...Running head: BOTH SIDES OF THE DEBATE ON SAME SEX PARENTING Same Sex Parenting, Detrimental to the Child’s Well-being? Examining Both Sides of the Debate on Homosexual Parenting Parastou (Paris) Mina-Pour 67143091 University of British Columbia BOTH SIDES OF THE DEBATE ON SAME SEX PARENTING Same Sex Parenting, Detrimental to the Child’s Well-being? Examining Both Sides of the Debate on Homosexual Parenting Heterosexism is defined as the assumption that heterosexuality is the dominant sexual orientation or lifestyle, while the term homophobia is defined as a sense of disgust, hatred and 2 negative feeling toward men or women who are attracted to individuals of the same sex (Dreyer, 2007). In 1973, the American Psychological Association eliminated homosexuality from the list of psychological disorders. It is hard to imagine that prior to this, it was common for gay individuals to be ordered into mental asylums or involuntary confinements and be diagnosed as psychologically unwell, simply because they were attracted to individuals of the same sex (Hawkes & Scott, 2005). Historically, homosexuality was considered a crime in regions such as South Australia up until 1972 and was only removed as being an act of transgression in 1997 (Hawkes & Scott, 2005). However, as a result of a shift in societal beliefs, attitudes and the removal of unfair laws against same sex couples, gay individuals are no longer perceived as negatively as they had been in the past. Nevertheless...
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...Are There Consequences to Having Career Focused Parents? In today’s fast paced society it is not abnormal to see a person working ten to twelve hour days and this does not include the commute time. It is also not abnormal in a family to find both parents working these long hours or even working two jobs. But are these now normal long days having a detrimental impact on today’s youth? Can having parents that appear career focused cause a negative impact on their children? Will not having a parent around for most of the day have a long term psychological impact on the children left waiting at home? Why do parents knowing that they are needed at home still continue to work so many hours instead of spending quality time with their children? The goal of this paper is to explore all of these questions to determine what if any risks are associated with being the child of a career driven parent or parents and insight into why parents continue to work such extreme hours. THE PAST Work is not anything new; it has been around as long as humans can remember. It has stemmed mostly from necessity, from foraging for food to building homes. But it also has at times been used as punishment or as a ways to achieve power such as the Egyptian pyramids years ago. But if you jump ahead to the early nineteenth century and compare it to current times you can see that work has seen some changes. In the early part of the nineteenth century it was often common to see a person...
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...divorce or by offering customized divorce forms online. The soaring divorces are not just questioning the importance of relationships and ties but they are also creating severe after effects in the life and family of the divorcees. Laws should be reformed to make it harder to obtain a divorce because it would help prevent any emotional, financial, and psychological repercussions. Though divorce at an individual level is a liberating factor for estranged couples, the problem arises when the divorce affects the kids. The author states: “Numerous studies indicate that children of divorced families face increased risk of substance abuse and academic trouble” (Acquilano 67). Parents are risking their kid’s well being because they believe it is not working out. Children are then forced to live with one parent while the other parent gets only visitation rights. The family becomes lopsided. The single parent has to juggle both job as well as domestic duties, and is unable to give the kind of upbringing...
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...with everything that is available is it hurting our children and adolescents? Today’s media may not be the only reason for today’s children acting more violent, their obsession with sex and a cause of insecurity, but it is an immense cause. The media today is extremely essential in society no doubt. It provides us information on any subject or matter. We receive information on subjects like the weather, local, and worldwide news, to entertainment. With the positives of the media outweighing the negative aspects people may think that the media is not hurting today’s children and adolescents, but the truth in many people’s opinion is that the negative can be very detrimental. To see how detrimental the media truly can be on children, one needs to examine just how much children and adolescents are exposed to it. Today’s children ranging from infants to 17 become exposed to an enormous amount of media and in most opinions much more than ever before. In today’s society, “the average American child spends three to five hours a day watching television” (Adams, 2008 para.2). If one really stops to think about that statistic, it seems somewhat absurd. In most cases children are in school anywhere from four to eight hours a day by the time that they get to and from and nowadays “the average youth will spend 900 hours a year in school and 1,500 hours of watching TV” (Adams, 2008 para.5). This statistic is proving how much children and adolescents are exposed to television, but it...
