...generations and helps prepare the next generation for physical, emotional, economic, and social situations. Parents have a major influence in the development of children. The parent-child relationship exerts the most significant and compelling influence on his or her children’s development during childhood. Factors in society today, like poverty, unemployment, urbanization, increased population growth, increase in crimes and drug use, and the break up of the traditional family unit has families in a state of flux and re-definition. The results of these society-wide changes have many debilitating influences on parenthood, the parent-child relationship and the child’s development. In the following paragraphs is an overview of parental rights and roles in different parental settings, like single parents, grandparents, foster parents, and incarcerated women. Rights and Roles of the Single Parent The roles and responsibilities of single parents can be complicated for both single mothers and fathers. The situations are difficult no matter if the single parents are on opposite sides of a divorce, if it were the parent's choice to have a child on his or her own, or if it is a result of a death. According to (Burgess, 1970), the single-parent family is an ever-increasing phenomenon in contemporary American society. The goal of concerned, conscientious single parents is to bring their children up as healthy, mature child with a full sense of living as a normal loved and accepted person...
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...Kristie Tolle Mr. Burton July 23, 2014 WR121 Generation Home Alone I remembered the rules –go straight home, have a snack, if somebody comes to the door, tell them we are busy; never tell them we are not home, do not go outside, do your homework, and do not call me at work. Besides chasing my sister back into the house when she escaped, we followed the rules and waited until our parents to get home. Merriam-Webster defines a Latchkey child as a school-aged child of working parents who must spend part of the day unsupervised (as at home) —called also latchkey kid Generation X,—born between 1965 and 1980— became a generation that was pushed into adulthood at an early age. It was an era of new technology. We watched the evolution of computers the size of a room become the norm as a desktop appliance. By interacting with computers at an early age, Gen Xers have a greater understanding of its concept. We spent less time with our parents then earlier generations. It was common for Boomer mothers to stay at home and raise their children, while the fathers went off to work. Unlike Boomers, Gen Xers were the first generation to be recognized as latchkey kids. Our generation found ourselves at home taking care of our younger siblings and ourselves while our parents worked. I never considered myself a Latchkey kid. I was like all the other fifth graders with working parents and younger siblings. I babysat all the time when my parents ran to the...
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...The impact of child abuse and neglect is often discussed in terms of physical, behavioral, societal, and psychological consequences. Physical trauma that happens when a juvenile is young can have psychological implications such as cognitive delays or emotional difficulties. Even though trauma is very common, not all children who have been abused or neglected will experience long term consequences, but they may have an increased susceptibility. Some of the many consequences include anxiety, depression, an increase in the desire to smoke, abuse of alcohol or drugs, and/or the urge to overeat. These high-risk behaviors can lead to a long term psychological problems as well as physical health problems such as STD’s, cancer, and obesity. There are many factors when analyzing the effects of child abuse. They include the age and development status that the abuse/neglect occurred, the type of mistreatment, the frequency of the abuse, duration, severity of the abuse, and the relationship between the child and perpetrator. Even the ability to cope is damaged when experiencing...
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...theories, and differences between criminology and victimology are discussed. The flagstaff of safe houses for abused women and children, along with our nation’s first rape crises center are highlighted. The contribution from our history’s civil rights movement and how it has played a part in the U.S. laws are explained, along with children’s rights groups and the problems child victims face in the criminal justice system. In the conclusion of this paper, readers will be given a path to take in regards to advocacy groups for victims. Before we begin to understand the concept of victimology I feel it is important to first understand the definition of a victim, and the history in which victimology stems from. To be a victim means that you are a person who individually or collectively, has suffered harm, including physical or mental injury, emotional suffering, economic loss or substantial impairment of your fundamental rights, through acts or omissions that are in violation of criminal laws operative within member state, including those laws proscribing criminal abuse of power (UN Declaration 1985 on Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power). Victimology stems from criminology, which is the study of crime as a social phenomenon, and is the science upon which victimology is based. Victimology differs from criminology because it is the scientific study of physical, emotional, and financial harm people suffer because of illegal activities. Victimology is best...
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...Shachtman, Smithsonian, Feb. 2006, Vol. 36 Issue 11, p23-30 IT WAS EVERY PARENT'S nightmare: a few days before Christmas 1999, Elizabeth and Samuel Glick, Old Order Amish dairy farmers in rural Dornsife, Pennsylvania, an hour's drive north of Harrisburg, found their youngest child, 4-month-old Sara Lynn, gravely ill. They rushed her to a local hospital, from where she was soon transferred to the larger Geisinger Medical Center in the next county. There, a doctor noted a hemorrhage in her right eye and extensive bruising on her body and suspected that her injuries were caused by child abuse. Alerted to the doctor's suspicion, the police and officials from the Northumberland County Children and Youth Services descended on the Glicks' farm during the evening milking, and took away the couple's seven other children, all boys, ranging in age from 5 to 15. The boys were separated and placed in non-Amish foster homes. Sara died the next day, and when the county coroner found blood in her brain, he declared her death a homicide. At Sara's funeral, on Christmas Eve, Elizabeth and Samuel were not permitted to speak privately with their sons. By that time Samuel had already contacted the Clinic for Special Children in Lancaster County, and pleaded with its director, pediatrician D. Holmes Morton--the world's leading authority on genetic-based diseases of the Amish and Mennonite peoples--to find the cause of his daughter's death. THE AMISH are Anabaptists, Protestants whose forefathers were invited...
