#well-being measures

[redshift-13]

The United States is the only country in the world that has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Generally speaking, American children’s rights are adequately protected, but considerable problems still exist regarding health care, child abuse, juvenile law, etc.

Who opposes the Convention in the U.S.? The same people shrieking most loudly about abortion: conservative Catholics and evangelical Christians.

The Right to Health More than 8 million children in the United States have no health insurance, meaning about one in ten children. Thousands of others are underinsured, which impedes their right to quality health care services. Statistics show that these children are ten times less likely to receive treatment for conditions such as diabetes, asthma, oral diseases, and obesity. Children of ethic minorities (African-Americans or Hispanics) are more at risk than others : almost a quarter of them are not vaccinated against the most common serious illnesses.

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Child Labour Although child labour laws have been well enforced in the US, thousands of children, especially Hispanics, work in arduous agricultural environments. They work 14 hours a day during the harvest season, and usually end up abandoning their studies. They are also exposed to pesticides and other agrochemical treatments, which can cause serious health problems.

More at the link.

#rights of children #children's rights #the convention on the rights of the child #realization of children's rights index #social measurement indices #well-being measures

[elitadream]

Getting ready for a special event~ 😉🕺

#In this case: New Year's Eve! ^o^🎉 #Who else wants to see Luigi and Toadsworth play matchmakers? 😏 #I feel like these two would get along really well honestly 🤭 #Often chatting about Mario and Peach... Subtly trying to move things along at the castle lol #Not to mock our lovebirds but- #they do need all the help they can get xD #I had imagined that Peach would once tell Luigi about her secret wish to attend a fancy party with Mario #And this wouldn't fall on deaf ears ;D 💕 #Cue Mario being dragged into a dressing room and wondering why he's having his measurements taken all of a sudden #Feeling very clueless about it all but confusedly following royal fashion protocol regardless 😂 #He doesn't know it's done with the sole purpose of him matching with the princess for the occasion #Although Toadsworth's statement assuredly gave him a clue; and one can only assume he blushed very noticeably at that! 😆 #Mario #Luigi #Toadsworth #Princess Peach #Mareach (implied) #Mario x Peach #romance #shenanigans #conspiring wingmen #party #Super Mario bros #fanart

[lgbtlunaverse]

I think my favorite wwx misconception/unreliable narrator moment is when he's watching nieyao fall apart during the empathy sequence and the entire time he's like wow... jin guangyao is SO smooth. He's completely manipulated nie mingjue he's sososoooo good at dealing with him. And then you look at the actual situation and literally NOTHING is going like how jgy wants it to go.

Like. Even after the stairs. Wei Wuxian is like "wow jin guangyao knows exactly how to get nmj to do what he wants" and the jin guangyao in question. Is standing there. Literal days after getting kicked down a flight of stairs. By Nie Mingjue. Outwardly blank but inwardly ripping his own hair out like god FUCKING dammit i'm done. I can't do this anymore. Literally nothing else has worked the only solution left is murder. And wwx is like "he's totally in control of this situtation" it's so fucking funny he sees the most basic display of deescalation skills and his mind is fucking blown 🤯 he didn't know people could do that!

#mdzs #wei wuxian #meng yao #jin guangyao #nie mingjue #the measure by which wwx decides if an interpersonal relationship is being handled well is if it's going better than him and jc #WHCH IS NOT A PROPER STANDARD #and even by THAT metric nieyao aren't scoring particularly well

[clown-owo]

Guardian of the Eastern Gate and the One Entrusted with a Flaming Sword by God: Principality Aziraphale

#good omens spoilers #gos2spoilers #good omens season 2 #good omens #good omens 2 #aziraphale #goodomensedit #gifs #og post #i can't stop thinking about aziraphale so confident and badass saying “i'm prepared to take defensive measures” #and then just. being so useless #my guy says that and then 10 seconds later is like. well that won't hold forever. whats my plan? that was it. #it didn't even last you thirty goddamned seconds aziraphale??? #what were the candles for? nothing. to look threatening i guess #shout out to nina for being like. hey. what the fuck man #but still having the kindness to go. well obviously we won't throw fiction #king couldn't hold off more than 10 lowest level demons on his own without committing a war crime #needed humans to come up with plans for him #anyway. this is my first time making a gifset #sorry if it sucks. i don't know what the standards are for gifsets. i followed a tutorial #and reused the same color adjustments for every gif <- lazy

