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 Kids out of control? Time to be a dictator! - Weekend Parenting - MSNBC.com
Families where the child is given the final vote are usually chaotic.
In a benevolent-dictatorship family all of the members have a vote (but not necessarily an equal vote), and at times the parents will yield to the kids’ wishes if they are reasonable.
Sure, she was not pleased with the changes in the family’s power dynamics, but she grew to be a better person because of it.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/11878396/wid/7279844/page/2   (833 words)

  
 Family
Let families teach mercy, that mercy in the balance finds the proving of worthiness in them and in theirs and those taught and those taught of the students who become the teachers, that all may be One in living.
No longer was the Chosen Family under fear from the worldly contamination, rather the Chosen Family fearing God became proven to themselves and then unto the world, that faith in God overcomes evil, and the Chosen Family overcomes the world according to the faith of the Chosen Family and according to any part thereof.
It is the Family, it is the grace, it is the truth, it is the faith.
www.angelfire.com /linux/iccdbb/family.html   (2343 words)

  
 Political families of the world - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following are partial listings of prominent political families around the world, in the sense of politicians related by blood and/or marriage.
Royal families are not included, unless certain later descendants have played political roles in a republican structure (e.g.
Another use of the term is for political parties that belong to a same ideological tendency, such as liberalism, marxism, nationalism.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Political_families_of_the_world   (109 words)

  
 Want good kids? Be a (benevolent) dictator! - Parenting - MSNBC.com
And this wasn’t an isolated event — the family had come to see me at the request of Alisa’s first-grade teacher, who was concerned that the child was becoming too bossy in class as well as on the playground.
Marcus’s folks believed in running their family as a benevolent dictatorship, and they were very good at it.
The democratic family is in between, which requires an exquisite balance of kid self-control, maturity, and parental trust.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5770689   (2887 words)

  
 Dictator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In the modern definition "dictatorship" is associated brutality and oppression most notoriously in the of Adolf Hitler Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong who were responsible for the deaths of millions.
One of the greatest weaknesses of dictatorships those of Salazar Dollfuss and Franco is they rely considerably on the personal leadership of the dictator rather than on or a clear set of constitutional rules.
Other dictators create a family dictatorship in which one of their family (usually a son) assumes leadership of the upon the reigning dictator's death.
www.freeglossary.com /Dictator   (1743 words)

  
 Dictatorship Defined - Source for Political Terminology Analysis and Defintions
A dictatorship is a government headed by a dictator or more generally any authoritarian or totalitarian government, and in opposition with a democracy.
It is often considered equivalent to a police state, but the term dictatorship refers to the way the leaders gain and hold power, not the watch kept on the citizens.
Bonaparte was one of the first modern-style dictators.In the postwar period, the wave of de-colonization in Africa yielded many forms of non-democratic government, especially military dictatorships, in large measure due to the historical development of the colonial-state in several stages.
www.politicsdefined.com /content/dictatorship.htm   (1009 words)

  
 sociology - Dictatorship
A dictatorship is often seen as equivalent to a police state, but the term dictatorship refers to the way the leaders gain and hold power, not the watch kept on the citizens.
The dictatorship of the proletariat is defined by Marxist theory as the use of state power by the working class against its enemies during the passage from capitalism to communism, entailing control of the state apparatus and the means of production.
Under Joseph Stalin the phrase, in practice, also essentially came to be understood as a dictatorship in the name of the proletariat.
www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/Dictatorship   (1326 words)

  
 :: Dhivehi Observer :: Peoples Press ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Often, a dictator creates what is known as a family dictatorship in which leadership of the country passes to the dictator's son, daughter, brother, or other relative after his death.
Though under Stalin the phrase came to be understood as a dictatorship in the name of the proletariat, the original meaning was a workers' democracy where the working class would be in power, rather than the capitalist class.
In the post-war period, the wave of de-colonization in Africa yielded many forms of non-democratic government, especially military dictatorships, in large measure due to the historical development of the colonial-state in several stages.
www.dhivehiobserver.com /history/dictatorships.htm   (1115 words)

  
 Is Your Family a Democracy?
Many parents feel that their families ought to be democracies, with all decisions shared among the family members.
The reason this system works well is that it puts the power in the hands of those family members who have the experience and wisdom (the parents), while freeing the other family members (that is, the children) from responsibilities that are too much for them to handle.
If the family is deciding where to go out to eat, or whether to picnic in the park or go to the beach, it's reasonable for children to have their say, even if the parents make the call in the end.
www.drspock.com /article/0,1510,5760,00.html?r=related   (696 words)

  
 americas.org - Somozas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The family of former Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza (ousted in 1979) is quietly taking steps to reclaim the family empire.
The government, fearful of setting a precedent that would trigger the restoration of hundreds of millions of dollars in land to the family, is dragging its feet, and lawsuits are in the air.
The family’s prominence goes back decades to 1937 when Anastasio Somoza Garcia seized power and established a family dictatorship that ruled the country until the Sandinista revolution in 1979.
www.americas.org /item_22802   (225 words)

