...COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE REPRESENTATION OF FAMILY IN THE TELEVISION SHOW WEEDS Name Instructor Introduction For some time now, different faculties on human psychology, sociology and cultural studies have been investigating the effect of media artifacts in influencing and dictating ideologies and perceptions in the societies that consume them. Contemporary findings indicate that media artifacts such as television shows, movies, and books, directly influence the behavior of individuals within their different social groups and determine the type of interpersonal relationships one forges with other people, relative to their role in their lives. In addition, media affect the expressions of social class and socio-economic stature through the encouragement of the consumer culture and individualism. This paper analyses the television series Weeds, seeking to highlight how the portrayal of a single-mother family mirrors the literature on single-parent families in terms of perceived structures, financial challenges, academic achievement of children and the emotional and psychological health as well as the challenges specifically affecting single mothers. Weeds is an eight-season television show depicting the character of Nancy, a recently widowed woman who struggles to a means of mitigating the growing financial problem she faces following the death of Judah, her husband. She eventually opts to expand small her marijuana retailing enterprise to make ends...
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...St. Jude Children’s Research Hospitals mission statement “The mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. Consistent with the vision of our founder Danny Thomas, no child is denied treatment based on race, religion or a family's ability to pay.” Business Strategy and Global Competitiveness Plan. Located in the heart of Memphis Tennessee is an internationally recognized not-for-profit hospital that is known for pioneering research for finding cures and saving children with catastrophic diseases and cancer. They treat patients from around the world in all 50 states, never requiring families to pay for treatment that isn’t covered by their insurance and with regard to their ability to pay. St. Jude is currently ranked number one in Children’s Hospitals for the cancer care and is the first and only pediatric cancer center selected by the National Cancer Institute as a Comprehensive Cancer Center. (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 2010) The Board of Directors and Governors for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital are responsible for establishing the objectives and policies. They select, appoint, support and review the performance of the Chief Executive Officers, approve annual budgets, strategic planning, accounting, ethics and compliance, insuring the availability of adequate financial resources and compliance, and performance of the organizations (St...
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...Introduction Broken families earn less and experience lesser levels of educational achievement whether or not a child’s married and stay married has a massive effect on his or her future prosperity and that of the next generation. Unfortunately, the growth in the number of children born into broken families in Philippine. Children from broken families are nearly five times more likely to suffer damaging mental troubles than those whose parents stays together, Government researched has found it also showed that two parents are much better than one if children are to avoid slipping into emotional distress and anti-social behavior. The findings say that the children’s family background are important. Marriage is also another small social system which is the foundation of a family. The dissolution of marriage contracted between men and women by the judgment of a court or by an act of the legislature is called divorce. In other words, it is the legal termination of marriage. Through marriage two individuals start to live together to continue their conjugal life as well as for the creation of new generation. But divorce has severe impact on the family and ultimately on the society. It fractures a family unit, interrupts child rearing as well as children’s and women’s socioeconomic security in the society. Though divorce has become more acceptable over time, an inverse relationship exists between socioeconomic status and divorce rate. It has been found that to establish a peaceful...
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...life chances. A secure, safe and happy childhood is important in its own right, and it provides the foundation for children to make the most of their talents as they grow up. The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) (DfES, 2007), is the framework that provides that assurance. The aim of the EYFS is to help young children achieve the five Every Child Matters outcomes of staying safe, being healthy, enjoying and achieving, making a positive contribution, and achieving economic well- being by ‘Setting the Standards, Promoting Equality of Opportunity, Creating the framework for partnership working, Improving quality and consistency and Laying a secure foundation for future learning. The EYFS is divided into six sections of learning, namely Personal, Social and Emotional Development; Communication, Language and Literacy; Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy; Knowledge and Understanding of the World; Physical Development; and Creative Development. The EYFS curriculum is largely influenced by developmental perspectives, acknowledging the diverse cultural influences in the country. It emphasises children's holistic development and attempts to embrace explicitly care, welfare and education. It clearly articulates the early learning goals, how to be achieved and assessed. The principles of Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) are contained in a government document published on 13 March 2007 and have been administered in practice since September 2008. It is a ‘regulatory framework’...
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...One of the most striking changes in family structure over the last twenty years has been the increase in single-parent families. In 1970, the number of single-parent families with children under the age of 18 was 3.8 million. By 1990, the number had more than doubled to 9.7 million. For the first time in history, children are more likely to reside in a single-parent family for reasons other than the death of a parent. One in four children are born to an unmarried mother, many of whom are teenagers. Another 40 percent of children under 18 will experience parental breakup. Ninety percent of single-parent families are headed by females. Not surprisingly, single mothers with dependent children have the highest rate of poverty across all demographic groups (Olson & Banyard, 1993). Approximately 60 percent of U.S. children living in mother-only families are impoverished, compared with only 11 percent of two-parent families. The rate of poverty is even higher in African-American single-parent families, in which two out of every three children are poor. Effects on Children Past research has indicated that children from single-parent families are more likely to experience less healthy lives, on the average, than children from intact families. For instance, children growing up with only one parent are more likely to drop out of school, bear children out of wedlock, and have trouble keeping jobs as young adults. Other consequences include risks to psychological development, social...
