Category Archives: World News

The latest reforms in child-rearing, family policy and education from around the world

Number 50 is here!

Posted on October 10, 2016 by Robin Grille

Paraguay just became the 50th nation to ban the corporal punishment of children. There is almost nowhere left in Latin America where a child can be legally hit. Meanwhile, more nations are committing to the process of banning. Hitting a … Continue reading →

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Orlando, not so far away

Posted on June 16, 2016 by Robin Grille

Omar Mateen was once a beautiful and innocent baby boy. He was not born to be a slaughterer.  Was this terrorism? Yes, if by this we mean the terror that he suffered for desiring men when his father reviled homosexuality. … Continue reading →

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The Biggest Line in the Sand

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Robin Grille

May 2016, they meet in Dakar. Humanity rolls up its sleeves, and re-greens the biggest desert. Changing the climate. Feeding the hungry. Multi-crops among the trees, in a gigantic, new and bio-diverse forest. From despair come unity and daring. Something … Continue reading →

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The New Harmonious Industrial Revolution

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Robin Grille

So simple…so many of the world’s most frightening problems solved at once… Is this a time for hopelessness and fear, or a time for paradigm-shifting solutions? A farm that RESTORES the environment?? Really??? While feeding a populace, restoring health, providing … Continue reading →

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Mongolia bans corporal punishment!

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Robin Grille

By prohibiting physical punishment in al settings, Mongolia has just become the first country in East Asia to do so. Once the most feared warriors and invaders throughout Asia and Europe, now leaders in peace-oriented reform. 49 nations have prohibited, … Continue reading →

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Jewish rejection of circumcision: growing fast!

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Robin Grille

Fantastic news. Across several branches of Judaism, and in the secular Jewish world, in USA, South America, Europe and even in Israel – yes, very much so in Israel – young Jewish parents and rabbinical authorities are no longer amputating … Continue reading →

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The state of childhood – an update

Posted on February 3, 2016 by Robin Grille

A massive study, 96 nations in all, published in the Pediatrics journal. Around the world, more than half of the world’s children were the victims of violence – and that’s just 2014.         Bear in mind, that … Continue reading →

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Peru ends the corporal punishment of children

Posted on December 22, 2015 by Robin Grille

In Peru, as of 10th December 2015, it is against the law for parents, teachers, anyone at all to hit or otherwise humiliate a child. No excuses. There are now 48 countries that have made it illegal to hit a … Continue reading →

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Ireland bans all corporal punishment

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Robin Grille

This nation just keeps getting more amazing! Number 47 to ban the corporal punishment of children. Gay marriage, freedom to divorce, no punishment of children…I want to do some Justice Tourism in Ireland! It is exciting to see this long … Continue reading →

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Somalia ratifies the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child!

Posted on October 29, 2015 by Robin Grille

That is it! That is the whole world! A new era is dawning for children. But wait…not yet. Just one single country remains. Just one. One country, where Police are allowed into schools to discipline the children. Where most childbirth … Continue reading →

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