#Child welfare protocols

[fosteringinsc]

Streamlining Cross-Agency Coordination in Child Welfare: Overcoming Challenges

Streamlining Cross-Agency Coordination in Child Welfare: Overcoming Challenges. In the world of child welfare, where the safety and well-being of vulnerable children are at stake, collaboration among various agencies is not just beneficial; it’s imperative. Child protective services, courts, social services, and a myriad of other entities each have unique roles to play in the intricate tapestry…

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#Challenges in child welfare #Child welfare collaboration #Child welfare protocols #Child welfare system challenges #Collaborative case conferencing #Coordination among child welfare agencies #Cross-agency coordination #Data-driven decision-making #Enhancing child welfare coordination #Improving communication in child welfare #Integrated information systems #Interagency cooperation

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

In 2017 I interviewed Bernadette Wren, then head of psychology at the Tavistock Gids clinic, and asked what effect puberty blocking drugs have on the adolescent brain. Looking highly uncomfortable, she replied that the evidence so far was only anecdotal but that the clinic would study its patients “well into their adult lives so that we can see”.

Even back then, before whistleblowers had exposed the rush to medically transition children, it was alarming to hear that heavy-duty GnRH agonists such as triptorelin — used to treat advanced prostate cancer and “chemically castrate” sex offenders — were being prescribed to arrest puberty in hundreds of children as young as 11.

Moreover, they were being used “off-label” before any clinical trials. And the long-term study Wren promised never materialised: Gids (the Gender Identity Development Service) routinely lost touch with patients, and the 44 it did follow reported little long-term mental health improvement.

This shocking chapter in medical history, where the ideological objectives of trans rights campaigners trumped the welfare of disturbed children, is coming to an end worldwide. The decision by NHS England effectively to ban the prescription of puberty blockers comes after the Cass review noted these drugs could “permanently disrupt” brain development, reduce bone density and lock children into a regime of cross-sex hormones requiring life-long patienthood.

NHS England unites with other national health services including those in Finland, France, Sweden and, most notably, the Netherlands — where the “Dutch protocol”, a regime of early blockers then hormones, was devised in 1998 — in pulling back from prescribing them.

Even in the United States, where a toxic combination of extreme activism and medical capitalism has pushed child gender medicine to grotesque extremes, with double mastectomies performed on 14-year-old girls, there is some retrenchment.

Leaks from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, the body which formulates guidance on “trans healthcare”, reveal doctors perplexed at how they should explain to an 11-year-old child that drugs will render them infertile. Crucially, liberal media such as The New York Times are now reporting grave medical misgivings about child transition, once dismissed as a culture-war issue for the Republican right.

Yet the question remains: how was this ever allowed to happen? For years, puberty blockers were cheerily billed as a mere “pause button”. In 2014, Dr Polly Carmichael, the last head of Gids before the Cass review ordered its closure, went on CBBC in a show called I Am Leo, saying of blockers: “The good thing is, if you stop the injections, it’s like pressing ‘start’ and the body carries on developing as it would if you hadn’t started.”

The BBC permitted her to make this unevidenced claim to an impressionable audience of six to 12-year-olds. Imagine hearing this as a developing girl, freaked out by your new breasts and periods. No wonder Gids referrals subsequently rocketed.

Carmichael failed to mention that she did not know if pressing “restart” on puberty is always medically possible — it is not — and in fact, almost every child Gids put on blockers went on to irreversible cross-sex hormones.

After years in a Peter Pan state while their peers developed, they understandably felt there was no way back and forged on with treatment. Yet if allowed to experience natural puberty, almost 85 per cent of gender dysphoria cases resolve themselves.

Nor did Carmichael tell CBBC kids that the blockers-hormones combination, if taken early enough, not only results in sterility but kills the libido so that a young person will never experience an orgasm.

At the 2020 judicial review brought by a former Tavistock clinician and Keira Bell, the brave young detransitioner rushed onto hormones by Gids, judges expressed astonishment at Gids’s lack of an evidence base.

Reporting on this issue for seven years, I too have been struck by a complete clinical incuriosity. Not only was data not collected, but those who queried treatments or pressed for evidence faced angry condemnation. Perhaps activists knew what research might find because one long-term Finnish study, recently reported in the BMJ, destroyed the myth used to justify blockers: that a child will commit suicide if denied them.

The Finns found that “gender-affirming care” does not make a dysphoric child less suicidal. Rather, such children had the same suicide risk as others with severe psychiatric issues. In other words, changing bodies does not fix troubled minds.

Yet even after NHS England’s announcement, activists refuse to heed the now-overwhelming evidence. In its response, Stonewall persists with the myth that puberty blockers “give a young person extra time to evaluate their next steps”.

Many questions remain unanswered: will private clinics still be permitted to prescribe puberty blockers; and is Scotland’s Sandyford child gender clinic still determined to close its ears to all evidence? Plus, we have few details on how the NHS’s new “holistic” treatment for gender-questioning children will operate when it opens next month.

This repellent experiment — in which girls who like trucks or little boys who dress as princesses, and who invariably grow up to be gay, are corralled inexorably down a road towards life-changing treatments — belongs in the book of medical disgraces. As do the cheerleaders who raised money for Mermaids and those who persecuted whistleblowers or damned journalists asking questions as transphobic.

In 50 years, chemically freezing the puberty of healthy children with troubled minds will be regarded with the same horrified fascination as lobotomies — which, never forget, won the Portuguese neurologist Antonio Egas Moniz the 1949 Nobel prize.

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#i think it's going to be a lot sooner than 50 years tbh

[carriesthewind]

"Although hired as a consultant by Washington County in this case, Baird had a long-standing independent agenda: helping foster parents across Colorado succeed in intervening and permanently claiming the children they care for. Often working hand in hand with Tim Eirich, she has been called as an expert in, by her count, hundreds of child-welfare cases, and she sometimes evaluates visits between birth families and children without having met them. Baird would not say how many foster-parent intervenor cases she has participated in, but she can recall only a single instance in which she concluded that the intervenors should not keep the child. Thinking that particular couple would be weak adoptive parents, she told me, she simply filed no report."

"With the supply of adoptable babies dropping, foster children were becoming a “hot commodity,” he said, and he and his colleagues (among them Tim Eirich’s law partner Seth Grob) realized that attachment experts could be called into court to argue that foster children needed to remain with their foster parents in order to avoid a severed bond."

"The judge ruled in favor of Eirich’s clients, a social worker and a real-estate agent. “Court found [Baird’s] testimony credible. She has significant experience,” the judge said, adding approvingly that Baird’s analysis had “focused on primacy of attachment over cultural considerations.”"

"Was Baird’s method for evaluating these foster and birth families empirically tested? No, Baird answered: Her method is unpublished and unstandardized, and has remained “pretty much unchanged” since the 1980s. It doesn’t have those “standard validity and reliability things,” she admitted. “It’s not a scientific instrument.”

...

Had she considered or was she even aware of the cultural background of the birth family and child whom she was recommending permanently separating? (The case involved a baby girl of multiracial heritage.) Baird answered that babies have “never possessed” a cultural identity, and therefore are “not losing anything,” at their age, by being adopted. Although when such children grow up, she acknowledged, they might say to their now-adoptive parents, “Oh, I didn’t know we were related to the, you know, Pima tribe in northern California, or whatever the circumstances are.”

The Pima tribe is located in the Phoenix metropolitan area."

"We found that — leaving aside the question of whether attachment theory should even be used as an argument in these cases — Baird’s assessments of foster children’s relationships aren’t just unscientific. They barely touch the surface of a child’s life.

“I don’t know these children,” she testified in one 2017 case, adding, “I have not met anybody.” Still, she said, she “strongly” recommended that those children’s birth parents’ rights be permanently terminated and that the kids be adopted."

