Elder abuse is a serious concern and it’s on the rise, given the growing aging population in Quebec.
According to Article 48 of the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, “Every aged person and every handicapped person has a right to protection against any form of exploitation. Such a person also has a right to the protection and security that must be provided to him by his family or the persons acting in their stead.”
Elder abuse, or the “exploitation of an aged person,” involves taking advantage of the vulnerable state or dependency of a person of advanced age and ultimately depriving this person of his or her rights. This can be in the form of physical abuse, psychological abuse, emotional abuse, abuse of rights, financial abuse, or neglect. Disturbingly, in most cases, the abuse is committed by someone in a position of trust who is well known to the individual, such as a family member or a close friend.
Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Elder+abuse+concern+notaries/4617147/story.html#ixzz1kHn825fD
Monday, January 23
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Friday, January 6
A “Criminally Abused Elderly Man” a Victim of Montreal-Court-Injustice finds rational support on the World Stage.
I, like so many others, saw the evil that was being perpetrated daily in “The Family-Court in Montreal.” There are “Bad Apples” in the Court System who profit from the victims, but Our Court does nothing about their crimes of abuse. The following page highlights how and what happens to a victim.
http://innjustice.blogspot.com/2011/08/all-because-you-kissed-me-goodnight.html
The perpetrators of Evil are;
1. - Individual Officers of the Court [“Bad Apples”] They cheat and abuse the victims.
2. - Others become guilty of the evil of passive inaction.
The following Talk given on a World Stage [TED], makes the argument that it is the "Organizations" as a whole who are guilty of passive inaction.
http://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_on_the_psychology_of_evil.html
"Philip Zimbardo knows how easy it is for nice people to turn bad. In this talk, he shares insights and graphic unseen photos from the Abu Ghraib trials.
So we need a paradigm shift in all of these areas. The shift is away from the medical model that focuses only on the individual[“Bad Apples”]. The shift is toward a public health model that recognizes situational and systemic vectors of disease."
The Court must be made to change it's ways!
http://innjustice.blogspot.com/2011/08/all-because-you-kissed-me-goodnight.html
The perpetrators of Evil are;
1. - Individual Officers of the Court [“Bad Apples”] They cheat and abuse the victims.
2. - Others become guilty of the evil of passive inaction.
The following Talk given on a World Stage [TED], makes the argument that it is the "Organizations" as a whole who are guilty of passive inaction.
http://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_on_the_psychology_of_evil.html
"Philip Zimbardo knows how easy it is for nice people to turn bad. In this talk, he shares insights and graphic unseen photos from the Abu Ghraib trials.
So we need a paradigm shift in all of these areas. The shift is away from the medical model that focuses only on the individual[“Bad Apples”]. The shift is toward a public health model that recognizes situational and systemic vectors of disease."
The Court must be made to change it's ways!
Wednesday, November 30
Our story is about “No Crime and all the Punishment” Dostoevsky ?
Thank you for your polite reply, [My friend, to remain anonymous]
None of the links of David Jeremiah's daily thought, respond, without money!
We are excruciatingly lonely, and the horrible realization for me is “no money, no honey!
And even if the “Thoughts” were honey, they don’t solve the problem.
We are living in a truly very cruel world. I am certain my wife hurts the same way, but the court system incarcerates us separately while taking our wealth away.
That's what the court sells and it is fraud.
I am a “victim of the crime of elder abuse” by the very society I live in and the reality is, that one is required to suffer alone.
I say
"We need to suffer aloud as a
Proud and Precious Collectivity!"
http://www.ted.com/profiles/985830
That is what I am working to do, every single day, my friend.
Our society owns the system which delivers the injustice, which in turn charges the victims for the service until he is broke and useless to society.
That is the reality and every one turns away. I am yesterdays leper!
[My friend, to remain anonymous], I am not alone; this is every man's story who is trapped in the evil system of court injustice.
None of the links of David Jeremiah's daily thought, respond, without money!
We are excruciatingly lonely, and the horrible realization for me is “no money, no honey!
And even if the “Thoughts” were honey, they don’t solve the problem.
We are living in a truly very cruel world. I am certain my wife hurts the same way, but the court system incarcerates us separately while taking our wealth away.
That's what the court sells and it is fraud.
