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- 131: Study on Juvenile Psychopaths
- ... John DiIulio, the Brookings Institute fellow who co-wrote the book with William Bennett and John Walters, calls it a "multi variate phenomenon, " meaning that child abuse, the high number of available high-tech guns, alcoholism and many other factors feed the problem. University of Pennsylvania professor Mavin Wolfgang says, "6 percent to 7 percent of the boys in an age group will be chronic offenders, meaning they are arrested five ...
- 132: Youth Violence
- ... a juvenile by 53% (league of Women Voters of Texas Education Fund. 1994, p.3). In Houston Texas, Judge Eric Andell stated that “95% of all youth seen in court share one very predictable problem: alcoholism in the family” (league of Women Voters of Texas Education Fund. 1994, p.5). Each day, nearly 3,000 children see their parents divorce, and 59% of all children will live in a single-parent ...
- 133: How Can We Control The Drink Till You Drop Mentality At Colleges?
- ... Kids my age were drinking as many as 9-14 beers a night for three nights, but then the rest of the week they wouldn’t have any. Some granted were at the start of alcoholism. They would of course have probably 1-3 drinks every day except on the weekends were they would go on a drinking spree. But for the most part students were relatively sober during the week ...
- 134: Pidgin: Dialect of English Spoken on the Hawaiian Islands
- ... barriers as well. It is primarily spoken in the lower class neighborhoods consisting of the Hawaiians and the Filipinos. The dialect has been associated with the members of these neighborhoods and their problems, such as, alcoholism, illiteracy, and a poor standard of living. I come from a diverse family background, my mother is Scottish, English, Italian, French, and much more. My father is part Hawaiian and part Scottish. Being such I ...
- 135: Juvenile Delinquency
- ... on the way individuals become delinquents. A series of studies have shown that delinquency rates are above average in the poorest sections of cities. Such areas have many broken homes and a high rate of alcoholism. They also have poor schools, high unemployment, few recreational facilities, and high crime rates. Many young people see delinquency as their only escape from boredom, poverty, and other problems. Social scientists have also studied the ...
- 136: Domestic Violence
- ... of mental health problems" (MTCAWA e-mail interview). These problems take many forms, all affecting women's ability to attain a basic quality of life for herself and her family. Abuse is strongly associated with alcoholism and drug use in women (Facts About Domestic Violence). It also can lead to "fatigue and passivity coupled with an extreme sense of worthlessness" (Violence Against Women in the Family, 78 ). These symptoms together remove ...
- 137: Divorce in the United States
- ... The focus of state divorce, which previously concerned itself with specifying legal grounds for divorce, shifted to criteria concerning the breakdown of the marital relationship. This could be seen in conditions that allowed divorce for alcoholism, drug addiction, or nonsupport. Another tendency permitted divorce if both parties gave of voluntarily separating and living apart for a specified period of time. For example, in 1967, New York allowed divorce for couples who ...
- 138: Juvenile Delinquency
- ... on the way individuals become delinquents. A series of studies have shown that delinquency rates are above average in the poorest sections of cities. Such areas have many broken homes and a high rate of alcoholism. They also have poor schools, high unemployment, few recreational facilities, and high crime rates. Many young people see delinquency as their only escape from boredom, poverty, and other problems. Social scientists have also studied the ...
- 139: Prejudice Against Native Americans
- ... Zuni, Sioux, Mohawk, Aztec and Incan- who first settled the western hemisphere. Indians in today's society are often looked down upon as not as productive or not as stable as other cultures. The high alcoholism rates and the third world living conditions found on reservations do not improve the terms used to describe the American Indian.
- 140: Eugenics
- ... credibility.4 Davenport conducted experiments that proved what Mendel had said years before in his laws of genetics. Davenport, however, took it another step. He extended Mendel’s laws to include characteristics such as pauperism, alcoholism, and the popular term of the day, “feeblemindedness.”5 Davenport also connected behavior to race, class, and pedigree. While all of Davenport’s ideas were up to date with all current research, such as his ...
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