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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...

Courtroom and the Importance of Psychological Knowledge

The use of psychological knowledge in the courtroom, however, is becoming somewhat more common, even though physical knowledge, or...

English Families During the Middle Ages

Protective Services on her. Spanking or any other type of corporeal discipline is frowned upon by most child experts. And when a w...

Red Cross Baby Sitters' Training Programs

With the statistics so high, it really does befall the community and the professional organizations that are best able, to impleme...

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...

Cochlear Implants in Children and Learning Processes

the stove at her grandmothers house can do the same thing. In other words, she is able to generalize that the stove is used for co...

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 ...

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...

'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 ...

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...

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...

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)...

Alcoholism and Children of Alcoholics

of alcoholics. To prove that children of alcoholics are more likely to physiologically be alcoholic themselves provides added supp...

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....

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Zora Neale Hurston's 'The Gilded Six Bits' and Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

are putting their own histories together, and finding out about who they really are. Mamas relationship with her two daugh...

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...

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...

Child Sacrifice and the Israelites

as if the Israelites did sacrifice their sons and daughters to devils or at least allow them to pass through the fire of Moloch wh...

Child Poverty Health Perspectives

Assembly Special Session on Children, held in May of 2002, adopted a draft resolution designed to protect the worlds children from...

Automobiles' Power Windows

explains it this way: "a small electric motor is attached to a worm gear and several other spur gears to create a large gear reduc...

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 ...