Training Institute Publication Series (TIPS)

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TIPS, Volume 23, No. 6, and Volume 24, No. 1 & 2, 2004

Wolf P. Wolfensberger

• The State of the Family

• Miscellaneous

• The State of the Estate of Marriage

• Marriage Counseling

• The Situation/Plight of Children

• Schools

• Hostility Toward Children (Kinderfeindlichkeit)

• Child Junking: Abandonment/Neglect of Children, & Poor Child-Rearing by Their Parents & Its Legitimization by the Intelligentsia

• Child Junking: Abandoning Children to the Media

• Child Junking: Inducing Children Into Early Sexuality, Sexual Immorality, or Seductiveness

• Child Junking: Children Swimming in, & Being Junked by, Material Goods & Indulgences

• Child Junking: The Crisis--Even Collapse--of Child Welfare & Child Protective Services

• Miscellaneous Child Junking

• Childhood & Youth Violence

• Child Health & Attacks Thereon

• Slavery

• Torture

• Violence in Society

• Violence as Normative in Some Locales & Sectors of Society

• Violence By & Among Children & Youth

• Supply & Demand for Weaponry

• Fear of Violence

• The Geneticist Ideologies About Violence as a Disease or Genetic Trait

• Miscellaneous Items on Violence

• Violence in Human Services

• Crime-Related Issues

• Policing, Punishment, & Prison News

• Poverty

• Miscellaneous

• Homelessness

• Hobo, Poverty, Beggary, or Jailhouse Songs, Poetry, or Jokes

• The Transfer of Wealth Upward

• The Gap Between Rich & Poor

• Philanthropy

• The Collapse of Societal Institutions, Glues, & Even Entire Societies

• Surveillance

• Morality in Society, Business & Government

• Religion & Philosophy in Society

• Contemporary Philosophy

• The Nature of Human Nature

• Contemporary Judaism

• Contemporary Christianity

• New Religions

• Contemporary Idolatries

• The Incoherency of Modernistic People's Beliefs

• Religious Persecution in Our Day

• The Priestly Sex Scandal, Continued

• Miscellaneous News About Religion in Society

• Religion in Human Services

• News of the Season, & Other Seasons As Well, & People's Relationship to Time

• Militarism, War, & Their Toll

• Islam, & Its War Against the Rest of the World

• More on the History of Radical Islam's War on Everyone Else Before WW II

• The Current World War Between Islam & Everyone Else

• The Confusion of the "Politically Correct" About the Current Conflict Between Islam & Modernism

• PC Efforts to Sanitize Islam, & Conceal the Invalidity of Their Political Correctness

• Other Erroneous Lessons Drawn by the PC From the Current World War

• The Social Advocacies

• The Need for Advocacy

• The Contemporary Idea That Everyone Should be "Empowered" & Should "Self-Determine"

• (Other) Perversions & Corruptions of Advocacy

• Miscellaneous Advocacy News

• Miscellaneous News

• The 2004 Olympics

• The 2004 US Elections, & Politicking Generally

• Health News

• Human Service-Related News

• Some Signs of the Times

• Miscellaneous Miscellaneous News

• Resources
TIPS, Volume 24, No. 3, 4 & 5, 2004/2005

Wolf P. Wolfensberger

• Leprosy

• The Pests-Both Ancient and More Recent

• Slavery

• Nursing/Breast-feeding

• The Old Eugenics

• Trans-Shipping of Unwanted People: People Being Moved Against Their Will

• Vagrancy & Vagabondage: People Moving More-or-Less on Their Own

• The Penal System

• Service Organizations-Even Missions-No Longer in Existence

• Inspirational Models From the Past

• Some Interesting, and Largely Unknown, Historical Inheritances

• Terminology

• The Deaf

• Blindness

• Mental Retardation

• The Bad Old Institution Days

• Psychopostcard News

• Poetry & Songs

• Funny and Not So Funny Connections Between Physicians and Executioners

• Demon Rum

• The Traditional American Quackery & Patent Medicine Scene of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

• Miscellaneous Historical Tidbits

• Miscellaneous News

• Human Service News
TIPS, Volume 24, No. 6, and Volume 25, No. 1, 2 & 3, 2005

Wolf P. Wolfensberger

• The History, & Examples, of Genocides

• Genocide During World War II

• Genocide Under Communism

• Genocide in Contemporary Africa

• Conclusion

• Abortion

• General Comments

• Abortion in the US

• Abortion Elsewhere in the World

• The UN & Its Connection to Abortion

• Promotion of Abortion via the Media

• Opposition to Abortion

• The Damages Abortion Does to Women

• The So-Called "Morning-After," or "Plan B," or RU-486 Methods of Abortion

• In Utero Testing/Screening

• Partial Birth Abortion: & Soon After It, a Reckoning!

