Empathic Parenting
Volume 15 Issues 3 & 4 1992; Volume 16 Issues 1,2,3 & 4 1993 - Crime Prevention issue
Publisher: Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Midland, Canada
Year Published: 1993
Pages: 156pp ISBN: 0705-6591
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
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Table of Contents
Part A: The Relationship Between Early Nurturing and Crime
1. The Importance of Empathic Parenting
i) Social Causes of Crime - Overview
ii) Senate Sub-Committee on Childhood Causes of Criminal Behaviour
iii) Snug Like Alcoholics in a Brewery
iv) Trauma Demands Repetition
v) Diseases of Non-Attachment / Developmental Psychopaths
vi) The Partial Psychopath / I Am Worried
vii) The Psychopath's Favourite Playground: Business Relationships
viii) High Risk - Children Without a Conscience
ix) Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing the Roots of Violence
x) Early Deprivation of Empathic Care
xi) Addictive Delinquency
xii) The Causes of Hostility
xiii) Preventable Perversions
2. Intrapsychic / Intergenerational Forces
i) The Child as Poison Container / Role Reversal
ii) Those to Whom Evil is Done / Do Evil in Return
iii) Overcoming that Feeling of Being Abandoned / A Dangerous Possibility
iv) Until Now Society has Protected the Adult and Blamed the Victim
v) We Punish Most Those Who Remind Us of Our Own Fears and Guilt
vi) Parenting and Its Distortions
vii) The Psychogenic Theory of History
viii) The Evolution of Childrearing Modes
Part B: Social Forces Related to Inadequate Early Nurturing
1. Overview
i) Can Yuppies Bear Children?
ii) Being Productive
iii) Getting a Living
iv) The Parenting Gap
2. Consumerism
i) Big Brother Couldn't Foresee the Big C - Consumerism
ii) Consumerism
iii) Waste a Lot, Want a Lot..
iv) You Can Never Get Enough..
v) When There Are No Values, Money Counts
vi) The Poverty of a Rich Society
vii) The Brave New World of Child Care
3. Arbitrary Male Dominance
i) Sexism: A Dangerous Delusion
ii) Kiss Sleeping Beauty Good-bye
iii) Breaking Men's Silence to End Men's Violence
iv) Resocialization of Men
4. Unfortunate Feminist Reactions to Continued Male Intransigence
i) Is This Liberation?
ii) What is a Feminist Today?
iii) The Tendency to Confuse Difference with Inequality
iv) Daycare as the Only Solution
v) Who Cares?
vi) Creating a New Set of Half-Persons Who Happen to be Female
vii) Attitudes to Babies, Young Children and Their Upbringing
viii) Raising Babies
ix) Feminists Tackle own Bias Against Wife-Mother Role / Media Bias
x) Child Care: Wishful Revisionism / Letter to MAW
xi) What About You?
5. Other Social Forces
i) Targeting High Risk Populations Rather than the Whole Culture
ii) Five Major Industries
iii) Romancing the Mom
iv) Consumerism, Arbitrary Male Dominance and Daycare / Another Warning
v) Accepting the Existing Reality
vi) Overreliance on Social Science for Proof
vii) The Problem of Professional Anxiety
viii) Cruelty and Kindness: A New Look at Aggression and Altruism
ix) Well Connected Politicians, Bureaucrats and Lobbyists / Letter to MAW
x) Is This a Culture we can Afford to be Complacent About?
xi) What Keeps Us from Trying.
Part C. The Vision
1. We Could Make a Society in which People Cared
2. A Sense of Communism
3. Adult Qualities we Value?
4. The Human Need for Loving
5. Like All the Rest of Us
Part D: Social Marketing to Shift Social Values Toward Enhancing Affection Amongst Us
1. Overview:
i) What Can Be Done?
ii) How Do We Prevent Crime?
iii) "The Crime Rate Won't Decrease if we Increase the Number of Police"
iv) Overview of CSPCC Brief to Justice Committee
2. Specific Areas of Concern
i) Shift from Seeing Child-care as a Women's Problem to Society's Problem / Who's Care? /More Hands and More Voices to the "Parenting Industry"
ii) Shift from Patriarchy to Equality for Women and Children / Cloaking Domination / From Socializing to Helping Mode of Childrearing / Speak to us of Children / Women and Children as Slaves / Children's Political Rights
iii) Shift from Consumerism to More Family Friendly Economics / Substituting Conserver Values for Consumer Values / To Have or To Be? / Voluntary Simplicity / Winning Through Co-operation / Wringing Success from Somebody's Failure / Games Where the Winner Doesn't Take All
iv) Shift from Institutional-Centred to Home-Centred Society
Part E: Reason for Hope
1. Women and Children at the Cutting Edge of Historical Change
2. Grounds for Hope
3. There is a Growing Appreciation..
4. Hope for the Future
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