially attributed to the large number of low-skilled immigrants. She added that lax or non-existent immigration rules help businesses get away with hiring illegal immigrants rather than legal workers.2. “The greatest competition occurs among people at the margins of society, a multi-racial group that includes poorly educated blacks, whites and Hispanics who compete against each other and against new immigrants for low-wage, low-skill jobs,” By many measures, the economic gap between Black and white workers has gotten worse in recent years. In 1970, for instance, Black men earned 59% as much as white men. By 2019, that figure had dipped to 56%. For decades, unemployment rates among Black Americans have consistently been about double those for white Americans.There is no single explanation for these racial disparities, of course. But decades of mass immigration have almost certainly made the problem worse.3. Cuts in governmental programs, like student loans, make it harder for low-income African American students to train for higher paying jobs. Some African Americans feel threatened by surges of immigrants to the United States, she notes, because of the immigrants’ potential impact on affirmative action.Whereas immigrants accounted for just 4.7% of the population in 1970, they now make up over 13.7% — an almost three-fold increase.In Addition, company are choosing to hire illegal immigrants from South America and replacing non Spanish speaking people. I personally experienced this. Affirmative Action was meant to address the education and employment gap, but it has largely failed because every minority groups, and disable individuals no compete with Black people. A perfect example is corporate America focus diversity.  Any parallel between immigrant issues and the black civil rights movement is weak.  “Most illegal immigrants have willingly left their homelands to seek their fortunes in a more prosperous nation. They were not brought in chains,” 4. By not taking a stand on immigration, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) is ignoring the interests of their constituency. The CBC does not list immigration reform as a legislative priority. 5. Some of the lawmakers in the CBC have large numbers of Hispanic constituents in their districts, which may lead to a conflict of interest, It’s undeniable that mass immigration has come at a substantial cost to Black Americans. That doesn’t mean that immigrants don’t deserve our compassion, or that immigration is the sole cause of racial disparities in our nation.6. Unless there are big changes within the CBC believes there will not be official black representation on the immigration issue, which is hurting African Americans.And if we want to create a fairer economy, we can no longer ignore legal and illegal immigration’s unique contribution to racial inequality.  #RolandMartinUnfiltered #DonaldTrump

#gender #ecuador #childcustodyA father has legally changed his gender identification in an attempt to gain custody of his two young daughters following a bitter split from his wife.René Salinas Ramos, 47, is now listed as female on official documents in his native Ecuador — despite the fact he still identifies as a cisgender male in his everyday life.The desperate dad claimed he made the drastic decision due to the justice system in his country which he said typically benefits mothers in custody cases.“Being a father in this country, Ecuador, is punished and I’m only seen as a provider,” Ramos told local outlet La Voz del Tomebamba. “What I have been looking for is to give the love and protection that a mother can give her children.”Ramos alleged that his daughters currently live in an abusive environment with their mother — and claimed he hasn’t seen his children in more than five months.Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/01/06/despera...#ecuador #gender #childcustody

America has the highest rate of children living in single-parent households. Homelessness, suicide, and people with behavioral disorders are all linked to fatherless homes. In today’s video, Patrick Bet-David talks about the fatherless crisis in America and the consequences in society. #pbdpodcast #valuetainment #entrepreneur.

Black Americans don't have an issue of systemic racism - we have a culture issue! If skin color is really what holds people back in America, how do you explain the widespread success of Black African immigrants to the U.S.?-- Candace Owens.  In this video I answer that question and provide some rebuttals to some of her common talking points.I'm looking at data and research to find out what factors have contributed to the widespread success of Black African immigrants in the U.S. I want to know why they're able to thrive despite the challenges they face. Are there any benefits to being an immigrant from a black African country? And what can we learn from their success to help other communities in the U.S.?

