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Assessment of Domestic Abuse

as many as was reported in 1980, reflects a disturbing trend toward uncontrolled acts of domestic violence (Leigh et al, 1995). E...

Ethical Dilemmas and Moral Responsibilities

little intrinsic value in society. No one would trust anyone else. A degree of trust is necessary in order to keep anarchy at bay....

Mortality in Epic of Gilgamesh

afterlife, gods and worship, adventure and achievement, and legacy. The gender roles and children depicted in The Epic of Gilgame...

The Issue of Child Poverty in Great Brittan

Britain. The average weekly income in a northern household was 291 pounds in 1993; while in the southeast, it was 424 (Dyer, 1995)...

Child Rearing Over the Course of a Century

those that already had become urban (New York and Boston, as example) still retained a rural atmosphere in terms of how families a...

Education Reflections

food for thought on this concept. Another phenomenon is that of Harry Potter where it had been suggested that it was the first tim...

William Shakespeare's 'Absent' Mothers in Six Plays

"What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see / She is your treasure, she must have a husband; / I must dance bare-foot on her we...

Literature Review and Case Study on Family Therapy

addition to the alcoholism. She is a compulsive shopper and gambler. One of her twin daughters, Sarah, is pregnant and claims that...

Working Mothers

exist even though he cant see them, and he realizes that they have properties that are independent of his actions upon them" (Meye...

Abused Child Florence in Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son

barely notices when Florence enters the room. Dickens writes "They had been married ten years, and until this present day ...(they...

Adolescent Resilience, Gender, and Foster Care

media seems to be sending mixed messages. Disney films routinely show two parent households, but then the characters are often in ...

Examples of Creative Writing

ONeil play touch football with his many offspring. On a fateful Friday afternoon, Allen turned down the country lane that led to...

'A place in the family: an historical interpretation of research on parental reactions to having a child with a disability' by Philip M. Ferguson Reviewed

place in time. The point Ferguson goes on to make is that it is important to also consider the ways in which social attitudes and ...

4 Major Child Abuse Types, Treatment, Prevention, and Statistics

display in addition to the emotional trauma which remains long after the abuse has ended and the scars have healed. Children who h...

Youthful Consumers

approximately $2.2 billion of their own money in 1968; that amount increased to $4.2 billion in 1984, which quadrupled to $17.1 bi...

Unfair Exclusion in the Process of Adoption

adoption system. A case study may help to demonstrate why a parent should be allowed to adopt again, even if she had endured a pot...

Care of Children and Parents Who Work

felt she had no option but to take Asante with her. She left the child in the car and planned to come out periodically and check o...

Children and the Impact of Substance Abuse

children of alcoholics are more likely to experiment with alcohol at earlier ages than other children (Vail-Smith and Knight, 1994...

Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children

end it is buried when the bulldozers level the area. Rushdie has his main character, Saleem, comment on the significance of the sp...

Application of Therapeutic Containment

deal of anxiety for themselves and for those around them. This chaotic behavior, according to Bacher, is the results from "either ...

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee and the Marriage of George and Martha

and features the couple engaged in a frantic game of movie trivia. Martha acts out a scene from the film, the title of which she ...

Play Therapy and Behavior

allowed for recognition of human thought as an "integral part of human behavior" (OConnor, 1991, p. 26). Prior to this point, beha...

Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, and the Family

family may be seen as different make up where there is a carting and safe environment, This may mean not looking at the characteri...

Care Order and English Family Law

In eleven pages English law is referred to in this case study of social services gaining a care order for the children ages two an...

Child Labor and American Foreign Policy

leaves them little or no time to attend school (Sweatfree Schools, 2003). In...

Diagosing and Treating Behavior Disorders

ADHD (Lebanon Township Elementary Schools, nd). Another study suggested that 25 percent of CD kids developed anti-social disorder ...

Minorities and Brutality by Law Enforcement

brutality actually affects individuals (Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality, 2003). Consider the case of Aaron Willi...

Children, Obesity, and Its Impact

Within the last thirty years in the United States, the rate of childhood obesity has more than doubled as it was estimated that on...

Population Control in China

policy," with the goal of leveling out the population at 1.2 billion by the year 2000, and then bringing it down to 700 million ov...

Mainstreaming and Schools for the Deaf

inclusive educational practices. Their concerns are forged out of their struggles to get appropriate educational services for thei...