Injury update

Well, Sveta is giving me electrical therapy and it seems to be helping. I thought I was going to have to postpone or even give up this effort. The hardest part is not re-injuring myself. I can hurt myself sleeping if I have an arm in a bad position. The gym presents challenges, but I am adjusting my routines.

Un and punishment of children

Another interesting find from the Convention on the Rights of Children.

Article 2.2 "States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that the child is protected against all

forms of discrimination or punishment on the basis of the status, activities, expressed opinions, or

beliefs of the child's parents, legal guardians, or family members". How do we define punishment and separate from discipline? Seems to be a matter of definition.

UN and abortion

An interesting quote from the United Nations on the Rights of Children.
 “Whereas the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth” (United Nations General Assembly, 1959).
There is no mention of abortion. It states that children should have safeguards and care before birth. That phrase plus legal protection indicates that children should not be aborted; it is a violation of their rights. Notice how many countries ignore this statement for convenience.

True orphans versus social orphans

According to UNICEF figures, only 10.7% of orphans have lost both parents. They are the true orphans, while the others are social orphans. When we think of 89.3% of the estimated 140 million orphans as having one parent, it makes an interesting situation. How many are abandoned, how many parents have lost parental rights, and perhaps other factors such as poverty, migration, or children who run away or are abducted into human trafficking.

Forward progress

I am making good progress on the orphan model article. I had to adjust my mind mapping. I need to include negative factors such as PSTD, RAD-Reactive attachment disorder, ADHD, and FAS-Fetal alcohol syndrome into the diagram. Also I flipped causes with types i.e. true orphan and social orphan. Still it is a very complicated web of topics as I write. Sometimes I find research that fits in two or more categories. This should be a good work when finished.

Abandoned Faith

I began reading the text on millenials. Quite a lot to digest. Everybody panics over the loss of Christians when they become adults. I remember in my 20s-many many moons ago, a pastor told me that he was glad to see me in church. He commented how we raise them in the faith and they disappear in their 20s for various reasons. Most come back when they get married and have children.

Abandoned Faith: Why Millennials are Walking Away and how You Can Lead Them Home

Alex McFarland, Jason Jimenez

Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2017

HIV/AIDS

Inspite of a rocky two days of events, I started on actually writing the article. I landed on HIV/AIDS for the first literature review. I can see I will need weeks to complete this article. With over 740 sources, there is much content to sort through. Ironically, the 25 page chapter I wrote on Project Management Procurement and Contracting theory helped me with a framework to write this one. The results are staggering for HIV/AIDS. Over half are in Africa.


Approximately 36.7 million people worldwide have HIV. Of that number approximately 2.1 are children. The number of infections continue to decline and access to antiretroviral therapy annually increases (UNAIDS, 2018).

Pain and progress

Still have numbness on the left hand and pain in the right elbow. I set up voice recognition on the computer. I tired the internal mics to the computer and they would not work. I have an external USB mic, works fine. However, I only have one open mic so have to trade of for the scanner and sometimes the printer. The printer is wireless, but once in a blue moon it decides not to work. Hopefully I can make forward progress.

I cleaned up the titles for the 735 sources this weekend. APA format uses sentence case so now I can insert references in proper format. I did get some ideas for publishers as I added sources. In the last 14 days, I added 295 sources and in the last 30 days the database says 372. Wow that is a lot of material since I had to import each one manually and download and often rename the pdf and then upload it. No wonder my fingers, hands and elbows are broke.

The researcher's search dilemma

Just when I thought I had searched through all the research databases, I discovered I had to use different combinations of the term orphan. I had good success with orphanhood and orphanage. The problem with the term orphan is the overlap with other areas. Orphan is used in technology and computer science. Orphan is used with drugs and other types of diseases so I end up with thousands of sources for a search. Too much minutia to wade through. Now I noticed I can use orphan and a topic such as China. Back to the search!