[nibbelraz]

Mobei Juns guide to getting your human to relax

#svsss #mobei jun #shang Qinghua #moshang #Mobei-Jun #scum villains self saving system #scum villain self saving system #the scum villain's self saving system #scum villian self saving system #I fully believe that Shang Qinghua overworks himself and Mobei jun being the loving husband that he is needs to put a stop to it #but he doesn't talk or tell him to stop its always just some aggressive glare that Shang Qinghua 100% misinterpreteds #into thinking hes not working hard enough so Mobei jun has to resort to DRASTIC MEASURES #which is holding his husband to his most favorite place and making sure he gets his well deserved rest #my art #nibbelraz

[kazamajun]

I have been meaning to talk about how accomplished Jun is though. She:

is such a powerful psychic that her clan apparently considered her a 'chosen one'

is literally such a strong fighter that she is able to suppress projecting her aura - something only the most powerful are able to do - which is why animals feel safe to approach her

fought well enough in the second tournament that Kazuya still thinks about her strength 22 years later in the story mode and waxes lyrical about it in his character ending (❓ on if she actually faced him though)

defeated Devil while pregnant ✔️ (only the half, but still counts)

has the survival skills to not only survive but thrive far from civilization

defeated Ogre ✔️

achieved the above via drawing power from sacred ground, something the average person obviously cannot do

is implied to have Yatagarasu guiding her per one of her intros

#in another world she's a shonen anime series main character let's be honest. #regarding the ❓ i have Opinions™ but tried to keep this factual. #being real with you the number of ppl on the planet that she couldn't school in a fight is in single digits for sure. #also raw strength aside i do feel kaz prob also deeply admires her spirituality #she has attained a non-material fulfillment that culturally is quite significant and as i said in a prior post-- #--is considered a measure of one's quality as a person and the value that you bring into the lives of those you love. #i did not mention the 'kazama blood' or potential link with 'angel' bc rn those are not clearly defined #also being born with special blood isn't something 'earned' rly so while it matters™ it doesn't belong on an 'accomplishment' list imo. #i love that she's so strong and well rounded in her own right and not just 'the mom' or a distressed damsel

[nientedal]

Usually I just save stuff like this to my drafts until I calm down but you know what, fuck it, I'm done.

Any so-called leftist who refuses to recognize that our options right now are "genocide abroad, progress at home" and "genocide abroad AND genocide at home" and that there is a significant difference between those two options is cordially invited to eat shit and die. We do not have time to entertain your anti-voting hopeless nonsense. A future in which we are able to move towards less death will always be preferable to the one in which we can't, and if you smug, sneering little clowns sacrifice that future on the altar of your own self-righteousness because you're too high on your own farts to realize how far up your own ass you are, I genuinely hope you fucking drown. Specifically, I hope you drown in the blood of the people who will die all over the world as a result of your bizarre refusal to work towards a future that doesn't include ethnic cleansing.

This is the United States. We sell war, here. I don't know how so many of you are only just now figuring that out, but you better get over your shock like yesterday because we are out of fucking time. We ran out of time when Reagan took office if not long before. You think not voting will improve any of this?

Keep calling, keep writing, keep screaming. Governments everywhere are (slowly) beginning to listen. Democrats are (slowly) beginning to listen. But Republicans never will, and if they seize power again next year (which they will absolutely do their damned to attempt), everything will be so, so much worse for everyone, everywhere. The work is slow and painful and imperfect but it will only get done if we show up and do the work, so keep calling, keep writing, keep screaming-- and when the time comes, you show up and vote for the future that lets us build a better tomorrow instead of just choking to death in the steaming shitpile of today.

