Anti Wage-Slavery Pro-Freedom Quotations Of The Week 1690-1692

What is the common denominator between the mega-producer Harvey Weinstein, the pundit Mark Halperin, the venture capitalist Dave McClure, and the aggressive former boss of a customer-service supervisor I interviewed last week?

All are accused of dreadful sexual harassment, and in some cases violent assault. All also had inordinate economic advantage over their female employees and colleagues. Their quarry ranged from actresses to journalists to female entrepreneurs. And what their prey all had in common was a fear of financial or professional retribution that could destabilize already precarious careers.

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The daily deluge of tales of lechery and trauma holds a hidden but crucial truism: sexual harassment routinely feeds on income inequality. After all, it’s much harder to exploit an equal. The greater the imbalance of income and power, the more opportunity there is to abuse one’s advantage (and perhaps, a greater temptation).
What's the common denominator among sexual harassers? Too often, it's money.
Alissa Quart
Thursday 9 November 2017
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 “many health-care professionals point to the lack of parent involvement beyond the first 16 months as a primary contributing factor.” Dr. Himmelstrand concludes, “making childrearing a state responsibility has not proven to be a success.”

How Do We Reconcile This Conundrum?

John Bowlby, a British psychiatrist, and generally regarded as the Father of Attachment Theory, with Mary Ainsworth, an American psychologist, emphasized the significance of our first infant/mother bond in historic studies in “Attachment and Loss” (1969-1982). They found attachment is the necessary prerequisite to a successful learner within a safe, secure and stable home with an empathic and nurturing environment.

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The Canadian Institute of Child Health in Ottawa (1999, 2008), reports the brain at birth is highly underdeveloped. While billions of cells are built into the physical structure, the “wiring” between them will be laid out by environmental stimulation.

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Remarkably, this increase in social problems among the young also coincides with an increase of children in varied child-care arrangements. In Child Care in Canada (2011), Statistics Canada reports over the last three decades, the need for child care has grown steadily with the rise in employment rates among women, dual-income families, along with lone-parent and step-families. The employment rate of women with children under six has more than doubled between 1976 and 2009 from 31% to 67% (Ferrao 2010).14 The majority of parents (86%) used child care arrangements on a regular basis. 1

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Should this trend prove to be a primary contributing factor, the following generations may well be swamped by a tsunami of social problems.

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The best funded and best constructed daycare, even dressed up as “early childhood education,” cannot fulfill the child’s biological need for parental attachment. Consistency and stability cannot be ensured even in the best of daycares. Sufficient ratios of adult to child will always be a struggle to maintain. Staff will change as their personal lives dictate. This is a job, after all, and emotional investment is not the primary bond.

The Building Blocks of Education By Libby Simon
PsychCentral

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 The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.
Leo Tolstoy