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in the house? 5. Has your partner or child ever threatened or hurt any of the pets? 6. Are there any guns in your house? (Siegel, ...

across treatment conditions can be attributed as a causal effect of the treatment (Ablon and Jones, 2002). The problem with these ...

above the ideal standards based on the National Center for Health Statistics growth charts (Jerum and Melnyk, 2001). While weight ...

black women, from their perspective, was racism, not sexism. Hooks relates that her students often asked her such questions as "Ha...

childbearing age and, particularly adolescent girls, should receive special attention in regards to prevention. There are several ...

affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...

available to young people with potential problems: primary, secondary and tertiary, which "can be viewed along a continuum in ter...

issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...

that one can incorporate the extreme with the ordinary? Indeed, risk taking represents a bit of all of these definitions, inasmuc...

the ages of 12 and 19 were considered overweight (Surgeon General News, 2005). If that werent enough, this number is nearly triple...

possibilities; and other issues. They also dont seem to understand that older people were once young, and therefore understand th...

bent, has produced in him that blindness to human limitations, and that presumptuous self-will" (282). It becomes readily apparen...

doctrine established in Plessy v Ferguson in 1896 that kept the black and white races legally separate for 70 years. The aparthei...

This is because the Church realizes that what individuals believe in regards to religion or morality is frequently contingent on t...

these students into the general education classroom. By the end of high school, they usually have obtained the level of third to s...

1993, p. 3), Piaget and Vygotsky illustrate how this lopsidedness can create a considerable amount of frustration. Often misconst...

relationship with both the mother and her family and the father and his family (also in relation to property and/or inheritance la...

drops out of society or gets into a car accident. They may be on the road to addiction, which can be life changing and even end in...

22.4% (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004). Cigarettes, once considered glamorous and chic, have emerged as t...

children who are inactive because of television viewing. This study found that children who were inactive because of television v...

the "perceived lack of close and meaningful relationships with others" (Rew et al, 2001, p. 35-36). The Beck Hopelessness Scale, ...

is a time for considerable growth and learning, so it stands to reason that with the child a veritable sponge of curiosity, he or ...

that it leads to a lack of contact between fathers and daughters. Studies suggest that girls who grow up in families without fath...

by his mother. He becomes angry and withdrawn, mistrusting others around him and as a result constantly tests the boundaries Ted ...

there is constant bickering. It seems that when mom and dad are happy, the family should be happy. Reportedly, 70% (Corliss & Mc...

to the same extent (Saner and Ellickson, 1996). Saner and Ellickson concluded that violent adolescent acts are often the result of...

ways. At the beginning of the novel, they follow a Cain and Abel dichotomy. Gabe is the good and obedient child, "the son who is q...

There are, unfortunately, many reasons for societal discord. Often as not these reasons revolve around the misunderstandings and ...

This is the Millennial Generation. They do not know the threat of a nuclear war, have no idea of what the USSR was or meant, they ...

serious, potentially fatal, but preventable, complication of diabetes mellitus that occurs when there is insufficient insulin to m...