"She also regularly uses terms like “mirror neurons,” “neurotoxins,” “synapses,” “hormones,” and “encoded trauma in the central nervous system” to justify her conclusions about children’s family relationships. (Baird is not a neuroscientist.)"

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The New Yorker article focuses on possible legislative solutions, but I think these articles point to something more pernicious and more difficult to address. Judges - in all kinds of cases - routinely give credence to professionals and "experts" who are biased, bigoted, and testify far outside their expertise (if they have any expertise at all). These professionals have credentials (like being a police officer or social worker) that are validated by institutional hierarchies. Their frequent systematized interaction with the legal system is mistaken as experience that makes their subjective beliefs more credible, when in truth they lack any objective expertise. They are considered credible and unbiased because they conform to, and validate, systems of hierarchical oppression, while the people they hurt - often poor, marginalized, and most frequently, not white - are viewed with inherent distrust.

The ProPublica article focuses primarily on Baird. I'm more concerned with the judges who believed her, who used her to justify funneling children away from their (safe and loving, but poorer and frequently browner) birth families. She was only able to do so much harm because of the the power given to her by courts, and the judges inside them.

The ProPublic article ends with the line, "This past fall, with Baird’s help, the foster parents were granted full custody of the baby girl through her 18th birthday." It names Baird as a force that led to the theft of this child. The passive voice hides the judge who made the ultimate decision.

[mydaddywiki]

Prince Laurent of Belgium

Physique: Husky Build Height: 5'11"

Prince Laurent of Belgium (born 19 October 1963-) is the second son and youngest child of King Albert II and Queen Paola, and younger brother of King Philippe. Laurent's involvement with animal welfare and the environment, together with a relative lack of interest in protocol, has caused him to be dubbed by elements of the popular Belgian press as écolo-gaffeur (the eco-blunderer). Currently, he is 13th in the Belgian line of succession.

Handsome, a bit chunky, looks a bit ‘knowledgeable’, I think Prince Laurent is the most fuckable member of the Belgium Royal family. Sure, his older brother is the logical choice, being king and all. But like King III Charles and Prince Andrew of the British Royal family, I’d fuck Prince Laurent over Philippe of Belgium. What? You know I like ‘em big.

Of course he’s married and have three children. He was also involved in an alleged corruption scandal, but since it didn’t involve him being caught with some guy. I don’t care.

#mydaddywiki royalty #Prince Laurent of Belgium

[notbeingnoticed]

In 2017 I interviewed Bernadette Wren, then head of psychology at the Tavistock Gids clinic, and asked what effect puberty blocking drugs have on the adolescent brain. Looking highly uncomfortable, she replied that the evidence so far was only anecdotal but that the clinic would study its patients “well into their adult lives so that we can see”.

Even back then, before whistleblowers had exposed the rush to medically transition children, it was alarming to hear that heavy-duty GnRH agonists such as triptorelin — used to treat advanced prostate cancer and “chemically castrate” sex offenders — were being prescribed to arrest puberty in hundreds of children as young as 11.

Moreover, they were being used “off-label” before any clinical trials. And the long-term study Wren promised never materialised: Gids (the Gender Identity Development Service) routinely lost touch with patients, and the 44 it did follow reported little long-term mental health improvement.

This shocking chapter in medical history, where the ideological objectives of trans rights campaigners trumped the welfare of disturbed children, is coming to an end worldwide. The decision by NHS England effectively to ban the prescription of puberty blockers comes after the Cass review noted these drugs could “permanently disrupt” brain development, reduce bone density and lock children into a regime of cross-sex hormones requiring life-long patienthood.

NHS England unites with other national health services including those in Finland, France, Sweden and, most notably, the Netherlands — where the “Dutch protocol”, a regime of early blockers then hormones, was devised in 1998 — in pulling back from prescribing them.

Even in the United States, where a toxic combination of extreme activism and medical capitalism has pushed child gender medicine to grotesque extremes, with double mastectomies performed on 14-year-old girls, there is some retrenchment.

Leaks from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, the body which formulates guidance on “trans healthcare”, reveal doctors perplexed at how they should explain to an 11-year-old child that drugs will render them infertile. Crucially, liberal media such as The New York Times are now reporting grave medical misgivings about child transition, once dismissed as a culture-war issue for the Republican right.

Yet the question remains: how was this ever allowed to happen? For years, puberty blockers were cheerily billed as a mere “pause button”. In 2014, Dr Polly Carmichael, the last head of Gids before the Cass review ordered its closure, went on CBBC in a show called I Am Leo, saying of blockers: “The good thing is, if you stop the injections, it’s like pressing ‘start’ and the body carries on developing as it would if you hadn’t started.”

The BBC permitted her to make this unevidenced claim to an impressionable audience of six to 12-year-olds. Imagine hearing this as a developing girl, freaked out by your new breasts and periods. No wonder Gids referrals subsequently rocketed.

Carmichael failed to mention that she did not know if pressing “restart” on puberty is always medically possible — it is not — and in fact, almost every child Gids put on blockers went on to irreversible cross-sex hormones.

After years in a Peter Pan state while their peers developed, they understandably felt there was no way back and forged on with treatment. Yet if allowed to experience natural puberty, almost 85 per cent of gender dysphoria cases resolve themselves.

Nor did Carmichael tell CBBC kids that the blockers-hormones combination, if taken early enough, not only results in sterility but kills the libido so that a young person will never experience an orgasm.

At the 2020 judicial review brought by a former Tavistock clinician and Keira Bell, the brave young detransitioner rushed onto hormones by Gids, judges expressed astonishment at Gids’s lack of an evidence base.

Reporting on this issue for seven years, I too have been struck by a complete clinical incuriosity. Not only was data not collected, but those who queried treatments or pressed for evidence faced angry condemnation. Perhaps activists knew what research might find because one long-term Finnish study, recently reported in the BMJ, destroyed the myth used to justify blockers: that a child will commit suicide if denied them.

The Finns found that “gender-affirming care” does not make a dysphoric child less suicidal. Rather, such children had the same suicide risk as others with severe psychiatric issues. In other words, changing bodies does not fix troubled minds.

Yet even after NHS England’s announcement, activists refuse to heed the now-overwhelming evidence. In its response, Stonewall persists with the myth that puberty blockers “give a young person extra time to evaluate their next steps”.

Many questions remain unanswered: will private clinics still be permitted to prescribe puberty blockers; and is Scotland’s Sandyford child gender clinic still determined to close its ears to all evidence? Plus, we have few details on how the NHS’s new “holistic” treatment for gender-questioning children will operate when it opens next month.

This repellent experiment — in which girls who like trucks or little boys who dress as princesses, and who invariably grow up to be gay, are corralled inexorably down a road towards life-changing treatments — belongs in the book of medical disgraces. As do the cheerleaders who raised money for Mermaids and those who persecuted whistleblowers or damned journalists asking questions as transphobic.

In 50 years, chemically freezing the puberty of healthy children with troubled minds will be regarded with the same horrified fascination as lobotomies — which, never forget, won the Portuguese neurologist Antonio Egas Moniz the 1949 Nobel prize.

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{Article source (behind paywall)}

[maturemenoftvandfilms]

Prince Laurent of Belgium

Featuring Prince Laurent of Belgium

Royal families. What fun would they be without a few black sheep? Prince Laurent plays the part in Belgium’s monarchy. As the youngest child of the former King Albert II, he’s never had much interest or respect for typical royal protocol. For the most part, however, he’s viewed as an eccentric figure.   

Recently, I had the pleasure to meet the Belgium prince at his home in Villa Clementine, in Tervuren. A friend that I was staying with had done some work for him and had some some papers for him to sign. Wanting to meet royalty, I asked if I could tag along. Upon meeting him, I thought he was cute, a full head of silver gray hair and nice blue eyes hidden behind a pair of glasses. He wasn't a large man nor was he skinny either, just perfect for me. 

