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2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-200
Author(s):  
Gerardus Rahmat Subekti

The article deals with pastoral care for family according to Amoris Laetitia. The author’s concern is to discuss the pastoral steps for the families in the face of crisis situations: What kind of pastoral steps can be organized to assist families in crisis situations? This article is based on the study of ecclesial document Amoris Laetitia, a post-synodal apostolic exhortation by Pope Francis addressing the pastoral care of families. First of all, the article describes the basic thoughts of this document, especially those related to the reality and ideals of family life. Then, it shows some practical pastoral thoughts for assisting families in special situations. The results can be a significant contribution for the Church in terms of its important duties and responsibilities in assisting the families today, but also for family pastoral activists. This description concludes that the crisis situation faced by families is not a fact to be constantly regretted, but an opportunity for the Church to show God's mercy to those who are struggling in difficult situations.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 96-104
Author(s):  
Louise Elizabeth ◽  
Rais Rachman ◽  
Monika Datu Mirring Palinggi

In making a work trip, apart from being faced with the time of departure and the mode used, the journey of the residents of the Puri Yuhana and Bukit Khatulistiwa housing estates on their work trips is not only direct to the right destination but there are several workers who take school children or other families first and then go to the right place. work or take care of office work elsewhere then go to work. This study aims to (1) Identify the Characteristics of Residents of Puri Yuhana Housing and Bukit Khatulistiwa. (2) Knowing the Effect of Traveling Residents of Puri Yuhana Housing and Bukit Khatulistiwa on the Travel Chain. This research was conducted in Puri Yuhana Housing and Bukit Khatulistiwa, Jalan Perintis Kemerdekaan km 4, Biringkanaya sub-district, Makassar. The results showed that the pattern of the travel chain for the residents of the Puri Yuhana Housing was dominant with the pattern of home – taking children to school – workplace – home, significantly influenced by the number of family members who worked and when they came home from work, while the pattern of the travel chain for the residents of Bukit Khatulistiwa Housing was dominant. with the homework – home pattern, significantly influenced by the number of family members, motorcycle ownership, departure time, and travel time


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Quirk

Shared book reading - an adult reading to a child - supports children’s language development (e.g. Sénéchal, Pagan, & Leve, 2008). Most of what we know about shared book reading comes from studies of monolingual families, but shared book reading in bilingual families is different than in monolingual families. First, bilingual families must divide their book-reading time and resources between two languages. Second, bilingual parents may not be equally comfortable reading in both of their languages, which may influence how much and how well they read in each language. One recent study found that in bilingual families, parents own more books and read to their children more often in their stronger language (Gonzalez-Barrero et al., 2021). This could further disadvantage children’s oral language development in their weaker language. Bilingual books - books that tell a story in two languages - could be a useful tool to address this problem as they may provide additional support for reading in a weaker language. Yet little is known about how bilingual families engage with this format. This project addresses this gap by directly observing French-English bilingual parents and their preschool-aged children during shared reading with traditional single-language books and bilingual books. Shared reading interactions will be transcribed, coded and analyzed to assess the quantity and quality of parent-child interactions when reading 1) a bilingual or traditional single-language book and 2) in a stronger or weaker language.


2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (29) ◽  
pp. e2107670118
Author(s):  
Emma Jelliffe ◽  
Paul Pangburn ◽  
Stefan Pichler ◽  
Nicolas R. Ziebarth

We study US sick leave use and unaddressed sick leave needs in the midst of the global severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS COV 2) pandemic based on a representative survey. More than half of all US employees are unaware of the new emergency sick leave options provided by the federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). Awareness and take-up rates are significantly higher among Asian Americans and lower among the foreign-born. About 8 million employees used emergency sick leave in the first 6 to 8 mo. Nevertheless, the share of employees who needed but could not take paid sick leave tripled in the pandemic; unaddressed sick leave needs total 15 million employees per month and are 69% higher among women. Our findings show that access to paid sick leave significantly reduces unaddressed sick leave needs. We conclude that given the fragmented US sick leave landscape, to address the strong increase in unaddressed sick leave needs during the pandemic, federal FFCRA response was not adequate.


Author(s):  
Mohan Chandra Adhikari ◽  
Umila Pyakurel

The aim of the maximum network flow problem is to push as much flow as possible between two special vertices, the source and the sink satisfying the capacity constraints. For the solution of the maximum flow problem, there exists a number of algorithms. The existing algorithms can be divided into two families. First, augmenting path algorithms that satisfy the conservation constraints at intermediate vertices and the second preflow push relabel algorithms that violates the conservation constraints at the intermediate vertices resulting incoming flow more than outgoing flow.In this paper, we study different algorithms that determine the maximum flow in the static and dynamic networks.


