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- 511: Canda At War
- Assessment of Inappropriate Behavioral Development It is far easier to measure a child's physical growth and maturation than to assess the complexities of individual differences in children's disruptive and antisocial development. Pediatricians can clearly record increases in a child's weight and height on growth charts and even provide percentile estimates indicating how a child compares to others at the same age. Measuring and interpreting acceptable versus unacceptable and normal versus abnormal behaviors among children and adolescents are far more complex. Children and adolescents often test the limits of ...
- 512: The Morality of Abortion
- ... baby is born that the parents may change their mind if they want to keep it. Parents must decide at the onset of the pregnancy to decide if they can in good conscience bring a child into the world, if the answer is yes, then people should proceed with the pregnancy and then determine whether they want to give the child up for adoption. It is a parent's moral responsibility to make sure that the environments which the child will be brought into will be healthy and supportive. It is a far greater crime to treat a child poorly for eighteen years then it is to terminate a fetus that cannot think, feel ...
- 513: Divorce and Children
- ... can see how people have gotten more liberal as time went on, and divorce became common, and it was being accepted in society. Some of the common reasons why people divorce are drug or alcohol abuse, sexual preferences (such as if a wife finds out her husband is gay), adultery, physical violence, money problems, children, and in-laws. Newer reasons for divorce that have surfaced within the past 30 years. One ... or take potshots at the ex-spouse. They might say things such as "All men leave their wives the minute they turn forty" or "All women are after my money." A Parent may use their child by telling them that nothing about the divorce was their own fault, that it was all the ex-spouses fault. They might also prod their own children for information about their other parent. Parents ... marriage went wrong on someone else: their ex-spouse, his or her family, lover, job, etc. Parents may try to live through their children. They may stop living their own life, and concentrate on the childs achievements, activities, and other elements of their life. People might also feel that they need to get remarried, since they feel that they are only half a person if they arent in ...
- 514: Street Gangs: A Guide To Community Awareness
- Street Gangs: A Guide To Community Awareness INTRODUCTION This information is to help parents determine if their child is either at risk in becoming associated with or is involved in gang activity. Indicators of gang association outlined in this brochure may generally fit a variety of youths. If parents observe more than one indicator, they should talk to their child about their concerns. WHAT IS A GANG? A gang is a group of three or more people who associate together, have a common identity and engage in criminal or delinquent activity. The gang may use ... gang membership is a tradition. Other people become gang members because they think gangs are trendy. Many youths do not realize the risks and hazards of gang involvement. Parents may not be aware of their child's involvement. Parents should discuss gangs with their child and actively discourage gang association. SIGNS OF GANG ASSOCIATION Parents should be aware of behavior changes in their children. Such changes include; a decline in ...
- 515: Analysis Of Those Winter Sunda
- ... but also in the visual structure of the stanzas. In this particular poem, Hayden recounts that in winter Sunday mornings, his father always gets up in the cold and builds a fire for him, the child, so that he could get out of bed into a warm house. However, he failed to appreciate his father's love. This brief and lovely poem captures the sense of poignancy inherent love in the father-son relationship. The poet is the obvious speaker who is a man recalled getting alone with his father when he was a child. Hayden wrote this poem in 1962 when he was middle age. To understand Hayden why he wants to write this poem, we must look back the childhood of Hayden. Hayden was born in a destitute ... times of before electricity and heat had been introduced to the household. "When the rooms were warm, he'd call", this sentence reveals his father's love. In his mind, he did not want the child to get up in the cold room. On the other hand, the son slowly risen and dressed. The poet uses" slowly" to show the child's mood at that time when he was not ...
- 516: Memory Debate For Psychology
- ... have a defense for our minds. I think that it would be much easier for an adult to deal with the memories of some tragic event that happened in their childhood than to have a child dealing with a tragic experience while they are young and might not even fully understand what is happening. I believe that children and adults are susceptible to memory implantation. Everyone is susceptible to memory implantation ... memory as a way to avoid confronting the real problems in their life. The False Memory Syndrome Foundation believes that it is aiding to expose an offensive effect of America's growing industry of sexual abuse treatment. The foundation does not deny that abuse exists, they do however believe that therapists, self-help books, and the media have exaggerated its prevalence and its lasting impact. I support the concerns of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation to a certain ...
- 517: Parental Hostility
- ... called "Parental Hostility: Impact on the Family". Wesley D. Alan, Javad Kashani, and John Reid conducted this study. This study is the first effort to systematically examine the effects that parental hostility has on a child and the family. The experimenters anticipated that parental hostility would be connected with extended levels of child psychopathology. One hundred children, ages 7 to 12, from an inpatient unit in a university affiliated community mental health center served as the subjects. Additionally one parent, usually the mother, took part in the study ... DOTS), Personality Inventory for Children (PIC), The Scale for Suicide Ideation (SSI), The Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS), and the Children's Depression Rating Scale (CDRS). A research assistant administered the questionnaires to each child after admission. Following a structured interview with each child the assistant completed the CDRS. A member of the nursing staff completed the SSI after conducting a semi structured interview with each child and after ...
- 518: Hester Prynne
- ... this irrevocably harsh sin, she must wear a symbol of shame for the rest of her life. From the beginning, we see that Hester Prynne is a young and beautiful woman who has bought a child into the world with an unknown father. Hester, to the reader, is obviously a woman who has violated a strict social and religious code, but who has sinned in an affirmation of love and life ... to endure such torture. Hester, however, knows that this is her town and she cannot leave. She knows that this small town is part of her identity. She can only find comfort in holding her child close to her heart as she stands up on the scaffold. This action is a symbolic comparison between the child and the scarlet letter, implying that they are truly both intertwined. After her horrible ordeal, and her release from prison, Hester and Pearl reside for the next few years in a hut by the ...
- 519: Wuthering Heights: Romanticism
- ... have already happened. Mr. Earnshaw's act of taking care of Heathcliff contains many aspects of Romanticism. A key tenet in this act is Mr. Earnshaw's will to enter into the mind of a child. Mr. Earnshaw tries to do this when he takes Heathcliff home. Mr. Earnshaw sees a humble child in need of help. He is not concerned with the constrains of society, which is another tenet of Romanticism, but rather the welfare of the child. Brontλ gives Mr. Earnshaw's benevolence relatively high moral value, also a trait common to Romantic works. Mr. Earnshaw cares for the child despite its dark appearance, because he believes in the instinctive goodness ...
- 520: AIDS In the Classroom
- AIDS In the Classroom Your five-year-old child is in a class of 20. One of the 20 kids has AIDS. Wouldn't you like to know which one? Informing the parents and teachers about a child with AIDS should be done. The last that we want to do is ostracize a child who life is already in upheaval. He or she has a right to learn in a non-bias environment. However, it's a parents right to know the risks their children are under. Kids ...
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