 In conversation I find out that the Prince’s passion lies with animal welfare and the environment. I informed him that I'm a classically trained cellist and was competing in the Queen Elisabeth Competition the next weekend. He said he was thinking about skipping it, but knowing I was in it, he would try to make it. Prince Laurent was very nice and took a liking to me right away, showing me around his home. I was very impressed. My friend had given him some papers. After the prince signed them we returned to my friend's house. 

The following weekend rolled around and I headed to the venue where I was preforming that day. I got there early to do a sound check and when showtime was near, I check out the crowd. Most of whom were high official types (if you didn't know). I love to look out at them while I'm preforming and see at all the older men and knowing that I have there undivided attention. 

Half way during the competition, I look out to see Prince Laurent, alone walking down aisle to his sit right in front of me. Just in time to hear me play. He grinning from ear to ear as I played.

After the announcement of the winner, he walked up to me and told me how much he enjoyed my playing. During our conversation, I found out that his wife and kids were at her parents, in Chaumont-Gistoux, in Walloon Brabant. He asked me if I had any plans for the evening and I said I didn't. And to my surprise, he asked me to dinner at his home. 

At dinner, knowing he had an interest in me, I steered our conversation turned into how I would satisfy him if I got him into bed. While it didn’t take long before we both went back to his bedroom. I could feel the bulge growing in my shorts and could see Prince Laurent had noticed as well. With a twinkle in his eye Prince Laurent kneeled down and slid my pants and shorts off, throwing them onto a nearby chair. 

“Nice cock.” Prince Laurent crowed as he took all of my cock into his mouth and started sucking hard. 

“Oh fuck yes your majesty.” I moaned in delight as I started to thrust and face fuck Prince Laurent. With that said, the prince sucked harder and fast on my cock. This married man was a ferocious cock hound. He couldn’t get enough of sucking my cock, and from the way he was doing it, he definitely had done it before. I was getting close to cuming when Prince Laurent suddenly pulled away. 

At first I thought that he had enough, but then he undid his tie and flung it down. I stared at this hot daddy before me as unbuttoning his shirt, taking it off then slipping his shoes off. Laurent then teasingly moved his hands up his legs and rubbed his enormous bulge before bringing his hands to his buckle which he proceeded to undo and then he undid the top button and slowly unzipped his fly. Once he had undone his fly, he tugged on his pants til they feel to the floor. Prince Laurent had been going commando as his hard 6.5” cock sprang up into the air and reveal all its glory along with a nice large pair of balls.

“Oh fuck yes!” I gasped. 

“You like this old man’s body then?” Chuckled the prince. 

“Oh do I ever your majesty!" I said as I looked at the older guy standing before me in all his glory. 

"I want it from behind." He said as he got on the bed on all fours. 

When he presented me with his big white hairy ass with his set of bull balls hanging down between his legs, I wanted to eat him out. I spread his cheeks as it would go with my hands and began to lick his ass. I started at the rim and gently pushed my tongue inside of him. This drove him wild and he pushed his ass back farther on my probing tongue. He was moaning loudly and I continued fucking his ass with my tongue and mouth. 

After I ate his ass for several minutes, he was begging me to shove my 8-incher deep inside his body. I complied, spiting in my hand to wet my cock and started to touch the rim of his hot wet ass hole. I knew he'd be tight, but I was surprised when he took my cock so easy and I began fucking him fast and steady in seconds. His ass was beautiful, round and plump. I grabbed his cheeks and spread them wider as I shoved my dick in and out in a frenzy. 

For the next 10 to 15 minutes, I ravaged his royal ass! Needing to look at him while fucking him, I put him on his back to fuck his ass the way he would have fucked his wife, missionary style. Now on his back, Prince Laurent spread his legs and smiled as he said, "Come and get it." 

I grabbed both his thick calves and pulled them up were I could reach his hot ass, put the head of my cock against the willing hole and began to push in. Prince Laurent sucked in a deep breath as I pushed the full length back in him. I didn't pull out, but started to gyrate my hips to give him the full sensation of being fucked. He opened his eyes and looked into mine and said, "Fuck me hard Jack I need it." 

So I pulled out slow and just when the tip was about to come out I rammed it back in as hard as I could. The slapping of my thighs on the back of his kinda echoed through the bedroom. I pulled out again and again rammed it back in. I began to wildly fuck his hot ass with deep thrusts as Laurent was moaning and begging me to fuck him harder. The slapping sound was getting more intense and I started to wonder if any of his servants could hear. 

Prince Laurent's tight hole was magnificent and hugged my cock tight as he squeezed my dick with his hot juicy hole. By the time I was getting close, his royal highness was begging me to fuck him harder. He was spreading his legs wide apart, giving me full access to his butt. His cock was leaking all over his belly and I knew from the look on his face that he was getting close himself. I finally couldn't hold it any more and grabbed his hips and drove my cock deep down inside him and I let go of my load. At the same time, Prince Laurent pumps wave after wave of his own juices all over the both of us. 

"Wow," was all I could say as Prince Laurent reaches up and pulls me close to him. We embraced and passionately kissed each other, covered with each other’s cum.  

#Prince Laurent of Belgium #fan fiction #belgian royal family #belgium royal family #royalty #prince royal person

[reasoningdaily]

A new paper by Yale researchers finds racial disparities in the use of physical restraints on children who are admitted to the emergency department. Black children are more likely than White children to be subdued with restraints during ED visits, the study finds. Published September 13 in JAMA Pediatrics, the study looked at data from 11 EDs across New England between 2013 and 2020. Their sample included over 551,000 visits of patients ages 0 to 16, in which physical restraints were used 532 times. According to their analysis, Black pediatric patients were 1.8 times more likely to receive a physical restraint than a White patient. Boys were more likely than girls to be restrained. The results mirror those in another Yale-led study that looked at the use of restraints on adults in the ED, and found that Black males who lacked insurance were more likely than patients of other racial demographics to be physically restrained.

Destiny Tolliver, MD

Study co-author Destiny Tolliver, MD, is a second-year postdoctoral fellow and scholar in the National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) at Yale School of Medicine.

When pediatric patients are restrained in the ED, they are typically tied to the bed, the researchers said. It is done “in concern for their safety or others’,” said Destiny G. Tolliver, MD, a second-year postdoctoral fellow and scholar in the National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) at Yale, and co-author of the current study. She added, “It can be very traumatic and scary for a child, looking up at all these people who are stopping them from moving.”

According to standard ED protocol, the researchers said, hospital staff are supposed to use de-escalation techniques and only implement physical restraints as a last resort. But the researchers said that systemic bias and racism, including the “adultification” of Black youth, and particularly Black boys, could change the way these children are perceived by nurses, doctors, and other specialists.

Tolliver has devoted her research to the overlap between the healthcare and carceral system.

“When Black children are perceived as adults, they lose the benefit of the doubt that is granted to children, and it increases the perception of threat,” she said.

Co-author Katherine A. Nash, MD, a pediatrics specialist at Yale and former NCSP scholar said adultification bias does not just occur in the ED, but can happen at any stage in the child’s journey to the ED — including at the school and in the ambulance. “And there are other forms of bias for Black boys,” Nash said. “In addition to adultification, we want to understand what else might contributes to bias and racism against Black children in the medical system — for example, the presence of the child welfare system or being brought in by police.”

Similar to the findings in the adult ED study he led, co-author Ambrose Wong, MD, MSEd, MHS, research director and associate fellow director at the Yale Center for Medical Simulation, said these findings “reflect systemic bias of these patients. These kids are labelled as ‘problematic’ and the hospital and health care system reinforces that in the intersection with police.”

When Black children are perceived as adults, they lose the benefit of the doubt that is granted to children, and it increases the perception of threat.