#''i can't have No Genocide tomorrow!!! so i don't want No Genocide at all!!! WAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH'' that's you. that's how you sound #''if i can't have perfect then don't even fucking bother with better!! just give me worse instead!!'' are you for fucking real #you don't care about Palestine you don't care about anything other than being able to go ''Well. at least I didn't choose this.'' #not choosing is still a choice! you stupid motherfucker! #choosing to stand at the lever and do nothing and watch the trolley crush five people is still a choice!! #how DARE you act like that blood is not on your hands! #again: THIS IS THE UNITED STATES. WE SELL WAR HERE. #not voting for Biden is not going to help Palestine! #in fact it will absolutely measurably make the situation WORSE! #for them AND everyone else! #this is the reality we are working with and if you want it to change then you HAVE to play the long game! #leftists heard ''don't let perfect be the enemy of good'' and went ''WHAT THE *FUCK* DO YOU MEAN I CAN'T HAVE PERFECT??! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA'' #and i have fucking had it! #all i can do is try to keep working towards a day when the current left is the farthest right we have #but we are never gonna get there if y'all don't wake the fuck up and get moving #us politics #vent post #so help me god if this turns into a game of Spot the Tankie in the notes i'm gonna start knifing people

[slavhew]

Hello!

If you're not too busy, would you mind listing some of the things you think count as death flags for Mr. Spender?

There's the obvious fact that he's the "old" mentor to group of young protagonists, but what else do you think would count?

OHH BOY ok so I'd think I'm a crackpot for this but since we're talking about Zack "Foreshadowing" Morrison. I have some thoughts

No harm in leading with the (chronologically) first thing that jumped out at me:

This one IMMEDIATELY made me antsy whenever I came back to it after my initial read, and considering Zack has referred to it on twitter in the past as one of their favorite jokes it's definitely not been forgotten about.

Second, the sheer amounts of near-misses, jokey or not, of Spender narrowly avoiding specifically lightning

Again, not much, but it's weird that it happened thrice, latter two of which had real gravitas rather than an one-off joke.

And third, Spender himself. He's repeatedly shown himself to be kind of a self sacrificing idiot, as well as prideful to a fault. Granted, it's both him and Mina trying to take on all the responsibility of saving Mayview and its inhabitants from their fate.. But Spender is exactly that right measure of doesn't-value-himself-enough (chest footprint aftercare or lack thereof), having an obscene amount of power (enables his loner act + pride) and poor judgement that has the capacity to put him at great risk. And it has!

Spender has not only shown low enough self-esteem to view himself as the de-facto scapegoat for the safety of the town, but also prideful enough to make very bad calls that end up in people, often himself, hurt (COUGH FORGE INCIDENT COUGH)

This is all conjecture, but it's definitely enough to make me worried about him :') Even if all this doesn't mean he'll necessarily die he's definitely getting (even more) seriously injured at some point. I love the guy but he's so far doing a horrible job of convincing me he wants to live bad enough to circumvent at least that

#not art #admin answers #paranatural #pnat #richard spender #pts-fic-notes-and-blog #before i continue on with tag ramble i just want to say tysm for leaving an ask! #none of my friends read this so ive been stewing on these thoughts for some months and i loved finally sharing them #this isn't exactly proof but the hijack possession seemingly being the final nail in the coffin for his and isabel's relationship. #idk it feels significant to me. thats one more tether to support kinda gone. someone who knows him well enough to know he's unwell #he seems not exactly content but fr incapable of not burning bridges as he is now. and considering how rashly he acts he REALLY needs those #to not do stupid shit all the god damn time with no buffer other than Lucifer. who for his measured approach to rick's hotheadedness #has honestly shown himself to be pretty lenient and kinda bad at controlling spender's more (self) destructive tendencies? so he dont count #to be clear i love spender to bits but he is dumb as rocks and has all the self preservation of a fruit fly. it needs to be said #also the lightning man... idk its WEIRD like especially on the reread its the thing that most consistently threatens him! it repeats #sure he gets chewed by a bat and banged up by forge but?? he somehow always comes back to lightning. catnine has it out for him #its something i didnt even really put together until i continued reading the flashback chapter AFTER getting this ask and went OHHHGNHF #which the only reason lightning is such a non issue is lucifer's powers. which belong to his sunglasses and not to the spirit in him #so its not like they can't be taken away he's just got a really good excuse for having those on all the time #TAGS GETTING SO LONG. ANYWAYS. i hope this is comprehensible lol