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...The Effects of Divorce on Children The statistics for divorce in the 1990's suggest that nearly sixty percent of marriages end in divorce. Given this startling figure, the presumption can be made that many children will experience some effects caused by the life-changing event called divorce. What is it exactly about divorce that causes negative consequences for these children? In what ways will these children be affected? Will these effects show outwardly? The unsettling fact is: young children of divorced parents face great psychological challenges due to the environmental conditions and changes associated with divorce (Wolchik and Karoly). When we pass the year 2012, we will see two groups of working age adults emerging. One group will have received psychological, social, economic, educational and moral benefits and the other group will have been denied them all. The first group will have grown up with both parents present in the house and the second group will have not had both parents present. Parental conflict appears to have a pronounced effect on the coping efforts of children. The intense anxiety and anger between some parents in the early stages of divorce is real. Often time’s parents allow their children to get in the middle of fierce verbal fighting between them. Berating the other parent in front of the child is another way of placing the child in an unfair position, which in essence is expecting the child to choose between the parents. Any form of parental conflict...
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...Abstract Regardless of situations in one’s life there comes a time when they are going to be faced with conflict. Conflict is inevitable, even in a marriage. However, it is how the conflict in a marriage that will determine how it affects the longevity of the marriage and the effects it has on any children involved and if the affects become detrimental to the parties involved. When there is unresolved conflict in a marriage it not only has an effect on the emotional well-being of those involved but also has an effect on the mental, spiritual and physical well-being of all individuals involved. This paper will discuss how conflict in marriage affects those involved as well as the longevity of the marriage itself. Studies have shown that conflict and disagreements within a marriage have and affect or couples and the relationships versus couples who are willing to confront their issues and talk their problems out. Individuals were studied over a ten day period using two separate groups to see how they dealt with conflict. The first group consisted of 128 individuals and their conflicts for a ten day period were recorded. The second group consisted of 75 couples in a laboratory setting. The couples were monitored to see how they related to their mate and how they responded to conflict in which they faced. This was to measure the commitment level of each of the mates before the discussions they had and after their discussions...
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...Throughout history, North American Indigenous populations have experienced vast amounts of both structural and cultural oppression. Such forces of oppression date back hundreds of years to the Colonial era, where various countries participated in the colonization of North American lands as well as the people which inhabited them. Since then, Indigenous communities have been attempting to recover, yet struggle to do so due to the lingering influences of Colonialism as well as the neo-liberal agendas of many modern societies. Regardless of being Indigenous and facing discrimination through numerous disparities, these disparities are experienced differently by each gender within these communities and often are compounded in their detrimental...
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...Your text uses Bronfenbrenner's ecological model to explain how children's development is affected by different groups within their world. Using this theory, we can understand how children are socialized both intentionally and unintentionally. You must understand how this theory applies to your own upbringing as well as a young child's upbringing in order to truly comprehend the concept. After reading the text and the "Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory" article, use your understanding of this theory to respond to the questions below. Using Bronbenbrenner's ecological model, respond to the following questions: a. How did the microsystem that you grew up in differ from your parents’ or grandparents’ microsystems? Do you think this is a detrimental or an affirmative change to society as a whole? b. How do you think technology, specifically social media, influences a child's mesosystems? Bronfenbrenner’s ecological system contains four parts beginning with microsystem. The article states, “The microsystem- this is the layer closest to the child and contains the structures with which the child has direct contact. The microsystem encompasses the relationships and interactions a child has with her immediate surrounds (Berk, 2000).” My microsystem was very different from my parents. My father’s father passed away when he was seven years old. He grew up with a single mother who had to work full time and was not able to spend a lot of time at home with him. My...
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...distributed, is at the root of these conditions. In Pakistan, over 7000 children between the ages of 5-14 in 1996 onwards were described as workers that stitched soccer balls for Nike and other sports companies, such as Saga Sports (Siegmann, 2008). Nike, despite having a policy prohibiting child labour, went ahead with employing children in Pakistan. This is seemingly because Nike wanted to maximize profits while minimizing costs of production, and the cheapest for them to do so way to do so is to expand their global reach to less developed countries, where they can utilize the resources of people that have little opportunity and choice in the matter. Globalization works with capitalism, in this case, to detriment people that do not live in high socioeconomic standing, and have fewer options in terms of education and work, and therefore powerful multinational corporations such as Nike can capitalize on these circumstances to exceed their profits and continue making capital. Although the case of Nike using child labour as...