The researchers said that future studies will attempt to uncover the root causes of these bias inequities — where decisions were made in the chain of events leading to a patient’s ED visit that led to the use of restraint, as well as the impact of structural racism — for example disparities in access to outpatient mental health care. “We will be partnering with emergency medical services and with schools to understand where we can intervene and collaborate,” said Nash, adding that she hopes these findings will encourage other institutions to launch their own investigations.

#Yale Study Finds Black Children Most Likely to be Physically Restrained in Emergency Department Visits #Black Children Adultification #Black Children #anti blackness #adultification

[islandpcosjourney]

Faith, Hope, Love

16th August 2023

I bought this new leather-bound refillable notebook for my new job when I started working with the Scottish Bible Society in June. Never did I think how much I would look at the three simple words on its cover and for it to be a daily reminder of God’s grace – the need to be reminded of his ultimate control over our world.

Faith – I have plenty of that. 

Hope – I can find plenty of that too.

Love – I definitely have plenty of that, receiving it and giving it.

We have finally navigated through all of the bureaucracy associated with the pre-IVF process, where you haven’t quite started but you technically have and still don’t know what’s ahead of you. 

I have written previously about my ups and downs relating to this process. I may have even mentioned my religion in relation to my anxiety about even starting this process. Well, we are well passed that stage now. We were referred, we waited, we have been tested and further tested, waited, and waited some more and now we have consented and have been given our start month – September. Now, all that means is that with the start of my September period, I go in for a scan on Day 3 to see if my body will allow them to start intervening on my behalf. In other words, checking to see that I don’t have any unwanted cysts lying around anywhere, that my endometrial layer is thick enough and that I am healthy enough to start pumping myself full of chemicals to get my ovaries working in full-blown Hulk mode 💚 It also means we will then be signing a child welfare form which is basically a contract between us and the HFEA to check/agree that we will be suitable parents. Kevin will have to be formally identified as "himself", in person, so that they can go ahead to use his fresh or frozen swimmers to be combined with whatever eggs they harvest out of me weeks later. I will also be taught how to self-inject subcutaneously for up to 10-12 days – oh the joys! I certainly can’t wait for that fun! They will also test me for blood-borne viruses.

So, what I meant by all of that was, we’ve been given a start month but that still doesn’t guarantee anything. It’s a bit like when Kevin is due home on crew change day. It is never certain that he will definitely be making his way home that day, until he’s physically off the ship and on dry land. Until that moment, absolutely anything can happen, and it has in the past. So, until that Day 3 appointment when all papers are signed and my body is given the all-clear to start being manipulated, your guess is as good as mine as to what the preceding month will look like 😉 However, I do now have a clearer picture of what it POTENTIALLY might look like. I am on a short (antagonist) protocol as I have a 5% risk of developing OHSS.

Day 1 – First day of period

Day 3 – Baseline scan & Ovaleap injections start (Follicle Stimulating Hormone)

Day 8 – Ganirelex injections start (ovarian down regulation)

Day 10 – Follicle scan to determine size of follicles – looking to find 3 follicles or more that are 17mm in size. If not, I continue hormone injection protocol and have a repeat scan in another 2 days’ time. Repeat scan every 2 days until follicles have grown enough.

From here on in, everything is dependent on how I am responding to the hormones to determine the next steps. Basically you can only go from one appointment to the next.

So, essentially from Day 10, you take each day as it comes.

Once I take the trigger injection (for eggs to reach final level of maturity), egg retrieval happens 36hrs later. So this could be as early as Day 12 or Day 14, basically around the usual time you’d expect to ovulate. So my plan is to be down at my Mum’s in Edinburgh from Day 10 of my cycle onwards as its from then when I’m either going to be back & forth to Dundee for scans every couple of days or preparing for egg collection straight away, depending on how I respond to the hormones. It’s worth noting here that the number of follicles growing does not equal the number of eggs collected. Sometimes there are no eggs within the follicles, sometimes there are several. IT IS SO MUCH TO TAKE IN! Pardon me if I repeat myself several times but I’m using this writing opportunity to process all that I have been told over the phone, over video consults and written down in letters, gathering together all the info to make it clear and concise for me to understand – you’d be surprised how unclear the whole process actually is! You have to figure out their wording for everything. I’ve been so “caught out” by expressions in the past. Like reading “Day 5 of Gonadotrophin injections” and working out that that means Day 8 of your cycle (because you start the injections on Day 3) and that having scans on Day 8 and Day 10 of your Ovarian stimulation (stims) means Day 10 and Day 12 of your cycle – one can see how it can all be confusing and that the way they measure everything is a new language to us. I perhaps need to get on board with their way of measuring, and I’m sure I will, but for now, my way to understand it is to compare it to my usual way of measuring my cycle, from Day 1 of my first bleed, as I’m used to.

It’s nothing I’m going to worry about though. I have been doing that and have had some very dark days about it all (ones where, if anyone had been around, they’d have been quite literally picking me up off the floor to hold me in the messy state I was in). Those days are, for the moment, being kept in check. We’ve been given a treatment diary where every important date will be filled in as we go along but knowing ahead of time that there’s a high probability of back & forth every couple of days from Day 10 onwards goes a long way to help us plan that I need to leave the island around Day 9 and expect not to be returning for a fortnight at least.

Initially, after my AMH test found I had a high egg reserve, I was told in an early document to expect a frozen transfer, that a fresh transfer would be unlikely as my body would be overloaded and needing a rest, so in my head I was only considering the time required to get from the baseline scan to egg collection. Beyond that would’ve been a couple months later when my body was then ready for an embryo transfer. However, I now know from my consultant that there’s only a 5% risk of OHSS and therefore I need to be preparing for a FRESH embryo transfer as standard, so that means that I need to account for another 5-day waiting window after the egg collection day to expect to be back in for a fresh transfer under sedation, possibly as soon as Day 17 onwards and then allow a number of days rest afterwards. But, if my ovaries become swollen to 8-9cm or blood estroegan is high or I’m symptomatic or collection retrieves more then 25 eggs – all eggs will be frozen. So, in theory the whole process could be as short as 3wks or up to 4wks long and this is the window that I am working to when I am working out whether or not it is advisable to go ahead to start in September, in the month leading up to the biggest week of the Gaelic calendar – the Royal National Mòd 😂

We started trying when we were 29 & I’m now about to turn 36. Time is not on our side, only God is in control of that, but time is not to be wasted as we only have 4 years left before our NHS funding and our own personal clock runs out – once we turn 40, we’ve agreed to let it all go and live our life in the fate that God has given us. Until then, we’re prepared to fight with all the energy we are blessed with.

We’re of course focusing on doing everything we can to help, but more importantly we’re focusing on our relationship & being us in a broken world where we are forced down this rabbit hole in search of the family we so desperately want. I lost myself in the past 7yrs and I will never get those moments back again. They haven’t been wasted, no. I found meaning in the pandemic where I finally got the chance to focus on my health. We’ve been back & forth with ideas of adoption, fostering and facing a child-less life. 

