...Divorce Affects Teens It is life-changing and difficult on teens with divorced parents. As the numbers of divorces have increased, “1.2 million year” (U.S. Divorce Rates and Statistics), psychologists have become very interested in how teens that have been through divorce suffer from multiple problems, economical struggles, and peer discrimination. They have also studied long term effects, how teens adjust, and the issues teens with divorced parents face. For example, according to some reports, children from divorced homes are more likely to become divorced themselves. Controversially, when a positive relationship was maintained, this resulted in better self-esteem and satisfaction with social support in young adulthood which contributed to better intimate relationships (The Long-Term Effects of Divorce on Young Adult Intimate Relationships, Hughes, Jr.) With mixed results like these, it is hard for psychologists to tell for sure whether divorce has either a positive or negative effect on young adults. With my research I will show you how divorce has a negative effect on teens. Divorce causes adolescents to suffer from multiple problems. Many teens experience problems before they adapt to the new roles required to them by the divorce. Teens are exposed to behavioral problems when their family goes through such a tragic event. They become troubled and misbehaved. According to a study conducted by Bowling Green State University, children who have a half-sibling with a different...
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...problems it attempts to address. Additionally, it will provide the historical background of public assistance and the economic and political forces which have influenced its development. Furthermore, it will explain the functions of public assistance that people observe and expect, while also addressing what functions are not recognized. Lastly, the paper will provide arguments made for and against public assistance, and what has been said by politicians, and other experts. Concluding, I have also expressed my own perspective on this issue and what changes I would propose to its current state. Social Welfare Policy: Public Assistance The term “welfare” generally refers to programs established by the federal government to assist individuals who are unemployed and poor. Assistance is provided to the poor through several types of programs, which range anywhere from food stamps, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment, to temporary cash assistance and several forms of housing assistance. These programs were created to prompt effort and attention on specific problem areas and to prevent the deterioration of necessary and essential conditions for individuals and families to successfully function within society. History According to Travis Snyder (2004), for the greater part of American history there was no federally funded “Welfare" program. It was customary to find the poorest of the poor provided assistance through private organizations, churches and occasionally by small state...
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...Shane Reynolds, from my personal bank—JP Morgan Chase. We spoke briefly about a few challenges and issues that current homeowners are faced with post-recession era. Mr. Reynolds also added a few suggestions to potential homeowners that can help them gain a cost effective edge in the housing market. In an effort to provide those financially secure households a smooth and worry-free home buying process that can over compensate their needs. To begin the discussion I should first note Shane Reynold’s journey to the profession of a Mortgage banker. He graduated from Southern Methodist University before taking a job as a medical salesman. After many talks with a friend of his—that was currently a mortgage banker for the same company he would later be employed with—giving his approval for the career choice and the satisfaction he received from customers writing letters of gratitude. Ultimately he decided to change career path and become involved in assisting...
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...Due to a series of foreseen and unforeseen incidents, within a one month period (April 2009) my job as a newspaper executive was eliminated, my husband spent our life savings at casinos, and I filed for divorce. After the initial shock of these events, I realized I had a unique opportunity to start all over. I could not only finish my bachelor’s degree but I could also fulfill a life-long dream of being a university professor. I had no idea what I was getting into. I was scared but determined. Today, I am a 4th year PhD candidate in Geography at Texas A&M University. I am the benefactor of strong mentorship, which has resulted in opportunities for me to publish six peer-reviewed articles with interdisciplinary, intra-university, and multi-culturally diverse research groups. As a female Mexican-American, I proud to be a part of Texas A&M University’s (TAMU) commitment to increase minority enrollment. My research interest in health disparities is rooted in my personal experiences. Growing up overseas and living along the U.S. – Mexico border, I have witnessed inequality in terms of a lack of access to: affordable housing, potable water, sanitation, education, and healthcare services. My awareness and appreciation of...
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...are others who think the era should not be forgotten [if only to remember the inequalities and injustices better left in the past]. Opinions will differ depending on who one asks and their backgrounds. Let me begin by sharing an e-mail my mother received from her cousin just last night. I don't believe in coincidence; I believe this was divine intervention. This was truly God being God, knowing I needed all the help I could get with this essay: One evening, a grandson was talking to his grandmother about current events. The grandson asked his grandmother what she thought about the recent shootings at schools, the computer age and just things in general. The grandmother replied, "Well, let me think a minute; I was born before penicillin, frozen foods, xerox machines, contact lenses, and the pill. There were no credit cards, laser beams or ballpoint pens. Your grandfather and I got married before living together. Every family had a father and mother. It was a time before gay-rights, computer-dating, and group therapy. Time-sharing meant spending time with your family in the evenings and weekends, not purchasing condominiums. You could buy a new Ford coupe for $600, but who could afford one? Too bad, because gas was $.11 a gallon. In my day "coke" was a cold drink, "pot" was something your mother cooked in, "aids" were helpers in the Principal’s office and "software" wasn't a word. We were the last generation to actually believe that a lady needed husband to have a baby...
