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- 281: Domestic Violence
- Domestic Violence Imagine this if you would as a parent or as a child. Late in the evening you are awakened by your mother returning home from the motel in which your father is staying as a divorce grows near. You are young and do not know about what ... of her shirt down to reveal her shoulder and upon your eyes you see a black and blue circle just a bit bigger then a grown mans fist. Now, what do you say to the child? How does one go about saying what happened? Tell the truth. Explain to the child the reason for it and that it is something never to be done by that child. Domestic violence is a cycle in which the development of a child determines if the cycle continues or ...
- 282: The Dark side of a Wonder Drug-A Selected Collection of Testimony on the Safety of Ritalin
- ... work and they'll start suggesting it as an option for all children who are acting out," said Linda Budd, a St. Paul, Minn., psychologist who has written the book Living With the Active/Alert Child. "We've got some teachers we call "Ritalin bullies' - he's not paying attention to me so he needs Ritalin"(Ritalin Zone). Marcia Ruberg, a school psychologist in Cherry Hill (N.J.) School District, said ... little blue pills have become so common in school yards that some kids are reportedly selling their spare Ritalin to friends, who take it in the hope of getting a buzz. "Every parent wants their child to be at the top of the class," says Dr. Andre Cote, clinical director of the Children's Mental Health Treatment Center at the Royal Ottawa Hospital. "What we might be seeing is that people are trying to improve their kids' performance by giving them medication"(Health: Ritalin). Others worry that Ritalin has become an easy answer for busy families trying to cope with a hyperactive or aggressive child on their own. Dr. Thomas Millar, a retired Vancouver child psychiatrist, believes ADHD is not a disorder, but behavior that discipline and better parenting can fix. "Ritalin may calm the child," says Millar, "but ...
- 283: Abortion
- ... and unique personalities. Abortion is very simply wrong. Everyone is raised knowing the difference between right and wrong. Murder is wrong, so why isn't abortion? People argue that it is not murder if the child is unborn. Abortion is murder since the fetus being destroyed is living, breathing and moving. Why is it that if an infant is destroyed a month before the birth, there is no problem, but if ... different forms of Abortion the first three forms are for early Abortions, and the last four are for late abortions: Vacuum Curettage: powerful suction tube inserted through the cervix and into the womb. The unborn child is torn apart by the force of the suction; the fetal body parts and placenta are sucked into a jar. Possible complications include infection, cervical laceration and uterine perforation. Mifepristone: also known as RU-486, the chemical causes an abortion by interfering with the function of the placenta, starving the unborn child to death. Prostaglandins are then administered to expel the fetus. This method of abortion takes place over the span of several days; the average woman using it bleeds heavily for more than nine days, ...
- 284: Tongan Mothers In New Zealand,
- INTRODUCTION Over the last few decades, the backbone of monitoring child health has been the use of growth chart and childcare records (King, M. 1978). These have been more widely used in developing countries than in developed countries because of lower accessibility of health services. Since the universal promotion of Primary Health Care in 1978 (WHO/UNICEF, 1978), there has been an increase in the investment on child health monitoring, albeit insufficient, especially in deprived communities of both developing and developed countries. In New Zealand, monitoring of child health have been systematically developed through Plunket and Public Health nursing services (MOH, 1998). The focus has been the use of Well Child Health book (WCH). Over the years, the WCH book have developed ...
- 285: Legalization of Abortion
- ... die. Since that day, millions upon millions of unborn children have been ripped apart, burned with saline solutions, and sucked from their mothers' wombs. With every abortion that occurs another inaudible scream from the unborn child is silenced and the rights of that child are taken away . If someone where to be asked if murder was wrong, the general answer would be yes. When that same person is asked if abortion is murder, the answer may be yes, but ... reason for this contradiction is that most people believe that the unborn infant is not a human, but an organ or part of the woman's body, which would make the act of aborting the child just the same as removing an appendix. This problem of when life begins stems from the inconsistencies which come from the case of Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court interrupted that by the ninth ...
- 286: Should Government Spend or Reduce Money to Stop Drug Abuse?
- Should Government Spend or Reduce Money to Stop Drug Abuse? Should government spend more money to overthrow the drugs trafficking and control the drug abuse? Or reduce health and social costs to the public of illegal drug use to make the drug users take the responsibility by themselves? Illegal drugs, a kind of medicine such as heroin, marijuana, cocaine and ... a serious public-health challenge, and a threat to national security. Most of the American are using drug since they were studied in high school or even in grade school. We can see the "Drug Abuse" in everywhere in the United States, from 5 to 10 million young people who are between the ages of 12 to 17 years old who are using alcohol, tobacco, or illicit drugs (Focus). Also, ...
- 287: Adopted Children Should Know T
- Giving birth is like pulling your lower lip over your head -Carol Lucawikz When a mother gives birth to her child it is the ultimate bonding experience. And when a mother gives her child up for adoption, it is a selfless act for the childs best interests, but not a painless one. Every parent that is involved in an adoption arrangement will wonder and worry about their child for many days of many years. Curiosity is powerful, and ...
- 288: A Pro-Choice Argument
- ... make in their assumptions is that "pro-choice" does not mean "pro-death." Having to deal with an unintended pregnancy is possibly one of the most difficult challenges a woman has to face. Having a child is a huge financial burden on a woman as well as her family. Many women lack sexual education, such as which contraceptives are available to them, where to buy them, and how to pay for ... contraceptives.1) These women who are uninformed about the family planning options open to them are generally the same women who are from lower class societies, and therefore lack the money required for raising a child. Prenatal care is extremely expensive. Many doctor visits are required, which can quickly escalate in cost. Then there are the hospital fees for the actual childbirth, not to mention the costs for any complications that ... 50,000 low birthweight babies each year."2 These complications can lead to physical as well as emotional stress on the mother. All of these costs are miniscule compared to the cost of raising a child. The money required to raise a child from birth to the time he or she is an adult in phenomenal. Most teenage mothers, unless they come from financially secure backgrounds, do not have the ...
- 289: Ursula Le Guins use of the Psychomyth
- Ursula Le Guins use of the Psychomyth In the story "The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas" Ursula Le Guin used a child as a psychomyth. The use of a child is a very potent choice because of a childs innocence, and how we value it as adults. This scapegoat is being used not just to keep the town good and pure, but, more symbolically to represent the wretched world we live in. ...
- 290: The Police Exception and the Domestic Abuse Law
- The Police Exception and the Domestic Abuse Law Beating a spouse is wrong. Fighting is wrong. Domestic Abuse is wrong. This is a very simple concept and lawmakers, police officers, and citizens of our country for years have been in majority agreeance with these concepts. One of the punishments our government has come ... to their destructive and unstable personalities' wishes. Police amendended. Officers have recently been added to the list of people who are not allowed to carry guns in public if they have been convicted of Domestic Abuse. Some precincts are outraged, however this seems to be the proper law and should stay as it is Law officers are human, and just like everyone else, they make mistakes. An up- and-coming ...
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