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How Adoption May Be a Detriment to Children's Welfare

might also question their behavior and the implications for their lives. They might wonder if they would have been better off had ...

Diagosing and Treating Behavior Disorders

ADHD (Lebanon Township Elementary Schools, nd). Another study suggested that 25 percent of CD kids developed anti-social disorder ...

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...

Understanding the Cultural Aspect of the Obesity Epidemic Among Children in America

food, something that is very important and relevant in the United States. This author notes, "Technological change (e.g. industria...

Child Mathematics' Instruction and Zero

imagine that young minds may have difficulty grasping the notion. The existence of zero does create problems. Zero is responsibl...

Los Angeles Area Health Policy Changes and Nursing

international trade, has also increased pollution from diesel engines (Bostwick, 2004). A 20 parts-per-billion increase in ozone l...

Australia's Internet Child Pornography and Law Enforcement

a pedophile, as such, is not a crime under Australian law, as there is "no common law or statutory definition in Australia of the ...

Scholastic Achievement and Families with Single Parents

for, for example). They strongly recommend that school staff make themselves aware of the kind of constraints which are faced by s...

Williams Syndrome in Children, Problematic Behavior, and Pain Management

behaviours: one of the reasons for the study was to assess whether there were elements of the playschool environment which were tr...

Marriages Between People of the Same Sex

in a same-sex marriage. The definition of marriage states that it is a union of two people of the opposite sex. Given...

School Violence in Russia, China, and the US in Children Between the Ages of 13 and 18

for the unleashing of such aggressions, are often a "source of criticism and rejection" (De Wolfe et al, 1995, p. 315) where child...

Juveniles Tried as Adults: A Problem Statement

the death penalty in juvenile cases (Brendtro and Mitchell, 2007). It was Kennedys contention that some of the elements that are ...

The Effect of TV Violence on Young People

62 percent of the time" (Tepperman, 1997). Perhaps the worst message of all is that "violence is pleasurable. Clint Eastwood, in D...

The Effects of Second-Hand Smoke on Children

risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke: even small amounts of secondhand smoke exposure can be harmful to peoples health"...

George W. Bush's Administration and the Armstrong Williams Fiasco

campaign strategy and went to air live and just told the people how he felt. He vowed that anything to come from the campaign woul...

Effects of Alcoholic Parents on Their Children

likely. In any event, even before a child grows up, he or she will have problems. Children sometimes harbor guilt, seeing thems...

Consumerism and Television for Children

endless parade of gorgeous people living fabulous lives; it is attractive and seductive, and that makes it an ideal platform for m...

Principals' Accountability and Test Scoring

Leithwood, Louis, Anderson and Wahlstrom (2004) reviewed literature focusing on public school principals to identify the traits of...

Delinquency and Child Abuse Connection

1994). Physical abuse are aggressive acts such as hitting, punching, kicking, shaking, or burning a childe while sexual abuse can...

Parenthood and Its Problems

inflict gentle reprimands. Even within the toddler stage, there are several individual periods of growth where one stage ends and...

Dangers of the Internet and Child Vulnerability

the knowledge available on the Internet would give them a distinct technological disadvantage as they enter the twenty first centu...

Autistic Children and Cognitive Abilities

Autistic children are examined in a paper consisting of seven pages with the emphasis being their language skills and cognitive ca...

Overview of the Connecticut Department of Children and Families

In five pages the Connecticut department entrusted with child welfare is examined in terms of its mission, structure, and problems...

DYFUS

In five pages an overview of DYFUS is presented in a discussion of effectiveness, problems, changes, and child welfare. Five sour...

Adolescent and Child Obesity

In eleven pages the problem of obesity in American children is examined in terms of adolescent health risks and causes that includ...

Children's Cognitive Testing and Screening

other types of homes and environments. It is prudent for an examiner to make decisions on whether or not to proceed with a test ba...

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...

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)...

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...

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...