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U.S. Ethnic Family Profiling

In nine pages profiles of Amish, Mexican American, and Italian American family structures as featured in 3 chapters from the text ...

Marge Piercy, Toni Morrison and the Conflict of Family v. Self Actualization

The definition of family as presented in Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time and Morrison's Beloved are examined in 5 pages with th...

Economic Wealth and the GDP Measurement

doing economically, than the Gross domestic product does. Although the Government views the GDP as the best indicator of the coun...

Divorce: Causes and Impacts

no longer exists, or at the very least has shrank almost to the point of non-existence. We simply do not hold ourselves accountab...

Domestic Violence: Judicial Shift

sweeping" (Livio) laws in the nation. Going a step further, officials have mandated that the legal system enforce these stringent...

Muslims And Domestic Violence

universality of Islam, tending to believe it is a "grim and stern faith, given to forcible conversions, appalling treatment of wom...

Does Divorce or Disruption in Family Structure During Adolescence Have a Detrimental Effect on Development?

Discussion Parents serve, either consciously or unconsciously as role models for their children. Gender roles develop in p...

Uncertainty and Culture Change

parents for the safety of their children, wanting to know where they are and who they are with. There is an increased feeling of t...

Families Should Decide Own Health Goals

to individuals connected by a blood tie. However, to be a "family," members must "live in close contact, care for one another, an...

Contemporary Threats to Marriage and the Family

evolved to the point, in fact, where the extended families of old have been severed. So-called nuclear families have arisen in th...

Domestic Violence in Today's World

that more than 50 thousand cases of domestic violence took place during 2006 ("Domestic Violence Facts: New York," 2008). What is ...

Homicide and Domestic Violence

comes the condition of alcohol or drug abuse, a condition that is usually pursued in order to alleviate the stress of being poor. ...

Police Discretion and Domestic Violence

if they will make an arrest it is apparently the case that they do not need to witness the crime, but can make their own judgments...

Domestic Violence and Prevention

In eight pages this paper presents an overview of the domestic violence issue in a consideration of how it can be reduced through ...

Domestic Violence and Tribal Protection of Indigenous Women in the United States

past that contact to present day. By other definitions sovereignty was something that had been delegated in some way by the Unite...

Oglala Sioux Tribe Domestic Violence Code

abuse. Education drills home the fact that domestic violence is not just a family issue, it is a societal one. If we are to reso...

Tougher Laws Needed To Address Domestic Abuse

justice to the battered victim, it is also to educate the health care industry about how to identify abuse and the steps necessary...

Women Fighting Domestic Violence

by her stepfather (Talvi, 2005). As is perhaps often the case with young women who are victims of domestic violence, Valerie took ...

Gays, Lesbians, and Domestic Violence

become intimate with other men, and found himself in trouble, that it sparked her interest (McClennen, 2003). It seems that while ...

Evaluating Domestic Violence Research Methodology

is about methodology. In a study using quantitative data, Ramsay & Richardson (2005) examine the effectiveness of screening fo...

Social Work Case Study on Task Achievement Scaling Intervention

to at an earlier time. Though assignment of levels 1 - 4 is subjective in that it is not solidly based on measurable results, the...

Domestic Violence Approaches

seen as fully individualized human beings. Medical Intervention One way to approach this problem is through medical interventio...

Questions Regarding Australian Law

In a paper consisting of ten pages questions involving such issues as women, sexual discrimination, and domestic violence are answ...

The Role of Gender in Domestic Violence

abuse anyway? Does it mean beating another human being exclusively or can other physically violent acts qualify? In studying this ...

Law, Policy, Research and Results in Domestic Violence

the use or attempted use of physical force or the threatened use of a deadly weapon (Section 922 (g)[9])" (Federal Domestic Violen...

Domestic Violence Advocacy

example of domestic abuse among the wealthy and prominent. Theres a myth that domestic violence is more common in the middle and l...

Intervention/Treatment Programs For Domestic Violence Offenders

is responsible for such behaviors as domestic violence. By exploring how women have dealt with these traumatic and exploitive occ...

FreshStart for Women

children. Domestic Violence in America Domestic violence appears to be increasing. Whether that is actually the case is no...

Partner Abuse

easily overlooked by hospital personnel or other clinicians. Women both "initiate and reciprocate violence" (Lawson, 2003, p. 19...

Criminal Justice Issues

effect of showing mercy to the Manson murderers when they exhibited no mercy towards their innocent victims. According to Charlo...