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Katyia26 September 2012 2:18PM

can we have a thread on this please its a bit mean to blame the mother for her
children's mental health issues ...

The reasons for these high numbers are understandable. Children in foster care are struggling to cope with the traumatic events that brought them into care, includ- ing parental abuse or neglect, homelessness and exposure to domestic violence and substance abuse. While they struggle to deal with the tremendous loss of their fam- ily, they also frequently blame themselves for being removed.
Many children long to return to their families, regardless of the history of mistreatment. At a time when they desperately need a sense of consistency and stability, they are living in the uncertain world that is foster care: multiple place- ments, unpredictable contact with family and the inability to control their own lives. These conditions can be a hotbed for serious emotional disturbances

http://www.lisetteaustin.com/pdfs/CASA_MentalHealth.pdf

Katyia26 September 2012 2:10PM

During the night of 7 to 8 August 2008, Georgia launched a large-scale military offensive against South Ossetia, in an attempt to reclaim the territory. Georgia claimed that it was responding to attacks on its peacekeepers and villages in South Ossetia, and that Russia was moving non-peacekeeping units into the country. Russia reacted by deploying units of the Russian 58th Army and Russian Airborne Troops in South Ossetia, and launching airstrikes against Georgian forces in South Ossetia and military and logistical targets in Georgia proper. Russia claimed these actions were a necessary humanitarian intervention and peace enforcement.
Through mediation by the French presidency of the European Union, the parties reached a preliminary ceasefire agreement on 12 August, signed by Georgia on 15 August in Tbilisi and by Russia on 16 August in Moscow. Several weeks after signing the ceasefire agreement, Russia began pulling most of its troops out of uncontested Georgia. Russian forces remain stationed in Abkhazia and South Ossetia under bilateral agreements with the corresponding governments. A number of incidents occurred in both conflict zones in the months after the war ended

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian?Ossetian_conflict#After_the_2008_war

However, the Russian Army's performance on the ground has come under scrutiny. Although the majority of soldiers deployed in the conflict zone were professionals, some were conscripts. General Vladimir Boldyrev admitted in September 2008 that many of the professional soldiers were no better trained than conscripts. Many Russian ground units were insufficiently supplied with ammunition, which led to additional losses

Wiki

The Georgian Foreign Ministry statement linked the Russian deployment in South Ossetia with the Kavkaz-2012 war games that began earlier this week at four locations in the steppes of southern Russia, several hundred kilometers to the north of the Georgian border
If Russia were indeed planning a new offensive against Georgia, it seems unlikely it would advertise its intention by deploying troops in advance and thus forfeiting the advantage of a surprise attack. A more plausible explanation for sending Russian forces to the administrative boundary line is simply to compound the psychological pressure on the Georgian leadership, which is engaged in a massive damage-control exercise in the wake of the screening of video footage of physical abuse of prisoners in a Tbilisi jail

http://www.rferl.org/content/georgia-south-ossetia-trade-accusations-of-preparing-for-war/24716583.html
http://www.rferl.org/content/georgia-prison-abuse-video-tbilisi-scandal/24713136.html
this reminds me of the IRA peace process where the likes of Blair and Clinton actually don't possess the racial genes to understand the underground movements subsequent upon the nodding yeah 'yeah we'll be good teacher' agreements - - -
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