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Brooklyn's Bedford Stuyvesant Neighborhood and the Respiratory Impact of Poverty on Children

condition. Other mitigating factors in regard to asthma include psychosocial variables, and possibly environmental exposure to a...

Child Development and the Importance of First Relationship

which he thought to be quite vague (Garelli, 1997). The behavioral system incorporated a number of behaviors were both observable ...

Child Abuse Statistics

Child abuse can be either an act of commission or omission (Nester, 1998). It can take the form of physical abuse, emotional abus...

One Child Policy Act of China

at the present time. Still, they were bound and determined to have a baby girl, in spite of the fact that a significant amount of...

Physical Punishment, Child Labor, and England in the 1800's

and these changes, perhaps more so than any other factor, manifested themselves in part in the manner in which children were expec...

Child Pornography and Prostitution: A Question of Economics?

in many cases, to chide in unison that prostitution should be accepted as a valid part of the worlds economy and even as a means f...

Children, Adolescents, and Divorce Effects

As of 1999, more than 8 million children in America were living with their divorced single parent (Fagan and Rector, 2000). When t...

Domestic Violence, Children, and Department of Social Services

of language during their toddler years creates overwhelming pressure when their parents train them to use expressive communication...

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...

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,...

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 and Adolescent TCs

behaviors. Often, it is within the setting of a therapeutic community that such issues may be dealt with in the most effective man...

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"...

Companies Based in America and Child Abuse

number one, they can, and number two that the children are easier to control that adults. There are no unions, and the children an...

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...

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...

Television Programming for Children and How It Has Evolved

the Science Guy. It took three years for the FCC to realize that the original Childrens Television Act did not possess the force ...

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...

Romantic Era Poetry and the Child

This paper considers the child as conceptually represented in the Romantic Era poetry of Charlotte Smith, William Blake, and Willi...

Discussion of Child Development

In seven pages a discussion to a parent group regarding new infant capabilities is presented in this consideration of child develo...

Children, Guns, and School Violence

In ten pages this paper examines the issue of violence in school from a psychosocial point of view. Ten sources are cited in the ...

Treating Autism in Children

This 5 page paper discusses the autistic child with a focus on treating the condition. The writer analyzes the use of mainstreamin...

Case Studies on Child Abuse and Society

In a paper consisting of nine pages this paper considers 3 student provided case studies on child abuse and its various social cau...

Media is Not to Blame for Violence in Children

In five pages this paper discusses a cause other than the media for violence in children. Six sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Media Violence and Aggressive Behaviors in Children

This paper examines media violence and the ways it can lead to an increase in aggressive and violent behavior in children. This t...

Terminally Ill Children and Counseling

In seven pages the issues related to counseling a dying child patient and family members are examined. Twelve sources are cited i...

Child'd Biting Behavior, Single System Design and Intervention

four-year-old girl living in a below poverty household with both parents is a unique individual, regardless of whether or not she ...

Valerie Polakow's Lives on the Edge Single Mothers and their Children in the Other America

children, Polakow says makes it seem as the nations elected officials and policy-makers think and act as if poverty seen is a priv...