Can we find a foreign policy of responsible global engagement that most Americans support, that draws the right lessons from our past mistakes, that steers between the equally dangerous shoals of confrontation and abdication, and that understands the difference between self-interest and selfishness? Antony Blinken and Robert Kagan propose an approach in a piece originally published by the Washington Post.Foreign policy was the last thing on voters' minds in the midterm elections, but as we start to look toward 2024, one thing is clear: President Trump's "America First" foreign policy-or its progressive cousin, retrenchment-is broadly popular in both parties. So here is the challenge: Can we find a foreign policy of responsible global engagement that most Americans support, that draws the right lessons from our past mistakes, that steers between the equally dangerous shoals of confrontation and abdication, and that understands the difference between self-interest and selfishness? Here are 4 pillars Forward1. Preventive diplomacy and deterrence2. Trade and technology3. Allies and institutions4. Immigration and refugeesIN CONCLUSION For all the flaws of the present world and the mistakes of our nation, we should not lose sight of what we have accomplished, and of what the world will look like if the United States, shortsightedly, forfeits the future to one of our near peer competitor like Russia and China.

Deion Sanders leave Jackson State UniversityToday we discuss his reason for leaving what does this say about HBCU and JSU in term of recruitment retention of players and coaches Is his decision bigger than football? 3 Questions for Black America is How much should Black individuals be expected to sacrifice for the benefit of Black institutions?What do Black people owe to black institutions?is cash all it takes to derail Black movement in America, and I believe the evidence to suggest so is increasing!By Jarvis DeBerry, MSNBC Opinion ColumnistIt was only a year ago that NFL Hall of Famer Deion “Prime Time” Sanders convinced Travis Hunter, the high school cornerback considered the nation’s top recruit, to forget about Florida State (the predominantly white school where Sanders had played) and sign with Jackson State University (the historically Black school in Mississippi where Sanders was coaching.) The shouts of joy at JSU, and from alumni of historically Black colleges and universities in general, were nearly drowned out by howls of outrage from those who swore that the only sensible choice for that recruit was to attend the school with the better record of sending players to the NFL. Critics argued that choosing the Black school over the white school was foolish.Critics of Hunter’s signing argued that his choosing the Black school over the white school was foolish.Sanders decision and  his announcement that he’s accepted the head football coach position at the University of Colorado which is a white university proves his critic point. This Bring Us to our First Question: How much should Black individuals be expected to sacrifice for the benefit of Black institutions?Second Question: What do Black people owe to black institutions?March interview with “Thee Pregame Show.” He said, “I’m happy where I am. It’s a calling where I am. God didn’t give me a timetable and say, ‘You got to be there for that long.’ God told me to go do that, do what I ask you to do, and do it at a high level.” them.”To that point, at least four of Sanders’ assistants at Jackson State are expected to join Sanders in Boulder. The Clarion Ledger reports that the highest ranking recruit for Jackson State’s 2023 class decided against enrolling at Jackson State when Sanders announced he was leaving and that there are seven players on the team considered candidates to leave the team (maybe for Colorado). The newspaper’s list includes Coach Sanders’ son, Shedeur Sanders, Jackson State’s starting quarterback. It also includes Hunter, the top recruit whose commitment to Jackson State caused such joy and consternation.This now is dealing with the 3rd question: is cash all it takes to derail Black movement in America, and I believe the evidence to suggest so is increasing!His supporter argue that Jackson State should be grateful to have had him for the three years he stayed and argue that Sanders needn’t explain why he left for a bigger, more lucrative opportunity. In short, they argue that given what the white school had to offer, Sanders deciding to stay at the Black school would have been foolish.Goal was to restore Black college football to its past glory — when future NFL Hall of Famers including Walter Payton, Jerry Rice and Michael Strahan were stars — said And, in this instance, that offer of cash wasn’t made to somebody who’s never had money, but to somebody who earned tens of millions of dollars during his stellar NFL career.There is nothing new about football head coaches, asking recruits to commit to them and their program even as they’re eyeing their next gig. Therefore, on the most basic level, there’s nothing remarkable about Sanders convincing players to join his team and then abandoning them for another job, where he’ll likely start the cycle again.