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...The connection of ADHD and Social Deviance Julie Alender SOC3400 Social Deviance 5386 W. Calimyrna Fresno, CA 93722 559-312-4823 email: jalender@capellauniversity.edu Instructor: Professor Jennifer Worley Over the past forty years there has been an dramatic increase in the diagnosis of ADHD and ADD in children and adults. There is a dramatic impact on children and their families once the child is diagnosised and labeled as ADHD. The medical industry and pharmaceutical companies have been benefiting from the diagnosis of child and adults with ADHD with the prescriptions of medication and overutilization. ADHD can be considered the medicalization of deviance when the diagnosis removes responsibility from society and the individual who has deviant behavior. This attitude continues the perpetual production of perpetrators of deviance. Medicalization is by definition the extension of medical jurisdiction or the expansion of medical boundaries. Medicalization studies reveal how nonmedical problems become diagnosis as medical. Current perceptions of ADHD and the treatment can be seen as the medicalization of deviance by taking away the accountability of the actions. An example of this deviant behavior is a 38 year old security guard has had 128 job since leaving college. He was diagnosed with ADHD. There is no background given on why the guard was diagnosis with ADHD, but if he didn't show up for work or was lazy that may be a reason...
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...are at a disadvantage and are proven to have less academic and career success. Kids aging out of foster care tend to have lower graduation rates and have difficulty finding a job. They are forced to navigate a constantly changing life, which can lead to negative outcomes such as homelessness, financial struggles, and social anxiety. Shockingly, as of 2023, over 225,000 teenagers have aged out of the system. Only half of these children are reunited with their parents, and this number has decreased since 2021. Only 37% of teens in foster care are...
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...Assignment 3: Persuasive Paper Part 1: A Problem Exists “Regulating the Regulators” Written By: Christine Roccasalvo Professor Holly Sprinkle Research & Writing ENG 215 Sunday, August 05, 2012 Statistical figures of the accidental deaths of minors due to negligence in supervision have soared; emergency departments have called such overdoses “accidental.” “Should minors take their mental health prescriptions without parental supervision; should these medications be left at their reach?” According to G. Randall Bond, Randall W. Woodward, and Mona Ho (Journal of Pediatrics, 2011) children are at great risk due to the sheer ubiquity of accessible prescription pill bottles in their homes. According to WebMD ("Drug overdose," 2005) children younger than 5 years of age tend to place anything and everything into their mouths. WebMD specifies that unsupervised children tend to swallow medications by accident due to their innocent curiosity; these statistics also include parental negligence of leaving the drug at the child’s reach. It is commonly seen that if one child has unintentionally swallowed the drug there is a great chance that the child would often share the drug with other children. The scope and outline of this research is to examine statistical figures of children and adolescents overdosing and prematurely dying due to mental health medications. According to J. Setlik, Mona Ho, and G. Randall Bond (Clinical Toxicology, 2010) between 2001 and 2008, the amount of...
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...History of Minority Population in the Child Welfare System Victoria Chatman BSHS 301 July 2, 2012 Pamela Hardy History of Minority Population in the Child Welfare System The United States has more children living in poverty than any other industrialized nation. It comes as no surprise that out of the 20% of poverty stricken children in America, African American, and Latino children exceed 40%. In fact, children of color are overrepresented in the foster care system and are the least likely to be reunited with their families. This overrepresentation is driven by, racial discrimination, social oppression, negative social conditions, and economic injustice. But this is not to exclude racism within the child welfare system in itself. The child welfare specialists are encouraged to respond with familiarity and compassion to individuals from a wide diversity of cultural backgrounds. “… Social welfare systems do not arise in a vacuum; they stem from the customs, statutes, and practices of the past. Therefore, one cannot understand current efforts to help the needy without first comprehending the foundations on which they were built.” --Walter I. Trattner History of African Americans Social welfare developed from both communal and secluded services in the United States and North America. Most social welfare policy experts take the place before 1932 and the formation of governmentally supported programs. Even the most exclusive services were provided under segregated policies...
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...concerned about the health and care of individuals in the community; in the early years of 1800, the care for sick people and the ideas of public well-being were influenced by the traditions of British immigrants. That was the motive for establishment of a system to care for sick, poor, aged, mentally ill and dependent patients based on the English model. Using the Law of 1601was a great medical privilege for poor communities, blind individuals, and those who did not have families. At that time, the problems surrounding poor communities included death, birth defects, and many other kinds of sicknesses; that was also the beginning of the industrial developments and mechanizations and population growth, which contributed to increased incidence of disease. In 1856, Florence Nightingale organized hospital nursing practice and nursing education, emphasized the benefits of public health nursing, and highlighted the job of nurses which includes health promotion and disease prevention. (Dieckmann, 2008, p. 21) In the early 1800s, nurses were responsible for providing care at home and mostly focused on ethical improvements rather than illness or disease prevention. The year 1813 was the starting point of providing help and assistance to the poor and sick population. It was also about that time when nurses underwent trainings to care for postpartum mothers and their babies in their homes. While nurses were working hard to provide a better level of care for the communities, limited health...