[minkufu]

-Just to be rescued by a strong and handsome knight? Of course not! That would be reckless~

(Been busy so I offer a doodle of the sillies)

#khr #katekyo hitman reborn #genkishi #rasiel #gensiel #ngl i have a hc that siel has purposefully gotten himself kidnapped #on more than one occasion #cause his day to day is so tedious and exhausting #so instead of being a reasonable well adjusted person #he simply jumps to the most extreme measures to shake things up a bit

[gothhabiba]

the only way I can make any sense of this person being angry at me is that my response was so affable and bubbly that they thought it must be sarcastic...? even tho' I said /gen and everything? :(

#so if I'm snide in response to being insulted I'm an evil vicious mean bully who sends my cult of personality to harass people #if I'm neutral I'm also an evil vicious mean bully #if I'm firm but friendly well obviously then I'm arrogant and condescending #and if I'm enthusiastically friendly and make it clear I just want to share in a joke with you even after you've insulted me #well then that wraps right back around to being an arrogant evil mean bully #have I got that right? is that about the measure of things? lol #okay sorry I'm done I know we all have other things to be doing

[unpretty]

I Ship Corinne/Bruce, but most importantly I ship Corinne/Bruce/Therapy. Also holy *fuck* did Nightwing's little aside to Bruce break my goddamn heart. "I know you won't, but I did mean it."

their conversation is like

"Can you handle the rest?" "You know I can." "You could have talked to me." "Right. Sure." "Be careful." "You know I will." "Right foot first." "Always."

but it's actually like

"This situation is dangerous and I don't like it." "Too fucking bad." "I want you to know I'm here for you." "You'd have to be emotionally present at all for that." "I'm worried you'll get hurt because I care about you." "Then say that instead of acting like I'm incompetent." "I'm really trying." "That's what makes it sad."

#original #ficblogging #i enjoy a weird toxic codependent mutual-parentification situation #dick loving bruce enough to shoulder the burden of being the well adjusted one and resenting him for it in equal measure

[fromtheseventhhell]

Saying that non-conforming female characters don't face as much misogyny as their "feminine" counterparts is so funny cause literally the misogyny in their treatment is more overt because they aren't staying "in their place" like men think they should. The disdain for women + misogynistic societal ideals are so much more blatant in male characters interacting with these women. Countless times they are, in essence, told they need to sit down, shut up, and know their place but somehow that translates into them having "masculine privilege". I can only assume that people with this take haven't actually read the books and only get their information from second-hand sources.

#Men actually love it when the group they're oppressing doesn't conform with their restrictive measures that's exactly how things work 🙄 #George saying that his non-conforming female characters were outcasts was really just overkill cause this is explicitly stated in the books #It's such a stupid take to have or try to argue cause there's literally no basis for it anywhere in the books #the inherit misogyny in othering women for not conforming to a misogynistic and patriarchal society though...I have to laugh #Coming from the so-called feminists in fandom make a career of throwing female characters under the bus to prop up their faves #Brienne literally gets told not to go crying if she gets raped because she's asking for it by /acting like a man/ #and her mistreatment by both genders for her looks and behavior is well documented in her POV and those who interact with her #Asha gets denied her claim for being a women and repeatedly treated like an idiot for pushing for it anyways #Arya is an outcast in her own family and her behavior is lamented by her father mother and sister lol #I would just really like to know where this supposed privilege comes in??? where is it actually at?? #cause it doesn't get them better treatment...better access to their claims...security from being assaulted...so where exactly is it? #just another fandom idea that can never be backed up but people treat like an absolute fact anways #obligatory this isn't me that feminine female characters don't face misogyny cause people love misinterpreting my points #asoiaf #brienne of tarth #asha greyjoy #arya stark #daenerys targaryen #fandom nonsense

[finexbright]