Author(s):  
Mithra Sivakumar ◽  
Samina Ali ◽  
Manasi Rajagopal ◽  
Maryna Yaskina ◽  
Sharon Drury ◽  
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Abstract Background The waiting room represents families’ first point of contact with the emergency department (ED). We wished to study if a humanoid robot technology presence in the waiting room would improve satisfaction and decrease anxiety for caregivers in the paediatric ED. Methods This observational cohort study was conducted from September to December 2018 at a Canadian paediatric ED. All caregivers and children >11 years in the ED waiting room were eligible. We compared a robotic intervention (RI) to standard of care (SOC) education in the waiting room. The RI was a 5-minute psychoeducational program describing the ED process and flow. Specific days were designated for RI or SOC. An anonymous survey was administered twice, at the same times, on both SOC and RI days. The primary outcomes were (a) caregiver satisfaction with waiting room experience using a 5-point Likert scale; and (b) caregiver-reported anxiety in the waiting room, as measured by the State Trait Anxiety Inventory – State Scale. Results Six hundred and thirty-three caregivers participated, with a median age of 37 years (IQR 32 to 42); 80 children participated, with a median age of 15 years (IQR 13 to 16). Caregivers reported greater overall satisfaction in the RI cohort (174/200, 87.0%) compared to the SOC cohort (144/229, 62.9%; P<0.0001). Caregivers also reported lower anxiety in the RI cohort (39.38±11.38) compared to the SOC cohort (42.04±11.99; P=0.009). Conclusions A humanoid robot-based psycho educational intervention in the paediatric ED waiting room has a positive impact on caregiver satisfaction and anxiety.


Author(s):  
Sara Rosenbaum

Abstract Medicaid presents both legislative and regulatory challenges and opportunities. As it moves a legislative agenda forward, the Biden administration also will confront a series of immediate regulatory matters, some of which have been made urgent because of pending judicial action. Chief among these pressing matters are ending Medicaid work requirements and block grant experiments, rescinding the public charge rule, ensuring optimal use of Medicaid’s enrollment and renewal simplification tools, rescinding the Title X family planning rule (which has enormous implications for Medicaid beneficiaries), and, when the time comes, preparing states to wind down the “Families First” Medicaid maintenance of effort protection while avoiding erroneous beneficiary disenrollment. The administration could consider encouraging remaining non-expansion states to pursue 1115 Medicaid expansion experiments; in addition, the administration could pursue Medicaid pandemic recovery demonstrations to support health system recovery during the long period that lies ahead. Thus, while certain advances must await legislation, the administration can move Medicaid forward through executive action.


Author(s):  
Natalie Welfens ◽  
Saskia Bonjour

Abstract European resettlement programs prioritize the admission of refugee families. While this is seen as the “natural” thing to do, we argue that the mobilization of family norms is crucially political: in everyday bordering practices, interpretations of family norms are decisive for who is admitted to Europe. We study the selection of Syrian refugees in Turkey for humanitarian admission to Germany, which involves national governments, UNHCR, and NGOs. Fusing practice-theoretical approaches to humanitarianism and mobility governance on the one hand, with gender and sexuality scholarship on nationalism, empire, and migration on the other, we show how family norms configure discretionary power in transnational migration governance. First, family norms shape how power is exercised over refugees in vulnerability and assimilability assessments. Vulnerability assessments hinge on whether a family counts as protective and supportive, or deficient and threatening. Assimilability assessments scrutinize whether refugees do family “right”: in a way that will not disturb resettlement countries’ national (gender) order. Second, the mobilization of family norms reflects power disparities between actors. International and non-governmental actors strive to recognize plural family forms, but are disciplined into applying resettlement states’ more constraining family norms, thereby participating in the (re)production of the borders and boundaries of Europe.


Author(s):  
Fred Bidandi ◽  
Nicolette Roman

Social cohesion is beneficial to economic restructuring, social change, and political action. At its core, it involves building shared values and communities of interpretation, reducing disparities in wealth and income, and generally enabling people to have a sense of belonging, inclusion, participation, recognition, and legitimacy. A family, as a major social institution, is central to the functioning of any society and is therefore potentially the bedrock of creating and maintaining social cohesion. This article draws inextricable links between the role of the family and the creation of social cohesion by evaluating South Africa’s White Paper on Families. First, it defines and unpacks social cohesion and contextualises the family environment. This is done through an evaluation of the available literature on social cohesion in the family. Second, an evaluation of legislation and the White Paper on family is presented. Third, the aid of Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory is used to examine the various environments concerning social cohesion in the family. The White Paper on family recognises the family in aspects other than the concept of the family cycle, a key component of the developing individual who should be nurtured from infancy to adulthood. In addition, gaps in the policy are highlighted by looking at implementation challenges of the constitutional provisions and examining the way in which these gaps lead to social and economic exclusion and attendant poverty as the cardinal result.


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