We must have an Urban Violence Plan?

GOOD MORNING FLINT!
11/23/2009
By, Terry Bankert. Opinions of a Flint Divorce Lawyer.

WHAT IS OUR PLAN TO SLOW AND REVERSE FLINTS INCREASING URBAN VIOLENCE.

Here I am contributing to the discussion with a morphed article fully cited for your review. What Actions can we take today, tomorrow, next budget year to stem Urban Violence in Flint? Your thoughts!

TO SOLVE VIOLENCE IN FLINT GIVE MORE MONEY TO POLICE AND LOCK EM UP? …..NO THIS DOES NOT WORK! THEN WHAT?

FROM: Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of South Carolina
In recent years, sharp declines in violent crime rates have been recorded across major American cities. During this time period, many police departments have shifted from a traditional reactive form of policing to a community-oriented approach. It is unclear whether these changes have any causal relationship with the control or reduction in violent crime. To examine this issue, this study used the Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics survey, the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports, and city-level census data to examine the economic and political determinants of robbery and homicide rates in 164 American cities. [5]

Findings indicate that community policing had little effect on the control or the decline in violent crime. [5]

Proactive policing strategies related to arrest had an inverse effect on violent crime measures and were related to reductions in violent crime over time. Implications of these findings for criminal justice policy are discussed. [5]
　
HOW MANY MORE MUST DIE WHILE WE SIT STILL

Young men shoot and kill each other by the scores in our region each year, and most of us assume there's not much that society can do to stop it. [1]

ONE OLDER GROUP HAS A PLAN AND SOME SUCCESS.

The mission of the Alliance of Concerned Men (ACM) is to teach independence and positive life skills to children, youth, and adults who live in high-crime neighborhoods in the District, especially east of the Anacostia River.[4]

　
TOOLS FOR CHANGE ARE AVAILABLE

It isn't true. Police, social workers and academic researchers have identified tools and policies that have been shown to reduce urban violence, such as brokering truces among rival gangs or other neighborhood groups. [1]

mckdarrenDC wrote:
Unless and until our public policies work aggressively to reduce the self-dooming out-of-wedlock birthrate that is at the root of don't-snitch-hip-hop ghetto culture, the vast majority of black children in D.C. and across the country will continue being raised without the loving discipline of committed fathers (aka "favuhs"). [1]Meanwhile, none of us should expect a bunch of semi-literate ex-thugs with a "manual" to make too big a contribution to "peace" in the streets.[1]
　
ALLIANCE OF CONCERNED MEN HAS TRAINING MANUEL

Now the Alliance of Concerned Men, a District nonprofit group with a proven record of achieving peace for a while in some of the Washington area's most dangerous neighborhoods, has published a training manual to share some of its methods with the rest of the country. [1]

The Alliance of Concerned Men is a 501©(3) non-profit organization which promotes independence and personal survival skills for youth who come from dysfunctional homes and are in desperate need of learning how to bridge the gap between survival on the streets and existing on marginal lifestyles. ACM’s program is unique in that it is the only one in the country that deals directly with the missing, yet common and essential element in an “at-risk” and /or “in-crisis” youth’s life- the incarcerated parent. …THEY…provide guidance interventions to building positive life skills through its one-on-one counseling, programs, group sessions, and community outreach.[3]

Services Offered:
Self-esteem Development
Communication Skills
Conflict Resolution
Peer Tutoring & Counseling
Job Training Skills
Cultural/Recreational
Life Skills Training
Workshops & Seminars
Alcohol /Drug Prevention & Treatment
HIV/AIDS & STD Awareness
Gang Intervention & Mediation [3]
　
　
FROM THE WEB SITE

Gang Prevention and Outreach Program is a peer education initiative. This program was developed out of the experiences gained through ACM’s successful Benning Terrace model. Approximately ninety-five per cent of those hired through this program secured permanent employment. A number of graduates of the Fatherhood Initiative will be hired for six months as outreach workers to provide gang intervention and mediation services in areas impacted by gangs and youth violence and to gain valuable work experience. At the conclusion of their paid internships/training, participants will be provided with job training and/or full time employment. Participants will continue to meet with program staff on a bimonthly basis. [2]For further information on this program, please contact Mr. Arthur Rush, rushrico@aol.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (202) 986-6200
　
SIMPLE PRACTICAL ADVICE

The alliance's approach is refreshing, because it supplies practical advice from people with real-life experience. The members are men who've gone unarmed to meet killers with Uzis to ask them to "squash a beef" with rivals. [1]

mendelsonmustgo wrote:
The most important law enforcement needs in DC are not mentoring and deal making among crews. We need to focus on basics of law enforcement, like:1) get a crime lab - most evidence is not processed or analyzed as we rely on the FBI for testing, which they rarely do. This also means that many arrested guys are released for lack of evidence.[2]2) change our farcical gun law - while owning a handgun in DC is largely illegal, the penalty for doing is very minor. Read about George Rawlings shot yesterday, on probation for a gun, or Ransom Perry. In most other areas they would face jail time for carrying guns, but in DC they were immediately released. [2]3) change juvenile enforcement - right now juveniles get to run the city, and it shows.You make these three changes and things like the Alliance and their pamphlet might have a chance. Without these changes the social work is just pissing in the wind. Violent men and boys are part of humanity, and they need to be put away or put down, its not that complicated.[1]
　
NEGOTIATED TRUCE

