...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. As a single parent, it is necessary to represent both genders, which is no easy task and requires many hats to wear and so many shoes to fill. They are the mother, father, caregiver, friend, disciplinarian, teacher, provider, and the nurse....
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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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...Homosexual adoption is another issue that is overlooked by many. The view of a happy and healthy family in the United States has always been looked at as a traditional mother, father, 2.5 kids a dog and a goldfish and that the child’s wellbeing is determined by having a good, strong mother and a father to teach and guide their children to be the best they can be. However, what about the opposite? Many same-sex couples are ready and willing to adopt and have a family of their own, but many states have laws in place that ban same-sex couples from being able to adopt. This ban on same-sex adoption leaves thousands of children without families in the foster care system or in unstable households where they will never reach their full potential. Currently, there are 130,000 children in the foster care system without a permanent family (Ryan, Averett, & Nalavany, 2009). Giving same-sex couples the opportunity to adopt could lessen the load and give more children loving, healthy, and happy permanent families. As of today, 24 states recognize same-sex marriage and only 19; including Washington DC permit same-sex couples to jointly adopt; which allows a couple to adopt a child at the same time. 13 states permit second-parent adoption and 6 states explicitly ban discrimination based on sexual orientation in foster care (Family Equality, 2014). Second-parent adoption is the adoption of a child by a second parent in a home who is married to the legal parent of the child. This allows the...
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...Many people will most likely define “traditional” as a mother, father, and a brother or sister. But the truth is that a “traditional” upbringing may not be the most healthy. Just because a child is thought to have had a traditional upbringing does not mean that they had a better childhood than people with gay parents. One article states, “A number of clinical reports detail "acting-out behavior," homosexual seduction, elective muteness and the desire for a mother by children with homosexual parents. I am unaware of a single child being disturbed because his mother and father were married”. These are very opinionated statements and based on personal experiences, first of all. Next, children can, and do, “act out” when they have heterosexual parents and they can have “selective muteness” because they are unhappy at home, teachers are rude or mean, or because of bullying from other children. It can only be assumed why children do these things and it is based on personal opinion; in personal experience when someone assumes something they will only look for details...
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...act as an adult. These children are often left alone and when they aren’t alone, their addicted parent is usually passed out in a drug induced stupor; leaving the child to fend for themselves and/or their siblings. Does having a drug addicted parent have an effect on a child’s emotional development? If so, does this form of abuse that is recognized in the category of neglect have a long lasting effect on the child into adulthood? A child of an addict is constantly exposed to risks more so than the average child. The children are placed in harmful situations such as being minimally supervised, extended exposure to secondhand smoke; exposure to HIV infected needles and are placed in situations where they can accidentally ingest the parent’s drugs. There are many different factors that lead to child abuse but poverty, alcohol, and drug use seem to be to main component to the disturbing increase of neglected children. Children raised in an unloving, unresponsive household are emotionally neglected. In addition, neglected children are more likely to come from single parent households. Overall incidents of child abuse cases have fallen, however; abuse of children in single-parent households still holds the overall national trend. Although child abuse and neglect overall are “significantly” down, in single-parent households it’s increased since 1996 (fathersandfamilies.org). Child welfare professionals have identified the impact of child maltreatment on brain development...
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...lives for the father and the mother, the strengths of their children are not as developed as they could be, and ore weaknesses occur in major outcomes such as derivations, addictions, abuse and failure. When fathers and mothers belong to each other in marriage their children thrive, when they are indifferent or walk away from each other or reject each other, their children do not thrive as much, and many wilt a lot. The children of parents who reject each other suffer: in deep emotional pain, ill health, depression, anxiety, even shortened life span; more drop out of school, less go to college, they earn less income, they develop more addictions to drugs and alcohol, and they engage in increased violence or suffer it within their homes. Society also suffers with more gangs, more assaults, more violence against women and children, more sexual abuse of women and children, and much bigger bills for jails, increased need for health care supplemental education, addiction programs, foster care, homelessness programs, and on and on. The expansion of all these social program budgets is directly linked to the breakdown of marriage. When mothers and fathers belong to each other and strive to belong to God in worship the greatest strengths emerge and the least problems are present. All Children are affected by divorce in some way. Their world, their security, and the stability they have known seem to fall apart when parent’s divorce. They may worry that their parent’s don’t love...
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... and region). Name: Abraham Lincoln Birthdate: October 16, 1980 Age: 16 years, 0 months Gender: Male Ethnicity: Caucasian Education: 9th grade Report Writer: Alex Washington Date of report: September 3, 2014 Location of patient: South California I. Chief Complaint/Presenting Problem Within this section, you will include the patient’s primary complaint verbatim to identify and describe the main source of his or her distress and/or concerns. If there is no verbatim complaint, include observable information to create an overall picture of the presenting problem. Typically, this section within a psychological report seeks to answer the following question (further elaboration within this section is encouraged where possible): Abraham Lincoln is a 16 year old, single, Caucasian, left handed male who has been admitted to an psychiatric hospital on a involuntary hold because he has become of danger to other and himself. On January 15, 1996 Lincoln threatened to kill himself with a knife after a heated argument which occurred with his father. After the argument the father found a couple of picture Lincoln...
