...probably have to leave your child and return back to work. Thesis: To help understand my topic, I will be discussing the history of paid maternity leave and how it is in Wisconsin. Credibility: I have read and studied paid and unpaid maternity leave for the past two weeks. Preview: First I will talk about the history of paid and unpaid maternity leave and then I will compare it to other countries. Transition: Let’s start with more details. Body History (signpost):...
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...HOME / THREADS No-touch Policy Discussion raised again April 2002 ... A question on the issue of "touch" once again. I was wondering how people felt about the residential treatment homes that have a no-touch policy - what about the children who are suffering from attachment disorder. How do we ensure that they are getting the quality of care from us that they never received while at home? How do we teach them to have a healthy caring relationship if touch is not an option for us as an intervention? If someone could write back to me and tell me how to do this that would be great. Thanx Kim ____________ There is no question that touching is a basic biological need. When infants are denied touching, they die - as they did by the thousands in the foundling homes of the 19th century. This is a condition known as "maramus" - from the Greek, meaning "wasting away". The need to be touched does not diminish with age. Having run a residential center for many years, I realize some of the difficulties involved but, one way or another, touching is essential to the ongoing growth and development of the residents. There are many ways to do it. Gerry Fewster. ____________ Dear Kim, Congratulations to you for asking such an astute question. I am holding that institutions which have a no-touch policy are CHILD ABUSING. They should be reported to the licensing authorities of their particular mental health district. Professionals within that particular community should raise...
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...of not enough reproduction could be extinction as we know it. However, more realistically, in the short term, it is essential for normal day-to-day and economic productivity. If there aren’t enough people around in your age group due to low reproduction, social relations become difficult, and so does communication. Economically, if there aren’t enough people participating in the market, then it will grow unstable. On an individual level, once a child is raised in a family, there will be an economic return in them providing for that individual later. This could be accomplished through direct interaction from child to parent, or from someone receiving benefits from someone else’s child from the Social Security Administration after retirement. That is the focus here. If we cannot successfully reproduce over the next generation, then there won’t be enough workers to attend to the retirees from the previous generation that rely on Social Security. This makes reproduction a need. Why it isn’t being met in the United States. In the United States, we have a very slim rate of population growth, and that number is steadily and consecutively declining. Population growth can come in two forms, internal growth and immigration. As for internal growth, as of 2013, according to the World Bank Group (2015), the birth rate per one-thousand people was 12.5. This means that only 13 or so...
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...China’s One Child Policy; Impacts on the Society, the Economy, and the People. By David Goheen Due: December 14, 2007 Executive Summary During the years before the implementation of the One Child Policy, the leaders of China were involved in wars, a great leap forward, and an industrial revolution. In the last twenty five years China’s One Child Policy has affected the country in every way one can imagine. This paper will attempt to explore the major ways the policy has affected the people of China socially, and how the economy has reacted with the change. A brief history on the traditional views of Chinese families, before the policy’s implementation, is outlined ahead of the policy’s background. This is to illustrate where the people of China are coming from, socially and culturally. I hope to convey that this policy has forcefully stolen the Chinese citizens’ basic human right to reproduce and has hurt them physically and emotionally. However, statistically and economically the policy has been a success up to this point. The early psychological status of China’s children with no siblings is looked at to try to understand their mental capabilities of dealing with the pressure of having to be successful. Major flaws that were overlooked could spell disaster for this aging population in the future. The policy has created prosperity for the country, but has also left its citizens suffering. China is now looked at as having a low birth rate, a low death...
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...● “The total number of workers is projected to decline by 15.7 million over the forecast horizon to 195.6 million in 2060. ● The decline in the workforce will act as a drag on growth and per capita income, with a consequent trend decline in potential growth. The latter is estimated to converge to below 1,5% in real terms in the long-term in the EU. Moreover, the demographic changes are expected to have substantial consequences on public finances in the EU. ● On the basis of current policies, age-related public expenditures (pensions, health-care and long-term care) are projected to increase by 4.1 percentage points to around to around 29% of GDP between 2010 and 2060”. The economics of depopulation are dark. At full employment, the real GDP has a good chance of declining due to the insufficient number of workers that cannot provide the productivity needed. United States: “Graying means paying,” a quote from Neil Howe and Richard Jackson in the Washington Post article, “ The World Won’t Be Aging Gracefully. Just the Opposite”(2009). The United States as a nation is graying and the aging population isn’t going to stop anytime soon. The reasons for...
