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Child & Adolescent Obesity/U.S.

"hyperlipidemia, hypertension, blood glucose disturbances, Type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea and asthma," while emotional effects inclu...

Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children

in the testimony that is presented and many of these cases illuminate the inconsistencies and short comings that exist within the ...

How The No Child Left Behind Act The Partnership For Reading Apply To Literacy

twenty-eight percent in 2004, up from eight percent in 2003 (Robelon, 2004) - who believe that contemporary society has a signific...

Retroactive Child Support Payments: Canadian Supreme Court

they separated, the father had custody for a time, but "the parties subsequently entered into an informal shared custody arrangeme...

Inconsistencies in the Wayne Williams Conviction in the Atlanta Child Murders

old Jimmy Ray Payne and twenty-seven year old Nathaniel Cater (Breed, 2005). Williams had been apprehended in the cases largely a...

Should Gay Couples Be Allowed to Adopt Children?

far back into our history. Indeed, the concept of family itself can be described as the "oldest fundamental of all social institu...

Parental Involvement in Caring for Hospitalized Children

a transition where parental involvement in hospitalization has changed. In the past, parents had been expected to leave the hospi...

Are Latino School Children Treated Differently?

that inclusive classrooms are key to success. In such classrooms, all children should feel recognized and accepted just as they ar...

CHILDREN, TOYS AND GENDER

Social scientists have struggled with and researched the idea of gender links, toys and differences for years. Studies ranging fro...

The Film Adaptation of Children of Men

through exploring the screen writers intent and vision can one figure out why the changes were made. First, it should be said th...

Child Tracking Technology: Protecting Those With Cognitive Disorders

with some type of cognitive deficit disorder such as dementia or Alzheimers. In order to anticipate the percentage of those who w...

The Future of No Child Left Behind

performances. President Bush instituted No Child Left Behind because too many children had been falling through the cracks...

No Child Left Behind Act

* NCLB mandates states and schools to fund programs that have been shown to help all children learn, i.e., use research-based prog...

The Child As A Moral Philosopher By Kohlberg

children simply adopt and internalize the standards they are taught by their parents but Kohlberg found that children make moral j...

Child Language Acquisition: Babbling

one year old (Alam, 1998). Other authors write that babbling sometimes goes on at the same time as speech, or that it can recur af...

Obesity in American Children

While obesity observes no geographic or socioeconomic boundaries, it can be more prevalent in some groups than in others. It can ...

Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP): Treatment Of Attachment Disorders In Children

emotional growth and learning [through] a short term effort between a therapist and a horse professional [whereby] the participant...

Teaching Children to Read: A Research Guide

sound components of a word and so can break a word down by sounds (NRP, 2000; Kamii and Manning, 2002). The following is a classr...

Child And Adolescent Development

not completely so This author states: "Personality development occurs by the ongoing interaction of temperament, character, and en...

The Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act

and well-being of the nations children as an aspect of national security" (p. 1693). Today, people discuss nutrition quite differe...

Family Corporal Punishment and the Impact It Has on Children

punishment as a type of punishment which is painful and inflicted intentionally, usually by hitting or striking a child as a physi...

Language Acquisition and Expected Developmental Differences for Children of Preschool, Kindergarten, and Primary Ages

others. One must also utilize the ability to comprehend words spoken by others and turn them into understandable concepts in ones...

Janet Gonzalez Mena's Multicultural Issues in Child Care

Many teachers use this direct eye contact as a way of gathering their students attention, but if this goes against ones upbringing...

Child and Teen Social Anxiety Disorder

is a distinct difference between relatively simple shyness and the disorder. According to a report from the Ascribe Higher Educati...

Sociological Intervention Tactics in There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotliwitz

fictional. Indeed, this book vividly portrays the harsh reality which so many of us have refused to acknowledge. The same factor...

Preschool's Impact Upon Child Recognition of Letters

the preschool curriculum and offered proof of the harm this could do to children (Nel, 2000). Elkinds studies showed that formaliz...

Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and the Inclusion of a Child Life Therapist

adding a child life therapist for a neonatal intensive care unit (ICU). This person would be a trained therapist, with the sole pu...

Children, Teens, and Preventing Smoking

advertisements make it clear to young people that smoking is a sophisticated and reasonable way to be an adult. Obviously, better...

Optimism in Literature for Children During the Second World War

it serves as an "adjuvant or facilitator to treatment" (American Childrens Literature: A Bibliotheraputic Approach) for a child wh...

Children and Adolescents With HIV and AIDS and Nursing Interventions

In eight pages this report considers HIV and AIDS in youth and the medication compliance issues as they relate to nursing interven...