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- 1951: Study on Juvenile Psychopaths
- ... and Delinquency More Statistics ] * Over the next ten years, the population of 14 to 17 year olds will grow 23 percent, and the current generation of juveniles has already brought us the worst juvenile crime rates in recorded history. * Since 1965, the juvenile arrest rate has more than tripled, and over the last ten years the homicide rate has more than doubled among 14 to 17 year olds. * During the 1980s ...
- 1952: Feminism and Gender Equality In the 1990s
- ... have the abortion under safe conditions. (See Endnote #3) A critic of the womens movement would quickly remind us that women have a right to decline marriage and sex, and to pursue their individual interest. However, I would argue that the social pressure women must endure if they do not conform to their expected role, is unfair. The problem goes beyond social conformity and crosses into government intervention (or lack ...
- 1953: Racism
- ... loose their jobs and to not be able to maintain their families, this situations have been specially hard on latinos in the U.S. This is due to the fact that Latinos face higher unemployment rates, lower education attainment, disproportionate concentration in low paying jobs and unstable economical industries, more layoffs, income discrepancies among other things. Although Latinos have the highest labor force participation rate of all the other groups, their ...
- 1954: Native American Virtues
- ... of the vastness of the country, the general concepts were · Social: live and let live · Environmental: use the land and its bounty; don't abuse it · Crime: an eye for an eye · Political: the best interest of the group was more Imagine the awesome nation we'd have today if these ideals were practiced within our culture and incorporated into our government!
- 1955: Media and Society
- ... to keep children away from excessive media violence is to teach them alternatives to violence. Parents should not be so quick to let their children plop down in front of a television set. They should interest their children with something much more productive and exciting to do. However when this task is completed, it is important for children to be given the proper support in dealing with issues of violence. If ...
- 1956: Television That Kills
- ... and do it again. Kids are impressionable. They do imitate what they see. In Canada a town that had recently been introduced to television noticed an increase in fighting between young children (Leland 48). Murder rates were twice as high after only a decade (Leland 48). The media should take more initiative in this pressing issue. Parents cannot always be watching their children and the media should be doing what they ...
- 1957: The Debate on Gay Rights
- ... heterosexual mothers in toy preferences, activities, interests, or occupational choices. In all studies, the great majority of offspring of both gay fathers and lesbian mothers described themselves as heterosexual therefore it does not suggest elevated rates of homosexuality among the offspring of lesbian or gay parents. Reports by both parents and children suggest normal development of peer relationships. As would be expected, most school-aged children reported same-sex best friends ...
- 1958: Censorship
- ... an average age of 16. If the television was not censored as much as it is today these things would be much worse, our children would be sexual active at very young ages and crime rates would shoot upward. A civilization does not rise in the strength of its laws, however. It rises on the strength of its values. What values are we teaching by not having censorship in our ...
- 1959: Extreme Nationalism
- ... of capitalist efficiency and political liberalism (Udovicki, Ridgeway, 51). In order for this to work, and the state to be stable, the parties (the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes) would have to minimize conflict in the interest of the new modernization taking place. The constitution of June 28, 1921, which became known as the St. Vitus Day Constitution (Vidovdanski Ustav), was intended as a major step in this direction. It defined the ...
- 1960: Overpopulation
- ... Netherlands temporarily to export as gas roughly the equivalent in energy of the petroleum it continued to import. But when the gas fields (which represent about twenty years' worth of Dutch energy consumption at current rates) are exhausted, Holland will once again depend heavily on the rest of the world for fossil fuels or uranium. *38 In short, the people of the Netherlands didn't build their prosperity on the bounty ...
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