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...breaking and bad behavior starting at the age of 13, but also has already served a year in a juvenile corrections facility along with serving two probation terms. While it is believed he has a strong relationship with his mother, Xander reports no contact at all with his father. With Xander’s latest guilty plea for possession of a concealed weapon, this paper will explain the state of California’s process in handling Xander’s case. California has a simple outlook on handling all criminal acts. The most important goal is the safety of the public for both adult and juvenile systems. Like most states, California then separates the two systems making it a priority for the punishment of offenders when it pertains to adults compared to juveniles, where the emphasis is on treatment and rehabilitation. The juvenile system has a lengthy process. `The first act is the crime and at this point it is solely up to the officer to determine the next step. The officer can make the determination to release the juvenile to the parents or take them to juvenile hall. This usually all depends on the offense of the juvenile. In cases such as out past curfew, petty shop lifting, and graffiti the officer might make the ecision to release the juvenile to the parent’s custody and warn them of possible outcomes if the action continues. Other more serious offenses such as assaults, underage drinking, and use of illegal substances, the officer might consider taking the...
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...Saint Gabriel Academy Araneta Avenue Corner Road, Caloocan City Highschool Department “Fourth Year students’ performance in relation to their family issues” In partial fulfilment of the requirements in English IV Submitted to: Ms. Jhazmyn Reyes English Teacher Submitted by: VIRAY, Patricia Rose A. IV – Saint Augustine February 21, 2012 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to express my deepest gratitude for the fourth year students who serve as the respondent of my surveying to fulfil this study. Despite their busy schedule, they manage to answer my questionnaire properly and relevantly. Because of them, I can think of more realization with the help of their own personal opinion and experiences. Also with their help my study would be relevant because it is based on their real-life experiences. I would also like to thank Ms. Jhazmyn Reyes, my English teacher, for making me do this study because of this experience doing a thesis, it would be a big help for me when I get to college and do another thesis a my requirement. Thank you, for the time you spend to teach me how I will do this step-by-step and for the patience and effort you have exerted every time I will ask questions. To my family, for supporting me in everything I do as long it is in favour of the Almighty God, for being my strength and inspiration, and for teaching me what is wrong from right. God blessed me with a good family so I can be a good person and be a responsible steward of God. ABSTRACT ...
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...Orphans in Africa: Poverty and School Enrollment 483 ORPHANS IN AFRICA: PARENTAL DEATH, POVERTY, AND SCHOOL ENROLLMENT* ANNE CASE, CHRISTINA PAXSON, AND JOSEPH ABLEIDINGER We examine the impact of orphanhood on children’s school enrollment in 10 sub-Saharan African countries. Although poorer children in Africa are less likely to attend school, the lower enrollment of orphans is not accounted for solely by their poverty. We find that orphans are less likely to be enrolled than are nonorphans with whom they live. Consistent with Hamilton’s rule, the theory that the closeness of biological ties governs altruistic behavior, outcomes for orphans depend on the relatedness of orphans to their household heads. The lower enrollment of orphans is largely explained by the greater tendency of orphans to live with distant relatives or unrelated caregivers. I n a follow-up to the 2001 noted that nearlyGeneral Assembly Specialare suffering HIV/ United Nations Session on AIDS, UNAIDS researchers 40% of the countries that from a generalized AIDS epidemic lack a national policy to support children “orphaned or made vulnerable by AIDS” (Joint United Nations Programme 2003:12). This is an important issue in sub-Saharan Africa, where the death of prime-aged adults from HIV/AIDS has led to pronounced concentrations of orphans. Recent Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) have indicated that in Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, nearly 15% of all children under age 15 have lost...
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...Barbara Baxter Professor Bajwa Microeconomics May 10, 2010 Health Care Reforms: What They Mean to Me and the United States Can anyone accurately predict the outcome of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010? At this point it is all just speculation. The Federal Government, mainly the Democrats and the Department of Health and Human Services, paints one idealistic picture of the reform. The Federal Government envisions healthcare for all Americans at minimal expense to the consumer. The funding for this would come from a mixture of sources, including taxes on “rich” people, a new tax on expensive insurance, fees on healthcare industries, a tanning tax, and cuts on Medicare spending. Insurance companies are required to be more efficient and the increased competition should also decrease the cost of insurances policies. In theory, this all sounds great and would benefit me, my family, and other Americans with preexisting conditions but the critics are skeptical that all will go as planned. The Republicans and big business are predicting the worst outcomes of the new law. Even the Chief Actuary of the Medicare Program has now made some dire predictions on the actuality of the law, including an increase in spending. Critics predict that businesses may cut employee healthcare and pay the lower cost penalties instead. The cuts to Medicare Part A may put hospitals in debt and threaten access to care...
