TERROR AND TINNITUS

What did you hear?

It's a chronic disturbing noise that we can no longer endure. Isis, Jihadists pound at our sensibilities.

1 in 5 people have the annoying condition of ringing noise in their ears associated with ageing, hearing loss, injury or circulatory disorder. I am one of the five. Tinnitus may be ringing, squealing, hissing, clicking, buzzing and roaring that impedes hearing and cheats one of the blessing of silence.

Journalists break news daily that is so unsettling, one can hardly carry on normal life; the Jordanian pilot is incinerated by ISIS; Jihadists conduct a campaign of killings, kidnappings, enslavement and rapes against Yazidis in Iraq. Gone is the blessing of peace.

There is very little that the medical community can do for sufferers of tinnitus. Is there anything that can be done about terrorists? ISIS atrocities have enraged the world. Most Muslims deem these acts to be reprehensible. What do pacifists recommend to be done about the Islamic State (ISIS)? Should the rest of the world retaliate with all the firepower it has? Many readers may think so. Do you think there is another solution?

INTERFERENCE AND A CHILD'S EMOTIONS

Interference

When a child experiences removal from parents and placement with foster givers, the resultant emotions may be anguish, terror and abandonment. These reactions will be intensified if actual abuse has occurred at home. The feelings are exacerbated when reunion is delayed. For these reasons, laws generally insist that such removal must be done cautiously and sparingly. Parents, children and families should be free of unwarranted government interference in child-rearing. With that in mind, the law customarily asserts that removal of a child is only justified by imminent danger to a child's life or health. Even in such an instance, a hearing and an order is required and a prompt post-removal hearing follow.

THE TERROR OF A CHILD REMOVED

Often for various reasons, removals of children occur at night. That is absolutely terrifying to families and particularly to the children. In such cases parents do not have time to prepare their own children for the intervention and for the affects of separation from family. Obviously, I express this concern with a view to children who are not so badly neglected or abused that they feel they are being delivered. The personnel who conduct such removals as well as those who supervise the placement, are usually strangers to the children. A modest number of placements are made with relatives. It should not be minimized how alien such foster surroundings are perceived by children when all that is familiar is removed from them. They often have no idea why this happening to them. They may live in shock and panic and they may cry and isolate themselves unless they are infants and toddlers who respond to a hug and human warmth.