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The Importance of Lifeviews

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The Importance of Lifeviews

Let us imagine two children.  Both live in a forested area, near a large mountain, with abundant water resources.  Both children live in dwellings made of wood, and use wood for heat, cooking, and tool manufacture. Both children value the forest.

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When Did Pregnancy Become an Ailment

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When Did Pregnancy Become an Ailment

I question the routine use of a hospital for giving birth.  A hospital is a place where ailing people go for a diagnosis and receive treatment (and sometimes also therapy) for that diagnosis.  When did pregnancy become an ailment?  When did something as natural as giving birth become something that requires medical intervention?

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Toward Supporting Adolescent Emotional Health

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Toward Supporting Adolescent Emotional Health

Many times we (Americans) identify that a problem may exist with some aspect of our society, be it diet, emotional health, interpersonal communication, or whatever.  Then, some expert in the field proposes a fix to the problem, a fix that isn’t always known (through long experience) to resolve the problem and sometimes might even make matters worse.