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#as i said i'm only now catching up on what happened at red rocks and honestly i'm just so confused as to #why people are getting hate mail for being at a show???? like unless you were right there at the show you will NOT know what's going on #you can't just ''leave'' a venue because there's security measures ensuring that people don't run and cause a stampede #i get that the team there sucked and should've been much better equipped for an outdoor venue but why the fuck are we blaming the fans???? #and then being mad at louis??? yeah i get that his tweet wasn't the best but i'd imagine that he was trying to help out as much as he could #ensuring fans were safe and taken care of. pretty sure he is the one paying all hospital bills and stuff as well #yeah i know he's an artist and he has people doing things for him but also it's louis. he might not have been at ground zero #but i bet he was doing everything he could to help get fans to safety and he had to tweet something amidst all that #just to reassure fans a bit more and he did what he could #besides. i'm sorry but instead of being all ''louis/his team should've done more'' can we all just make sure that the fans #who were actually in that hail storm and who actually got horribly injured and who actually went through such a scary situation #are feeling okay? like why are we arguing about trivial things when what matters the most out of this situation is the fans and their safety #i honestly need people who were not at the venue and people who do not understand how traumatic things can be #to just shut up and log off #anyways to everyone present at red rocks i'm sending you so much love and i'm so sorry something so traumatic happened #i hope everyone is safe and is being treated for their injuries 💌

[sastiel-is-my-serotonin]

Sam with lots of tattoos on his back, and higher up on his arms, to help hide them. A lot of them are protection spells, more anti possession, not trusting the one on his chest to stay after... There's one no one really notices on the back of his neck, hidden behind his hair that says, "No."

#Was thinking about Sam with a lip piercing and then I thought of tattoos and well here we are #There's the idea that Sam asked Rowena about different sigils - more powerful ancient ones #And Castiel suggesting different ones too knowing he's a part of the extra safety measures #As well as helping make some more permanent that angels can't wave away #There's another one that no one knows it's hidden among the others #There's a tattoo that blocks anyone from being able to reside in Sam's body once he dies including him #Meaning once his soul leaves and he dies there's no coming back #It failed and he hated that it did #Oh and this definitely inspired something for a story I'm already writing #:) #sam winchester

[spidergangforever]

OK I've got one for Huntsman.

You're able to track through scent and a keen eye for tracks in various terrains. Have you ever tracked big game, like say...a moose? And if you did, have you kept anything as souvenir like the horns?

~ Princess Anon (👸)

I always say "Morning" because if it was a good morning I would be Hunting

#lego monkie kid #lmk #lmk huntsman #lmk syntax #dear beloved followers.... pls forgive me 4 taking a while to do these i have school and such :( #also writing is really needlessly difficult for me. ah #sorry if this is..... not that good. this ask did give me the vivid image of #a deer into the caves at like 4 in the morning awakening syntax from their precious beauty sleep #goliath is also tagging along with him not to stop him or anything but to make sure he didnt hurt himself (and also cuz hes. an enabler/j) #and syntax just being sooo salty about that particular incident forever<3 #speaking of #animal death #tw animal death #<- thats there for good measure #i do think Huntsman kills things. (reasonably. mostly.) bc i think it would be funny. #i meant to write something in there about him always searching for something bigger. like to hunt. ah!! i forgot #oh well ive already drawn everything im too sillg #enjoy. i may draw something else to go along with this one... stay tuned #UGH CORRECTION #*IT GAVE ME A VIVID IMAGE OF HUNTSMAN DRAGGING A DEER INTO THE CAVES

[estellardreams]

Fucked up leg bois

Fibula belongs to @son1c.

Sonic Cybernetic AU belongs to me.

#digital art #sonic fanart #sonic the hedgehog #fibula the hedgehog #oc art #not my oc #Both lost their leg(s) #Casual non-canon meeting don't mind me #And still despite this Sonic being from another universe and a lot taller than canon he's STILL shorter than Fib #Lol #Made this at midnight- now it's 1am here #Edit: I'd like people to know that I unintentionally forgot Fibula was 4'1'' and put him down as 4'3'' - and my AU Sonic is also 4'1'' #Uh... Oops? I guess? Oh well still taller Fib here. Measurements be damned. #Sonic Cybernetic AU (Non Canon) #🌸Mine