Developing a Concept for Childhood Survival in Modern Nigeria

1983 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-46
Author(s):  
W.J. Kalu

[There are numerous problems facing childhood in contemporary Nigeria. This paper discusses the major features of the problems as they affect the two major institutions for socialisation, the family and the schools. The needs of the modern Nigerian child, especially for his future survival are highlighted. A description is given of the Child ren's Centre project which is now in operation in one of the Nigerian University Campuses. It serves as an interpretation of a new, positive concept of childhood survival necessary to meet the challenges posed on such a level in a developing country.] The child is entitled to receive education which shall be free and com pulsory, at least in the elementary stages. He shall be given an education which will promote his general culture, and enable him on a basis of equal opportunity to develop his abilities, his individual judgement... The best interests of the child shall be the guiding principle of those res ponsible for his education and guidance... The child shall have full opportunity for play and recreation, which should be directed to the same purposes as education....

2007 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ebenezer Obadare

ABSTRACTHome historically to a politically engaged youth sector, Nigeria has, over the past two decades, witnessed a growing incidence of religious extremism involving educated youth, especially within university campuses. For all its important ramifications, and despite the continued infusion of social and political activity in the country by religious impulse, this phenomenon has yet to receive a systematic or coherent treatment in the relevant literature. This paper aims to locate youthful angst displayed by Nigerian university students within the context of postcolonial anomie and the attendant immiseration of civil society. Youth religious extremism on Nigerian campuses reflects both young people's frustration with national processes, and their perceived alienation from modernity's ‘cosmopolitan conversation’.


2021 ◽  
pp. 088740342110282
Author(s):  
Jessica M. Craig ◽  
Haley Zettler ◽  
Chad Trulson

In response to critiques of traditional juvenile justice processing and waiver to adult court, several states have adopted blended sentencing. These sentences fall in between these two approaches as they offer the benefits of the more rehabilitative-oriented juvenile system, with the option to deploy more punitive adult criminal sanctions. While previous research has indicated violent offenders were more likely to receive a blended sentence, it has not distinguished between those who were eligible for a blended sentence but did not receive this sanction. The current study seeks to address this gap and examine legal and extralegal predictors of receiving a blended sentence among those eligible. The analyses indicated that while those adjudicated for homicide and aggravated robbery were most likely to be given a blended sentence, other predictors such as prior probation failure and previous violence toward the family were associated with a decreased likelihood of receiving this sentence.


2012 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luis Pérez Requejo ◽  
Justo Aznar Lucea

Mai prima d’ora i pazienti gravemente malati o con malattie incurabili o croniche, sono stati così esposti a organizzazioni mediche senza scrupoli, che approfittando del loro logico disagio e della loro preoccupazione promettono cure miracolose e trattamenti, facendo pagare enormi somme di denaro per procedure senza alcuna garanzia, alcun reale beneficio e, peggio ancora, con gravi rischi per la salute. Questo articolo discute alcuni casi di pazienti che hanno pagato con la loro salute, spesso irrimediabilmente, o in maniera catastrofica, gli effetti di terapie teoricamente avanzate con cellule staminali di alcuni centri. Ci si è riferiti a diversi paesi che, in tempi anche non remoti, offrono e praticano qualcuno di questi trattamenti, il più delle volte attraverso strategie di marketing dirette e aggressive per i pazienti o le loro famiglie, mostrando reale o fittizi rapporti relativi ad altri pazienti, ma senza previ studi scientifici che avvalorino i risultati dei presunti benefici. In questo articolo, discutiamo alcuni utili suggerimenti e linee guida internazionali per riconoscerli ed evitarli. Inoltre, abbiamo discusso in dettaglio le ragioni specifiche per cui la maggior parte dei medici e clinici sollevino dei dubbi sulla competenza e le ragioni etiche di questi centri e scoraggino i viaggi di questo “turismo medico”. È sempre consigliabile chiedere il consiglio del medico di famiglia o specialista, prima della decisione dei pazienti di ricevere trattamenti dubbi, con la certezza che il paziente avrà sempre la sua comprensione e il supporto emotivo e medico. ---------- Never before seriously ill patients with chronic or incurable diseases have been so exposed to unscrupulous medical organizations that, taking advantage of their logical distress and worry, promise miracle cures and treatments and charge them huge amounts of money for procedures with no guarantee, no real benefits and, even worse, with serious risks to their health. This paper discusses some cases of patients who paid with their health, often irreparably, or catastrophically, the effects of supposedly advanced therapy centers with stem cells. Several countries are mentioned, not always as remote, which offer and practice any of these treatments, most often by direct and aggressive marketing to patients or their families, showing real or fictional accounts of other patients, but without the previous studies and scientific papers that endorse their supposed beneficial results. In this article we discuss some useful hints and international guidelines to recognize and avoid them. Also, we discussed in detail the specific reasons why most doctors and clinics doubt about the competence and ethical reasons of these centers and discourage those “medical tourism” trips. It is always advisable to seek the advice of the family doctor or specialist in charge, before the patients decision to receive dubious treatments, with the assurance that, decide what the patient decide, they will have always his understanding and his emotional and medical support.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-185
Author(s):  
Condro Putri Dewi Hartaka