• Incoherence About What Constitutes the Death &/or Killing of the Unborn

• Detoxifications of Abortion

• Parental Permission for Abortion

• Artificial Baby-Making

• Early Artificial Baby-Making

• More Recent Developments

• Freezing Eggs or Sperm for Future Use

• On Sperm Donation/Selling

• What Happens to Leftover Babies Made Artificially

• What Happens to Artificially-Made Babies/Children After They Are Born

• Mismatches of Artificially Made Babies to Parents

• Picking Pre-Natally What Kind of Baby One Will Have

• Lies & Deception Around Artificial Baby-Making

• What Happens to the Parents Who Engage in Artificial Baby-Making

• Opposition to Artificial Baby-Making

• Human Cloning

• The Use of "Stem Cells," & the Connection of This Issue to Deathmaking

• The Use of Vaccines Derived From Abortion

• (Other) Deathmakings for Utilitarian Purposes

• The Organ & Transplant Business

• Miscellaneous--Mostly Non- Transplant--Other Uses of Body Parts of Unborn & Newborn Babies

• Infanticide

• Connection of Infanticide to Abortion

• Rates & Practices of Infanticide

• Opposition to Infanticide

• Conclusion

• Other Child Killing, Child "Junking," & Child "Wasting"

• Deathmaking by So-Called "Euthanasia"

• The Scene in the Land of Tulips, Chocolate & Cheese

• The Situation in the United Kingdom

• Moves to Legitimize or Even Legalize "Euthanasia" in Other Locales

• Other Advocacy of, & Support for, "Euthanasia"

• Killing of Elderly &/or Very III People

• Conclusion

• The Denial & Withdrawal of Nutrition & Liquids

• The Judicially-Approved Cold-Blooded Premeditated 2005 Murder of Terri Schiavo by Starvation/Dehydration

• Other Deathmaking in & by Health Care Settings

• Deathmaking in & by Hospitals

• Deathmaking in & by Nursing Homes

• Medical Personnel Serial Killers

• Deathmaking in & by So-Called "Hospices" for People Said to be "Dying"

• Just How "Permanent" Are "Permanent States" of lmpaired Consciousness?

• Just How Unconscious Are Unconscious States?

• The Construct of "Futility"

• The Slippery--& Sometimes Deceptive--Criteria of Death

• Definitions of Death in Order to Facilitate Cessation of Treatment

• Issues of Life & Death Decision-Making

• "Living Wills"

• Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) Orders

• Surrogate Decision Making

• Physicians Making Secret &/or Unilateral Decisions Regardless of Advance Directives

• Conclusion

• Deathmaking Via Health Maintenance/Management Organizations (HMOs)

• Deathmaking Due to Abuse, Neglect, & Other Bad Conditions in Human Services

• Intra-Familial Violence as an Expression of Societal Deathmaking

• Hostile Assaults on Impaired People by Various Other Parties

• Hostile Assaults on Impaired People by Private Citizens

• Hostile Assaults on Impaired People by Caretakers, Including Service Workers

• Suicide, Suicide "Assistance," & Their Promotion

• Suicide & Its Promotion

• Suicide "Assistance" & Its Promotion

• Detoxification of Deathmaking

• Detoxification Under the Nazis

• Detoxification of Killing in War, by the Military, & Police

• Detoxification of End of Life Killings

• Detoxification of Other Deathmakings of Unwanted People

• Miscellaneous Detoxifications

• The Role of the Media in Promoting (or Combating) Deathmaking

• The Interpretation of Animals as Equal to, or Even Better Than, Humans

• Death Alliances

• The Gulf Coast Hurricane-Related Disasters of Fall 2005

• The Lack of Futurism

• The Problem of the Self-Destructiveness, Irrationality & Decadence of the Ghetto Culture of US Urban--& Largely Racial--Poverty

