In America, married people get more than 1,000 legal benefits that single people can't access. Vox's Sigal Samuel asks why people in a platonic partnership can't enjoy the same kind of benefits, and why society values friendships less than familial relationships and marriages. Do you have a "best friend?"
If you show the value of a victim, you feel empathy. This increases the desire for equality but you feel bad: it endangers your health.
On the contrary, iIf you stress the mistake of a victim, you protect yourself: you feel like it should not happen to you. Society supports such detachment if the perpetrator is a white man or a police(wo)man.
Blaming the victim justifies inequality, discriminations, violence by the strongest. It normalizes (adult, white, male or cis) privileges. Therefore it normalizes patriarchy and white supremacy.
*Very common w/many #POC cultures. It's not about $ for us either - saving $ is just a bonus.
The Heins are among a growing number of #CanadianFamilies sharing their property with different generations.
Across #Canada, the number of properties shared by #MultipleGenerations, two or more families, or one #family living with unrelated people has grown by 45% over the past 20 yrs — totalling almost one million homes in 2021, according to 2022 #StatisticsCanada.
My #Dad, aged 27, at #RefugeeCamp in #Indonesia - 1979. Photo was taken by humanitarian aid workers to help #VietnamWar#refugees get sponsored to go to Europe, Canada, USA & Australia, under asylum.
My Dad passed away June 9, 2023.
He went through hell & back, several times. He beat almost all odds. Until #covid infection in hospital in 2022. #LongCovid killed him last year.
Sometimes it is strange how your kids are a perfect mirror of yourself: Lately, our four girls discovered skateboarding and while the youngest one prefers her small scooter for now, the three elder girls jumped on the SK8-wagon. 30 years after I discovered this sport by myself, I had to queue in and re-learn to handle the deck once again which is - as often - a mix of joy and pain!
You know how you have those favorite candid family photos? This is one of mine. My husband was teaching our daughter yoga. I came out to get coffee and saw them warming up. It was especially poignant because we were going through a nasty custody battle for her, which she wanted. This was a moment of calm during a terrible storm.
I'm digitising some old photos from a (physical) album. It's a bit tedious (scan, rotate, crop, adjust) and I suspect there is software that will do all that for me automatically; but the idea of old photos is to look at them, right?
Today I begin the physical process of moving my 96 y/o mother into a #memorycare residence, with help from #family. We’ll set up her room with the furniture basics, assemble a bed frame, etc., assess how everything fits, and adjust the plan to reality. There are a few more steps over the next week+ until we bring her to her new space and support her moving in and getting settled. #dementia#alzheimers#bittersweet So many #feels. #familymatters#multigenerational#life