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...МІНІСТЕРСТВО ОСВІТИ І НАУКИ УКРАЇНИ ХЕРСОНСЬКИЙ НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ ТЕХНІЧНИЙ УНІВЕРСИТЕТ КАФЕДРА ТЕОРІЇ ТА ПРАКТИКИ ПЕРЕКЛАДУ Реєстр. № 7/949 - 03.12.09 Методичні вказівки для виконання практичних занять з дисципліни “Основна іноземна мова: усна та писемна практика мовлення (англійська мова )”, для студентів І курсу, напряму підготовки 6.020303 “Філологія” (за професійним спрямуванням “Переклад”) галузі знань 0203 “Гуманітарні науки” Херсон 2009 Методичні вказівки для проведення практичних занять з дисципліни „Основна іноземна мова: усна та писемна практика мовлення (англійська) для студентів І курсу, спеціальності 6.030500 „Переклад”. – Херсон, ХНТУ, 2009р. – 40 стор. Рецензент: к.п.н., доцент Радецька С.В. Укладач: асистент Прокопенко О.А. Обговорено і схвалено на засіданні кафедри теорії і практики перекладу Протокол №___ від “_____” ______________р. Завідувач кафедри _________ Н.В. Возненко Анотація Робота з текстом, виконання завдань до нього, переклад є ефективними для сприйняття й засвоєння іншомовної лексики, граматичних структур, фонетичних явищ, вмінь та навичок перекладу. Основною метою даної методичної розробки є оптимізація процесу вивчення англійської мови...
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...P1: Describe forms of abuse which may be experienced by adults & P2: Describe indicators that abuse may be happening to adults Type of abuse | Definition of abuse | Example of abuse | Indicators of abuse | Physical | This kind of abuse involves contact that is pursued to cause an individual to feel intimidated, be injured or any other kind of suffering or bodily harm via physical contact.` | Some examples of physical abuse may involve: punching, pushing, striking with an object, biting, pulling, strangling, kicking, and rape. | There are many signs that indicate that an individual has been physically abused. Some may be injuries that can be seen visually, such as: bruises, cuts, marks, burns, and fractures.Other indicators may be the misuse of drugs and alcohol, the individual isolating themselves. They may have a self-esteem and low confidence which may lead to them feeling suicidal or self-harming. Feelings of fear and mistrust may be present. | Domestic | This kind of abuse is of an individual that is in a relationship that is intimate or is in the family. Domestic abuse is repetitive and is used to manipulate a person using intimidation. | This abuse can come in many forms, these may be pursued emotionally, physically, physiologically, financially or sexually. Actions such as hitting, biting, shoving, kicking, restraining, threats, and slapping may be used to control the individual. | Indicators that an individual has been abused domestically may involve the...
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...been kept in extreme isolation and therefoe have never had the opppurtunity to form an attachment. There are 3 main types of evidence regarding privation and those are longitudinal studies of children in instituational care; case studies of children raised in extreme isolation; and studies of reactive attachment disorder which is a category of mental disorder attributed to a lack of early attachments. A longiudinal study of ex-institutional children was done by Hodges and Tizard in 1989, to investigate the effects of privation by following the same children over a long period of time to collect reliable information linking early experiences to later outcomes for the same individual. The participants were 65 children who had been placed in an instituation when they were less than 4 months old. There was an explicit policy in the institution against caregivers forming attachments with the children. This would suggest the children experienced early privation. By the age of 4, 24 of the institutionalized children had been adopted, 15 had returned to their natural homes and the rest remained in the institution. Assessment at the age of 8 and 16 years old involved interviewing those children who were adopted and those who had returned to their original homes. Their parents, their teachers and their peers were also interviewed. Data was also collected from a control group of ‘nomal’ peers. The findings show there were some differences between the adopted and the ‘restored’ children...
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...lose the identity associated with their husband’s status. Getting back on their feet may be particularly difficult for older women, who usually have few opportunities for meaningful career development and limited opportunities to remarry (Yin 2008). Women of the baby boom generation and later have usually had significant work experience, so they may find it easier to reenter the work world, if they are not already there. Divorced mothers who retain sole custody of their children often experience severe overload as they attempt to provide not only for financial self-support but also for the day-to-day care of their children. Monitoring and supervising children as a single parent is especially difficult (Braver, Shapiro, and Goodman 2006). Mothers’ difficulties are aggravated by lingering gender discrimination in employment, promotion, and salaries and by the high cost of child care. They may have less education and work experience than their ex-husbands. All in all, custodial mothers frequently feel alone as they struggle with money, scheduling,...
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...gastrointestinal, and autonomic disorders. Early identification of symptoms is vital to ensure that both the infant and mother receives the best care possible. Another important thing to recognize about NAS is the American...
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