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...Readiness Factor and Practice of Children in Families (A Case Study of Southeast Nigeria) adopted a survey research design. The population comprises of educated families in southeast Nigeria. Proportionate stratified random sampling was used in determining the sample size. Sample size of 2,500 was determined by sampling educated families from each of the selected State, local government, and villages in Southeast Nigeria. Forty six item questionnaires were used for data collection. Data collected were analyzed using frequency, and mean. The findings include: environmental factor, finance, parental practices among others are factors that determine child readiness and practices in southeast Nigeria; Recommendations on appropriate School Readiness Factor and Practice of Children in Families n southeast Nigeria were made based on the research findings. KEYWORDS: xraying, school readiness, practice, children, families Introduction (Background of the study) Readiness is a term used to describe preparation for what is next to take place. School readiness factor and practice of children are the preparation, practice and teaching to the individual child to be ready for school in the family, though according to experts, readiness has no single definition. Karoly,, Kilburn, Cannon (2005) experts identify that readiness is a multifaceted concept that goes beyond academic and cognitive skills to include physical, social, and emotional development, as well as approaches to learning. X-raying school...
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...At risk families include a change in the nuclear family as we have known it in the past. The families of today have an increase of single parent families, blended or step-families, and same sex families (Arditti, 2015). This paper will discuss societal issues which are impacting families of today, the risk factors which affect the alternative family, resiliency within the individual unit as well as the family unit, the resilience theory in relation to the alternative family, and interventions to support the individual as well as the family. Alternative Family & Risks within the Family Everyone in the United States should attempt to create a harmonious and stable White, heterosexual, middle class family with one husband, one wife, 2.5 kids,...
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...future of every country. Serious attention was paid to things such as children’s health and education. Also many campaigns were formed to relieve child poverty, which led to the first major success of the Family Allowances Act (1946). This act offered a regular sum for second and subsequent children to be paid to the mother, raising the living standards of children and providing a better quality of life. However over the years particular attention has been paid to the environment that children live and the impact that it has upon their development and life chances. Bronfrebnner (1979) looks at the environment as a layered complex where each layer has an effect on child’s development and life chances. He believed that interaction between factors in the child’s maturing biology, his immediate family/community environment, and the social background fuels and directs his development. Bronfrebnner (1979) continues that modifications or conflict in any one layer of child’s environment will flow through other layers. Furthermore Paquette and Ryan (2001) state that family is the closest, strongest, most resilient and powerful layer of the mesosystem. The influences of the family spread to all parts of the child’s development such as language, nutrition, security, health, and beliefs. All these factors are developed through the involvement and behavior related within the family. These factors will contribute to children’s...
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...Literature 1 Effects of Broken Family to the Adolescent In this regard, Sherman (1983) conducted a comprehensive review of the early literature on the psychosocial correlates of adolescent substance abuse. He concluded that: The majority of research studies supported the traditional view of the adolescent substance abuser as rebellious, lacking in self-esteem, having a low sense of psychological well-being, poor academic performance, low religiosity, a broken family, anxiety, alienation, and maladjustment. (p. 134) This section of the presented review of the literature indicated that there is a clear and direct correlation between adolescent substance abuse and parental divorce with the likelihood being that parental divorce is, at least to some extent, a causative factor in both use and abuse of drugs and alcohol among teens. The next question that needs to be asked regarding these findings is: What are the types and kinds of treatment being given to these youngsters and how effective are these interventions? In an effort to answer this question, the next section of the presented review examines studies related to the treatment of adolescent substance abusers from divorced families. The treatments that have been implemented with adolescent substance abusers are varied. According to Jenson, Howard and Jaffe (1995), the most common of these are: social skills training, family therapy, case management systems, most of which utilize posttreatment support groups to maintain abstinence...
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...2007 issue of the journal Child Development. It used longitudinal data from approximately 2,000 low-income families, in order to compare the development of children living only with their mothers with children in other arrangements (those living with their biological fathers, in blended families, and in multigenerational households) to determine the effect of living arrangements on the children’s cognitive achievement and emotional adjustment. Instead of comparing children in different family arrangements at one point in time, the researchers addressed how children and their families change over time. Allowing them to consider whether and how a child’s emotional and intellectual development changes after there has been a change in family structure. The study found that in general, children’s performance on developmental assessments changed very little after their mothers married. The absence of a relationship between family structure and children’s outcomes suggests that there is as much diversity within families of a given type as there is across families of different types. This distinction implies that policies like income support that seek to improve the lives of children regardless of whether their mothers are married may be more effective in improving the well-being of low-income children and youths. Background Considerable research has been done on children’s development in different living arrangements and how this may or may not affect their outcomes at one time...