Asian woman confirming how they are incentivized to practice Anti-Black racism by WS.  Asian-Americans, with their "solid two-parent family structures," are a shining example of how to overcome discrimination. Since the end of World War II, many white people have used Asian-Americans and their perceived collective success as a racial wedge. The effect? Minimizing the role racism plays in the persistent struggles of other racial/ethnic minority groups — especially black Americans. "During World War II, the media created the idea that the Japanese were rising up out of the ashes [after being held in incarceration camps] and proving that they had the right cultural stuff," said Claire Jean Kim, a professor at the University of California, Irvine. "And it was immediately a reflection on black people: Now why weren't black people making it, but Asians were?" These arguments falsely conflate anti-Asian racism with anti-black racism, according to Kim. "Racism that Asian-Americans have experienced is not what black people have experienced," Kim said. "Sullivan is right that Asians have faced various forms of discrimination, but never the systematic dehumanization that black people have faced during slavery and continue to face today." Asians have been barred from entering the U.S. and gaining citizenship and have been sent to incarceration camps, Kim pointed out, but all that is different than the segregation, police brutality and discrimination that African-Americans have endured. Many scholars have argued that some Asians only started to "make it" when the discrimination against them lessened — and only when it was politically convenient. Amid worries that the Chinese exclusion laws from the late 1800s would hurt an allyship with China in the war against imperial Japan, the Magnuson Act was signed in 1943, allowing 105 Chinese immigrants into the U.S. each year. As Wu wrote in 2014 in the Los Angeles Times, the Citizens Committee to Repeal Chinese Exclusion "strategically recast Chinese in its promotional materials as 'law-abiding, peace-loving, courteous people living quietly among us'" instead of the "'yellow peril' coolie hordes." In 1965, the National Immigration Act replaced the national-origins quota system with one that gave preference to immigrants with U.S. family relationships and certain skills. In 1966, William Petersen, a sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley, helped popularize comparisons between Japanese-Americans and African-Americans. His New York Times story, headlined, "Success Story, Japanese-American Style," is regarded as one of the most influential pieces written about Asian-Americans. It solidified a prevailing stereotype of Asians as industrious and rule-abiding that would stand in direct contrast to African-Americans, who were still struggling against bigotry, poverty and a history rooted in slavery.

The child support system covers about a quarter of American children, and can provide a crucial safety net for some families. But it is obvious the current laws need significant restructuring.Here are four of the most critical flaws of the current child support system.Unfair child support paymentsThe child support system was originally a bipartisan policy reform designed to serve divorced parents who were steadily employed. But the system was established nearly 40 years ago, and is based on outdated stereotypes that viewed Mom as a housewife and Dad as the sole breadwinner.As Johns Hopkins University sociologist Kathryn Edin explained to Graham, the traditional roles of mothers and fathers have changed dramatically since the 1970s, but the laws are still stuck in the past.“We have a 1970s narrative about a 2010s reality,” Edin said.Why is child support so unfair to fathers?As Graham points out, 29 percent of families in the system live below the federal poverty line. Many fathers sincerely want to do right by their children, but simply don’t have the means to do so. That becomes a very slippery slope for a lot of dads.When unpaid child support payments accumulate, this often snowballs into another issue: parental alienation. Research has shown that men with outstanding child support debts tend to be less involved in their children’s lives. Some even find themselves incarcerated over unpaid payments.And since many states treat incarceration as voluntary unemployment, child support debts continue accumulating while men are in prison. It’s easy to see why this is such a difficult cycle to break.The “deadbeat dad” mythAnother stereotype feeding many of the problems with the current child support laws is that of the deadbeat dad.In 1986, CBS produced a report titled “The Vanishing Family: Crisis in Black America,” which featured a New Jersey father of six who bragged on camera about not supporting his children financially. The report sparked outrage across the country and even led to stricter child support laws.Not long after the piece ran, Congress passed a law forcing states to adopt stricter enforcement practices when collecting past child support debts. That trend continued well into the ’90s when President Bill Clinton’s welfare reform act gave government even greater power to enforcement child support collection against noncustodial parents.While fathers skipping out on their child support responsibilities certainly shouldn’t be ignored, current research suggests the “deadbeat dad” is probably more of an outlier than the status quo. In 2013, Edin coauthored “Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City.” Edin and coauthor Timothy Nelson conducted in-depth interviews with 110 low-income fathers in the Philadelphia area over seven years and discovered the majority of the men were exhilarated to be fathers, even when the pregnancies were unplanned. Even when faced with difficult financial situations, many fathers tried to find other ways to provide emotional support for their children.Edin’s study goes hand-in-hand with other recent research that suggests economic support, although necessary, is hardly enough to qualify one as a good parent.The current system fixates on enforcement and ignores involvementThe core of the problem with modern child support laws is that there is too much emphasis on enforcement and not enough focus on getting fathers involved in their children’s lives.The Federal Parent Locator Service uses a national database to track down noncustodial parents to enforce payments. In 2013, $32 billi

