Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
During the Great Depression, the US government sponsored Mexican Repatriation programs, which were intended to pressure people to move to Mexico, but many were deported against their will. 355,000 to 500,000 individuals were repatriated or deported; 40 to 60% of them US citizens - overwhelmingly children.
The youth control complex is a theory developed by Chicano scholar Victor M. Rios to describe what he refers to as the overwhelming system of criminalization that is shaped by the systematic punishment that is applied by institutions of social control against boys of color in the United States.
Dehumanization often ignores the target's individuality (i.e., the creative and exciting aspects of their personality) and can hinder one from feeling empathy or correctly understanding a stigmatized group. [11] Dehumanization may be carried out by a social institution (such as
New curriculum standards expanding basic sex education for Texas students in the 2022-23 school year were passed in 2020. Here’s a brief look at what each grade learns. ... harmful relationships ...
(5) “diffusion of responsibility” distributed the accountability from one person to an poorly-defined group. (6) “distortion of consequences” misrepresents the effects of the act as not significant. (7) “dehumanization” states, that the victims do not deserve fairness, because they have done something similarly bad or worse.
The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) is responsible for investigating charges of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children, the elderly, and adults with disabilities. Prior to its creation in 2004, the agency had been called the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services ( DPRS ).
Children sitting within a wire mesh compartment in the Ursula detention facility in McAllen, Texas, June 2018. Immigration policy, including illegal immigration to the United States, was a signature issue of President Donald Trump's presidential campaign, and his proposed reforms and remarks about this issue generated much publicity.
Elizabeth Thompson Gershoff is Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.She is known for her research on the impact of corporal punishment in the home and at school on children and their mental health.