The group, which has negotiated five major truces in the District and Prince George's County since it was founded in 1991, presented its 41-page guide Tuesday at a conference at the U.S. Capitol attended by 300 social workers and others active in the field. [1]

ADULT APATHY AND NEGLECT

I hope the alliance's effort will help, at least in a small way, to reverse the apathy and neglect with which the Washington region and the country treat urban violence. The U.S. murder rate dwarfs that of most other industrialized countries: Homicides claimed three times as many lives last year as total combat deaths since 2001 in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. [1]
　
PICKING THE RIGHT MEDIATOR

It says that it's important when picking a mediator to weigh whether to send a young man, who might be perceived as a threat, or an older one, whose presence might be "a negative trigger, a reminder of a lost or abusive father." [1]

GUIDE OFFERS TIPS

The guide offers tips such as barring cell phones from meetings so participants won't worry that calls are being made to arrange an ambush. [1]

The alliance recommends using prayer, food, trips to the movies and, believe it or not, hugs as a way to create the right atmosphere. "Hug a thug, and you might not get mugged" is one of the group's numerous sayings. Others are "just show up" and "the sun's always shining." [1]

BELIEVE IN YOUR YOUTH

Above all, the training guide emphasizes the need to believe that the tough young men would like to solve their problems themselves and need a credible outsider to assure them that it's possible. [1]

SPEAK THE TRUTH

"We tell our youth the truth: 'You're Black, you're angry, you don't have any education, and I'm here to tell you that if you want to do it, you can,' " the manual says. (Since the alliance leaders are more hands-on than academic, it was written for them by three locally based staff members of groups that specialize in conflict resolution.) [1]

KUMBAYAH…NOT

The approach sounds awfully upbeat and kumbayah, but the men in the alliance have some hard-earned credibility. Executive Director Tyrone C. Parker, 62, served more than eight years in prison for bank robbery, and his son was killed at age 19 by another teenager. President Arthur "Rico" Rush, 62, was imprisoned for 18 months, and some of the group's young outreach staff members are also ex-offenders. [1]

THE MANY ACTORS NEED TO COMMUNIUATE

Admittedly, the scale of the problem overwhelms their work. It will take improved performance by police, parents, schools, social agencies, churches and other institutions to transform communities and drastically reduce the number of homicides. There have been 123 homicides in the District this year, compared with 164 at this time last year.

Nevertheless, the alliance draws praise and backing from law enforcement officials up to U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. "I've seen the miracle they've brought," Holder said in a statement published in the manual. "It needs to be duplicated. It can work in New York, Detroit, Los Angeles and any other community in America with similar problems." [1]

OUT REACH WORKERS AND THE POLICE

D.C. police officers are supporters, too, partly because the alliance cooperates with them, albeit carefully. The manual says a balance is necessary "to counter the perceptions that our outreach workers are 'snitches.' Conversely, outreach workers can mistakenly be viewed by law enforcement as being in collusion with criminal elements." [1]

POLICE PROCEDURES

D.C. police Cmdr. Charnette Robinson, head of the Youth Investigations Division, said in a panel discussion at the conference Tuesday that the District should implement more of the policies and procedures recommended by the alliance and similar groups. The city "has a reputation of throwing a lot of money" at problems, Robinson said, but "unless you have good policies and procedures in place, it doesn't help." [1]

MANUEL COSTS $25

Money needs to be part of the effort, though. The alliance has had to reduce its budget, to about $500,000 for the coming year, after suffering cuts by the D.C. government and private funding sources. It's charging $25 for the manual, and some of the proceeds will offset those cuts. [1]

ALLIANCE PAST ITS PRIME

The alliance is probably past its prime, as it was formed by Parker, Rush and three other men who were friends at Eastern and Spingarn high schools in the mid-1960s. Its greatest triumph occurred a dozen years ago, when it negotiated a truce in Benning Terrace in Southeast after a 12-year-old boy was slain. [1]

ACTIVE WITH CREWS

It's still active, though, and has worked recently in the Benning Terrace, Clay Terrace and Park Morton neighborhoods and with crews based near Seventh and O and Fifth and O streets NW. [1]

GRAY HAIRS JUST SHOWING UP HELPS

Moreover, it's to the credit of these graying members of the community that they've acted to help ensure that others can benefit from their experience. The sun's shining a little brighter in the District because they "just showed up." [1]
stinkface wrote:

HUG A THUG?!! I am seriously considering refusing to pay taxes if the government is going to keep pouring my money down this drain.[1]

CONTACT INFORMATION- ALLIANCE OF CONCERNED MEN
Address: 2905 11th Street NWWashington,DC 20001
Contact: Mr. Tyrone Parker, 2905 11th Street NW
Phone: 202-986-6200
Email: tyrone_acm@msn.com
Website: http://www.allianceofconcernedmen.org/


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Terry Bankert
http://www.flintfamilylaw.com/
See;
[1]
Manual offers ways to fight urban violence
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/11/AR2009111126343.html
[2]
Web site alliance of Concerned men.
http://www.allianceofconcernedmen.com/
[3]
http://www.interchange.org/romros/resource-1.html
[4]
http://www.meyerfoundation.org/grantees/recent/Alliance+of+Concerned+Men
[5]
The Effectiveness of Community Policing in Reducing Urban Violence
http://cad.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/48/4/592

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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!

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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]


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[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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