I am a “victim of the crime of elder abuse” by the very society I live in and the reality is, that one is required to suffer alone.
I say
"We need to suffer aloud as a
Proud and Precious Collectivity!"
http://www.ted.com/profiles/985830
Months ago I went to the RCMP in Ottawa with my “criminal complaint” and they did call my son, Steven, who is a psychiatrist, who told them they had to sell my home. It was B-S. They didn't have to sell my home. We were self sufficient with wealth enough and it was taken from me.
The courts created the suffering! This is the message that needs to be propagated.
If Christ were here today he would be screaming out the truth on TV and TED.
The courts created the suffering! This is the message that needs to be propagated.
If Christ were here today he would be screaming out the truth on TV and TED.
That is what I am working to do, every single day, my friend.
Our society owns the system which delivers the injustice, which in turn charges the victims for the service until he is broke and useless to society.
That is the reality and every one turns away. I am yesterdays leper!
[My friend, to remain anonymous], I am not alone; this is every man's story who is trapped in the evil system of court injustice.
Our story is about
“No Crime and all the Punishment”
It is Rome’s Coliseum!
My friend, I am appealing to your empathy and your sense of man-made suffering. What say you?
Don
“No Crime and all the Punishment”
It is Rome’s Coliseum!
My friend, I am appealing to your empathy and your sense of man-made suffering. What say you?
Don
Thursday, November 24
How can there be “due process” if the spouse who wants to save the marriage always loses? That is unjust.
Divorce imposes a huge human cost, especially on children. Every divorce is the destruction of a small civilization. Children of divorce are three times as likely as those from intact homes to be expelled from school or to have a baby out of wedlock as a teenager, six times as apt to live in poverty and are much more likely to be incarcerated according to the Institute for American Values.
However, statistics do not reveal the pain of divorce, which is always tragic for children. Michael Reagan, the adopted son of Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman, wrote of his parents’ divorce:
“Divorce is where two adults take everything that matters to a child – the child’s home, family, security, and sense of being loved and protected – and they smash it all up, leave it in ruins on the floor, then walk out and leave the child to clean up the mess.”
Ironically, his father, as Governor of California, signed America’s first No Fault Divorce Law four decades ago. It swept the country in the early 1970's. Divorces had alreadydoubled in the 1960s, but soared after No Fault from 639,000 in 1969 to 1,036,000 by 1975.
President Reagan later told Michael that his signing the first No Fault Divorce Law was his “greatest regret” in public life.
Before Reagan signed the law, to get a divorce one spouse had to prove the other was guilty of a major “fault” such as adultery or physical abuse. If there was no alleged fault and both wanted the divorce, one might accuse the other of adultery while a spouse remained silent, This collusion was denounced by feminists and attorneys. “No Fault” was considered a reform, because no fault had to be alleged to get a divorce. One person simply asserted the marriage had “irreconcilable differences,” and always got it.
However, as No Fault swept the nation, what was not adequately considered was that the divorce is
opposed in four out of five cases by the other spouse. What was entered into by two people voluntarily is being terminated by one spouse acting unilaterally. No Fault Divorce actually violates the Constitution. The 5th and 14th Amendments guarantee that “no person be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.” How can there be “due process” if the spouse who wants to save the marriage always loses? That is unjust.
The system is fairer in Britain and France. If one spouse wants a No Fault Divorce, and it is opposed by a mate, the couple must live apart five years in Britain or six years in France. That allows much time for reconciliation. However, 32 states have no waiting period, allowing no time for reconciliation. No wonder our divorce rate is three times higher.
There are economic consequences to these numbers. On average, each divorce involves one child, which makes that family eligible for welfare, Medicaid, food stamps and many other subsidies. The Heritage Foundation estimates that each divorce costs taxpayers $20,000, or $20 billion a year with a million divorces annually. Each of the 1.7 million unwed births cost another $20,000 each or $34 billion.
Most states are facing yawning budget deficits for the fourth year in a row. According to the Center on
Budget and Policy Priorities, state budget gaps total $112 billion for fiscal year 2012. Why? The recession is one reason. However, America’s high divorce rate and the failure of millions to marry are the driving force behind soaring state and federal deficits.
