[tips] Re: Marriage as a cure for domestic violence

2006-08-30 Thread Annette Taylor, Ph. D.
The problem with psychology being such a large field and with me, getting older, is that it is really hard to keep up with every nit picky detail of what is "right". So I learned this week that brains develop well into the late teens, and are not mostly finished by puberty, and at least for

[tips] Re: Marriage as a cure for domestic violence

2006-08-30 Thread Aubyn Fulton
Annette wrote... Many of the links had really questionnable information, such as suggesting that smoking pot at age 18 predicts a diagnosis of schizophrenia in one's 30's! I am not an expert but have read in many diverse sources that schizophrenia is generally diagnosed quite a bit earlier

[tips] Re: Marriage as a cure for domestic violence

2006-08-29 Thread Rikikoenig
In a message dated 8/29/2006 11:37:29 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, I read comments that smoking pot during late adolescence isĀ  particularly dangerous to those predisposed to schizophrenia becauseĀ  adolescence is the time of greatest brain cell growth. W

[tips] Re: Marriage as a cure for domestic violence

2006-08-29 Thread Annette Taylor, Ph. D.
I saved the link to the article yesterday because I wanted to search for the scientific publication. It was not quite obvious so I decided to google it. I was astounded by the very large amount of information that supports a "link" between marijuana smoking and schizophrenia. Many of the li

[tips] Re: Marriage as a cure for domestic violence

2006-08-29 Thread msylvester
Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: tips@acsun.frostburg.edu Subject: RE: [tips] Re: Marriage as a cure for domestic violence Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:41:29 -0500 > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >>And they're at it again, cause jumping from c

[tips] Re: Marriage as a cure for domestic violence

2006-08-29 Thread sblack
I wrote, with a shocking error in spelling "cannabis" (a word I chose merely to avoid having to spell "marijuana"): > > > > >And they're at it again, cause jumping from correlations. This time it > >seems to be that cannibis causes schizophrenia. See > >http://tinyurl.com/fbue5 > > > > Rick S

[tips] Re: Marriage as a cure for domestic violence

2006-08-29 Thread Rick Stevens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And they're at it again, cause jumping from correlations. This time it seems to be that cannibis causes schizophrenia. See http://tinyurl.com/fbue5 Is it possible that a 'vulnerable person' who has not been diagnosed with schizophrenia is already having some sym

[tips] Re: Marriage as a cure for domestic violence

2006-08-28 Thread Jim Clark
_ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 8/28/2006 7:43 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Re: Marriage as a cure for domestic violence Remember this? On 25 Aug 2006 at 10:54, I wrote: > From the Christian Science Monitor for August 23,

[tips] Re: Marriage as a cure for domestic violence

2006-08-28 Thread Rick Froman
AIL PROTECTED] "Pete, it's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart" - Ulysses Everett McGill From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 8/28/2006 7:43 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Sub

[tips] Re: Marriage as a cure for domestic violence

2006-08-28 Thread sblack
Remember this? On 25 Aug 2006 at 10:54, I wrote: > From the Christian Science Monitor for August 23, "Debate grows on > out-of- wedlock laws" http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0823/p03s02-ussc.html > > > "Christian activists say the state laws [forbidding cohabitation without > marriage] are worth

[tips] RE: Marriage as a cure for domestic violence

2006-08-25 Thread Aubyn Fulton
Stephen wrote..."Christian activists say the state laws [forbidding cohabitation without marriage] are worth fighting for, but acknowledge that cohabitation is "part of the life we live now," says Brian Fahling, senior trial attorney at the American Family Association's Center for Law & Poli

[tips] RE: Marriage as a cure for domestic violence

2006-08-25 Thread John Kulig
Send you something? OK :) I am choosing not to read the csmonitor piece because I am not interested in the legal/political/ aspects of this problem. But there are aspects of this issue that interest me greatly. There are other examples that involve step-parents and child abuse. The now classic Da

[tips] Re: Marriage as a cure for domestic violence

2006-08-25 Thread Paul Okami
olence. A reasonable assumption is that cohabitating couples do not intend to marry at all. Paul Okami - Original Message - From: "Christopher Lovelace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 4:20

[tips] Re: Marriage as a cure for domestic violence

2006-08-25 Thread Michael Sylvester
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 10:54 AM Subject: [tips] Marriage as a cure for domestic violence From the Christian Science Monitor for August 23, "Debate grows on out-of- wedlock law

[tips] Re: Marriage as a cure for domestic violence

2006-08-25 Thread Christopher Lovelace
Well, since 201 years ago, apparently. Not to worry, though--it was just ruled unconstitutional: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,204647,00.html Regarding the "three times as likely" statistic, I don't suppose there's any chance that married couples are less likely to _report_ domestic v

[tips] Re: Marriage as a cure for domestic violence

2006-08-25 Thread Ken Steele
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Our forefathers were wise, and such laws as the cohabitation law here in North Carolina are really important for holding up moral standards," says the Rev. Mark Creech, director of the Christian Action League. "Cohabitation simply imitates marriage, but without act