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...instruments to decide if a child is at risk of abuse, it is valuable for the caseworker to have a wide-ranging, overall understanding of the factors that possibly will place children at risk of harm (Australian Institute of Family Studies, 2013). To understand the environment risk, CPS work with the Ecological theory. Ecological theory conceptualizes human behavior and social functioning within an ecological framework. Individual, family and environmental aspects work together with each other to influence...
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...function in society and meet the ordinary demands of everyday life. Research outlines that, a child mental well being is thought to depend a combination of factors such healthy and balanced nutrition, socialization, and nurturing, provided by primary caregivers, extended family, and the community of residence, a potential impact to which, the child development process can proceeds along a healthy, or potentially traumatic trajectory (Gardner, & Gunn, 2012). From a social and nurturing perspective, the attachment theory supports the above notion, by stating that the quality of mother-child (or primary caregiver) attachment, is regarded as a pervasive factor in the development of an individual’s relational psychology throughout the entire lifespan (Bowlby, 1982; Freud, 1932). Attachment theory evolves from a basic premise that attachment behaviours are part of a drive behavioural system, organised around specific attachment figures (Bowlby, 1969). The theory further explains that the Infants attempt to establish a secure base with a primary care giver, usually the mother, from later, develop appropriate explanatory behaviours (Bowlby, 1969). This parent-infant interaction is referred to as exploration from a secure base. (Ainsworth, 1967). The...
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...documentary shows a correlation between parent and child behavior. It clearly reveals how the behaviors of parents can negatively impact the lives of their children, as well as future generations. Main Points The main points in Broken Child (2000) consists of: each form of abuse (sexual, physical, mental/emotional, and neglect), poverty, substance abuse, domestic violence, mental illness, prostitution, homelessness, and the long-term psychological effects of abuse. Textual Relations Throughout the documentary, each of the children suffered from one form of abuse, if not multiple forms (polyvictimization) (Barnett, Miller-Perrin, & Perrin, 2011). It is in my opinion, all the children...
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...Burke Harris and Dante Cicchetti discuss childhood trauma and its effects on children as they continue to develop. Research has proven that trauma including maltreatment and abuse, negatively impacts kids into adulthood both behaviorally and biologically. No matter if a high-risk behavior is present or not, children who suffer from adversity are more likely to have health problems. Studies have found that childhood trauma is linked to triple the risk for heart disease, triple the risk of lung cancer, affects hormones, affects the brains development, and individuals have a 20 year less life expectancies (Harris, 2014). Modern technology has allowed researchers to compare the brains of children exposed to early adversity from...
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...approach. Legislation The Equality Act (2010) streamlines and strengthens the law and gives individuals greater protection from unfair discrimination and makes it easier for employers and companies to understand their responsibilities. It also sets a new standard for those who provide public services to treat everyone, with dignity and respect. There are nine protected characteristics mentioned throughout the Act. It requires equal treatment in access to employment as well as private and public services, regardless of the protected characteristics of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. In relation to early years managers must consider this legislation both as an...
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...Instructions: Download this document to your computer before filling it out. All of the gray boxes below should be appropriately filled in and the document saved again before submitting to the Unit 4 dropbox. Paragraph Writing Paragraph #1: Purpose: Describe Write a complete paragraph about a person who has influenced you in positive ways. Focus on at least one way in which this person has made an important impact upon you. Use specific ideas and examples to illustrate your points and make sure to refer to the Paragraph Structure chart located at the end of the Unit 4 Reading. Include a topic sentence, supporting details and a conclusion (minimum 5 complete sentences). There have been many people who have influenced various aspects of my life and career; based on their values, characteristics and commitment. Out of all the people that I’ve encountered, the person that stands out the most, who has influenced me in a positive way; has been my first “Supervisor”. In the five years that I have known and reported to her, she helped me to enhance my attributes in financial reporting within the healthcare company we worked for. One of my responsibilities was to analyze the finances and report them to senior management. During my tenure with my supervisor; she taught me how to navigate and understand the process of the financial reporting within the healthcare company, relative to our work. Nonetheless, with this new knowledge and understanding; my reporting...
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