• The Decadence of the Louisiana & New Orleans Culture Specifically

• The Breakdown of Civic Structures During the Gulf Disaster

• The Breakdown of Civility & Pro-Social Behavior in New Orleans

• The Weak, Sick, & Helpless During the Disaster

• The Political Correctness & Media Spin on the Breakdown of Civility & Pro-Social Behavior in New Orleans

• Some Potential Lessons For Future Disaster Planning

• The Energy Crisis Precipitated by the Gulf Disaster

• Miscellaneous Other News

• Health-Related News

• Human Service-Related News
TIPS, Volume 25, No. 4, 5 & 6, 2005/2006

Wolf P. Wolfensberger

• Marriage & the Family

• The Situation--Often the Plight--of Children

• The Nature of Human Nature

• Religion in Society

• The "Separation" of Church & State

• Religious Persecution-- Here and Abroad

• The Religion(s) in & of Modernism

• Rewriting of Scripture

• Outright Idolatry

• Miscellaneous News About Religion

• The Priestly Sex Scandal, Continued

• Religion in Human Services

• Morality--or the Lack Thereof--in Society, Government, & Human Services

• Poverty, & Especially the Growing Gulf Between Rich & Poor

• The Transfer--Often, the Theft--of Wealth From the Lower to the Upper Classes

• Philanthropy & Volunteerism

• Homelessness & the Homeless

• Hobo, Drunk, Poverty, Jailhouse & Homelessness Songs

• Some Hobo Jokes & Poems

• Crime

• ... And Its Punishment

• Prisons

• Issues of Prison Release or Probation

• Capital Punishment

• Other Issues of Punishment

• War

• Slavery

• Torture

• Surveillance by Imperial Powers

• Societal & Other Collapses

• Social Advocacy News & Commentary

• Advocacy for Others

• Issues of Self-Advocacy & Self-Determination

• Entitlement Mentalities, & What They Lead To

• Miscellaneous Advocacy-Related Issues

• News of the Seasons

• Update on the 2005 Gulf Coast Disaster

• How Much Things Are Worth--or at Least, How Much They Cost

• Some Miscellaneous News
TIPS, Volume 26, No. 1, 2 & 3, 2006

Wolf P. Wolfensberger

• Bulletin on the Establishment of the Citizen Advocacy Foundation of America (CAFA)

• The State of OW' Schools

• Evidence of School Disfunctionality/Failure

• Poor Skills & Performance in Math

• Poor Knowledge of/Performance in Science

• Poor Knowledge of History

• American Ignorance About Geography

• Poor Literacy (Reading, Writing)

• Grade Inflation & Social Promotion

• Everyone Being Identified as "Disabled"

• Teacher Quality & Qualifications

• Graduation Rates

• Schools Being Expected to Make Up for/Deal With the Collapses of Parenting & of Societal Functionality

• "Junk" Eating Up Educational Time

• Junking Kids' Time With Days, Weeks, & Months Devoted to Special Topics

• Bullying

• Other Violence in Schools

• Harsh Responses as Students Become More Ill-Behaved

• Teachers Having Sex With Students

• Other Dangers in Schools

• Efforts to Address/Combat the Problems

• Schools & Money

• Selling Schools to Corporations, Mostly in Exchange for Money

• Starting Magnet & Charter Schools

• Technology in Schools

• Denial/Rejection of Tried & True Pedagogies

• Substituting "Gimmickry" & Technology for Pedagogy

• Remedial Education & Tutoring

• Lengthening/Shortening the Time in School

• Tests &Testing in Pre-College Schooling

• Grading Schools' Performance

• Teachers & Schools Cheating

• Miscellaneous Reform Measures

• Teachers & Their Unions Objecting to Any Reform Measures

• What Young Minds Are Truly Capable Of--&Lies About What Young Minds Are Capable Of

• The Embarrassing (to the Public Schools) Performance of Church-Run Schools That Are Less Well-Funded & Have Larger Classes

• Home-Schooling, & the Embarrassing (to the Formal Schools) Performance of Children Who Are Home-Schooled

• The SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test)

• Colleges, Universities, & Their Students

• Other Evidence of Collapse/Non-Functionality of Schools

• Denial of the Collapse of Schools

• Miscellaneous

• Update on the Gulf Coast Hurricane Disasters of 2005

• Miscellaneous Health & Health Care News

• Miscellaneous Other Human Service News

• Miscellaneous Other News & Signs of the Times

• Flyers on Upcoming Events