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...OFFICE OF FINANCIAL AID 1350 King College Road Bristol, TN 37620 Phone: 423-652-4725 Fax: 423-652-6039 Students and Families: Prior to submitting an appeal for special circumstances, please read the following important information: Before we can process a request for consideration of special circumstances, we must verify all current FAFSA data. In order to complete this process, you must submit all required documents for verification. Please be aware that as we review the verification documents, we must make any necessary corrections to the FAFSA. These corrections may result in a reduction or loss of current need based financial aid. Once we receive your appeal, please allow 8-10 weeks for processing Unless previously submitted, we must receive all Verification documents at the time the appeal for special circumstances is submitted. Failure to provide these documents will result in one or more of the following: A delay in awarding financial aid A delay in any expected financial aid refund The loss of previously awarded financial aid Please review the attached Appeal for Special Circumstances form which lists other items necessary to appeal for your specific situation. Please do not return this form without including all completed and signed verification paperwork. Sincerely, King University Office of Financial Aid Financial Aid Appeal for Special Circumstances King University Office of Financial Aid ~ 1350 King College Road ~ Bristol, TN 37620 www.king...
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...Parenting in the Age of Modern Technology Families today live in a world saturated by media and technology. The average American child has 3.5 televisions, 3.3 radios, 2.9 VCR/DVD players, 2.1 video game consoles, 1.5 computers, and 3.6 CD or tape players in their home (Pigeron, 2009, p. 1). 84% of children ages 7-17 use the internet in their homes, and 57% have their own cell phones (Kennedy, Smith, Wells, & Wellman, 2008). Media has become intricately woven into the daily lives of families – it acts as a babysitter and teacher, a mediator, entertainer and everyday companion, but perhaps most significantly, it acts as a facilitator of daily family routines, transitions, and interactions. The ubiquity of new technology is quickly changing the means by which families interact with each other to create systems of shared meanings and experiences. Families are adapting to this influx of modern technology and media into their homes by developing new rules and systems of monitoring and regulation. The influence of media on the family life of a second-grade girl, Reagan, and her parents was examined in regards to these changes. In particular, two questions were asked: How do parents perceive and make decisions regarding their children’s use of technology, and how do new forms of technology alter family roles and relationships, particularly those between parent and child? Reagan is the only child of two, married, professional parents. Her media use is typical for children...
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...Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING Introduction Alcoholism is a disease in which an individual continues to crave for alcohol despite of repeated alcohol-related problems. The signs of alcoholism and alcohol abuse are very similar, and are often just a question of degree or intensity. Typically, the last person to be aware that he/she has a serious drinking problem is the alcoholic himself/herself - they are in denial. Some signs and symptoms of alcoholism as well as alcohol abuse include, drinking alone, not being able to limit how much alcohol is consumed, dropping hobbies and activities the person used to enjoy; losing interest in them, feeling an urge to drink, having relationship problems, having problems with the law, having money problems, and requiring a larger quantity of alcohol to feel its effect (Videbeck, 2007). Alcoholism does not only affect the adults. According to Sociological theory, alcoholism is a learned response. This often happens at a young age. A child may see things around them or on TV of people drinking and they tend to believe that is the right thing to do. This addiction is primarily believed to be because of society's influences. This often will affect persons who mostly drink in groups. This theory is based more on the peer pressure a person might receive, so they often turn to alcohol drinking problems during college years. Moreover, it has become a public health concern because of its effect on the future of a child. The goal of the...
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...Running Head: Research Paper – Effect of Divorce on Parenting Derin Ireyomi 103091991 University of Windsor 02-48-305 Dr. Omorodion Abstract In the past two decades, the trend of divorce and shared custody has increased and affected the lives of almost 57% of couples and their children (Boyan, 2003). Divorces have been known to have a huge effect on parenting practices of both the mother and the father. For the complete and balanced development of children and adolescents, the involvement of both the father and the mother is extremely crucial. From playing and socializing during the primary years to negotiation, monitoring and supervision in early teens, both the mother and father play equal guiding roles in the development of children (Boyan, 2003). Introduction Children who have both parents feel successful, competent and happy, when both parents are involved in their lives (Markham et al, 2012). Conversely, children who live with a single parent are more likely to feel unhappy, depressed, and garner an awkward feeling (Schwartz, 2006). Additionally, couples involved in the divorce also experience a huge effect on their parenting practices and their daily lives as well (Sayer, 2006). This paper will investigate the negative effects divorce has on parenting practices and how it will affect the way the children are raised. Through this, I will analyze the evidence provided in the articles by Sayer (2006), Pruett (1998), Schwartz (2007), and other authors to determine...
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