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JUST PHILOSOPHISING ON - THE PROBLEM BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS : NO WAY OUT ???? PART 2.

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  There is also the likelihood that us humans, at certain times in our evolutionary progression, do not ask or pose 'completed questions', but only a part of the question.   And that, as such, it is not practical to appropriately find answers for partially formulated questions.  The same might apply to finding solutions to problems which are not sufficiently or properly defined or specified. So, returning or moving onto the question of of the seemingly perpetually unresolved conflict between the government of the state of Israel, and the Palestinian people, and their respective allies. Now, I  do not profess to know all about Jewish religious and social history, but I do know something about it.   And, based upon this, and what I have observed and come to understand during my several decades upon this good Earth.   An Earth, planet which has had the misfortune of having to host our destructive and irrational species.  Not to mention the irony of the possibility, that this is or

JUST PHILOSOPHISING ON - SOCIAL WORK AND THE ADOPTION DILEMMA. PART 3.

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  'Arguably, s they are the child's legal parent, generally, adoptive parents and families should not have a higher legal and moral claim on local authorities' resources, than other families.  Where they might, however, have such a claim, is in the cases where the relevant local authority places misconceived and unrealistic expectations on them, pertaining to matters such as contact with birth families. .......' If they have to look outside of the family and extended families, they will explore the option of a placement with suitable assessed carers within the family's social network Because of the philosophy or principle which holds that, a child needs a safe, caring, secure and stable family and home environment within which to promote his/her health and welfare needs.  Local authorities have been giving priority to achieving permanency care plans for children as early as possible, once they are removed from their birth families.  Probably most non-birth family an

JUST PHILOSOPHISING ON - SOCIAL WORK AND THE ADOPTION DILEMMA. PART 2.

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  'It is not about whether a child who has to be found alternative permanent carers is going to suffer some loss and harm as a result, depending on their age and level of understanding and emotional development.  Rather, it is about whether the harm they are likely to suffer, is likely to be more significant and irreparable, than that which is likely to occur from leaving them in  or returning them to their pre-care setting.' Although, when parents and carers  harm or take their children's lives, the same local authorities are likely to be accused and condemned for 'not having done anything', or 'not having done enough to protect the child or children.' Yes, with regards to protecting 'other people's children', it is sometimes, oftentimes, very difficult to doing enough or sufficient. Probably most of the children who end up in the care of local authorities, and placed with alternative carers within their extended families, with foster carers, ad

IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE STARS - AN ACCOUNT OF LIVES IMPACTED BY 'EVERYDAY ADVERSITIES.' PART 83.

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  Kazaliwa's relationship with his parents, on the other hand, has ebbed and floed.  There were, and is probably will still be times when they would have flare ups of varying intensity, over something he and/or his parents did or did not do.  There were times when his dad wanted him out of the house, and there were times when he, Kazaliwa, wanted to leave his parents home.  As regarding money, Kazaliwa stringently refused to sign on for any welfare benefits. Despite the fact that he was clearly eligible for such benefits. In a strange way, or so it might seem to 'mainstream folks', Kazaliwa, like others of his then mindset, would not bring himself to 'claiming benefit.'   Such an act would be a betrayal of his sense of probity.  Of him having to abase himself by seeking a helping hand from the state, in his time of need.  The time would, indeed, arise when Kazaliwa would apply for some state benefit.   To be continued!

MONACO GRAND PRIX : TOO MUCH FOR MERCEDES, SO FERRARIRI AND RED BULL SHOWED THE WAY

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  A Very Big Congratulations to Team Ferrari and Charles Leclerc, and to Red Bull and Max Verstappen, and Team Mercedes and Valtteri Bottas, for having made it to the Qualifying Podium during the Qualifying session of the 2021 Monaco Grand Prix .  If we needed another reminder that it is not a good strategy to leave the best till last, Charles Leclerc's penultimate lap on Saturday spoke deafeningly to us.  Yes, it was terribly ironic that Charles, having laid down the provisional Poleic place in his second to last lap, should have then brought the proceedings of the Qualifying session to a close, by crashing - fortunately, safely - his car in the last lap.  Thereby - unfortunately - depriving the other races, including Verstappen, Bottas, Hamilton and others, of the chance to displace him from his perch.   Or, improving them of the opportunity to improve their positions, as Hamilton for example, would have relished. It is a hard person who would not acknowledge the hazards of pract