Don Lemon got into a heated exchange with his CNN co-anchors Thursday morning after observing that male athletes earn more money than female athletes because men’s sports earn more money than women’s sports.Lemon made his comments during a "CNN This Morning" segment on the pay gap between the U.S. men’s and U.S. women’s national soccer teams, frustrating his co-anchors Kaitlin Collins and Poppy Harlow, who argued that male athletes earn more because the media gives men's sports a bigger platform.Insisting, "I’m not a sexist," Lemon gave the counterargument that our "capitalist society" benefits products that are in higher demand, in this case men’s sports, thus male athletes recieve higher earnings. The debate began in the middle of CNN data analyst Harry Enten’s explanation of the pay discrepancies between the two teams. While noting that the U.S. women’s national soccer team is more successful than the men’s, in terms of games won and having won multiple world cups – something the men’s team has yet to do once – Lemon argued that was irrelevant to the discussion of whether the women should be paid more. The anchor interjected, "I know everyone’s gonna hate me, but the men’s team makes more money. If they make more money then they should get more money." The two female co-anchors immediately bristled at his remark, and tried to interrupt him.Before being completely talked over, he added, "The men’s team makes more money because people are more interested in the men!"Harlow blamed "big media companies" for the lower popularity it women’s sports. She stated, "I have big issue with this, guys, WNBA – same thing’s happening to them. Until big media companies, big tech companies, advertisers invest and put them on their airwaves more and allow people to see it more and gain more fans, then you will push towards more equality."She added, "But if they are blocked in so many ways and not invested in as much, they don’t even have a shot." Lemon refused to back down. He prefaced his response, saying, "I’m not sexist. I grew up the only boy in a family of all women." He then told Harlow, "I understand what you’re saying, but not everybody honestly has the same skill, not everybody has the same interest in the sport."He clarified, "I think that women should be paid more, I really do, but if the men –" Collins interrupted him, quipping, "You’re right that not everyone has the same skills cause the women are better skilled."Poppy applauded Collins’ joke, but Lemon dismissed it, saying, "Well the women are better skilled against better other women, but if the women played the men, they wouldn’t be winning the way that they win." A frustrated Harlow replied, "I’m not even going to get into that argument."After the commercial break, the three resumed their debate. Lemon continued defending his point: "So I’m just saying that if there is more interest in a men’s sport, the businesspeople, the people who make money off of sports, will put that on television because we live in a capitalist society. And if people are interested in that then there would be more attention and more money would be paid." Collins responded, saying, "Why is that what people are watching? It’s cause it’s what they’re used to watching. Why is it cause it’s what they’re watching? Because men were putting men’s sports on TV way before women’s sports." Harlow approved of Collin’s claim, exclaiming, "Yes. Yes."She added, "So it’s this systemic, institutionalized thing."