I think perhaps you need a better health care system all round.
In the UK, the elderly can have 'meals on wheels' service (subsidised hot meals delivered) and care assistants visiting up to four times a day depending upon need via social services and the NHS. This care is arranged through their doctor at no cost.
In our local community centre, pensioners can get subsidised hot meals and company/support as well.
And living in a small Welsh village, we also have old fashioned neighbourly support for the elderly.
Most supermarkets offer a home delivery service via the internet for as little as a pound per delivery.
Seeing as you have access to the internet, I wonder if you could come up with some ideas about creating community care, although you'd have to be careful given those who will need it will be vulnerable to preditors. One way might be persuading big companies that home delivery is good for business - a lot of busy, wealthier people use it as well, perhaps paying higher premiums for deliveries at peak times.
A growing movement here in the UK involves using viable food thrown away by supermarkets for restaurants where vulnerable people, such as the homeless can pay as much as they can afford (if anything) for high quality meals. The food just needs to be handled within the EU food safety regulations which requires effective organisation.
It might be interesting for you to google the charity Age Concern here in the UK to see what services they offer and how they are organised/funded.
Just a few, hopefully inspirational ideas if you have a bit of time on your hands.
As a 13 year old, she's likely to be much more influenced by 'feeling rules' in the moment than an adult. She laughs at the joke, but then she's expected to politely perform on stage surrounded by adults and stars.
I wonder what the impact will be on her in the days, weeks and even years to come.
Children often take horrible things (and feelings of parental abandonement) in their stride when young, but as they get to their teens, with greater understanding, the full impact hits home.
At this point, I think the TV show badly needs to find her mother and hope like they've never hoped before that her mother does want contact with her.
To lose your mother once is bad, to lose her twice...
She may well benefit from counselling after her childhood experiences. Wearing the veil may be a copying strategy for her in some way. That's her journey and she should have control over it, not anyone else.
I don't understand what you mean here, Rain. Could you explain, please?
How do you know she feels subservient. That wasn't the message she was portraying when interviewed, unless you mean her comment about bowing down to no one, no man and only bowing down to god.
I get some of what you're saying, but I do think it's important to work from her value framework rather than try to impose our own. She's entitled to make her own choices and not have anything imposed upon her from anyone.
What do you find interesting about that?
It may well change in time, but it's oppressive to decide for someone else, whatever the decision.
The standard dress code in my house (my daughter, granddaughter and myself) is T-shirt and knickers. We don't feel exposed in our own home, but we cover up to go outside the home. We wouldn't expose ourselves like that in public. Is that so very different?
I think this article lumps traits together in a prejudicial way.
For example, someone may have a high empathy quotient, but may not be emotionally reactive, or have low self-esteem. To get to this state of being is part of the self-actualisation process, ergo we can learn and choose how to use our innate traits, experiences, skills and knowledge.
I don't like the way this article appears to try and freeze people in a state and not recognise we all evolve fluidly over time. I don't like the way it tries to view people collectively, rather than recognising individuality. I don't like the way it appears to impose identity, just like any other form of prejudice.
And I don't think it's necessarily healthy to quash emotions as that's how we become disconnected from our authentic selves and others. Far better to recognise our feelings and process them, than adhere to external social, or cultural feeling rules.
I'd be hard pushed to pick a favourite, but I have a piece of rose quartz (following the Victorian tradition of using it cool the hands during prologed periods of hand sewing) that I'm very fond of.
To one of my work colleagues who realised one bottle of carbonated water was leaking in a crate of 24 and decided to shake them to see which one it was. His dripping face was a picture.
It's unfortunate that this is not a well written report as it lacks credibility as a result.
If people want action to stop this happening, they need a bit more clout, wrong as that is.
There needs to be a push for an external enquiry into the actions of the CPS. Removing children should be a last resort and only if the children are endangered.
Yes, this issue of the Niqab is a good smokescreen for the bigger issues Mr.Murphy mentioned, but it concerns me that there's maybe more to it than that, certainly here in the UK.
What if it's a smokescreen for less obvious, more secretive political action? What if it's used to garner support for war crimes, such as the ones the former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has been alleged to be involved with, but not prosecuted for? What if it's ultimately about power, wealth and control and once again women are being used as pawns in the game?
If we collectively learn to hate and depersonalise groups of people, it's then not difficult to get people to support their destruction and death. Surely, the objectification of others is exactly the behaviour of an extremist.
Is it any different insisting that women don't wear the Niqab than it is insisting they do? It's still about removing their right to self-determination, free will and choice.
It was an issue here when it became mandatory to wear a motorcycle helmet. As Sikh men couldn't get one on over their turbans, they were exempt, but I think they may only ride up to a certain size of engine to limit the risk of head injury should they have an accident.
I doubt very much there has ever been an issue about wearing religious head dress in court here in the UK. It may be something to do with Sikhs having a lot of respect in the British Indian Army, or it may be that the courts are a little less petty and more respectful.
As for wearing the niqab in a British court, I found this which was interesting:
I read another report which talked of women being required to unveil their faces when giving evidence, but from behind a screen so only the jurors and court officials could see their face. The screen would ensure discretion from the public gallery and reporters.
I've only read the legislation for the first few states, but it sounds like in some places people might be at risk of imprisonment if the pull a wooly scarf over their nose and mouth in cold conditions. That sounds like an extremist regime to me.
I know not all men are like that and I do occasionally reply to some men who don't appear to need a straight jacket.
I tend to oscillate between seeking men and seeking women and if it's any consolation, I've had some really gross mail from women which has had me reaching for the block button in a very big hurry.
There are so many members all with different cultures, thoughts, feelings and behaviours, it would be daft to expect everyone to be like-minded. I think we just have to let stuff go over our heads and not take it personally.
The thing about interpreting other people's behaviour, or psychology is that we will always do it from our own frame of reference.
As such, our thoughts and feelings about that person perhaps more accurately tell us about ourselves, than them.
And that's when things can get really interesting.
Challenging the basis, or logic, of someone's argument is a different thing altogether, however. It's not personal, it's about the sequence of words in front of you.
It can sometimes be difficult to seperate the two, mind.
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RE: 5 years today we lost our mum
One helluva loss then, seeing as you fellas got the best mum.