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...raised by single fathers. That's nearly 1 in every 40 households –over half as many as ten years ago –in which custodial fathers are raising children, many of whom are girls. So, what kinds of challenges are single fathers of daughters facing? Some issues are gender neutral. Whether they're rearing boys or girls, custodial fathers tend to have a difficult time making ends meet. Unlike single mothers, single fathers are less likely to have flexible work hours and few are receiving child support. In fact, according to Current Population Reports, a publication of the U.S. Census, a mere 30 percent of custodial dads are awarded child support, as compared to 80 percent of custodial mothers. I will use this information to talk about the facts if my topic. "Best Interests of The Child." About.com Single Parents. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 May 2013. Parents seeking child custody or visitation often hear the phrase "best interests of the child" referred to as the primary factor used to determine who will win the child custody or visitation case. Often, parents may wonder what this phrase really means. In addition, since it is one of the main factors considered in any custody case, parents who more fully understand what "best interests" refer to will go into a child custody or visitation proceeding better prepared. Technically, each state's...
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...ago. When kinship norms are typically American, it is said that certain immigrant family forms are more suited to mutual aid crisis. The African- American family is misused as being dysfunctional. It gives an overview of the demographic of “poverty” and how these demographics have changed since 1979. It also considers trends that have emerged over the last few decades and reconsiders the successes and failures of past public policy. It also identifies the growing feminization of poverty and the growing Latino population as the primary challenges currently facing public makers in addressing the issue of poverty in America. “Poverty” levels among non-Hispanic whites have increased at the same time that the supply of affordable housing has decreased on a national level in the 1980s. This research examines the phenomenon of “poverty” concentration experienced by poor whites in selected US metropolitan areas between 1980 and 1990....
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...family or individual receives (ehow.com (p1).” With a growing unemployment rate in America. American citizens are focused on survival by any means necessary. Even at the added cost to American tax payers fraud continues to rise across the country. Welfare regulations must constantly evolve to uncover different ways to discourage attempts of fraud on our welfare programs. These action of fraud are contributing to the financial rape and pelage of American assets that are there to help the needy. While the rush to address the welfare regulations is low. Low income individuals who are committing fraud are escaping jail time. Monthly monitoring of all fraudulent acts of public housing (HUD), (SNAP) and (TANF) are needing reinforcement and continue to be punished strongly by law. Welfare programs such as Public Housing (HUD), The Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), and The Temporary Cash Assistance...
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...THE FUTURE OF FORECLOSURE LAW IN THE WAKE OF THE GREAT HOUSING CRISIS OF 2007-2014 Clinical Professor of Law Notre Dame Law School Judith Fox 54 WASHBURN L. J. (forthcoming, 2015) Notre Dame Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1504 A complete list of Research Papers in this Series can be found at: http://www.ssrn.com/link/notre-dame-legal-studies.html This paper can be downloaded without charge from the Social Science Research Network electronic library at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2573203 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2573203 The Future of Foreclosure Law in the Wake of the Great Housing Crisis of 2007-2014 Judith Fox* ABSTRACT As 2014 came to an end so, perhaps, did the worst foreclosure crisis in U.S. history. On January 15, 2015, RealityTrac, one of the nation’s leading reporters of housing data, declared the foreclosure crisis had ended. Whether or not their declaration proves true, the aftermath of the crisis will be felt for years to come. During the crisis it is estimated more than five million families lost their homes to foreclosure. Federal, state and local responses to the crisis changed laws and perceptions regarding foreclosure. Despite these changes, we end the crisis much the way we began---with a nationwide foreclosure system mistrusted and disliked by lenders and consumers alike. This paper examines the responses to the crisis in an effort to determine what worked, what did not, and where foreclosure law should...
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...[pic] Organizers Institute APPLICATION FORM Instructions: Unless otherwise stated, you may use as much space as you need to answer the following questions. Please include the original questions along with your answers when you submit your completed application. Email your completed application with resume to: careers@thedartcenter.org or fax to: (785) 841-2680. 1. Please type your name, today’s date, and how you originally heard about this position. 2. Were you nominated by a scout? If so, please provide the scout’s name, institution, and contact information (not mandatory). No, a scout did not nominate me. 3. Writing Sample: Please read the following statement and answer the question below using between 300-500 words. Community organizing as practiced within the DART network is the process of building powerful congregation-based community organizations to secure a greater degree of justice through organizing large numbers of people. Most of us do not have enough money to negotiate with powerful people and institutions like banks, mayors, police departments, health care systems, or utility companies. Their control of money or public policy often gives them power over us. However, we do have lots of people in our communities who share a mutual interest in seeking just economic and political systems. With large numbers of organized people, we can build a position of power in relationship to these institutions. Why would you like to be a part of building power...