I’ve realised that for 12yrs since being told I may never have children, it’s ruled my life. All I ever wanted was to be a mum. I always talked about being a mum & having my own children, as many would at a young age, never possibly thinking that it might not be an option. To me, the innocent version of me, not being a mum wasn’t an option and to some extent I must regain that level of Faith & Hope. How I wish I could erase the information that I know and be that innocent girl who believes wholeheartedly that she WILL be a mum. No ifs, just no question about it. But above it all, above the waiting, the hoping, the letting go and letting God take over, or as I now have to think about it in some respects, letting the scientists take over (all the while praying that God’s will works within them to the best of their ability, whether they’re God-fearing or not – this is something I am requesting people to pray for - for the staff who’s care we will be under, who’s mortal hands will be guided by Him, to carry out his will) above all of that, is Love. Love that no matter what happens, is ever present and unconditional between us. We have spent years fighting our case, pleading our cause, kicking ourselves, being at our lowest and reaching the height and the depths we never thought we’d reach. But still, we love each other, no matter what, with or without a child. We used to dream of a house filled with children’s laughter but now, and we have not downgraded our dream, we dream only of 2 little lines on a pregnancy test. That is the step 1 we dream about. To us, that would be a dream come true, even just to get to that step. If I’ve learnt nothing from my health journey, of trying to regulate my menstrual cycles and get my weight down, it’s that yes you must have a long-term ultimate goal BUT in order to get there, you must have the tiny, achievable goals. We are well aware that my PCOS makes me 40% more likely to miscarry so we are fully aware that a positive pregnancy test does not equal a baby, or as the ACU unit call it, a live birth. Our NHS funding lasts until there is a “live birth”. As morbid as it sounds, that could even mean a baby born that dies of complications only hours after birth, complications which are even higher because of it being an IVF pregnancy. But to get back to the point, we pray for each tiny milestone along the way. At each and every stage, complications can arise but we can use them as a stepping stone to be grateful for.

Day 3 scan – get green light to start.

Hormone injections (stims) – at home in Lewis hopefully.

Day 8 & Day 10 of stims scans.

Trigger injection – at Mum’s in Edinburgh

Egg collection - under sedation & recovery period

Fertilisation - 70% success rate is normal expectation.

Blastocyst stage (125 cell-stage fertilised egg)

Best quality blastocyst identified for fresh transfer & any remaining good quality embryos sent into cryopreservation.

Embryo transfer - under sedation & recovery period

Pregnancy test - either it is a positive test, and we pray for the next stage for a viable pregnancy to continue (scan 2-3wks after test) or we’re back to square one again…..

Possible complications of each stage:

Headaches

Mood changes

Hot flushes

Night sweats

Nausea

Tiredness

Allergic reactions

Localised tenderness or injection site reactions

Weight gain

Abdominal pain

Diarrhoea

Breast tenderness

Ovarian cyst formation

Vaginal spotting

Vaginal irritation

Skin rashes

Shortness of breath

Risk of reduced response to drugs – cycle abandoned.

Risk of no eggs being collected – cycle abandoned.

Negative pregnancy test – move on to frozen transfers (if embryos are available) or next cycle.

Just remember, while this is an exciting prospect to finally be starting, the process itself is not exciting and there are no guarantees about a positive outcome, in fact, we have been given the stats of a 25% chance of success. While many people remind me, in a positive way, that 25% is still a good chance, try to think of it from the other way around as if you were dealing with the risk factors of agreeing to a surgery. If you were being told you only had a 25% chance of surviving that surgery, would you feel just as excited? Of course you’d hold on to the hope of that chance but you’d put your affairs in order because experience tells you that the number 75 is much bigger than 25 🤷🏻‍♀️

Being open, honest, raw & just plain & simply Me is the only way I know how to navigate this cruel journey. Kevin and I are very grateful for your support and understanding as we delve into a new world of anxiety & hormonal mood swings where he may fear for his life 😂😂😂😂😂

Faith, Hope & Love are important elements in this rollercoaster ride we’re on. Please pray that our Faith is deepened by progressing with treatment. Please pray that the Hope we have now remains strong throughout and doesn’t falter. Please also pray that the Love we have for each other develops our bond as a couple; supports us as we fall and need help; guides us to deal with each situation as we face it, wraps us up in everlasting trust and most of all, Love the God who is putting us through this pain.

Only he knows why we are going through this. 

Only he knows how to get us safely to the other side.

Only he has the power to grant us a miracle, in his name, Amen.

[african-international-magazine]

Australian 800m Record-holder Peter Bol Tests Positive for EPO

Olympic finalist and Commonwealth silver medallist failed out-of-competition test for EPO but disputes the finding

Peter Bol, the Australian 800m record-holder who placed fourth at the Tokyo Olympics, was provisionally suspended after testing positive for EPO, although the 28-year-old says he is “totally shocked” by the news.

Bol, who finished runner-up in the Commonwealth Games 800m last summer, failed an out-of-competition test in October last year.

“It is critically important to convey with the strongest conviction that I am innocent and have not taken this substance as I am accused,” he said. “I ask that everyone in Australia believe me and let the process play out.”

He added: “To be clear, I have never in my life purchased, researched, possessed, administered or used synthetic EPO or any other prohibited substance,” he said. “I voluntarily turned over my laptop, iPad and phone to Sport Integrity Australia to prove this. Above all, I remain hopeful that the process will exonerate me.”

Bol’s national record is 1:44.00, which he set in Paris last year, and in 2021 he became the first Australian to reach an 800m final at the Olympics since 1968.

He was born in Sudan but fled the civil war there as a child and moved to Australia, settling in Perth and completing a degree in construction management.

At last year’s Commonwealth Games he finished just ahead of English duo Ben Pattison and Jamie Webb as Wyclife Kinyamal of Kenya took victory.

Athletics Australia CEO Peter Bromley said: “There are procedural fairness and investigative consideration that constrain how much we can say, and at this point it would be inappropriate for Athletics Australia or anyone else to speculate about the specific details or pre-empt any outcome.

“However what we can say is that learning about this adverse analytical finding was both extremely concerning and completely out of the blue, and we will support Sport Integrity Australia who are leading the investigation into the matter.

“As a signatory to the World Anti-Doping Code and the Australian National Anti-Doping Policy, Athletics Australia condemns doping in sport, and we work hard to ensure athletics in Australia is a clean and fair sport for all athletes, including providing anti-doping education in partnership with Sport Integrity Australia.

“We fully support the highly effective testing protocols that exist to ensure that anyone who breaches the anti-doping policy is caught and appropriately sanctioned.

“Every athlete, coach and spectator wants and deserves a level playing field.

“We appreciate the efforts of Sport Integrity Australia to conduct an extensive regime of testing during and out of competition to ensure our sport is fair and equitable at all times.

“Our primary consideration right now is that the appropriate process is followed and that it is not undermined by inappropriate speculation.

“The welfare of our athletes remains critical through this process, and we will continue to do all that is appropriate to ensure both Peter and other athletes, coaches and support staff are provided with the necessary support.”

Elsewhere in anti-doping news, The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) charged Belarusian coach Yury Maisevich for alleged breaches of the World Athletics’ Integrity Code of Conduct relating to the withdrawal of sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya from the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021.

Tsimanouskaya’s participation in the women’s 200m was curtailed following her social media criticism of Belarusian athletics coaching staff for entering her in the 4x400m without her knowledge.

Following Tsimanouskaya’s public comments, which hit international headlines, team officials withdrew her from competition and the athlete claimed that they forced her to leave the Olympic Village and tried to send her back to Belarus.

However, she sought protection from the Japanese police at the airport and she has since settled in another country.

The AIU alleges that, in respect of these circumstances of Tsimanouskaya’s removal from the Olympic Games, Maisevich did not act with integrity and acted in bad faith, failed to safeguard the athlete’s dignity and his actions constituted verbal and mental harassment and that he brought athletics generally into disrepute.

“An important role of the AIU is to safeguard athletes and protect them from harassment. The AIU has investigated this matter thoroughly and considers there is a case to answer for a breach of the Integrity Code of Conduct,” said AIU Head Brett Clothier.

https://theafricaninternational.com/australian-800m-record-holder-peter-bol-tests-positive-for-epo/

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[mariacallous]

When Kimora Toledo was a little girl, she and her mother Malisha would make the hour-long drive from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Jemez Pueblo at least once a month. Malisha, who is from Jemez and Tesuque Pueblos, had moved her family to Albuquerque for a better job, but her father was a Jemez medicine man and it was important to her that Kimora be immersed in that heritage. On one of those visits to Jemez, Malisha remembers dancing alongside Kimora – who’s Jemez, Tesuque, Diné and Black – during the feast day celebrations. She hoped it would be the first of many times they’d dance together.

