Just saw this video and thought it germane to the thread - https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-63506246. "Dads on Duty" in Shreveport, Louisiana, totally turned a distressed school culture around.
No one - of any color - does well, without heaping doses of love and connection.
When you add other factors, income, education, culture, etc…
Just saw this video and thought it germane to the thread - https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-63506246. "Dads on Duty" in Shreveport, Louisiana, totally turned a distressed school culture around.
No one - of any color - does well, without heaping doses of love and connection.
When you add other factors, income, education, culture, etc., you just increase the predicative odds against success.
Any contemplation of judicial reform that ignores the bigger picture is missing the boat. People have a need to be safe, but when we, as a society continue to poison the environment that so many of these violent offenders marinate in, we are almost ensuring our lack of safety. (Consider the uptake in school shootings, incel culture, opiods, teen suicides triggered by vicious online behaviors.)
It's not primarily a racial issue - although racial factors compound it. It's our trashy culture that glorifies the wrong values and makes that love and connection a rare commodity, instead of every baby's birthright.
What I appreciate about these men is that they are big-hearted enough to spread some of that love around. More of this please! We all have someone in our sphere of influence who could use some encouraging. Let's step up.
Just saw this video and thought it germane to the thread - https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-63506246. "Dads on Duty" in Shreveport, Louisiana, totally turned a distressed school culture around.
No one - of any color - does well, without heaping doses of love and connection.
When you add other factors, income, education, culture, etc., you just increase the predicative odds against success.
Any contemplation of judicial reform that ignores the bigger picture is missing the boat. People have a need to be safe, but when we, as a society continue to poison the environment that so many of these violent offenders marinate in, we are almost ensuring our lack of safety. (Consider the uptake in school shootings, incel culture, opiods, teen suicides triggered by vicious online behaviors.)
It's not primarily a racial issue - although racial factors compound it. It's our trashy culture that glorifies the wrong values and makes that love and connection a rare commodity, instead of every baby's birthright.
What I appreciate about these men is that they are big-hearted enough to spread some of that love around. More of this please! We all have someone in our sphere of influence who could use some encouraging. Let's step up.