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Combating online relationship abuse requires multipronged approach
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The Violence In opposition to Ladies Act, which President Biden reauthorized final week, ought to result in vital strides in combating on-line abuse together with cyberstalking and the nonconsensual distribution of sexually express photographs, however leaders ought to discover further alternatives to cut back the chances that on-line relationship abuse happens within the first place by preventative training, relatively than simply offering redress for victims, based on One Love.
“Whereas it’s a criminal offense to tug your pants down within the streets — a Class B misdemeanor, punishable by a wonderful or jail time — there was nothing stopping anybody from exposing themselves in your DMs, texts, and even through AirDrop, a disturbing development,” Bumble stated.
In 2018, a consultant examine of its customers discovered one in three girls reported receiving unsolicited lewd images, in any other case often known as cyberflashing, with 96% not completely satisfied to obtain them, per their web site.
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So the courting app started working.
In 2018, they initiated synthetic intelligence expertise known as Non-public Detector to routinely blur nude photographs so the recipient can resolve first in the event that they need to see them, Bumble stated on their web site.
Then the management staff labored of their dwelling state of Texas to finally go Home Invoice 2789, which grew to become regulation September 1, 2019, to make digital transmission of sexually inappropriate materials a Class C misdemeanor in Texas when the recipient has not consented, based on Bumble.
“Crimes performed on-line are just the start of a harmful cycle of abuse and harassment,” stated Payton Iheme, Bumble’s head of public coverage for the Americas, and Christian Nunes, president of the Nationwide Group for Ladies.
They’re now advocating each state to criminalize cyberflashing, utilizing the Texas laws as a mannequin, Marie Claire reviews.
And it’s working: Related payments have been launched in New York, Wisconsin and California. In Virginia, the state Normal Meeting lately unanimously handed a invoice that might make the sending of sexually express images with out consent a civil infraction and is awaiting the governor for his signature, based on Marie Claire.
A majority of youthful adults and roughly 4 in ten adults within the U.S. have skilled on-line harassment, outlined as offensive name-calling, embarrassing somebody on function, stalking, threats that somebody will harm the recipient and sexual or sustained harassment, based on Pew Analysis Heart.
“For thus a few years, home violence was handled as one thing inside a household or inside a house, however we all know that our houses are the constructing blocks of our communities. Issues in them shouldn’t be ignored as private as a result of their implications for our neighborhood and our society are far-reaching,” stated Katie Hood, chief govt officer of One Love Basis.
Hood advised Fox Information it begins with our youth: “It’s necessary to have open and express conversations along with your kids in regards to the factthat it’s extra doubtless than unlikely that sooner or later, somebody will ship them, or will ask them to ship, sexually express photographs on-line.”
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She notes individuals ought to defend towards relationship abuse by realizing the ten indicators of unhealthy relationships.
These embrace: depth, like when somebody incessantly texts or communicates with their companion through Facetime and possessiveness, reminiscent of when individuals watch their companions’ behaviors on-line to the place they “micro handle their vital different’s on-line exercise – dictating who they are often mates with, what photos they will submit, and so forth.”
The Biden administration launched a 2022 multinational initiative with Denmark, Australia, the UK and Sweden to” … align nations, worldwide organizations, and civil society to raised prioritize, perceive, and tackle the rising scourge of technology-facilitated gender-based violence,” the White Home press assertion stated.
The extra mother and father put together their kids that sending express images might occur and have an open dialogue with them, the extra mother and father will help “… keep away from the intuition to maintain it secret or to really feel shamed,” Hood added.
“The world, and by extension the Web, isn’t secure for girls, nevertheless it’s worse for these dwelling at intersections of identification. As we spend extra time than ever earlier than on-line, we’ve got to behave to guard essentially the most marginalized and weak from violence,” Iheme and Nunes stated.
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Many families take patients off life support too soon after traumatic brain injuries: study
Many patients who died after traumatic brain injuries may have survived and recovered if their families had waited to take them off life support, a new study found.
Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and other universities analyzed “potential clinical outcomes” for patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) who were removed from life support, according to a press release.
The study included 1,392 patients who were treated in 18 trauma centers across the U.S. over a 7½-year period.
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Using a mathematical model, the researchers compared patients for whom life support was withdrawn to similar patients who were kept on life support.
Among the group for whom life support was not withdrawn, more than 40% recovered at least some independence, according to a press release.
The researchers also discovered that the notion of remaining in a vegetative state was an “unlikely outcome” six months after injury.
When designing the study, the team didn’t know what to expect, according to study author Yelena Bodien, PhD, of the Department of Neurology’s Center for neurotechnology and neurorecovery at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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“Our anecdotal experience was that some families are told their loved ones had no chance for recovery, they would never walk, talk, work or have a meaningful relationship again — yet they chose not to discontinue life support and their loved one made a remarkable recovery,” she told Fox News Digital.
“On the other hand, clinicians are under a lot of pressure to make early prognoses and do not want to commit someone to a life that would never be acceptable to them, so it could be that those patients who died after life support was withdrawn would have had very significant impairments otherwise.”
“I think there are two stories here,” said Bodien.
“One is that some patients with traumatic brain injury who died because life support was withdrawn may have recovered, but the other is that many would have died even if life support was continued.”
A patient’s prognosis after severe traumatic brain injury is highly uncertain, she noted. “Sometimes patients with the most devastating injuries survive and make meaningful recoveries.”
“Families can advocate for delaying a decision to discontinue life support if this is aligned with what they believe their loved one would want.”
The problem, Bodien said, is that health care providers lack the tools required to determine which patients with devastating injuries will recover, to what extent they will recover — and how long that will take.
‘Very important’ study
Dr. Marc Siegel, clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center and a Fox News medical contributor, was not involved in the research but said it was a “very important” study.
“Previous research shows a high-level recovery from mild TBI and a significant recovery percentage even with moderate to severe injury,” Siegel told Fox News Digital.
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“After head trauma, the brain may swell, and the use of mannitol and steroids and even sometimes surgery — where the top of the skull is removed — can be used to decrease pressure on the brain and increase chance of a full recovery,” he continued.
Rehabilitation is also crucial, Siegel added.
“All of these tools should be given a chance to work in most cases.”
Based on the study findings, Bodien recommended that clinicians should be “very cautious” with “irreversible decisions” like withdrawing life support in the days following traumatic brain injury.
“Families should also be aware of our results so that they can advocate for delaying a decision to discontinue life support if this is aligned with what they believe their loved one would want,” she added.
Limitations of the research
There were some limitations to the study, Bodien said.
“The sample size of the study was small, which made it difficult to find an adequate number of participants who did not have life support discontinued and were clinically similar, or ‘matched,’ to those who had life support discontinued,” she told Fox News Digital.
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Among the participants who did not have life support discontinued, the researchers were not able to follow all of them for a six-month period.
Another limitation is that the researchers used clinical variables that were available on the day of, or the day after, hospitalization — but sometimes decisions to discontinue life support are made several days later.
“There are many considerations that may lead to a decision to discontinue life support after traumatic brain injury that we were unable to factor into our analyses,” she continued.
“For example, personal beliefs, religion and advanced directives could all affect decision-making but were not captured in our study.”
Bodien also noted that the Harvard study was focused on traumatic brain injury and cannot be generalized to other injuries and illnesses.
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We cover cutting-edge medical research, breakthrough medications, mental health challenges, personal medical dramas and more.
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