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Children Who are Physically Abused, Depression, and Suicide

(Nester, 1998). The physical harm a child incurs as a result of child abuse, of course, is inextricably coupled with the...

Children with Asperger Syndrome and Educational Improvements

that these similar problems could be seen in family members, especially in fathers (Klin and Volkmar, 1995). The frequently descr...

Children and the Placement of Nasogastric Feeding Tubes

been viewed in the current literature as a plausible method for accurately determining nasogastric tube placement in pediatric pop...

Parenting and the Effects of Substance Abuse

and poverty has been established for many years, and it may be argued that it is the less well-off social classes children will al...

Sppech Pathology and ADHD

Center for Health Statistics, approximately 6.7% of children aged 5 to 17 were reported to have ADHD in 1997-2000" (Attention Defi...

Nuclear Families versus Divorced Families

have been cited for pulling a gun or a knife on someone and children in gangs were more likely to come from single parent househol...

Mexico and Homelessness

homeless teens as indicative of a larger problem (Wagner 16). Wagner explains it this way: " With their economy in shambles, many ...

Purpose of the Second Edition Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale

particularly useful in determining the prevalence of at-risk students in academic populations. Uhing et al (2005) note how the BE...

Social Systems Theory and Foster Care

physical and social limits, functional components, and feedback mechanisms" (Reicherter and Billek-Sawhney, 2003). With regard t...

Causes and Effects of Child Abuse

harm in which a child sustains physical damage and emotional harm in which the charge is endangered psychologically. This harm ca...

Sexual Matters and Parental Enlightenment

then, as a component of modern sexual education may be a one of the elements changing views on sexual behaviors, premarital sex, m...

Family Violence and its Effects

abuse themselves or consider it a normal part of a relationship and allow themselves to be subjected to it as adults (Stoppard, 20...

Cause and Effect Relationship Between Young Children and Internet Pornography Searching

focus on television and other cultural shapers such as video games are two of the most critical of those reasons. The media, howe...

Poems for Children by Shel Silverstein and Robert Louis Stevenson

wide" (line 6) is empowering, freeing, and infinitely entertaining. From the time that his first book of verse for children was ...

Children to the Age of Twelve and the Impact of TV Violence

Institute of Mental Health in 1982 (Murray, 1995). The conclusion of the research that had been conducted in those ten years indic...

Standards: No Child Left Behind

to use this opportunity to strengthen and streamline their certification requirements to make sure that talented individuals are n...

Children with Neurodegenerative Life-Threatening Illnesses

who are directly involved live and deal with life. This is something that cannot be accurately assessed through numbers, or specif...

Legal Aspects of Home Day Care

It is left to regulatory agencies such as the DFPS to interpret the law, write regulations that are in accordance with the law and...

Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy

cause of a childs disease or malady or because they use the accusation of MSBP as a ploy to avoid malpractice suits (Johns, 2007)....

Promoting Positive Attitudes in Children Towards Cultural Diversity

to resentment and bigotry. However, these fears can often be countered through education" (Hurwitt). One of the ways in which we ...

The Community Role in Preventing Child Maltreatment

of school truancy" (Nelson, 2004, p. 415). In this simple statement, we see that not only do parents have to be involved in order ...

Human Services/African AIDS Orphans

sub-Saharan Africa, the number of AIDS orphans has reached desperate proportions (Roby and Shaw, 2006). In a region plagued by "ci...

Homeschooling: Bob Jones and Abeka Book

number of children being homeschooled in 1988 (Grossman, 2001). As noted above, there are many reasons why parents choose to homes...

Spanking

something must get done, or be done in a certain way, the way of the power figure, that physical force is acceptable. While...

Language Acquisition, Early Childhood & SLI

development of language skills, an abnormal frequency of errors, and (also) errors that are uncommon in children with normal langu...

Speech-Language Therapy/Children w/ADHD

strategies used to identify the function of the target behavior" (Stahr, et al, 2006, p. 201). In other words, an intervention is ...

Obesity Community Health Intervention

factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...

Parental Rights in Adoption

decision based on the fact that Quilloin had "never exercised actual or legal custody over the child," nor had he been responsible...

The Positive Aspects of Spanking Children

is both ineffective and harmful. Still, parents must have some sort of technique for disciplining unruly kids. These are the two s...

The Model Minority Myth

Dr. Nakanishi points out that that a large number of Asian American students attend "multiracial, low-income...low-performing scho...