ADULTS CAUSE YOUTH VIOLENCE IN FLINT MI USA.

GOOD MORNING FLINT!
11/21/09
BY
Terry Bankert
A Flint Divorce Lawyer sharing his opinion.
　
　
LET’S GIVE A LITTLE RESPECT… I am the problem, you are the problem, the adults in Flint are the problem its not the kids, they just want a little respect.

TO STOP THE VIOLENCE OUR FLINT YOUTH NEED A HIGHER SENSE OF PURPOSE IN LIFE.[2]

I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT FINDING ONE OF YOUR GOD’S.

IT IS A MATTER OF YOUNG BLACK MALES DEMANDING AND GETTING RESPECT IN A WORLD OF DISRESPECT, STARTING IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITY.
　
FACTORS?

COULD IT BE PARENTS WHO ACT AS THUGISH CHILDREN, VIOLENCE ALL AROUND, LACK OF QUALITY FOOD SHELTER AND OPPORTUNITY FOR EDUCATION, STEROTYPICAL DISRESPECT AGAINST BLACK YOUTH FROM THE LEADERSHIP OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY!

ONE STUDIES OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this study was to examine social and psychological factors associated with the use and nonuse of violence among Black adolescents living in a community with a high level of violent crime. [1] Why do we not in a community full of PhD’s and social workers conduct out own self study?

VIOLENCE BEGETS VIOLENCE, DISRESPECT BEGETS DISRESPECT.

ADULTS! YOU WANT TO STOP YOUTH VIOLENCE, THEN STOP YOURSELF FIRST.


ONE STUDIES RESULTS. Self-reported use of violence was associated with exposure to violence and personal victimization, hopelessness, depression, family conflict, previous corporal punishment, purpose in life, self-assessment of the probability of being alive at age 25, and age and was higher among males.[1]

RESPECT THE YOUTH AROUND YOU,!!!

ONE STUDIES SUGGESTED Objectives: The respect that African American youth feel promotes psychological wellness and social identity; conversely, a lack of respect compromises their identities and is viewed as a threat to safety.[3]

ANOTHER STUDIES RESULTS: After acceptable reliability was established, factor analysis revealed three principal components labeled societal, family, and peer subscales. [6]

REACH OUT TO YOUTH BEFORE THEY ARE INCARCERATED

The subscales correlated with racial socialization and predicted the use of violence. Non incarcerated youth scored significantly higher on all three subscales than incarcerated youth. [6]

ITS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE!

ANOTHER STUDIES CONCLUSIONS: Suggestions for social work practice with African American youth include assessing their attitudes toward respect, and assisting them to handle disrespect without resorting to violence. [6]

DO NOT BLAME THIS ON THE MEDIA, JUST GIVE THEM POSITIVE THINGS TO REPORT, FROM YOUR OWN COMMUNITY, CHURCH, SCHOOL, …ETC…

Youth violence garners considerable attention in the media as well as in public policy debates. [2]
A STOP THE VIOLENCE RALLY SHOULD NOT BE THOUGHT TO BE A CONTROL THE BLACK YOUTH PROBLEM, WHEN WE ARE THE PROBLEM.

In spite of this interest and attention to youth violence, stereotypes fueled by misperceptions about the epidemiology of youth violence often drive these discussions. [2]

BLACK ADULT LEADERS TREAT BLACK YOUTH AS THE DARK STRANGERS

Urban minority youth, especially males, are typically presented as the "dark stranger" responsible for much of this violence. [2]

SO, JUST WHAT IS OUR PROBLEM…..ITS US

Criminal justice and juvenile justice data tend to reinforce this perspective. In this article, the authors call into question the extent to which violent juvenile offending can be characterized as an urban minority male problem. [2]

KID VIOLENCE HAS AN IMPACT ON THE KIDS

ONE STUDIES CONCLUSION. These data support the hypothesis that exposure to violence is associated with adolescents' self-reported use of violence. [1]

WE ALL NEED TO KNOW WHO WE ARE

Ethnic identity is believed by some to function as a protective factor for ethnic minority youth, in particular African American youth. [3]

WE ALL NEED TO LIVE IN A WAY THAT WE CAN RESPECT OURSELVES

Although ethnic identity development is primarily the result of racial socialization practices, it may also be influenced by other contextual factors. [3]

FACTORES THAT AFFECT OUR SELF RESPECT

Community-level factors such as disadvantage, disorder, and disorganization have been linked to a variety of antisocial and illicit activities. [5]

WHY ARE PEOPLE AFFECTED DIFFERENTLY?