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...[pic] Organizers Institute APPLICATION FORM Instructions: Unless otherwise stated, you may use as much space as you need to answer the following questions. Please include the original questions along with your answers when you submit your completed application. Email your completed application with resume to: careers@thedartcenter.org or fax to: (785) 841-2680. 1. Please type your name, today’s date, and how you originally heard about this position. I found out about the Dart Organizers Institute through Internet search engine on Idealist.org. 2. Were you nominated by a scout? If so, please provide the scout’s name, institution, and contact information (not mandatory). No, a scout did not nominate me. 3. Writing Sample: Please read the following statement and answer the question below using between 300-500 words. Community organizing as practiced within the DART network is the process of building powerful congregation-based community organizations to secure a greater degree of justice through organizing large numbers of people. Most of us do not have enough money to negotiate with powerful people and institutions like banks, mayors, police departments, health care systems, or utility companies. Their control of money or public policy often gives them power over us. However, we do have lots of people in our communities who share a mutual interest in seeking just economic and political systems. With large numbers of organized people, we can build a position...
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...TITLE: THE IMPACT OF NEGATIVE INCOME TAX OR GUARANTEED ANNUAL INCOME, WITH A FOCUS ON NAMIBIA Introduction Negative income tax (NIT) is a tax refund to anyone whose income falls below the cut off line and the NIT brings it back above the line, it is also know as the Basic Guaranteed Income. BIG is a form of income distribution in the society. According to Gary Becker “any state intervention, any income redistribution, creates disincentives and distortions, but if society decides that a certain level of redistribution must take place, the NIT is the best, the most minimally distorting, solution ever devised." The three countries that are adapted to NIT or basic guaranteed annual income (BIG) mentioned in this paper are Canada, The United States of America and Namibia. Many different sources of funding have been suggested for this form of redistribution and these are: incomes taxes, sales taxes, luxury taxes, wealth taxes, inheritance taxes, capital gains taxes, pollution taxes, tariffs, sin taxes, universal stock ownership, fees from government created monopolies and a national mutual fund. Most citizens of a country do not want money to be deducted from them through taxes. The unhappy citizens will end up moving provinces or countries if the money being deducted from, for examples incomes according to Tibeout. According to the Altruism theory, people might feel the need to help others because they are uncertain about future ...
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...Barack Obama Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States —becoming the first African American to serve in that office —on January 20, 2009. The son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father, Obama grew up in Hawaii. Leaving the state to attend college, he earned degrees from Columbia University and Harvard Law School. Obama worked as a community organizer in Chicago, where he met and married Michelle LaVaughn Robinson in 1992. Their two daughters, Malia Ann and Natasha (Sasha) were born in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Obama was elected to the Illinois state senate in 1996 and served there for eight years. In 2004, he was elected by a record majority to the U.S. Senate from Illinois and, in February 2007, announced his candidacy for President. After winning a closely-fought contest against New York Senator and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination, Obama handily defeated Senator John McCain of Arizona, the Republican nominee for President, in the general election. When President Obama took office, he faced very significant challenges. The economy was officially in a recession, and the outgoing administration of George W. Bush had begun to implement a controversial "bail-out" package to try to help struggling financial institutions. In foreign affairs, the United States still had troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and warfare had broken out between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, illustrating the...
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...Lien Centre for Social Innovation Social Insight Research Series Inequality, Poverty and Unmet Social Needs in Singapore A Handbook on A Handbook on Inequality, Poverty and Unmet Social Needs in Singapore Lien Centre for Social Innovation CATHERINE J. SMITH (Additional research and writing by John Donaldson, Sanushka Mudaliar, Mumtaz Md Kadir and Yeoh Lam Keong) As this handbook is intended to provide an overview of the arguments of others, the role of the authors largely consisted of compiling, arranging, and contextualizing. Further, the ideas expressed herein, which are various and often contradictory, do not necessarily represent the views of the handbook’s authors, or of the staff and Board of the Lien Centre for Social Innovation. Copyright © March, 2015 by Lien Centre for Social Innovation. All rights reserved. Published by the Lien Centre for Social Innovation Singapore Management University, Administration Building, 81 Victoria Street, Singapore 188065 www.lcsi.smu.edu.sg No part nor entirety of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in any retrieval system of any nature without the prior written permission of the Lien Centre. Readers should be aware that internet websites offered as citations and/ or sources for further information may have changed or disappeared between the time this was written and when it was read. Limit of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty: While the publisher and authors...
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...Sciences. Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences November, 2012 CERTIFICATION The undersigned certify that he has read and hereby recommend for acceptance by the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences a thesis/ dissertation entitled Intimate partner violence among women living in informal settlements: A case study of Manzese in Dar es salaam, Tanzania, in (partial) fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master of public health of Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences. ………………………………. Dr. Mangi J.Ezekiel (Supervisor) Date……………………… DECLARATION AND COPYRIGHT I, Merina Vincent Shaidi, declare that this dissertation/thesis is my original work and that it has not been presented and will not be presented to any other university for a similar or any other degree award. Signature……………………… Date……………………………. This dissertation is a copyright material protected under the Berne convection, the Copyright Act 1999 and other international and national enactments in that behalf, on intellectual property. It may not be reproduced by any means, in full or...
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