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The Effects of Alcoholism

parents are much more likely to become alcoholics themselves than do those who grow up in nonalcoholic households (Powell and Garc...

Career Development and Family Changes

28 percent in 1999 but that number has also jumped to more than one-third of children today (Blundo, 1999). * Women married younge...

Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and Love

emotional release. This may be seen as giving the different types of love a balance. This book was published in 1913, a...

The Government According to Aristotle

that when things were fully developed, and had naturally reached their conclusion - or ending - they were simply following their n...

Post 1970 U.S. Interracial Marriages

as a land of immigrants, the much-heralded cultural melting pot, blending people of all races, has existed only in myth. Prejudic...

Korean Corporations and the Practice of Nepotism

Korean business - at one point, Hyundai, Daewoo, Samsung, LG and SK, the five largest chaebol, had hundreds of subsidiaries betwee...

A Cybernetics and Systems Science Overview

This theory then suggests that the system must be autonomous even if it is seemingly dependent on another system, for example. It ...

Thematic Analysis of Things Fall Apart by Achebe

his titles. He is part of the society, and like any good leader or member, he finds that he must make personal sacrifices in order...

Society's Mission and the Concept of Prevention

of health care approaches, including prevention and rehabilitation" (Smith & Moyers 311). Smith and Moyers point out why the Unit...

Family Planning v. Sterilization in Peru

Mr. and Mrs. Rey, a recently married couple, had dreamt of a large family ever since they began planning their future together, bu...

ADHD Children and Using Family and Group Therapies

age children, considered more than 3 million in the United States alone in the year 2001. Although the disorder has been reported ...

16 Year Old African American Teen Psychological Assessment

the mother was not abusive she was continuously accused by Thompson of "bringing up things about the past" and constantly excited ...

Culture, Demographics and Socioeconomics of the Black American Family

earned a bachelors degree by March 2000. This is considered as the highest degree of educational attainment ever recorded in Afric...

West African Families and Female Circumcision

regions, the "lips" of the vagina, the labia minora and labia major, are also cut. The most severe form of female circumcision is ...

Sociological Perspectives on Stepparenting

as well as the proximity and consistency of other support factors in their life. A quick divorce and an even quicker remarriage ...

Literature Review of Terminal Cancer Patients and Hospital Care Quality

is important to note aspects of hospitalization which are perceived by patients dying of cancer as negative experiences that incre...

Client Therapy and Alcohol Abuse of 3 Generations

may be already susceptible to the disease and to other types of substance abuse as seen with her marijuana use. Her religious cult...

Gambling on the Internet

not get the bad news until the end of the month when you receive your credit card statement. However, if you happen to get lucky a...

Modern Hispanic Family in the United States

as well. For example, we assume that African Americans largely live in the inner city and that the children are raised by single m...

Socialization of the Individual and Effects of Religion, Family, Peers, and School

gender roles will continue throughout the individuals life. The same theory applies to religion. The young child does not understa...

Family Counseling, Role Playing, and Mindfulness Training

alleviation of boredom is positive. Mindfulness or meditation is a positive intervention and one that is utilized in family counse...

US Society and the Internet

incredibly intriguing and checks every day to see what the weather will be like. From such simple perspectives as this we can see ...

Comparative Cultural Analysis of American TV Series' Friends and Three's Company

Company to the top of the Nielsen ratings. Its premise was simple - Jack Tripper needed a cheap place to live while completing hi...

Australian Family Sociological Perspectives

work in any given modern society such as found in Australia. However, on the other hand, it can be a basis for understanding the c...

Overview of Alcoholism

panic attacks, low self esteem, and substance abuse are other manifestations of adults survivors of abuse(Boulware, 2002). Most of...

Family Therapy Problem and Solution Focuses

behaviorists and placed their emphasis on the present (Bertolino, 2003). Various problem-focused approaches were consequently deve...

Family Therapy Options of Problem Focused and Solution

children or adolescents was a direct result of dysfunctional aspects of family relationships (Bertolino, 2003). Consequently, they...

U.S. Economy and the Family

It is a system that insists that those with money drive the economy in one direction or another. This is not to say that those wit...

Political Socialization and Its Major Agents

mass media, school and peers are "major agents of political socialization." Family Lundblad (2004) describes two of her "de...

Overview of Support Groups for Families with Members Suffering from Disabilities

Because there are so many applications when it comes to addressing psychological conditions, it is important for families to under...