Although crime and deviance tend to concentrate in areas with these characteristics, not all residents of disorganized neighborhoods participate in proscribed activities. [5]

WHY DO WE GLAMORIZE WEAPON CARRYING IN THE ADULT WORLD?

This study examines the relationship between exposure to community violence and involvement in assault behavior and weapon carrying among a sample of at-risk youth. [5]

THE LOGIC OF SELF PROTECTION, VIOLENCE

ONE STUDIES FINDING demonstrate that controlling for the effects of neighborhood disadvantage as well as other common correlates of delinquency (e.g., family supervision and structure, school attachment, and peer delinquency), youth who witnessed more violence in their neighborhoods were more likely to self-report assaultive behavior and weapon carrying. [5]

WHAT ABOUT OUR NEIGHBORHOODS? HOW DO THEY AFFECT RESPECT AND VIOLENCE.

Neighborhood factors, parent characteristics, parenting style, and bicultural competence may play pivotal roles in the ethnic identity development of African American youth. [3]

SEVERAL findings suggest that urban hassles negatively affect the content of ethnic identity but that this effect may be mediated by racial socialization. [3]

NEIGHBORHOODS AFFECT OUR IDENTITY

This research represents a continuing effort to explore the influence of contextual factors on the ethnic identity content of African American youth. [3]

HERE ONE FOR YOU…ASK THE KIDS..WHY IS THERE DISRESPECT AND VIOLENCE

The children were interviewed about their exposure to community violence. [4]Data on the risk factors were obtained from the children themselves and their parents, classmates, and teachers. [4]

ADULTS IT STARTS WITH YOU

All four domains—family and household context, negative parenting, deviant behavior of friends, and the children’s own behavioral characteristics and cognition—contributed to the children’s risk for exposure 1 year later. [4]
　
IF KIDS SEE CRAP ALL AROUND THEM THEY ACT CRAPPY

As hypothesized, deviant behavior of friends and the children’s own behavior and cognition were found to mediate the effects of stressful family and household context and negative parenting on later risk for exposure. [4]

ADULTS, START WITH THE ADULTS TO REALLY ADDRESS THE PROBLEM OF BLACK YOUTH URBAN VIOLENCE IN FLINT MICHIGAN

By broadening the focus to include features of parents as well as of neighborhoods, a more complete understanding is provided. [3]
　
ONE STUDY FOUND AND I AGREE IS THAT adolescents with a higher sense of purpose in life and less depression were better able to withstand the influence of exposure to violence in the home and in the community. [1]

SO ADULTS WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TODAY TO BE A BETTER MODEL OF BEHAVIOR. What are your going to do today to improve your community. Talk is cheap for those already at the podium!

Posted here by
Terry Bankert
http://www.flintdivorce.com/
　
　
[1]
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/84/4/612
Factors associated with the use of violence among urban black adolescents. ,R H DuRant, C Cadenhead, R A Pendergrast, G Slavens and C W Linder , Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
[2]
http://yvj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/5/4/385
Youth Violence in Context,The Roles of Sex, Race, and Community in Offending
[3]
http://jbp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/32/4/479
Culture and Context: A Study of Neighborhood Effects on Racial Socialization and Ethnic Identity Content in a Sample of African American Adolescents
[4]
http://jea.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/26/2/232
Exposure to Community Violence
Processes That Increase the Risk for Inner-City Middle School Children
[5]
http://cad.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/52/2/307
Exposure to Community Violence and Childhood Delinquency
　
[6]
http://rsw.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/15/6/462
The African American Adolescent Respect Scale: A Measure of a Prosocial Attitude

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CANCER STRICKEN WOMEN MORE LIKELY TO GET DIVORCED

GOOD MORNING FLINT!
11/13/09
By
Terry Bankert a Flint Divorce Lawyers observation.
　
BACKGROUND: Life-threatening illness creates severe stress that may result in marital discord, separation, or divorce and may adversely impact treatment, quality of life, and survival. [2]

NO DATA ON DIVORCE OF CANCER PAITENTS

Few studies that are available to date have suggested that the risk of divorce is not higher in cancer patients, but to the authors' knowledge, no data exist to date that have examined the effect of gender on this rate.[2]