  
 Ninth Book of Junior Authors & Illustrators Sample Profile: Julia Alvarez
My family was full of great storytellers, vying for the limelight at the big, midday meal where the extended family came together to nurture each other with food and stories.
Ties to the U.S., however, remained strong in a family where all her uncles had attended Ivy League colleges and her grandfather was a cultural attaché to the United Nations.
In 1960, her father's involvement with an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Trujillo dictatorship forced the family to emigrate back to New York, though by the time she was fifteen, Alvarez and her sisters were returning to the Dominican Republic every summer.
www.hwwilson.com /print/jrauthorbk_9th_alvarez.htm   (1231 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Family dictatorship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Dorfman's family moved to the United States shortly after his birth, settling in Chile in 1954.
Of the Karadjordjević family, he was educated in Russia and became crown prince of Serbia upon the renunciation (1909) of the succession by his brother George.
The paradox of parliamentary supremacy: delegation, democracy, and dictatorship in Germany and France, 1920s-1950s.
encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Family+dictatorship&StartAt=11   (644 words)

  
 Family dictatorship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A family dictatorship, in political science terms a personalistic regime, is a form of dictatorship that operates much like an absolute monarchy, yet occurs in a nominally republican state.
When the dictator of a family dictatorship dies, one of his relatives (usually his son) becomes the new ruler of the country.
What makes a family dictatorship unique is that this hereditary order of succession is not formally enshrined in law, as it is in a monarchy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Family_dictatorship   (581 words)

  
 IPI Global Journalist
She claims that U.S. support for the anti-Lavalas Family parties went so far as paying for radio advertising slots for all the political parties except the Lavalas Family Party.
Pharval (a company owned by the influential Boulos family) paid a number of journalists to keep their mouths shut, and it worked, except with us.” Dominique also investigated another incident involving the same family, in which homemade rum was produced with the aid of poisonous, liver-damaging ethanol.
Last year, a consortium of business groups, many of which were owned by the same families having previously crossed swords with Dominique, canceled their advertising contract with Haïti Inter in protest against unfavorable coverage of their attempts to enter electoral politics.
www.globaljournalist.org /archive/Magazine/haiti-20003q.html   (1203 words)

  
 Aristide's people: Give me the souls
("The Family Is Life" in Creole), the orphanage for street boys that Aristide founded and ran.
The number of homeless children in Haiti has roughly doubled since 1987, according to the orphanage staff, as Haitian life expectancy fell from 54 to 47 years and many parents were killed or forced into hiding by the repression.
"Seventy to 80 percent of the judges are holdovers from the Duvalier dictatorship or the coup, and it's hard to change their unconstitutional habits.
www.speakeasy.org /~peterc/haiti/lost.htm   (1490 words)

  
 Marketing and Public Relations News Release
Barquero came to Southern Miss in 1978 with his family to study English at the Southern Miss English Language Institute and intended to pursue a master's degree in library science at the University of Michigan after completing his studies at Southern Miss.
In 1979 the Somoza family dictatorship, which ruled Nicaragua for the better part of the 20th century, was deposed.
Following five years of coalition government, Daniel Ortega, backed by the Sandinista rebel group that for years was the main opposition to the Somozas, was elected president in a disputed election in 1984.
www.usm.edu /pr/prnews/nov04/barquero.htm   (876 words)

  
 Asia Times
Support for the family dictatorship in Saudi Arabia has been a prevailing theme of US policy for several decades.
The presence in Saudi cities of these white-collar mercenaries who help prop up the country's despotic regime is at least as provocative as the presence of uniformed US forces out in the desert, most of whom are now being transferred to bases in the tiny neighboring sheikdom of Qatar.
Al-Qaeda believes that the Saudi regime is corrupt and evil in large part because the royal family has squandered its wealth for personal consumption and exotic weaponry while most Arabs suffer in poverty.
www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/EE23Ak02.html   (1641 words)

  
 A Book of Five Rings - Japan during Musashi's lifetime
His was a stable, peaceful government beginning a period of Japanese history which was to last until the Imperial Restoration of 1868, for although Ieyasu himself died in 1616 members of his family succeeded each other and the title Shogun became virtually an hereditary one for the Tokugawas.
Ieyasu was determined to ensure his and his family's dictatorship.
The real threat to Ieyasu's position could only come from the lords, and he effectively decreased their opportunities for revolt by devising schemes whereby all lords had to live in Edo for alternate years and by placing great restrictions on travelling.
www.samurai.com /5rings/transintro/japan.html   (1192 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Rebel Claims Control Over Haiti's Security
The political spree of destruction recalled the period following the 1986 fall of the Duvalier family dictatorship -- known as the "uprooting" for the widespread pillaging and political killings that ensued.
Many are former officers of the Haitian army, which was the chief tool of terror of the brutal Duvalier family dictatorship from 1957 to 1986.
He said the morgue had been without electricity for days and the lack of lights and refrigeration made it impossible to allow family members inside to identify the corpses.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A22601-2004Mar2?language=printer   (1269 words)