But Malisha battled a criminal record and her ex, Kimora’s father, managed to gain custody over Kimora and her younger brother. The two children would spend several years living at their dad’s house in Albuquerque, without those monthly visits to the pueblo.

When Kimora was 11, the New Mexico children, youth and families department removed her from her father’s home over abuse she was experiencing. Kimora would spend the next three years in and out of group homes and rehabilitation centers, eventually landing in foster care when she asked not to be returned to her father’s.

Kimora had never felt more disconnected from her culture and traditional ways of healing. Her foster mother, a Mexican woman, suggested Kimora take Spanish as an elective in school. But Kimora desperately missed her mother and grandfather, and the language they’d spoken during her childhood. “I missed a lot of my childhood and our traditions,” she said, just weeks before her seventeenth birthday.

Kimora and her mother didn’t know it then, but, as a Native American child, Kimora should have never ended up in foster care the way that she did.

This month, the US supreme court will consider the future of families like Kimora and Malisha’s. On 9 November, the court will hear oral arguments in Haaland v Brackeen, a case challenging the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act. Designed to keep Native American children in their communities during custody, foster care and adoption proceedings, ICWA was passed in 1978 in response to the mass separations of families that had been customary since the 19th century. Many Native American activists are worried for the future of ICWA, given the rightwing composition of the supreme court. Some – like Kimora and Malisha – are also working to enshrine it in local law.

Remedying a policy of destruction

In 1860, the Bureau of Indian Affairs opened the first of what would become more than 350 American Indian boarding schools, with the intention of “civilizing” Native American children – an assimilationist policy regarded by many as “cultural genocide” today. By the 1920s, nearly 83% of school-age Native American children were enrolled in boarding schools, where a government report found they were malnourished, overworked, harshly punished and poorly educated. As boarding school attendance increased into the 1960s and 70s – peaking at 60,000 in 1973 – the US government rolled out another program, called the Indian Adoption Project. It ended up placing 395 Native American children from western states with white families in the midwest and east coast.

By the 1970s, data showed that 25% to 35% of Native children had been removed from their families during the boarding school era, leading to the passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act in 1978. According to the law, states are required to follow protocols when handling certain custody cases involving a Native child, including involving the tribe in the proceedings. Perhaps most notably, ICWA also establishes a placement preference system, requiring child welfare agencies to try to keep Native children within their communities – by placing them, for example, with extended family or with a foster family in their own tribe – to ensure that they do not lose ties to their heritage.

“I call it a remedial statute because it has been the US government’s policy for hundreds of years to destroy the Native American family,” said Angelique EagleWoman (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate), director of the Native American Law and Sovereignty Institute at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law and one of 30 professors of American Indian law who filed an amicus brief with the supreme court in support of ICWA.

Despite ICWA’s existence, the law has often gone unenforced. That’s in part because there is no federal oversight agency monitoring compliance. Although the Bureau of Indian Affairs released guidelines designed to improve enforcement in 2016, tribal officials say that state welfare agencies regarded them as suggestions that were not legally binding.

As a result of these gaps, in 2016, a 10-month-old Navajo and Cherokee boy was fostered by a white Texas couple, Chad and Jennifer Brackeen, who ultimately adopted him. When the Navajo Nation was alerted to the case and stepped in to place the child with a Navajo family, the Brackeens sued.

The questions the court will consider as it hears Brackeen v Haaland are twofold: whether ICWA discriminates on the basis of race and whether the law supersedes states’ rights to control child custody placements. The Brackeens and their supporters argue that ICWA violates the constitution’s equal protection clause, discriminating against them as a white family, and imposes unlawful requirements on states. The federal government and Native advocates say that Congress may enact laws that apply to states in order to uphold its treaty obligations, and that Native Americans belong to a political class based on their sovereign status, not a racial group.

With this supreme court showing willingness to upend long-held precedent, many advocates are worried for the future of the ICWA. In 2013, three justices currently on the court – John Roberts, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas – sided with the majority to rule against a Native American father who had given up custody rights before changing his mind. Since then, the court’s conservative majority has grown to six justices, including Amy Coney Barrett who is herself an adoptive parent. But that majority has also been joined by Neil Gorsuch, who has consistently supported tribal sovereignty – even when that’s meant going against the conservative majority – and many legal scholars are hoping that the court will not overturn ICWA because of how doing so would reshape the legal relationship between the federal government and Indian tribes.

“It is very difficult to conceive of the US supreme court reframing the entire relationship with tribal governments and tribal children,” says EagleWoman. “We are starting to heal our communities, and it would be a major setback to genocidal policies for the US supreme court to strike down any of the provisions in the Indian Child Welfare Act.”

A state-based alternative

Many states, including New Mexico, aren’t waiting to see how the court rules. Instead, they’re enshrining ICWA in state law. To date, ten states have codified ICWA – and eight have added provisions to augment it. Native-led coalitions in other states, like Wyoming, have begun working to do the same.

When organizers in New Mexico began working to pass the state’s Indian Family Protection Act, the majority of the 500 Native children in foster care were in non-Native homes, says Jacqueline Yalch (Isleta Pueblo), director of Isleta Pueblo social services and president of the New Mexico Tribal Indian Child Welfare Consortium. Since New Mexico passed its own law in March, she says, that number has fallen.

After Kimora was placed in foster care at age 14, a social worker reached out to her grandfather and helped him secure custody a year later. After five years of feeling separated from her heritage, Kimora moved back to the Jemez Pueblo and began relearning the Jemez language. Through her grandfather, Kimora was also reunited with her mom, who realized exactly how much Kimora had missed out on – like participating in coming of age ceremonies, learning traditional recipes and dancing at celebrations. “There were so many times we could have danced together,” Malisha said. She’s hoping as the risk of the Covid-19 pandemic lessens, they might be able to dance together again next year.

Malisha and Kimora said that advocating for New Mexico’s Indian Family Protection Act was a healing experience. “Our children are our future,” says Malisha. “We have to do whatever we can to protect them.”

[marylemanski]

I have been sharing a list of civil & human rights rollbacks by the Trump administration. Here is a list from the 1st quarter of Trump’s third year in office. During this time, Republicans attacked women, people of color, the LGBTQIA community, refugees, voting rights, consumer protections, women’s healthcare, background checks, labor rights, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, SNAP, and the Affordable Care Act, all while they stopped responding to UN investigators over potential human rights violations and declared an emergency at the Southern border.

On January 3, The Washington Post reported that the Trump administration is considering rolling back disparate impact regulations that provide anti-discrimination protections to people of color, women, and others.

On January 4, The Guardian reported that the Trump administration has stopped cooperating with and responding to UN investigators over potential human rights violations in the United States.

On January 23, the Department of Health and Human Services granted a waiver to South Carolina to allow state-licensed child welfare agencies to discriminate in accordance with religious beliefs.

On January 25, the Department of Homeland Security began implementing the Migrant Protection Protocols – also known as the Remain in Mexico policy – which forces Central Americans seeking asylum to return to Mexico, for an indefinite amount of time, while their claims are processed.

On January 29, the Department of Justice reversed its position in a Texas voting rights case, saying the state should not need to have its voting changes pre-cleared with the federal government. Career voting rights lawyers at the department declined to sign the brief.

On February 6, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) – under the direction of Trump-appointed Director Kathy Kraninger – released its plan to roll back the central protections of the agency’s 2017 payday and car-title lending rule.

On February 15, Trump announced that he would declare a national emergency on the southern border – an attempt to end-run the Congress in order to build a harmful and wasteful border wall.

On February 22, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final rule to significantly undermine the Title X family planning program’s ability to properly serve its patients and to provide its hallmark quality care. The rule’s provisions will have far-reaching implications for all Title X-funded programs, the services provided, and the ability of patients to seek and receive high-quality, confidential family planning and preventive health care services.