MEDICAL PROVIDERS SHOULD LOOK FOR MARITAL DISCORD

The researchers said in the study to be published in the journal Cancer that medical providers be sensitive to possible marital discord in couples affected by a serious medical illness, especially when the woman is the affected spouse.[3]
　
WIVES GO IT ALONE WITH CANCER

When Dr. Marc Chamberlain, a Seattle oncologist, was treating his brain cancer patients, he noticed an alarming pattern. His male patients were typically receiving much-needed support from their wives. But a number of his female patients were going it alone, ending up separated or divorced after receiving a brain tumor diagnosis. [1]

CONCLUSIONS: Female gender was found to be a strong predictor of partner abandonment in patients with serious medical illness. When divorce or separation occurred, quality of care and quality of life were adversely affected. Cancer 2009. © 2009 American Cancer Society.[2]
　
STUDY RELEASED

Dr. Chamberlain, chief of the neuro-oncology division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, had heard similar stories from his colleagues. To find out if these observations were based in fact, he embarked on a study with Dr. Michael J. Glantz of the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute and colleagues from three other institutions who began to collect data on 515 patients who received diagnoses of brain tumors or multiple sclerosis from 2001 through 2006. [1]

METHODS: A total of 515 patients were prospectively identified as having either a malignant primary brain tumor (N = 214), a solid tumor with no nervous system involvement (N = 193), or multiple sclerosis (N = 108) who were married at the time of diagnosis. Basic demographic information and data regarding marital status were compiled. Patients were followed prospectively from enrollment until death or study termination. [2]
　
SICK WOMEN 7 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE LEFT BY SPOUSE

The results were surprising. Women in the study who were told they had a serious illness were seven times as likely to become separated or divorced as men with similar health problems. [1]

12% IN STUDY ABANDONED

Over all, about 12 percent of the patients in the study ended up separated or divorced, a rate that was similar to that found in the general American population during that time period. (Lifetime divorce rates in the United States are higher.) But the pattern changed when the researchers looked at the patient-divorce breakdown by sex. When the man became ill, only 3 percent experienced the end of a marriage. But among women, about 21 percent ended up separated or divorced. Among couples who split up, divorce occurred, on average, about six months after the diagnosis, although there was wide variability in the timing. [1]

"Female gender was the strongest predictor of separation or divorce in each of the patient groups we studied," study co-author Dr. Marc Chamberlain, director of the neuro-oncology program at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, said in a news release. [4]
　
UNHAPPY WOMEN WITH SICK HUSBAND WILL STICK IT OUT

It is not known whether the illness prompted the breakup or whether the couples in the study who divorced were already experiencing marital problems before the diagnosis. If couples are happy before the diagnosis, it appears that men are more likely to abandon wives who become seriously ill. If couples are already troubled before a partner becomes ill, the finding suggests that women in unhappy marriages are less likely to proceed with a divorce if their husbands become ill. [1]



“All these patients were couples when we met them, but we don’t know about pre-diagnosis marital conflicts that had been festering,” Dr. Chamberlain said. “But the striking part is with life-threatening illness, how often women are abandoned compared to men. That does not speak very well of my gender.” [1]

SICK WOMENS DIVORCE RATE JUMPS FROM 11.6 %TO 20.8%

The study confirmed earlier research of a divorce or separation rate among cancer patients of 11.6 percent, similar to the general population, but found the rate jumped to 20.8 percent when the woman was sick versus 2.9 percent when the man was ill.[3]
　
WOMEN HAVE HIGHER EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENTS

Dr. Chamberlain speculated that differences in male and female roles in the family could explain the trend. “There clearly is an emotional attachment women have to spouse, family and home that in times of stress causes women to hunker down and deal with it, while men may want to flee,” he said. [1]

MEN CANNOT ADJUST

The researchers said the reason men leave a sick spouse can be partly explained by their inability to rapidly adjust to becoming a caregiver and to look after the home and family. [3]
　
WOMEN ARE VULNERABLY TO ABANDONMENT WHEN DIAGNOSED

Additional study is needed to understand why women appear more vulnerable to spousal abandonment after a diagnosis of serious illness. The study did find that couples who had been married longer were less likely to break up after a cancer diagnosis. [1]

SOCIAL WORKERS NEEDED IN WOMEN HEALTH TEAM

Hospitals and oncology practices may also want to consider including social workers and family therapists as part of a patient’s health care team, particularly for younger couples. Patients who lose spousal support after a cancer diagnosis are less likely to complete therapy or try new treatments. They have higher rates of hospitalization and lower rates of hospice care. [1]

SOCIAL SUPPORT IMPORTANT

“It has an enormous impact,” Dr. Chamberlain said. “We know from other studies of patients with cancer that social support is so extremely important.” [1]

EARLY INTERVENTION WILL HELP

"Early identification and psychosocial intervention might reduce the frequency of divorce and separation, and in turn improve quality of life and quality of care," they said.[3]

WHOSE JOB IS IT TO SAVE A MARRIAGE?

