This piece by Emma Haak was sent to me by colleagues who work from an Imago perspective, which is an approach to couples work that I highly respect. So many thanks to my friendly Imago therapists who shared this with me: Patty Mangini, PhD, Michael Scott, MFT Maria Monroe, MFT Researchers have looked at everything …
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The following is excerpted from MedScape: COMMENTARY: Censoring the CDC Is Scary and Crazy, Says Ethicist Arthur L. Caplan, PhD. December 18, 2017. In Medscape What Kind of Government Bans Legitimate Words? On Friday, December 15, the Washington Post reported that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had been banned from …
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That’s right, the chart shows that those reporting their marriage was “very happy” declined 8% over the last 42 years, from 68% to 60%. Over the same period, income inequality in America has sky-rocketed to the levels seen in third world countries like Uganda, Venezuala, Morocco, Tunisia and Thailand. We’re less equal than all the …
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Here’s the gist of what I’m going to say here: Over the last 40 years male sperm count has decreased by 50% in all industrial nations and it keeps going down. 15% of couples are unable to have a baby (are infertile). Half the time a couple can’t have a baby male infertility is involved. …
Sperm Counts Decline of 50% since 1973, more so among older men, and yet…Read More »
Terry Real, a family and couples therapist in Boston, writes extensively on how traditional masculinity can be damaging to marriage. I agree with his positions completely, and since he has written so well on the issue I am just going to share the following quotes from his recent article. “The election of Donald Trump and …
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3:39 PM ET 6/13/17 | MarketWatch By Paul A. Merriman Complete this 11-point exercise and learn when you can retire And afterward, craft an action plan One of the most frequent questions I hear is a variation on this: “How will I know when I have enough to retire?” The answer is different for every …
Some 1,000 persons a day are apprehended by the US Border Patrol. Dr Stein: The AAP thinks that children should absolutely not be held in detention. These children are not criminals, and we think that they can and should be embedded in the community as soon as they arrive because they are children. I can …
A study reviewed by John Tozzi in Bloomberg suggests this might be the case: ” …That’s the implication of new research that suggests inequality makes wealthy people less generous. The study … … in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is the first to probe how inequality influences altruism. Some earlier research in the U.S. …
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Megan Brooks, reporting in MedScape, on April 18, 2017: “One thing that is important to highlight is the impact of the recession of 2008 on the mentally ill,” she told Medscape Medical News. “They didn’t recover in their ability to utilize healthcare the way that people who were not mentally ill were able to recover. Somehow maybe …
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“Under federal law, the tax, which is levied at a 40 percent rate, applies only to estates worth more than $5.45 million for individuals and $10.9 million for couples [i.e, the first 5.45 M are not taxed. Only the amount over 5.45M are taxed at 40%]. Estates worth less than that may be passed on …
The “Death Tax” or is it really a “Anti-Nobility Tax”?Read More »