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...affect children’s lives: research evidence Policy-makers and commentators often blame ‘bad parenting’ for children’s and young people’s troublesome behaviour. What can research tell us about the influence of parenting, especially the parent-child relationships in millions of ‘ordinary’ families? This paper: ■ Summarises findings from seven reviews of existing research that were commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation to inform its own Parenting Research and Development programme. ■ Considers parenting from the perspectives of mothers, fathers and children themselves, as well as those of black and minority ethnic parents and families living in poverty with restricted access to support services Editor: David Utting August 2007 www.jrf.org.uk Key points ■ Differences in child temperament, among other factors, demonstrate that flexible, adaptable parenting is more likely to be effective than a ‘one size fits all’ approach. ■ The quality of parent-child relationships shows considerable stability over time. Some dimensions of parenting are important in children’s lives irrespective of age, especially whether relationships are warm and supportive or marked by conflict. ■ Warm, authoritative and responsive parenting is usually crucial in building resilience. Parents who develop open, participative communication, problemcentred coping, confidence and flexibility tend to manage stress well and help their families to do the same. ■ Young children’s relationships...
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...statistique Policy Sector/ Secteur des politiques WORKING DOCUMENT THE EFFECTS OF DIVORCE ON CHILDREN A Selected Literature Review Research and Statistics Division October 1997 WD1998-2e UNEDITED The views expressed in this paper do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of Justice Canada. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................... 1 2.0 LIMITATIONS OF THE RESEARCH .............................................................. 3 3.0 FACTORS AFFECTING CHILDREN’S POSTDIVORCE ADJUSTMENT ................. 6 3.1 Child Characteristics............................................................................ 6 3.1.1 Gender ................................................................................. 6 3.1.2 Age at Divorce ....................................................................... 8 3.2 Family Characteristics.......................................................................... 9 3.2.1 Socio-economic Status .............................................................. 9 3.2.2 Ethno-cultural Background........................................................10 3.2.3 Childrearing .........................................................................10 3.3 Situational Characteristics ....................................................................12 3.3.1 Parental Absence/Remarriage ....................................................12 3.3.2 Time...
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...TO MUNICIPALITIES CONTENTS Acronyms 4 Session1: Introduction 5 1.1 Introduction 5 1.2 Rationale behind the Workshop 6 1.3 Workshop Objectives 7 Session 2: Workshop Papers 9 2.1 Opening Remarks 9 Ms Margot Davids - Chief Director – Children 2.2 Devolution of Legislative Powers to Municipalities: 10 Prof Jaap de Visser - Community Law Centre – UWC 2.3 Local Government, The South Africa Constitution and Child Rights 13 Andre Viviers - UNICEF SA 2.4 S.A. Law Reform Commission- Position Paper: Local Government and the Implementation of the Children’s Act 15 Dr Jackie Loffell - Johannesburg Child Welfare 2.5 Local Government and the Implementation of the Children’s Act: Framework on Assignment of Functions 18 Ms Matlogonolo Sebopela - National Department of Social Development 2.6 EPWP Social Sector (ECD) and Local Government 22 Ms Pearl Mugerwa - Department of Public Works 2.7 Situational Analysis of Children with Disabilities in South Africa 26 Ms Manthipi Molamu-Rahloa - National Dept of Social Development 2.8 Services needed by Children with Disabilities from Local Government 30 Mr Danie Botha-Marais - National Council for Persons with Disabilities (NCPPDSA) 2.9 The Right to Education Campaign – Children with...
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...Abstract This paper reviews the interrelationship among family structure, patterns of single parent decision making and deviant behavior among adolescents. It reviews family income and non custodial parent involvement. Patterns of family decision making and family structure both have a significant effect on adolescent deviance behavior. Data on the child’s behavior, the child’s life at home, and parental relation with the child are collected through self reports. Understanding the family structure can have an important role in the intervention and prevention of deviant behavior in the child. More parental monitoring was associated with less delinquency in a single parent household. We examine family structure including two parent families, single mother families, single father families, and stepfamilies. This paper addresses the implications of different theories and findings designed to reduce deviance. Single Parent Home Effect on Adolescence Deviant behavior among youth has increased in the United States (Steinberg, 1987). According to the Nature and Meaning of Deviance (2008), Deviant behavior is described as actions or behaviors that violate cultural norms including enacted rules and social norms. This paper will examine the social factors associated with deviant behavior among juveniles. It will explore the correlation, if any, between single parent homes and the rise in deviant behavior in juveniles. The two...
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...The Ecology of Family Life Report of research conducted by The Social Issues Research Centre 2008 The Social Issues Research Centre 28 St Clements Street Oxford OX4 1AB UK +44 1865 262255 group@sirc.org The ecology of family life Contents 1 Introduction..................................................................................................................................................................................4 1.1 Family and childhood: a paradigmatic review ....................................................................................................................................4 1.2 Space and time in family life...................................................................................................................................................................4 1.3 Pennies and pounds: the socioeconomic relations of families and children in the present.......................................................4 1.4 Theoretical framework.............................................................................................................................................................................5 1.5 Defining consumption ..............................................................................................................................................................................5 1.6 Methodology and sources of data ...........................................................................................
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