On February 25, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy opposing H.R. 8, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights supports.

On February 26, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy opposing H.J. Res. 46, a resolution terminating the national emergency on the southern border declared by President Trump, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights supports. On September 25, the White House issued a statement opposing the Senate’s companion resolution.

On March 5, the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy opposing H.R. 1, the For the People Act, which The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights supports.

On March 7, the Department of Labor issued a proposed revision to the overtime rule, which proposes to raise the salary threshold to an amount ($35,308) far lower than the Obama Labor Department’s previously finalized rule ($47,476).

On March 11, the Trump administration released its FY 2020 budget proposal, which requested $8.6 billion for a southern border wall, requested an inexplicably and irresponsibly low figure for 2020 Census operations, and proposed deeply troubling cuts to the social safety net – including cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and SNAP.

On March 12, the Department of Defense issued guidance for enacting the transgender military ban to begin in 30 days.

On March 25, the Trump administration said in an appeals court filing that the entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down.

Source: https://civilrights.org/trump-rollbacks/#2019

#trump administration #donald trump #republican party #republicans #republican national committee #civil rights #human rights

[ask-sunny-and-moony]

for any animatronic - what's the worst experience with a customer you've had while working at the pizzaplex?

Monty

Ooooh, have I got some sh- stuff to tell.

So y'all know I'm not exactly a prime example of Baby Appropriate Aesthetic. Sharp teeth, hard edges, spikes and growls - don't get me wrong, there are of course some itty bitty lil'uns who think I'm cool as all heck.

But this one lady was in for a birthday party. No news there. Party moved on to my zone - no surprises there either.

And this lady comes rolling up with a stroller. I think to myself, 'Oh Lord, a baby, heck yeah,' ya know, like ya do. Babies are cute as heck.

I'm scheduled for this party, and they're askin' for photos. I'm all over it like a bee on honey. And then this mama holds up her baby - Lil gal can't be older than maybe 5 months old, tops. And she just hands this kid off.

So I take her, real gentle like, 'cause A) that's a dang baby, and B) I've got some wicked claws. These two facts do NOT go together.

Baby girl takes one look at the weird new dude holding her and starts bawling. Can't blame her. I'm designed after a predator. It's a good thing she's got that self preservation.

Her mama, though? Lady was spitting nails.

Started ranting and raving about me being dangerous, and that she was sure I'd hurt her kid. Even went so far as to try to shove me. I wouldn't have minded so bad if I wasn't still holding the kid.

That was Not Fun. And ya know, we've got those protocols to protect kiddos, so I tried tellin' her that I totally got why she was upset, but maybe don't shove the fella holding her baby? Or a baby in general??

And she started screeching that I wasn't giving her child back and just.

Man.

She wound up gettin' banned from the Plex. 'Pparently she was all kinds of hyped on that Good Shi- Stuff (dang it). Child Services was sent on a welfare check, and now Baby Girl is 3, her name is Millie, she's a regular at the Daycare, and - surprisingly enough - I'm one of her favorite 'bots at the Plex. Her aunt has custody, and ironically enough, that same aunt is one of the good techs in P&S.

Shout out to Karen, girl, you're the best tech.

We've all had some wild experiences, comes with the job. Least this one ended well.

#fnaf age regression #fnaf ask blog #ask the bots #monty gator

[surrogacycentre-india]

Understanding the Regulations Surrounding Altruistic Surrogacy in India

In recent years, India has emerged as a hub for altruistic surrogacy, offering hope to countless couples struggling with fertility issues. As the founder of Surrogacy Centre India, I understand the importance of comprehending the intricate regulatory landscape governing this noble endeavor. In this article, we delve into the regulations surrounding altruistic surrogacy in India, shedding light on its nuances and implications for all stakeholders.

Understanding Altruistic Surrogacy: Altruistic surrogacy, a compassionate act where a woman carries a child for another individual or couple without financial gain, has gained prominence globally. In India, altruistic surrogacy is facilitated by specialized centers like Altruistic Surrogacy Centre in India and is often packaged with comprehensive support services under initiatives like Altruistic Surrogacy Packages in India.

Regulatory Framework: India's altruistic surrogacy sector operates within a robust regulatory framework aimed at safeguarding the rights of all parties involved – the intended parents, surrogate mothers, and the child. The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2020, outlines stringent guidelines governing altruistic surrogacy arrangements, emphasizing ethical practices, and ensuring the welfare of surrogate mothers and children.

Key Regulations:

Eligibility Criteria: The bill defines eligibility criteria for intended parents, including citizenship, marital status, and medical fitness. Surrogacy Centre India plays a pivotal role in assessing and verifying the eligibility of prospective parents, ensuring compliance with legal requirements.

Surrogate Selection and Consent: Stringent protocols govern the selection and consent process for surrogate mothers. Surrogacy centers meticulously screen potential surrogates, prioritize informed consent, and provide comprehensive counseling to mitigate any risks or misunderstandings.

Financial Prohibitions: Unlike commercial surrogacy, altruistic surrogacy prohibits financial transactions between intended parents and surrogates beyond reasonable medical expenses. This regulation aims to prevent exploitation and commodification of surrogacy and uphold its altruistic essence.

Legal Documentation: Altruistic surrogacy arrangements in India necessitate extensive legal documentation, including surrogacy agreements, consent forms, and parentage orders. Surrogacy Centre India ensures adherence to legal formalities, facilitating smooth and legally compliant surrogacy journeys.

Regulatory Oversight: The bill establishes regulatory authorities tasked with overseeing and regulating altruistic surrogacy practices, enforcing compliance, and addressing any grievances or disputes that may arise during the process.

Conclusion: As altruistic surrogacy continues to offer a ray of hope to individuals and couples longing for parenthood, understanding the regulatory landscape is paramount. Surrogacy Centre India remains committed to upholding the highest standards of ethical conduct and legal compliance, ensuring that every surrogacy journey is characterized by compassion, transparency, and respect for all involved parties. By navigating the regulations surrounding altruistic surrogacy in India, we strive to foster a supportive environment where dreams of parenthood can flourish while safeguarding the rights and well-being of surrogate mothers and children alike.

#surrogacy centre #altruistic surrogacy #surrogacy #surrogacy cost #infertility

[abbiesfilmblog]

Having a Child Actor On-set

When it comes to working with Daniel, the 7-year-old child actor, on set of 'The Man Who Fell in Love with the Sky', ensuring his safety, well-being, and compliance with all relevant guidelines is my top priority. This involves taking steps such as obtaining the necessary licenses and permits from the local council to ensure legal compliance and safeguarding his involvement in the production. Securing written parental consent is essential, as is ensuring the continuous presence of a licensed chaperone on set to oversee Daniel's welfare, providing comfort and support throughout the filming process.

To protect Daniel's best interests, we are committed to strictly regulating his working hours in accordance with statutory limits, ensuring he does not exceed the permitted timeframes and receives adequate breaks and educational opportunities as required by law. Additionally, we prioritize adhering to comprehensive health and safety protocols, including conducting thorough risk assessments to identify and mitigate potential hazards on set. This approach extends to providing access to psychological support and assistance, particularly during scenes that may involve sensitive or emotionally challenging content.

Daniel's dad and sibling will be on-set, along with our designated PVG certified chaperone, Cate Riding. Cate will stay with Daniel throughout his experience on-set to ensure his safety and health is not at risk at any point.

Our goal is to create a nurturing and supportive environment where Daniel feels valued, respected, and empowered as a participant in our filmmaking. By prioritising these measures, we aim to create a positive and enriching experience for Daniel, enabling him to fully engage in the creative process while safeguarding his rights and well-being every step of the way.

As a producer, I am committed to upholding these standards to ensure that Daniel's involvement in our project is not only enjoyable but also safe and conducive to his overall growth and development within the industry.

