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- 211: So Close, So Far... Neglected
- Child : means a boy or a girl apparently or effectively aged less than eighteen years (Van Stolk 146). Rich kids, middle-class kids, poor kids - all deal with risk and neglect on a scale unimagined in ... ensure the safety of children on the streets or in our homes. On the educational front, the news is even more disturbing, since underachievement and failure are now very popular. Something else that contributes to child neglect is a fast rate of family breakdown. This is an effect of divorce and rapid increase in single parent pregnancies. Couples marrying today face an even higher chance of divorcing at some point during ... their lives together. A family s deterioration can come about in ways other than separation (Wilson 50). Staying together, in certain conditions and situations may increase further economical or psychological problems that may affect the child. Social attitudes today are scarcely more tolerant. With the ratio of one divorce in four marriages moving towards one in three, we have been forced to look beyond those unexamined assumptions to asses realistically ...
- 212: I Know WhyThe Caged Bird Sings
- ... raped, with Mr. Freeman. Because if their parents loved them and could now afford to support them why couldn't they now stay with them? § I was surprised when Mr. Freeman had began to sexually abuse and rape Maya because I didn't think that he would do such a thing to his girlfriends daughter, and who would have thought that he'd be such a cruel person to do that ... distant from Maya because they had such a special bond, and a bond like that between brother and sister shouldn't have deteriorated like that. § This book reminded me of a scared and lonely, helpless child who was raped by someone she trusted and didn't know that it was wrong at the time. § I would like to read another book by this writer because she deals with many things that our true and real in our society. § I would recommend this book to a friend because it's a good book to read to understand what rape can do to a young child both emotionally and physically, which doesn't just happen to young children but to teenagers and adults also. § This book made me feel sorry for Maya for the hardships she went through going up ...
- 213: Multiple Personalities Do They
- ... caused by brain malfunctions and can be treated with drugs, whereas suffers of MPD cannot because MPD is an almost purely psychological disorder. MPD seems to be caused mainly by incredibly violent and terrible childhood abuse. In fact, about 98% of MPD sufferers were abused as children. The disorder also occurs between three to nine times more in women than men, the person being abused creates other personalities to handle the ... forced the boy to dig his own grave, burying him alive with only a stove pipe to breath through. Then the father urinated into the pipe onto the boy's face. With that kind of abuse, you either go crazy, die, or develop other personalities. That is why, in many people with MPD, there are agitated and distracted child personalities. These personalities were created in order to suffer the pain of abuse. When the abuse was over, their call was no longer needed and the primary personality could resume control, dropping with that ...
- 214: The Effects on Children When Both Parents are Employed
- ... families ." Socially, it was the norm, in the past, for women to stay at home, taking care of the children and providing emotional support for the family. Presently, women feel that their traditional roles as child bearers and homemakers must be supplemented with a career outside the home. Recent studies reflect an increased trend towards the dual income family and projections are for this trend to continue. In 1961, 30% of ... that the majority of two parent families in the 1990's have also become dual wage earning families, it is important to examine the effects of such a phenomenon on society in general and on child rearing in particular. Children acquire their goals, values and norms based on the way that they view or identify with their parents as well as from the quality and amount of care, love and guidance ... self reliance, maturity, intelligence and responsibility. Because children identify with their parents, the feedback from such positive influences tends to be positive as well because many of these positive characteristics are imparted upon them. A child who observes the competent coping abilities of a working parent learns in turn, how to cope with life's problems. At first this may translate into an improved sense of self-reliance and independence ...