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...Child Trafficking Herman noble University of Alabama at Birmingham May 7 2012 Human trafficking has become an international problem that has developed into a world social issue. There are many forms of human trafficking such as child trafficking, abduction, and laundering. This is a major problem because human trafficking is illegal and a violation of human rights. Nevertheless, this repulsive act is continuously committed. Poverty, greed, corruption, supply and demand, is the components of human trafficking. Some have argued and defined human trafficking as the removing of any orphan from their culture and placing them in an unrelated different environment. Nevertheless, it is the poor non-educated families from developing or sending nations that suffer the most. Kenya and other nations have been affected by human trafficking in one way or another, while the United State avoids legal responsibility and accountability in such matters. Kenya’s issue is child abduction. This type of human trafficking is increasing around the world. Children are abducted and forced to fight in armies. The majority of the world’s conflict is fought by children. Healy (2008) states: Children are recruited primarily because they are easily to control and indoctrinate…Some are abducted or conscribed by force;…Girls are abducted into armies, some to serve as soldiers, others for sex, and often both(p.96). Bondo district, Kenya is characterized by high levels of poverty, and a HIV prevalence...
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...dual-earner families replace the traditional family where the husband was the breadwinner while the wife was the homemaker. The competing demands of work and family are childcare, taking care of elderly parents, and the burden of being a single-parent. The chapter also looks at how the government can intervene to help workers balance the demands of work and family. The government reviews family friendly policies such as child care, family and medical leaves, and alternative work schedules. The Competing Demands of Work and Family Both two-earner and single-parent families are faced by conflicts in trying to balance the demands at work and family level. These demands include taking care of small children and elderly family members, and a host of other family obligations. Women that are employed and have families find it difficult to balance the demands because they have family obligations to honor before and after work. Women do more housework than men thus reducing their wages because of decreased time and energy for work. Women’s time is also consumed taking care of the elderly because the responsibility lies mostly in their part. In the U.S, the population of persons aged over 65 is expected to increase by 100 % by 2020 therefore placing more burdens on women. Rationales for Government and Employer Policies to Assist Workers One economic argument that justifies the role of the government and employers in helping workers to balance demands at work and family level are the externalities...
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...country but also for whole. Throughout the world children are suffering from malnutrition and carious diseases. They are not only struggling with physical fitness but also from psychological health. Wars, domestic violence, family quarrels, increase in broken families are impacting very several on children mind. This is time to become conscious about children’s physical and psychological health ensuring rights of the children in order to developing children’s health. Task 1 1.1 The ways that support the different types of relevant legislation support the right of children to a healthy lifestyle: Legislation regarding child care: Child Care is very common term used in relation to healthy environment of children. Child care encompasses physical, psychological or mental, social, environmental care for children. There should be a structured format regarding that physical, psychological or mental, social, environmental condition. When there is legislation regarding each of those perspective conditions, then a structured format is automatically established. All of that legislation shall be congregated under a common head “legislation of Child Care”. Even in, many of the third world countries does not have legislation regarding the child care. Very few have but that is not pragmatic and befitting. So special attention should be given for those countries. A common legislation is required to develop and enforce concerning the children care. Legislation...
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...America’s problem but also the world’s problem. Although America has not done anything to help slow the population growth, other countries have. China has a “One-Child Policy” where couples in rural areas are only granted one child; after the first birth the mother is implanted with a birth control device. (Mosher, Steven 2006) China’s One Child Policy is on the right path to improving Earth’s environments and reducing pollution rates. This policy greatly benefited china’s annual population growth. If Americans were to implement a law similar to this then the country would see benefits like better quality of family life and less unemployment. A law similar to this, should be implemented in America because of the positive impact it would have on the economy and the consequences of not having the law. Today our economy is struggling, the distribution of wealth between Americans is unfair, and there are families going hungry at night. While some would argue that the best route to fix these problems is to create jobs, raise taxes on the rich, or government funneling of money into the economy. While those all may be decent short-term ideas; a long-term goal needs to be reached. With Americas population at just fewer than 316 million and the world population at 7 billion and climbing it is clear that something needs to be done. The world is...
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...Fancheng Wang Professor Steven Cassedy MMW 22 A10 March 16, 2012 One-child Policy in China China’s one-child policy, one of the most controversial policies, has been intensely changing China’s social structure since 1979. This policy worked as a milestone on controlling the mass amount of population and had a profound impact on all aspects of Chinese’s life. Apparently, it decelerates the growth rate of population; otherwise, there could be 23 million newborns in China annually (Shanor 53). To some extent, this policy relieves a comparative land shortage under the mass population in the countryside (Davin 65). In addition, it raises the average level of education and health care in the city because parents are likely to put more effort into taking care of the only child in the household (Kane 109). Despite its marvelous success in both the city and countryside, some scholars are concerned with the side effects tied to this policy, such as “little emperors”, labor force shortage and an aging society, which will only escalate in the future (Shanor 54). Although this policy impact on people's lives are good or bad cannot draw a conclusion, but through some social problems, it is not hard to foresee the future of this policy having negative influence on the only-child’s different stages of age. Since the first generation of children under this policy have already reached their thirties and have become part of the mainstream society, these side effects have gradually impacted...
