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2010
White House Conference on Children and Youth
Proposed
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 The
Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) is calling
on Congress and President Obama to hold a White
House Conference on Children and Youth in 2010.
Legislation has been written and numerous members
of Congress from both political parties have
become sponsors.
This White House Conference on
Children and Youth would be the first since 1970.
Its purpose will be to bring together the latest
research and expertize on how to promote the
welfare of every child in America, especially the
most vulnerable children - those who are at
risk for being abused or neglected by their
parents and other caregivers.
Help Focus The Conference on
Prevention Through Effective
Parenting
CWLA is asking for input as to what
the top three issues that you believe should be
covered at the White House Conference. Effective
parenting and parent education would fall under
Prevention Services, and we urge you to indicate
this in your reponses to the
survey.
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Report on
Physical Punishment in the United States: What
Research Tells Us About Its Effects on
Children |
 The recently
released Report on Physical Punishment in
the United States: What Research Tells Us About
Its Effects on Children, authored by
Elizabeth T. Gershoff, PhD, synthesizes one
hundred years of social science research and many
hundreds of published studies on physical
punishment conducted by professionals in the
fields of psychology, medicine, education, social
work, and sociology, among other
fields.
The research, which was done
in conjunction with Phoenix Children's Hospital in
Arizona, supports several
conclusions:
- There is little research evidence
that physical punishment improves children's
behavior in the long
term.
- There is substantial research
evidence that physical punishment makes it more,
not less, likely that children will be defiant
and aggressive in the
future.
- There is clear research evidence
that physical punishment puts children at risk
for negative outcomes, including increased
mental health
problems.
- There is consistent
evidence that children who are physically
punished are at greater risk of serious injury
and physical abuse.
To obtain a copy of
this timely and historic report, click
here.
The report,
which points out that physical punishment of
children is an ineffective parenting practice,
comes at a time of decreasing support for physical
punishment within the United States and around the
world. The majority of American adults are opposed
to physical punishment by school personnel. An
increasing number of Americans (now at 29 percent)
are opposed to physical punishment by parents.
At the same time, there is a
growing momentum among other countries to enact
legal bans on all forms of physical punishment,
bolstered by the fact that the practice has come
to be regarded as a violation of international
human rights law.
The following countries have
already legally banned all forms of the
physical punishment of
children: Austria, Bulgaria, Costa
Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Germany,
Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Latvia, Moldova,
Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, the
Netherlands, New Zealand, Ukraine, Uruguay and
Venezuela.
The Report on Physical Punishment in the
United States has already been endorsed by several
national organizations concerned with child
well-being, including the American Academy of
Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, The
Center for The Improvement of Child Caring,
and our National Effective Parenting
Initiative. Other
organizations are invited to endorse the
report and show their support. To do so, click
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Adding Alcohol
and Other Drug Abuse Prevention to Parenting
Programs
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 Many schools
and community organizations now sponsor and
conduct programs that teach parents basic
parenting skills and effective parenting
techniques. Some of these programs also
provide parents with information on how to help
their children avoid the use of alcohol and other
drugs.
Most of these programs,
however, focus totally on other parenting
challenges, and therefore miss an opportunity to
help parents also learn what they can do
specifically to prevent their children from
turning to alcohol and other
drugs.
The 35-year-old, Center for
the Improvement of Child Caring (CICC), one of the
nation's most productive parenting education
groups, has recently designed and tested a new
workshop for schools and agencies that provide
parenting services that is designed to address
this situation.
Called, Adding
Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention to Parenting
Programs, the new workshop, which can be offered
in any city or area, provides guidance and
materials to learn:
1. How to incorporate authoritative
alcohol and drug abuse education into existing
parenting programs, and/or
2. How to create your own low cost
parenting education program about preventing
alcohol and other drug abuse.
To explore how to bring this highly
practical, one day workshop to your area, contact
Dr. Kerby T. Alvy, the founder and executive
director of CICC, who developed and tested this
workshop. He can be reached at
kalvy@ciccparenting.org or at 1 (800) 325-2422.
An instructional kit to enable you to conduct
this workshop in your community can be obtained by
clicking
here.
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