[imedickarai]

Child protection systems are important ?

Child protection systems are multifaceted frameworks designed to ensure the safety, well-being, and rights of children within a society. They encompass various components, including legal frameworks, social services, educational programs, community networks, and awareness campaigns. These systems aim to prevent and respond to instances of child abuse, neglect, exploitation, and violence.

At I Medic in Karaikudi, located at Annamalai Chittiyar Street, Water Tank Karaikudi, we recognize the importance of robust child protection systems in safeguarding the most vulnerable members of our community. Our commitment extends beyond providing healthcare services; we prioritize advocating for the rights and welfare of children.

Effective child protection systems involve collaboration between government agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), healthcare providers, educators, law enforcement, and community members. They establish clear protocols for identifying and reporting suspected cases of abuse, as well as mechanisms for intervention and support for affected children and families.

Furthermore, child protection systems promote awareness and education to empower children, parents, caregivers, and communities in recognizing and addressing child protection concerns. By fostering a culture of accountability and support, these systems strive to create environments where every child can thrive and reach their full potential.

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CPS detection methods

Child Protective Services (CPS) is crucial in safeguarding the welfare of children who may be at risk of abuse or neglect. Detecting signs of abuse or neglect is a complex process that requires thorough investigation and assessment. There are several methods used by CPS to identify potential cases of child maltreatment.

One of the primary CPS detection methods is through reports from mandated reporters, such as teachers, healthcare professionals, and social workers. These individuals are legally required to report suspected cases of child abuse or neglect to CPS, thereby serving as frontline identifiers of at-risk children.

Another common CPS detection method is conducting home visits to assess the living conditions of the child and their family. During these visits, CPS workers look for signs of neglect, such as inadequate supervision, unsanitary living conditions, or lack of basic necessities. They also observe the parent-child interaction to assess the overall safety and well-being of the child.

CPS may also utilize medical evaluations to detect signs of physical abuse or neglect. Medical professionals play a crucial role in identifying injuries or health issues that may be indicative of abuse. Additionally, psychological evaluations may be conducted to assess the emotional well-being of the child and detect any signs of trauma or neglect.

In some cases, CPS may rely on interviews with the child, family members, and other relevant individuals to gather information and assess the situation. These interviews provide valuable insights into the dynamics within the family and help CPS workers determine the appropriate course of action to ensure the safety of the child.

Overall, CPS detection methods involve a multifaceted approach that combines investigative techniques, professional expertise, and collaboration with various stakeholders to effectively identify and address cases of child abuse and neglect. By employing these methods, CPS plays a vital role in protecting vulnerable children and promoting their well-being.

VPN privacy concerns

In today's digital landscape, the use of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) has become increasingly common as individuals seek to protect their online privacy and security. However, despite the benefits they offer, VPNs also raise some legitimate privacy concerns.

One major concern with VPNs is the logging of user data by VPN providers. While many claim to have a strict no-logs policy, there have been instances where providers have been found to collect and even sell user data to third parties. This can potentially compromise the anonymity and privacy of users, especially if their personal information falls into the wrong hands.

Another issue is the jurisdiction under which VPN providers operate. Depending on the country in which they are based, VPN companies may be subject to data retention laws and government surveillance programs. This means that even if a VPN claims not to log user data, they may still be compelled to hand over information to authorities under certain circumstances, posing a threat to user privacy.

Additionally, the security of VPN protocols is another concern. While most VPNs use encryption to secure data transmission, vulnerabilities in these protocols can be exploited by hackers to intercept and decipher sensitive information. This is particularly worrisome for individuals who rely on VPNs to protect their communications and data from prying eyes.

Lastly, there's the issue of DNS leaks, where the user's true IP address is exposed despite being connected to a VPN. This can occur due to misconfigurations or flaws in the VPN software, leading to potential privacy breaches.

In conclusion, while VPNs are valuable tools for enhancing online privacy and security, users should be aware of the potential risks and take steps to mitigate them. Choosing a reputable VPN provider with a strong track record of protecting user privacy, keeping software updated, and being mindful of the limitations of VPN technology can help users minimize their exposure to privacy concerns.

VPN encryption effectiveness

VPN encryption is a crucial aspect of ensuring online security and privacy when browsing the internet. VPN, which stands for Virtual Private Network, works by creating a secure and encrypted connection between the user's device and the internet. This encryption helps prevent third parties, such as hackers, ISPs, or government agencies, from monitoring or accessing the user's online activities.

The effectiveness of VPN encryption depends on the encryption protocols and algorithms used. The most common encryption protocols used by VPN services are OpenVPN, L2TP/IPsec, and IKEv2/IPsec. These protocols use strong encryption algorithms like AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with 128-bit or 256-bit keys to secure the data transmitted over the VPN connection.

AES-128 encryption is considered secure and practically unbreakable, while AES-256 encryption provides an even stronger level of security. VPN providers often offer users the option to choose between different encryption levels based on their security needs.

It's important to note that while VPN encryption is highly effective in protecting data privacy, it's not a one-size-fits-all solution. Users should also practice good online security habits, such as using unique and strong passwords, enabling two-factor authentication, and keeping their devices and software up to date.

In conclusion, VPN encryption plays a vital role in safeguarding online privacy and security. By using strong encryption protocols and algorithms, users can ensure that their online activities remain private and protected from prying eyes.

CPS monitoring bypass techniques

CPS (Content Protection System) monitoring bypass techniques are methods used to circumvent tracking and monitoring of online activities on electronic devices. These techniques are sometimes employed by individuals who wish to access restricted content or engage in activities without being detected.

One common technique used to bypass CPS monitoring is the use of virtual private networks (VPNs). A VPN creates a secure and encrypted connection to a remote server, masking the user's IP address and location. This makes it difficult for CPS systems to track and monitor online activities effectively.

Another method is the use of proxy servers, which act as intermediaries between the user's device and the internet. By routing internet traffic through a proxy server, users can hide their IP addresses and locations, making it challenging for CPS systems to monitor their online activities accurately.

Additionally, some individuals may use software tools like Tor (The Onion Router) to anonymize their online activities further. Tor routes internet traffic through a series of volunteer-operated servers, making it extremely difficult for CPS systems to trace users' online actions.

It is essential to note that while bypassing CPS monitoring techniques may provide a sense of online anonymity, engaging in illegal or harmful activities is not condoned. It is crucial to always respect laws and regulations governing online behavior, as well as to prioritize online safety and security.

VPN usage legality and regulations

Using a VPN (Virtual Private Network) has become increasingly popular for individuals seeking online privacy and security. However, the legality and regulations surrounding VPN usage vary from country to country, and it's essential to understand the implications before using one.

In many countries, including the United States and most of Europe, using a VPN is legal. These governments generally allow citizens to use VPNs for privacy, security, and accessing geo-blocked content. However, while the use of VPNs may be legal, using them for illegal activities, such as hacking or accessing copyrighted material unlawfully, is not permitted.

On the other hand, some countries have stricter regulations regarding VPN usage. For example, China heavily regulates VPNs and requires VPN providers to obtain government approval. The Chinese government blocks access to many VPN websites and monitors internet traffic to prevent citizens from circumventing its censorship laws.

Similarly, countries in the Middle East, such as Iran and the United Arab Emirates, also restrict VPN usage to varying degrees. In these countries, VPNs are often used to bypass government censorship and access blocked websites, leading to authorities cracking down on VPN usage.

It's essential to research the laws and regulations in your country before using a VPN to ensure compliance. Additionally, choosing a reputable VPN provider that prioritizes user privacy and security can help mitigate potential legal risks.

In conclusion, while VPNs can offer valuable privacy and security benefits, users must be aware of the legal implications of their usage. Understanding the laws and regulations governing VPNs in your country is crucial to avoiding any legal issues.