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...recent national policy initiative promoting anti discriminatory practice Every Child Matters (2003) The national policy initiative that I’m going to assess is Every Child Matters (2003). The important point of this national initiative is extending in services to improve children’s life and help them with life problems. This policy focuses the needs for services, including schools and social workers and health professionals to work more closely to protect and support the need and rights of all children. Eight years old Victoria Climbie died from Hypothermia after months of abuse at the hands of her foster- carer and great aunt and her partner Carl John Manning. Victoria visited health and social care settings many times during her being abused and she was complete discharged whit no members of staff questioning her marks on her arms and legs and how she broke her leg. Also due to her race she had dark skin colour and therefor bruising was not as apparent. The poor 8 year old went through complete torture and abuse for many years of her life and the health and social care services failed her so many times. Following Victoria’s death, the Home Office and the Department of Health invited Lord Laming who is very well known to work with social services and child protection came to a deduction that there had been to many deaths of young children who have suffered abuse and been neglected by the health and social care services. The Act Every Child Matters Policy (2003) was formed...
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...Götgången 12 27144 YSTAD, Sweden jerker@ystad.nu For women and children, especially those who are poor and disadvantaged, to benefit from primary health care, they need to access and use cost-effective interventions for maternal, newborn, and child health. The challenge facing weak health systems is how to deliver such packages. Experiences from countries such as Iran, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and China, and from projects in countries like Tanzania and India, show that outcomes in maternal, newborn, and child health can be improved through integrated packages of cost-effective health-care interventions that are implemented incrementally in accordance with the capacity of health systems. Such packages should include community-based interventions that act in combination with social protection and intersectoral action in education, infrastructure, and poverty reduction. Interventions need to be planned and implemented at the district level, which requires strengthening of district planning and management skills. Furthermore, districts need to be supported by national strategies and policies, and, in the case of the least developed countries, also by international donors and other partners. If packages for maternal, newborn and child health care can be integrated within a gradually strengthened primary health-care system, continuity of care will be improved, including access to basic...
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...Childcare Decisions: Qualifications and Cost Physical Setting As a parent we are very protective of our children and whose care we leave them in. For instance if I were enrolling my 6-month old child into daycare for the first time I may look at certain characteristics of a daycare before deciding on a daycare. I would look at characteristics such as the physical setting, safety, personal qualifications cognitive stimulation, cost or even the proximity; all these would play a contributing factor to me deciding on a daycare facility that I am comfortable with and also meets my needs and expectations. A lot of daycare facilities have websites that allow parents to view information about their daycare facility. I would review the information and any reviews that may be available on-line and list all potential daycares; I would then contact the daycare so that I could schedule a visit. This will allow me to speak one on one with the director and to tour the daycare during operational hours. Hopefully during this time it will also allow me to speak with my child’s potential teacher and see the classroom as well. Upon my scheduled visit to the daycare facility I will make notes of things that I may want ask while I am there. Once I arrive for my visit I will look at the physical setting of the daycare facility. I will look at the building’s exterior and its landscape to see if it’s being up kept. If I am within sight of the playground, I would look to see if this area is clean...
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...Child Development Case Study Analysis Kimberly D. Carter PSYC2700 CHILD DEVELOPMENT May 15, 2015 Abstract Early Childhood Education In this paper I am taking the time to go over some very important materials in the world of Early Childhood Education and some of the reason why each and every child should have access to great educational standard. The paper will include topics that involve policy and policy initiative relating to the education of childhood, three benefits of early childhood education. Describing high quality characteristics of a program geared toward early childhood development. Characteristics of high quality early childhood programs A high quality program starts with a list of high priorities beginning with the list below: • The ration for teach and child is low. • Staff should be well trained with degrees pertaining to child development or early childhood education. • The center or facility has the appropriate curriculum for each age group within the center • Emotional and Social growth are top priority. • Encourages parents to be involved both at home and in the facility. • Great and positive interactions amongst the teacher and child. • Child-focused environment where the child is given choices • the variety of books, toys and learning supplies is endless for the child to make choices of their own. • All forms of playing, including indoor and outdoor, and all these areas are safe for children of all ages....
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...Globalization & Women Komal (4789) Ruchi (4875) Lavanya (4642) WHAT IS GLOBALIZATION? It is the process of creating languages, services, and products that apply not just to an individual neighbourhood or city or country, but to the whole world. While one interpretation of globalization has to do with equal exchange and sharing of goods and services between countries and cultures, the reality of a globalized world is much different. Globalization is a phenomenon that crosses and erases geographical and political borders and makes all countries start to look the same. As a result of globalization, local products, services, and cultures disappear into a global culture, a culture defined not by the global citizenry but rather the world's economic and political superpowers - mostly North America-owned corporations. How does economic globalization work? Economic globalization is fueled by international trade agreements signed between nations. The goal of these agreements is to get rid of barriers to trade by allowing companies to move their factories to countries with the lowest labour and environmental standards, countries where they can produce their products the cheapest...
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