The Relationship Between Use of Specific Services,Parental Problems,and Reunification With Children Placed in Foster Care

Research studies have found that for parents with children in foster care, use of problem-targeted services increases the likelihood of reunification. However, available research focuses almost entirely on substance abusing mothers, and rarely considers parents' use of parenting classes and counseling, services that are commonly ordered for most reunifying parents. This study examined the effects of parents' use of specific services on reunification. Findings suggest that in addition to parents' use of problem-targeted services, use or compliance with parenting classes and counseling services is also heavily weighted in reunification decision-making. Further research is needed to identify factors associated with service use and advance our understanding of the effectiveness of reunification services.     

民族团结是中国走向强励的基本保证

世界上许多国家都是多民族共存的。追求团结统一是多民族国家稳定发展的根本 ,是中华民族共同的价值取向和心愿。各民族紧密团结是马克思主义处理民族关系的根本原则之一。我们必须坚定地维护民族团结。     

一个中国原则是两岸和平统一的基础和前提

本文阐述了我国政府解决台湾问题的方针;论述了台湾自古就是中国神圣领土的一部分,海峡两岸统一势在必行;分析了李登辉耍尽权谋搞分裂,终于落得被人民赶下台的可耻下场;论述了“台独”即意味战争,分裂就没有和平,台湾新领导人只有接受和承认一个中国的原则,放弃“台独”立场,尽快与祖国大陆进行和平统一的对话和谈判,才是正确的道路。     

More on Ultimate and Immanent Justice: Results from the Research Project “Justice as a Problem within Reunified Germany”

In earlier studies it was shown that two domain-specific variates of belief in a just world, namely belief in immanent justice and belief in ultimate justice concerning severe illness, differ systematically and significantly. Only immanent justice leads to accusation and derogation of innocent victims while ultimate justice is concordant with positive evaluations of victims and helping behavior. With regard to the research project Justice as a Problem within Reunified Germany (GiP, from the German Gerechtigkeit als innerdeutsches Problem), two new scales were developed for purposes of measuring general belief in immanent and ultimate justice. Using a sample of 929 West Germans and 1,275 East Germans, some of the correlation patterns found in earlier studies could be replicated. For example, immanent justice did correlate with draconian judgments (the proneness to strict and severe judgments), while ultimate justice was associated with mildness. Only ultimate justice correlated with existential guilt about the underprivileged. Beside this confirmation of earlier findings, new correlation patterns were revealed. For example, only immanent justice correlated with the equity principle, whereas ultimate justice corresponded to the need and equality principles.     

论康熙统一台湾的历史经验

本文论述了清朝初年,从郑成功收复台湾到康熙统一台湾,康熙为实现祖国统一大业采取了包括军事、政治、经济等一系列斗争方略。在这一过程中,虽然斗争方略有阶段性的变化,但追求"国家统一"的目标始终不变,坚持"一个中国"的原则立场始终不动摇,坚持"议和招抚"的方针长期不变。康熙希望和平统一,但始终把军事准备作为"抚"的前提,并实施"力争民心"的斗争策略,获得了台湾民众的支持。     

“台独”主张的国际法谬误——分析与批评

台湾是中国的固有领土。但是,“台独”主张却成为中国和平统一的严重障碍。本文分析了“台独”主张的各项基本论点,并从客观的国际法立场分别加以解析和批评。     

Chapter 8. The Mariel and Balsero Cuban Immigrant Experience

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the differential family reunification issues experienced by Cuban Marielitos and balseros upon entrance into the United States. Treatment recommendations, aimed at ameliorating the emotionally laden reunification issues, are presented within a family systems and ecological context. The overall intent of this chapter/article is to assist mental health practitioners in their therapeutic work with members of a relatively small but distinct Hispanic ethnic group. Two case vignettes are presented as a means of illustrating the key family reunifications issues that have impacted-and continue to affect-Cuban Marielitos and balseros.     

Placing sons and daughters in the church: Strategies used by the gentry of Central Catalonia to maintain social status in the 17th and 18th centuries

This study analyses strategies for placing sons and daughters used by Notaries, Doctors of Law and Honorary Citizens of Manresa in the 17th and 18th centuries. Reconstructions of several family trees show that all of the sons, except the heir, went into the church and many of the girls remained single or went into convents. The consistency of this behaviour has led to an interpretation in terms of how these families maintained their social status, given their particular way of gaining access to resources. This study traces the way the younger generations entered the church and how they returned resources to the families they came from. Celibacy excluded many sons and daughters from inheriting the family patrimony and opened the way to combining patrimonies with other families. This happened if the heir had no children and the inheritance went to the eldest daughter married to the heir of another family. Combining patrimonies was one of the strategies used to deal with the problem of declining incomes suffered by these families.     

Multilateral CBMs on the Korean Peninsula: Making a virtue out of necessity

Abstract

As its economy has become near to collapse, North Korea has tried to avoid direct contacts with South Korea because of the ‘absorption phobia’. Instead, the North has made continuous efforts to improve its relations only with the United States, seeking a guarantee for its survival. Given this circumstance, this paper argues that useful multilateral approaches such as KEDO and Four‐Party Talks will contribute to improving inter‐Korean relations. Thus, it would be sensible to explore every possible way (even through multilateral mechanisms) until both Koreas make a breakthrough for the deadlocked inter‐Korean CBMs. But the multilateral CBMs constitute a transitional and complementary role as South and North Korea should be primarily responsible for addressing major problems such as reunification. Among the multilateral approaches, the Four‐Party Talks will be a most useful mechanism which will enable the two Koreas to resume dialogue for the peace and reunification on the Korean Peninsula. In this peace process, more positive roles of major powers are also requested.     

站在一种妥协的立场上——析法律效果与社会效果的统一

妥协是变革与保守之间的中间立场,而"法律效果与社会效果的统一"正是基于妥协的立场而提出的。实际上,法律效果可视为是一种保守立场,社会效果可视为是一种变革立场。因此,法律效果与社会效果相统一这一理念也有着妥协立场拥有的同样优点,法律的稳定性仍是法律的核心价值,因此我们主张一种在法律效果基础之上的社会效果。妥协立场这一模式不但保留了法律的核心价值——稳定性,也对正义、秩序、效益等价值进行了考量,实现了审判的"合法又合理"的宏伟目标。