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...doing enough. We're not only failing our soldiers, but we're failing our families because we don't really know what we're looking for." Often, soldiers don't want to deal with it, she said, and while there are programs out there to help, there is a stigma attached to seeking help. In some cases, they're told to "just suck...
...years he has already served, Wilson would already be eligible for parole. But Wilson?s attorney, B.J. Bernstein, said the offer was still unfair since, under the new Romeo and Juliet laws, Wilson would be subject to a maximum of just one year in jail - and not have the stigma of mandatory lifetime registration as sex offenders...
...Harvard College Handbook for Students, “although the University respects the right of undergraduates to participate in ROTC, the University does not provide any financial or other direct support for the ROTC program.” “I think ROTC might have a negative stigma,” Jimmy said. “It’s nice that the public can see that we’re just regular Harvard students and, yeah, we do serve a purpose, albeit maybe not on Harvard’s campus because ROTC is not on Harvard?...
...Green Evangelist,” the group’s principal faith leader Cizik said he did not always focus on environmental issues. “Many evangelicals think that environmentalism is about pantheism and paganism and new-age religions,” Cizik said. To remove this stigma, the coalition developed a new terminology for talking about the environment. The coalition began “referring to life on this planet as the ‘creation,’” McCarthy said, “because it communicated a sense of deep respect and reverence...
MORE HELP, LESS STIGMA As services have become more available for kids with autism, more parents are seeking a diagnosis they would have shunned 30 years ago, when psychiatrists still blamed autism on chilly "refrigerator" mothers. Doctors are also more willing to apply the diagnosis to help a patient. "I'll call a kid a zebra if it will get him the educational services I think he needs," National Institute of Mental Health psychiatrist Judith Rapoport told Grinker...