The child is the mandate of the Grace Of God Almighty, and inside there is something that is attached as the dignity and status as a whole person. Along with the time on it right now is the mindset of society as it advances and growing, such as the parents who are unable to finance the future of the child and that’s why the purpose of adoption the child is not only to get the child but also for the welfare of children. And in Indonesia allow the implementation of the adoption by single parents, a woman or a man who is not married and who have been married but no longer bound in wedlock (widow or widower). Adoption of the child by single parents can only be done by the Citizens Of Indonesia after obtaining permission from ministers and the granting of permission can be ordered to agencies in the province. Adoption by single parents same thing with the adoption of children by parents in general. Adoption does not cause the relationship between children with real parents to be disconected, because most of the child who is in was from the family. Adoption of the child must be listed in a birth certificate, by not eliminate the identity of the beginning. Foster child are entitled to receive heir from the foster parents and also have the right heir from the real parents.


2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-53
Author(s):  
Nkululeko Praise God Zungu ◽  
Roger B. Mason

The aim of this paper is to investigate service quality as perceived by younger customers of retail banks in a developing country. The objectives include identifying customers’ levels of satisfaction and loyalty to their banks and to identify the levels of service quality associated with such satisfaction and loyalty. The instrument used to collect data via a survey of retail bank customers was an adaptation of the SERVQUAL questionnaire. A total of 448 students were surveyed, using a mix of systematic and quota sampling, with data being collected on university campuses. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistical techniques. The main conclusions were that most young customers are reasonably satisfied with, and loyal to, their banks. There was little difference, on all the service quality constructs, between the different banks, and between expectations and perceptions of service quality. However, there was no evidence of any bank providing a service that delighted their customers or exceeded their expectations and so all banks are at risk from a competitor who adopts strategies to meet these goals. The study has contributed to knowledge by focusing on attitudes to service quality of young bank customers in a developing country, an aspect that has been under-researched. Keywords: service quality, retail banking, expectations, perceptions, customer satisfaction, loyalty, SERVQUAL, South Africa. JEL Classification: G21, L84, M31


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 745-457
Author(s):  
Muhammad Saputra

Latar belakang : Gangguan jiwa merupakan salah satu masalah kesehatan masyarakat di Indonesia. Klien gangguan jiwa dicirikan dengan siklus kekambuhan yang mencapai 60-75% dari keseluruhan penderita. Kekambuhan klien masih tinggi dapat dipengaruhi faktor kesiapan keluarga dalam menerima klien gangguan jiwa.Tujuan Penelitian : Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan kesiapan keluarga menerima klien dengan gangguan jiwa terhadap angka kekambuhan pada klien gangguan jiwa di Poliklinik Rumah Sakit Jiwa Sambang LihumMetode penelitian :  analitik dengan rancangan cross sectional. Populasi adalah seluruh keluarga (keluarga inti) klien gangguan jiwa di Poliklinik Rumah Sakit Jiwa Sambang Lihum yang berjumlah 1.751 orang. Sampel sebagian dari populasi sebanyak 97 orang dengan teknik pengambilan puposive sampling. Analisis data melalui uji Spearman Rank dengan tingkat kepercayaan 95%.Hasil penelitian Didapatkan keluarga klien gangguan jiwa sebagian besar siap dalam menerima klien gangguan jiwa sebanyak 77 orang (79,4%) dan angka kekambuhan klien gangguan jiwa sebagian besar kategori sedang sebanyak 65 orang (67%). Ada hubungan kesiapan keluarga dalam menerima klien dengan angka kekambuhan pada klien gangguan jiwa di Poliklinik Rumah Sakit Jiwa Sambang Lihum Provinsi Kalimantan Selatan (p value = 0,000; r = 0,744).Saran : rumah sakit hendaknya memberikan sosialisasi misalnya melalui kegiatan peningkatan home visite kepada keluarga pasien untuk meningkatkan kesiapan keluarga untuk menerima klien. Kata Kunci : Angka Kekambuhan, Kesiapan Menerima Klien.Background : Mental disorders is one of the problems of public health in Indonesia. The mental impairment client is characterized by a relapse cycle that reaches 60-75% of the sufferer. Client relapse is still high can be influenced by family readiness factor in receiving the client's mental disorders.Research objectives : PEnelitian aims to know the family readiness relationship to receive clients with a mental impairment on the number of relapse in Mental disorders in the clinic of mental illness in Sambang LihumResearch method :       cross sectional analytic. Population is the whole family (core family) of the clients of mental disorders in the polyclinic of the Sambang Lihum psychiatric hospital amounting to 1,751 people. Samples of a portion of the population of 97 people    with        puposive    samplingtechniques. Analysis of data by Test  Spearman Rank    with a trust rate of 95%.The results obtained by the family of mental disorders clients are mostly ready in receiving clients of mental disorders as much as 77 people (79.4%) and the number of mental impairment clients of most categories is currently 65 people (67%). There is a family readiness relationship in accepting clients with a number of relapse on the client's mental disorder in the clinic of health care Sambang Lihum South Kalimantan Province (P  value  = 0.000; r = 0.744).Suggestion : RHospital should provide socialization e.g. through  home visite   Improvement activities to the patient family to improve the family readiness to receive clients. Keywords: number of relapse, readiness of accepting clients