"We believe that our findings apply generally to patients with life-altering medical illness," the authors wrote. "We recommend that medical providers be especially sensitive to early suggestions of marital discord in couples affected by the occurrence of a serious medical illness, especially when the woman is the affected spouse and it occurs early in the marriage. [4]

INTERVENTION WITH A SOCIAL WORKER MAY SAVE THE MARRAIGE

Early identification and psychosocial intervention might reduce the frequency of divorce and separation, and in turn improve quality of life and quality of care." [4]


Posted here by
Terry Bankert
http://www.flintfamilylaw.com/
　
[1]
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/men-more-likely-to-leave-spouse-with-cancer/
[2]
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122527377/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
[3]
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE5AB0C520091112
[4]
http://www.ajc.com/health/content/shared-auto/healthnews/-gen/632994.html

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Lt. Governor John Cherry spoke in Flint 11/10/098

GOOD MORING FLINT!
11/11/2009
By Terry Bankert
Observation of a Flint MI Divorce Lawyer

I attended the Progressive Caucus meeting last night.

Their meeting announcement read “ Special Guest, Lieutenant Governor John Cherry at the next Progressive Caucus Meeting at 6:30 PM, Tuesday, November 10 TH at the Asbury United Methodist Church, 1653 Davison Road (about 3 blocks east of I-475), Flint. We are very pleased to have the Lieutenant Governor share his time with us. John, who grew up in and continues to make his family home in the County, can fully appreciate our situation and is committed to make our County and State a better place. Please come and invite others”

This was a roomful of old friends, 40 plus people no local media that I saw.

I sat at the table with Lt. Governor John Cherry and Jack Minore Chairperson of the Genesee County Democratic Party..

In Genesee County several of us came up together but apart. I am speaking of John, Pam, Robert, Daniel, Lee, Debbie, and that Clodfelter guy.

We walked the life path pursuing education, love, family, careers and now we are knocking at the door of 60 yrs of age.

Life is too short, this group has made the most of it. [ John Cherry, Pam Faris his wife, Debbie Cherry, Robert Emerson, the kid Daniel Kildee and Mark Clodfelter.]

Lt. Governor John Cherry arrived early and stayed longer than expected.

When he was done as the group went into its monthly agenda the chair told him several times it was okay for him to leave. I sensed he was comfortable and was in no hurry even though his aides were up and pacing.

He talked of the dismay he has over the “ Keystone Cop Budget Act” played out in Lansing.

His message was one of hope and the need to motivate and engage citizens and new political players into the process of government.

He talked of the need to return to core values in government and the democratic party almost wistfully he lamented the lack of an informed motivated public engaged in the political process.

I dabble in the shallows of public policy John was always the one among us that dived into the depths of public policy analysis, We wanted to grownup and be like John.

CORE VALUES: THAT GOVERNMENT HAS A ROLE IN HELPING PEOPLE.

We have allowed the shallow self serving doctrine of the right to cut to the bones the needed governmental programs that provided safety, education, health care and a quality youth middle and old age for our citizens. The rights economic mascots now admit their theory was flawed and America now suffers.

He talked extensively and knowledgably of the economic plight of Michigan and the nations as you all know.

This state has suffered and the organs of government must be rebuilt. If we want a vibrant business environment in Michigan we must have public safety, education and fight tenaciously to preserve the water that surrounds us. Did you know that 20% of the fresh water in America is at Michigan shores.

We must have leaders that speak out on the issues, We must educate ourselves and fight for the issues we believe in.

This was the message, one of hope , accountability and commitment.

I enjoyed the conversation with and old friends who I expect to be the next Governor of Michigan, John Cherry the kid from Montrose.

Respectfully posted here by
Terry Bankert
http://www.flintfamilylaw.com/
　
　
　
　
　

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