Category Archives: Media education

Euthanasia is becoming an increasingly common legal option in the Western world. The former Dutch administration, led by liberal Mark Rutte until his recent resignation, expanded access to euthanasia for terminal patients ages one to twelve years old – with their parents’ consent. While in New Zealand, 65% of voters voted in favor of euthanasia…

It's the open door to your room to remind me that you're not there. It is always wide open when you leave, and always closed when you come back. At the beginning, but I couldn't even say when it started, I experienced it as an exclusion, and I was sorry, I confess. Now, it's not…

The evolution of people into more informed and alert consumers has caused a great transformation in branding communication, focusing increasingly on the creation of useful content to inform and entertain their consumers. This is also true for pharmaceutical companies that now have the opportunity (and the mission) to support patients from a distance. This support…

We at Family and media often propose analyses, research done on the media, on the world of communications in general, and on the family. We like to report data with context, so as to offer tools for discerning, interpreting, and building better relationships with others (especially within the family), while also taking into account our…

“My wife and I have agreed that for the coming years, her professional ambitions should take priority,” tweeted Rubin Ritten, the CEO of a well-known e-sales company specializing in clothing. With this statement, he triggered the questioning of the traditional family model, which has been widely accepted even in modern times. The former CEO did…

To paraphrase the enthusiastic and successful speaker Victor Küppers, "we go through life like headless chickens". Stress and day-to-day tasks make us unaware of life itself. And in this way we do not appreciate the beauty of each day. We are either distressed about the future to come or frustrated with the past we didn’t…

"If you want to change the world, start by making your bed!" It wasn't a parent fed up with his kid’s mess who said this and it's not even the recommendation of an obsessive compulsive cleaner; this is the first advice that a former SEALS soldier gives to young university students! But let's take a…

I would like to tell you the story of a mother with two very young children who, out of the blue, finds herself locked down in the house with them until a date to be set. "Locked down in the house" means: without kindergarten, without grandparents, without parks, without visits from relatives or friends, without…

A few days ago my wife Carolina received an invitation on her social networks (Facebook and Instagram) to upload a photo in BLACK and WHITE as part of an ONLINE chain that aims to exalt the value of WOMEN in our society. #ChallengeAccepted, #WomenSupportingWomen and #WomenEmpoweringWomen are three of the most used hashtags in this…

We met Dr. Serenella Feduzi and Dr. Elena Mattioli, respectively the director and the coordinator of the San Nicola Centre in Arcevia (Ancona, Italy): two therapists who manage the diagnosis and treatment of various forms of addiction (alcohol, drugs, gambling, and others). What intrigued us at Family and Media was a focus on Internet-related sex…