If Children Ruled The World, Divorce Would Be Illegal
June 30, 2009 by Dunkin
If children ruled the world one of the first pieces of legislation to be signed into law would be a ban on divorce. At least that’s what kids would do according to a recent U.K. poll conducted by Luton First in a partnership with the University of Luton. The annual study, conducted via on-line questionnaires, is an ongoing effort to identify what things are important to kids.
Their most recent study polled 1600 pre-teen kids and their responses are illuminating. Because, according to these kids, the second worst thing in the world was marital break-ups or separations. Undoubtedly the results would be similar if conducted here in the U.S.
According to divorce rate statistics, both divorce and separation can be devastating for a child. And the younger the child, the more a divorce or separation will probably affect them.
The most important thing that a parent can do is to recognize that divorce can cause separation anxiety in kids and to set about finding ways that can help alleviate the anxiety as much as possible. There are two main steps you can take to lower their anxiety levels:
1) Be honest with them. Make sure they know that he or she is not the reason for the separation.
2) Let them communicate with you. Don’t shunt them off to another room when the subject of separation comes up. Let them know what’s happening so that they are not in the dark.
Since divorce rate stats shows no slowdown in the number of divorces taking place, it’s important that we learn how best to deal with the children from the break-ups. Children are very resilient and most of them eventually will come to terms with their parent’s separating. But, if you make it easy on them, they will adjust much more quickly to the circumstances and hopefully with minimal psychological effects.
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Forgot to add, maybe when the darn Otago stadium is completed they’ll have an excuse to fly HOK’s Rod Sheard out here for meet and greet, and an illustrated open lecture and workshop. The least CST and Forsyth Barr could do…why don’t you suggest it. NZIA Southern, Southern Urban Design Forum and local chapter of IPENZ would love it. Put an ‘et al’ on this. We should discuss.
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Rod Sheard is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world on many aspects of stadia and large spectator venue design, the place they take in our lives and where the future of these spectacular buildings is heading. He was the creator of the concept of Stadia Generations which is now the established categorisation of stadia through recent history. In 2002 The University of Luton conferred on Rod the distinction of an honorary degree of Doctor of Science in recognition of his outstanding contribution to architecture, in particular, in the field of sport architecture.
Rod has a great enthusiasm for the future of sport architecture with a vision for the 21st century which will herald a new breed of facilities more user-friendly, better serviced and more exciting than any which have been built before. He loves clear articulate design and his award winning work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts and chosen by the Design Council for their exhibition of work by ‘young’ architects. The ‘Times’ in London described Reebok Stadium, his team's design for Bolton Wanderers Football Club as a ‘triumph of high tech architecture’. In 1995 the Alfred McAlpine Stadium in Huddersfield won the RIBA ‘Building of the Year Award’, the first time this prestigious award has been given to a stadium.
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Ben Vickery spent his early career in Singapore and London, before joining HOK Sport in 1993, where he is now a Senior Principal based in London. Ben has a broad range of technical and managerial experience, as well as detailed sports design knowledge. He was recently part of the committee writing a technical recommendation document on stadium concourses.
For 2 years from 1996, Ben worked on ANZ Stadium, the venue for the Olympic Games in Sydney in the year 2000. This technically innovative design won a series of major international architectural awards, including the IOC / IAKS Gold Medal in 2003.
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