  
 Aristide's people: Father René Soler
The military dictatorship attacked his church while he was saying mass, massacring many parishioners, and fire-bombed his orphanage for boys, murdering four children.
The Duvalier family dictatorship, which ruled from 1957 to 1986, received aid and support from several U.S. administrations.
Among Haiti's twenty or thirty families of millionaires, some allegedly raised $40 million to pay for the 1991 coup, according to Soler and other sources.
www.speakeasy.org /~peterc/haiti/soler.htm   (1300 words)

  
 Is Haiti Turning Into Another Cuba?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The new government in Port-au-Prince may be steering Haiti toward a communist dictatorship, hostile to the United States.
He is a lifelong leftist, a fervent nationalist, and a strong advocate of liberation theology, which promotes the ideals of communism thinly veiled with religion.
Aristide's platform calls for the destruction of all remnants of the nearly three-decade-long family dictatorship of Frangois "Papa Doc" and Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, and emphasizes the redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor.
www.heritage.org /Research/LatinAmerica/bu155.cfm   (1519 words)

  
 Washington, DC - Haitians in America - Dynamics of an Evolving Community
Hence it was in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s that the Haitian community in the Washington metro area began, timidly at first, to grow.
Also drawn to Washington during these years were individuals who initially migrated from Haiti to someplace else in the US, such as New York, and, like Yvon Aristide, and Lionel “Yon-Yon” Simeon, relocated to Washington either to complete their studies, or in search of professional opportunities.
Included among the latter are a number of prominent and successful physicians, such as Dr. Berthie Labissiere, and their families.
www.haiti-usa.org /modern/dc/dc_origins_and_evolution.php   (650 words)

  
 JS Online:
It would have been easy for director Ramona Diaz to caricature Marcos, who is perhaps most known for flaunting her collection of thousands of shoes at a time when her impoverished compatriots were drinking the bitter dregs of the family dictatorship.
It would be easy to vilify Marcos as a cohort to her strongman husband, who ruled with an iron fist for 20 years until he was forced to decamp for Hawaii during a military-backed popular uprising in 1986.
If she got dressed to the hilt and was extravagant, it was to show the Western world, and to inspire the poor, who she said lived vicariously through her.
www.jsonline.com /story/?id=278290   (927 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Aristide's departure follows years of attacks, tumult   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He rose to power on the heels of a 29-year-long family dictatorship led by Francois and Jean-Claude Duvalier, which shattered the country and left most of its people in fear.
Aristide handpicked his successor, Rene Preval, but was considered the power behind the scenes until he won a second term in 2000, in presidential elections marred by a low turnout and an opposition boycott.
Legislative elections that same year were swept by his Lavalas Family party, but allegations that process was rigged led international donors to suspend hundreds of millions of dollars in aid.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-02-29-aristide-profile_x.htm   (663 words)

  
 19thissue/Sauduction
The Saud family have demonstrated a clear and pervasive policy of demeaning US military personnel during Desert Storm as well as those presently billeted within Saudi Arabia.
The only justification the Saud family has to purchasing armaments which can be rendered instantly useless by a satellite code is to appease London and Washington by purchasing unneeded if not useless arms from their influential arms merchants.
If the Arabian Peninsula citizens controlled by the Saud family with the aid of US military and devout Moslems ever became aware of their exploitation, perhaps there would be a general discontent.
www.sauduction.com /19issue.html   (1859 words)

  
 Perennial Haitian exodus widens | csmonitor.com
Since the fall of the Duvalier family dictatorship in 1986, the pendulum has swung from bright moments of genuine hope to the dark despair of insecurity and instability.
A UNICEF dispatch denouncing the insecurity cited a case of an 11-year-old girl who, because her family was unable to pay a ransom, was blinded.
His party, Family Lavalas, is probably the only party that has enough votes to win - but its partisans are accused of committing much of the violence strangling the nation.
www.csmonitor.com /2005/0823/p09s02-coop.html   (1087 words)

  
 Producer-director Orr sentenced for beating Farrah Fawcett Greek Socialist PM reshuffles his Cabinet Spoils of ...
Last month, the police chief resigned and two top officers were replaced after a botched raid to arrest an escaped convict holding a family hostage.
Those interviewed cited the same reasons: police or soldiers were still in the area, or their houses were unlivable because of war damage.
Rugova said he was confident that the Kosovo Liberation Army, whose attacks on police and troops prompted the Feb. 28 crackdown, would cooperate with the verification mission.
www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=9533   (3056 words)

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