- 215: Enuresis
- Enuresis is the medical term used to describe the involuntary discharge of urine beyond the age when a child is old enough to be able to control urination (usually considered to be six years of age for nighttime control), or more commonly, bedwetting. There are several types of enuresis: diurnal enuresis is wetting that occurs during waking hours, primary nocturnal enuresis is a lack of the achievement of total bladder control during sleep, and secondary nocturnal enuresis is loss of bladder control that happens after a child (or adult) has been dry a night for a long period of time (usually three to six months). The facts, causes, and treatments of this disorder can help bring a greater awareness and understanding of ... a behavioral problem. There is no medical proof to show that children wet the bed to spite their parents. Also, most children will outgrow bed-wetting eventually. As parents, the best way to help your child is to be understanding and remember that punishing or making fun of a child who wets the bed can only make the situation worse. Though as of yet a cause is unknown, some doctors ...
- 216: Birth Order
- Sigmeund Freud was the first psychotherapist to say: "a child's position in the sequence of brother and sisters is of very great significance for one course of his later life" (Richardson 12). One's birth order position (whether born first, second, last, etc.), one ... becomes. People often say they can't understand "how people from the same family can be so different". What they do not realize is that each sibling is born into a different family. Each new child needs to create a unique identity separate from the others. However this new identity is created within the context of those who are already there. The people in a family change in many ways between the birth of each new child. Many variables impact on each sibling. These include the physical circumstances in which a family finds itself, (ie. location, income, residents), the emotional stability of the family, (ie. well adjusted parents, parental experience, settled ...
- 217: Media
- By: Krystil Williams E-mail: Krystil5@yahoo.com Media Awareness The case that I decided to focus on is an older abuse case, but it has recently been resolved in the courts. It is a child abuse case involving James and Bonnie Zeleski. They were both charged with abusing their infant daughter. The child was brought to the hospital with a fracture in each leg, a fracture in each arm, a ...
- 218: Child Labor In Victorian Engla
- Child Labor in Victorian England “The report described the children as ‘Chained, belted, harnessed like dogs…black, saturated with wet, and more than half-naked, crawling upon their hands and knees, and dragging their heavy loads behind them’” (Yancey 34). This quote from Ivor Brown probably best describes the strenuous work preformed by a child laborer during the Victorian Era. Child laborers played an important part in developing the country’s economy. Children, one of the main sources of labor in Victorian England, endured less than adequate living and working conditions. During the Victorian Period ...
- 219: Lord Bryon Research Paper 10 P
- ... a Natural Born Poet Their are many different opinions on the written works of George Gordon Byron which could include one very big question. Was he a natural born poet or simply a product of abuse and mental illness. His writings may have been more a way to ease his pa and suffering rather than a natural talent. Perhaps his writings were a form of self therapy? Throughout his writings and ... that his poetry was being greatly influenced by his mental instability. I have l rned much on this great poet and I too believe that his writings were influenced greatly because of the pain and abuse he suffered in his youth. I will attempt to point out the many possibilities to this. George Gordon Byron was known as Lord Byron during his lifetime. Byron was born in 1788 and died at ... with nearly nothing to survive on. His parents, Catherine Gordon Byron (of the old and violent line of Scottish Gordons) and John ron, had been hiding in France from their creditors, but Catherine wanted their child born in England, so John stayed in France, living in his sister’s house, and died in 1791, possibly a suicide. However, at ten was left a small inheritance along with is title. (George” ...
- 220: Violence
- Violence Violence. Mentioning the word conjures up images of assault, abuse, and even murder. In today's American society, violence is more prevalent now then ever. Annually, we see violence statistics rise and are left to wonder why. Each year 1 person out of every 40 ... fashion? There are several factors that will cause people to act violently. Maybe if we explore the reasons for the behavior, and address these issues, we will win our battle with violence. Drug and alcohol abuse in this country has always been around, but recently numbers are hitting all time highs. From 1992 to 1995, drug use among teenagers almost doubled. Drugs and alcohol are both mind altering agents which cause ... violent acts are due to people being under the influence of some type of narcotic or alcohol. In a survey conducted in the University of Tennessee for the Department of Health, the effects of drug abuse on violence were studied. It was found that almost 56% of drinkers also used drugs while drinking. Interestingly, white males were found to be more abusive than black males. The study showed direct links ...
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