Author(s):  
Oksana V. Besschetnova ◽  

The article presents the analysis of the problem of domestic violence on the basis of domestic and foreign statistical data and the research results. Attention is focused on the aggravation of this problem during the pandemic of the new coronavirus infection COVID-19 in many countries of the world. The situation of uncertainty, a long stay in a confined space, the fear of contracting a new coronavirus infection, the inability to receive adequate medical care due to the congestion of the healthcare system, loss of financial stability, disruption of the usual rhythm of life led to the escalation of psychological tension. This resulted in the increase of domestic violence. The important role in resolving the situation and helping the victims of domestic violence under quarantine conditions was performed by specialized state and non-governmental organizations. Their activities underwent the structural, financial, and technological changes in the post-Covid-19 period. At the same time, in Russia there is a need of adopting a new federal law on combating domestic violence which will reduce the number of domestic crimes and increase the family values.


Gerontologia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-242
Author(s):  
Laura Kalliomaa-Puha

Jokaisella vanhuksella on Suomessa yksilöllinen, viime kädessä perustuslaissa taattu, oikeus riittävään hoivaan ja huolenpitoon. Silti tämä oikeus on usein käytännössä riippuvainen siitä, onko vanhalla ihmisellä omaisia tukenaan. Tässä artikkelissa tarkastellaan sitä, miten oikeus hoivaan ja hoitoon taataan lainsäädännössä. Omaisilla ei lain mukaan ole vastuuta hoivan järjestämisestä, mutta silti lainsäädäntö monessa kohdin ikään kuin olettaa omaisten olevan vanhuksen tukena. Vaikka omaiset usein ovatkin tukena, miten perusoikeus hoivaan ja huolenpitoon toteutuu niillä vanhuksilla, joilla ei ole omaisia? Artikkeli nostaa vakavimpana omaisolettaman riskinä esiin ne vanhukset, joilla on omaisia, mutta joiden omaiset eivät osaa tai halua auttaa. Right to care and presumption of family and friends in the Finnish legislation According to Finnish legislation the public authorities must guarantee adequate social, health and medical services for those old persons who cannot obtain means necessary for a life of dignity. Yet in practice this right to receive indispensable subsistence and care often depends on the fact whether the old person happens to have family or friends to help her or him. As if the legislation supposes there are friends and family to help, even though, according to Finnish law, family members do not have legal responsibility to take care of an elderly person. This article elaborates how the right to care is guaranteed in Finnish legislation and what the law says about the responsibilities of the family. Even though most of the relatives do help their elderlies, how is the right to care fulfilled for those old persons who do not have family? Perhaps the elderlies who have family and friends, which do not help or do not know how to, are in the most vulnerable situation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-106
Author(s):  
Muhammad Lutfi Syarifuddin

In practice, in Indonesia children adoption has become a public phenomenon in society and is part of the family law system because it involves individual interests in the family. In the case of adoption, parents need to pay attention to the best interests of the child and be implemented based on local customs, applicable laws and regulations, this has been regulated in Article 39 of the Child Protection Act. Adoption of children is divided into two types, namely adoption of children between Indonesian citizens (domestic adoption) and adoption of Indonesian citizens by foreign citizens (adoption between countries). Appointment of children must be done by legal process, through the establishment or decision of the Court. The research method is normative juridical research. Based on the research results, the inheritance Indonesian citizens rights in the Indonesian inheritance law case are implemented based on Islamic law, adopted children do not inherit from adoptive parents and remain the biological parents. Under customary law, the inheritance of adopted children depends on customary law in the area. By law adoption children do not inherit from adoptive parents, and adopted children remain the heirs of their biological parents.


Author(s):  
Claire Fenton-Glynn

This chapter analyses the obligations placed on domestic authorities in the field of child protection. It starts by examining the way in which the Court has attempted to balance the rights of parents and children in this area, and in particular, the place of the ‘best interests’ principle in the Court’s jurisprudence. The chapter then goes on to consider the substantive rights in this area, including emergency measures, the removal of the child from the family, and their placement in alternative care, before examining the extensive procedural rights for parents and children under Articles 6 and 8. Finally, it details the jurisprudence of the Court concerning family reunification and the positive obligations placed on states to facilitate this.


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