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This article proposes that modern media professionals are
unwittingly misinforming the public about a scourge that affects their
audiences - the unrecognized [wounds + unawareness] cycle that passes
down the generation s and weakens our society. The evidence of this
toxic cycle is literally everywhere - yet like the folktale "The Emperor's New Clothes,"
no one is willing to admit it.
To evaluate this premise,
please study these before continuing:
-
the introduction
to this nonprofit, educational Web site, and the premises underlying
it;
-
a summary of six pandemic
psychological wounds (do you have
any?);
-
what it means
to be a "Grown Wounded Child" (are you one?);
-
this UCLA
research summary;
-
these
on fundamental social knowledge (can you "pass" them?);
-
an overview of the [wounds +
unawareness] cycle, and...
-
this
example of the cycle affecting a real family
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What's the Problem?
I
began studying stepfamily dynamics professionally in 1979. That has led
me to study "dysfunc-tional" (low-nurturance) families, and to
discover the lethal [wounds + unaware-ness]
that seems to promote most major personal and social problems. I have
never seen a lay or clinical proposal of this cycle and its epidemic
effects.
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In my professional experience, few authors, journalists, reporters, and
radio, TV, and Website editors, producers, funders, and executives have any
awareness of how this cycle propagates and burdens most families
and organizations in our culture. |
A toxic result of this unawareness is that media programs and articles
in most (all?) genres unintentionally promote public ignorance and
denial of the cycle and
For a sampling, scan these recent
examples from widely read Yahoo (Internet)
News and other sources.
:
If you and your media organization are dedicated to bringing your
audience useful, factual realities that will positively impact their
families and our societies, I urge you to:
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invest time in studying the first
three lessons in this
- with your own family in mind;
-
consider these
steps to alerting
other people to the effects of the [wounds + unawareness] cycle and how to break
it, and...
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seek qualified professional
opinions (e.g. veteran sociologists, psychologists, and family-life
edu-cators) on this cycle concept. If you do, be prepared for
skepticism and cynicism, because the concept challenges most widely-held
ideas about the roots of our legion of social problems.
A major component of the cycle is average
couples being allowed to conceive and raise kids before they're
competent to do so. child
If this cycle concept is true - as I believe
it to be after 30 years' full-time independent research - it's human impact is as
profound as global warming. Few people will want to endorse it because
of the implication that many (most?) American parents are
unqualified to
conceive and raise wholistically healthy kids. We ignore this at our own
peril.
This unique non-profit, non-denominational Web site is dedicated to
explaining the [wounds + un-awareness] cycle, and offering an effective way to
it.
I'm glad to
talk with you about any of this if you
wish.
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