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Overview of UK Family Law

made. The court also has the power to order a lump sum payment of not more than ?1,000 (Cretney and Mason, 1998). If...

Poverty and Children

that poverty is "a state in which one is unable to obtain basic necessities required to sustain a minimally adequate standard of l...

Childhood and Its Secret According to Dr. Maria Montessori

olds from low income families. The schools began opening up in the United States in 1910. In the 1920s however, because of their c...

Sociological Effects of Single Parenting

parents were to divorce when the time came that their relationship was no longer considered beneficial. "For many children, the e...

How Children of Alcoholics Cope

Al-Anon (1987). Inclusion criteria included ages 18 through 23, the fact that the father was drinking but the mother was not, and ...

Children with Learning Disabilities and Positive Outcome Strategies

Working with Students with Specific Disabilities, 2002). LDs are characterized by problems in use of listening, speaking, reading,...

Works of Literature and Race

with open galleries and porticoes. Bottles of milk were grouped on the steps, and occasionally light flickered from the kitchens w...

Terry Kay's To Dance with the White Dog

with his daughters, who think hes gone off the deep end with grief. She becomes his companion, gives him a reason to get out of b...

Medical Treatment, Parents, Religion and the Law

even her mother and father over whether she should get blood transfusions to treat her leukemia. Doctors say that without the trea...

Adopting Children and Lesbian Couples

awaiting a family" (Rosie v. the Facts About Gay Adoption, 2002). Furthermore, Connor insists that states "should refrain from en...

Investigating the Concept of the Theatre of Cruelty

the aims of all serious dramatists, especially with reference to the way in which the stage becomes not only the central focus for...

A Mathematical Instruction Through Nature Classroom Case Study

of Theory Cognitive learning is the process in which knowledge is acquired. It involves an individual being cognizant of h...

Religion and Its Second Generation Adoption

research has shown that children most often align themselves politically and religiously with what their parents practiced (Wilson...

Hispanic and Caucasian Interracial Marriage

of psychology at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania and who has studied interracial relationships extensively, said: "We no longe...

Domestic Violence and Protection of Women and Children

The argument was that childrens safety was usually - although not always - largely dependent on their mothers"(Schechter, 2002). ...

Children, Nightmares, Night Terrors, and Dreams

ask themselves about the content and severity of childrens dreams (Murray, 1995). Most childrens and adult dreams occur during RE...

Family Violence and Making the Family Unit Stronger

in quelling situations of domestic violence and child abuse. II. Domestic Violence Domestic violence is a serious problem an...

The Effects of Alcoholism

parents are much more likely to become alcoholics themselves than do those who grow up in nonalcoholic households (Powell and Garc...

A History of Children In Mental Health Facilities

with them to the first American Colonies, and mostly served as a model as to who would provide what services in the early, fledgli...

Chinese Culture and Parenting Approaches

2002). Furthermore, the idea of mien (face) is very important in the Chinese culture and very directly related to respect and t...

Children and Standards of Writing

children, and many others that are only suitable when written in a careful manner so as not to give to much that may frighten or c...

Post 1970 U.S. Interracial Marriages

as a land of immigrants, the much-heralded cultural melting pot, blending people of all races, has existed only in myth. Prejudic...

Child Abuse and Roman Catholic Priests

are likely committing such acts with the perpetrator out of imposed fear. Part of the coercion is likely based on verbally listed ...

Parenting Changes

It does not work. Consider: since the Baby Boomers changed the institutions of work and parenting, divorce has soared and there ar...

Feral Children and Language Acquisition Mysteries

as one who had learned English in the context of ordinary life. However, some of these children seem to make remarkable progress o...

Negative Effects of Single African American Motherhood

other American kid does, but what she lacks is an intact family with a live-in father (Ingrassia, 1993). She was born to a 16-yea...

Abused Foster Children and Coping Strategies

mourning (Browne, 2002). The basics are supported by numerous secondary sources, however the study is undertaken as a qualitative ...

President George W. Bush's 'No Child Left Behind' Act and Its Implementation

firsthand input when programs are ripe for change. "Parents, armed with data, are the best forces of accountability in education"...

Children and the Threat of Lead Poisoning

still present. Industry Group 80 (2000) provides statistics that support the contention that children from low-income families ar...

Advertising Targeting Children

Based on the census, that means that companies spent $2,190 per household in the United States (The Center for a New American Drea...