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A Moral Analysis of Canadian Drug Policy

Jeff Packer - The John Howard Society of Durham Region

Spending the last ten months exploring the waters of Canadian drug policy was both an exciting and disheartening voyage. Initially, I had to examine my core beliefs and opinions about right and wrong or good and bad behaviour. Long-standing perceptions about various drugs, drug use/misuse and about drug users all came into question. My thoughts and emotions rode the waves of information like a tiny boat at sea, rising to enthusiastic heights of optimism at the crests and then, suddenly, falling into doubt and pessimism as waves of confusion, frustration and disagreement enveloped me. The tidal waves of contradictory information threatened the very journey of discovery I was on...

Male Survivors
of Intimate Partner Violence:
stories to be told

Peter A. Duffy

 

Abstract
Research on domestic violence has being ongoing for over three decades with much of this research focuses of two types studies: population-based studies largely defined as mutual couple violence, and studies conducted in battered women’s shelters which mostly put the emphasis on patriarchy. This research has produced a common theme that women are victims of domestic abuse and men are the perpetrators.

TIPS FOR LOVING HIM:

Buy him a flower.
If he's a sports fan:  Find out what time the game is on.
         Turn on the T.V. to the right channel and watch it with him!
Write him a love letter....

TIPS FOR LOVING HER:

Buy her flowers… of course chocolate goes over well too!
Write her a love poem
Give her a foot massage… or full body if she’d rather… no it doesn’t have to lead to… !

TV Star Believes in Relationship Check-ups

He may play the field as Dr. McDreamy on the ABC hit Grey's Anatomy, but Patrick Dempsey has a steady domestic life reports People magazine. “Fatherhood is the most important thing. Everything else is a joke,” he tells Life magazine in its new issue, about being at home with his wife Jillian, a makeup artist, and the couple’s four year-old daughter, Talula. They are also expecting twin sons this winter. “Now,” says Dempsey, who turns 41 on Saturday, making money is about providing for my children. And being a father makes you look at yourself. You look at your marriage and go ‘How do I improve this? How do I keep growing and create a stable environment for my children?”

An interesting view of marriage:

Dr. Mel Krantizer the director of the Creative divorce, love and marriage counseling center, has put forth the idea that within most long-term marriage relationships there are seven distinct marriages. Krantizer says that the seven marriages are The Movie Marriage in Your Mind Marriage, The Our Careers Are Everything Marriage, The Good Enough Parent Marriage, The Time is Running Out Marriage, The Is This All There is Marriage, The End is The Beginning Marriage, and The After Death Marriage.

Relationship Renovations:

As we plan and construct our future, we are constantly changing or renovating if you will; the bachelor apartment where we are single and the home where we start our family. This home is constantly remodeled as the size of our family grows and our needs change and the sports car is traded in for a minivan or SUV. Just like our home and cars need to be changed or renovated as our environments change, so do our relationships.

A disturbance in the order of things

As human beings many of us have spent a lifetime learning that there is an intrinsic order of sorts to our existence. We have learned the basic necessities of life, when to eat, when to sleep, how to dress, how to talk, when and where to speak. As we get older the order of things and the rules which we live by become far more complicated. But we can be reasonably certain that others live by similar rules.

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CAPP
Co-operative And Positive Parenting

Most of us take parenting skills for granted – that we will somehow instinctively “know” what, when and how to do it. We are gifted with the sage advice of “elders” and (at times) conflicting words of wisdom from friends who claim to have “been there and done that.”

Parenting is challenging as both parents and their children are faced with more complex and difficult tasks to negotiate at home, work, and school. Just as the world we live in demands that we constantly upgrade our knowledge to deal with the ever changing technology to which we are exposed, parents are finding that they need new tools to cope with the explosion of choices that both they and their children face.

 

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