An anti-marriage bias lies behind\these trends. State law – such as No Fault Divorce - promotes divorce. A Parental Divorce Reduction Act, being considered by 13 states, would require a year’s waiting period before any divorce becomes final. Also, couples would be required to take Pre-filing classes to learn the impact of divorce on both children and adults. And they would attend Marriage Education classes to learn how to resolve conflict amicably. That’s a double strategy to reduce divorce.
Similarly, states discourage marriage. State law assumes an unmarried mother of a child is a single parent needing big subsidies. However, in more than half the cases, she is cohabiting with the father, and has the benefit of his income as if she were married. In effect, the state is subsidizing couples to cohabit, rather than to marry. And if a cohabiting couple marries, they lose most subsidies. No wonder the marriage rate has plunged 31% in only 19 years.
It is time for states to promote and preserve marriage – not divorce and cohabitation.
Mike McManus is President of Marriage Savers.
Last modified on Tuesday, 17 May 2011 09:00
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/is-yours-a-match-made-in-heaven/
However, statistics do not reveal the pain of divorce, which is always tragic for children. Michael Reagan, the adopted son of Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman, wrote of his parents’ divorce:
“Divorce is where two adults take everything that matters to a child – the child’s home, family, security, and sense of being loved and protected – and they smash it all up, leave it in ruins on the floor, then walk out and leave the child to clean up the mess.”
Ironically, his father, as Governor of California, signed America’s first No Fault Divorce Law four decades ago. It swept the country in the early 1970's. Divorces had alreadydoubled in the 1960s, but soared after No Fault from 639,000 in 1969 to 1,036,000 by 1975.
President Reagan later told Michael that his signing the first No Fault Divorce Law was his “greatest regret” in public life.
Before Reagan signed the law, to get a divorce one spouse had to prove the other was guilty of a major “fault” such as adultery or physical abuse. If there was no alleged fault and both wanted the divorce, one might accuse the other of adultery while a spouse remained silent, This collusion was denounced by feminists and attorneys. “No Fault” was considered a reform, because no fault had to be alleged to get a divorce. One person simply asserted the marriage had “irreconcilable differences,” and always got it.
However, as No Fault swept the nation, what was not adequately considered was that the divorce is
opposed in four out of five cases by the other spouse. What was entered into by two people voluntarily is being terminated by one spouse acting unilaterally. No Fault Divorce actually violates the Constitution. The 5th and 14th Amendments guarantee that “no person be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.” How can there be “due process” if the spouse who wants to save the marriage always loses? That is unjust.
The system is fairer in Britain and France. If one spouse wants a No Fault Divorce, and it is opposed by a mate, the couple must live apart five years in Britain or six years in France. That allows much time for reconciliation. However, 32 states have no waiting period, allowing no time for reconciliation. No wonder our divorce rate is three times higher.
There are economic consequences to these numbers. On average, each divorce involves one child, which makes that family eligible for welfare, Medicaid, food stamps and many other subsidies. The Heritage Foundation estimates that each divorce costs taxpayers $20,000, or $20 billion a year with a million divorces annually. Each of the 1.7 million unwed births cost another $20,000 each or $34 billion.
Most states are facing yawning budget deficits for the fourth year in a row. According to the Center on
Budget and Policy Priorities, state budget gaps total $112 billion for fiscal year 2012. Why? The recession is one reason. However, America’s high divorce rate and the failure of millions to marry are the driving force behind soaring state and federal deficits.
An anti-marriage bias lies behind\these trends. State law – such as No Fault Divorce - promotes divorce. A Parental Divorce Reduction Act, being considered by 13 states, would require a year’s waiting period before any divorce becomes final. Also, couples would be required to take Pre-filing classes to learn the impact of divorce on both children and adults. And they would attend Marriage Education classes to learn how to resolve conflict amicably. That’s a double strategy to reduce divorce.
Similarly, states discourage marriage. State law assumes an unmarried mother of a child is a single parent needing big subsidies. However, in more than half the cases, she is cohabiting with the father, and has the benefit of his income as if she were married. In effect, the state is subsidizing couples to cohabit, rather than to marry. And if a cohabiting couple marries, they lose most subsidies. No wonder the marriage rate has plunged 31% in only 19 years.
It is time for states to promote and preserve marriage – not divorce and cohabitation.
Mike McManus is President of Marriage Savers.
Last modified on Tuesday, 17 May 2011 09:00
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/is-yours-a-match-made-in-heaven/