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Children Who Murder

of youthful homicide perpetrators present with a history of adverse familial factors," such as "physical abuse, sexual abuse, inst...

California Should Encourage More Adoptions

to adopt white infants, which, among other things, gives the lie to the myth that Americans love children. If they did, all childr...

Parents should be banned from their children's sport activities

feel their children are being treated unfairly, and this is the situation that sparked the fight in Boston. How should such incide...

The Abused Child and Ancillary Threats to Health and Welfare

degree of violence among todays adolescents that something has gone terribly wrong in American society. What has gone wrong has b...

Visual Impairment & Hearing Impairments

through the developmental processes if that loss is acquired at birth or during childhood. Children born deaf have no frame of ref...

The Vaccine Debate

for their children, there are older diseases cropping up again. There have been whopping cough outbreaks for example in pockets of...

Glued to the Tube

a moment of quiet for themselves" (Winn 6). The answer seems obvious when its put like that, and Winn argues that it is the desire...

Why Children's Beauty Pageants are Unhealthy

goes with the contests, another criticism is that it is fodder for pedophiles. Pedophiles are sexually aroused by children. With s...

Music Therapy as a Pediatric Sedative

post-discharge effects of chlorate hydrate, these parents/guardian reported unsteadiness, hyperactivity, poor appetite, vomiting a...

The Work of Josephine Butler

ran brothels (The Christian Institute, 2002). "Her speciality was procuring young girls to work in brothels. Rebecca knew all abou...

Technology and Culture: The Electronic Media and Our Children

accounts of child abductions, rapes, and murders practically every day. We are kept up-to-date on the violence in Iraq and that u...

Women's Roles Thorough History: Ancient Times Through 1600

children to term, nurse them, and are endowed with a combination of hormones that render them the desirable caretakers. While wom...

Life Saving Cosmetic Surgery

not apply only to agencies and services that help the children directly, but also to businesses whose donations can better assure ...

Identifying Child Abuse Early

low protection from it. Academic performance was much better for low risk, high protection students. It was also shown that girls ...

Violence - the Monster that Torments Society

But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of violence as it ...

Violence - the Monster that Torments Society Examined in Literature

of fiction. But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of vio...

Then and Now: Children’s Pastimes in the 1980s and Today

the Internet with other on-line players. The single-player, individual experience has replaced the community. But todays children...

Ethics, Mandatory Vaccination, and the HPV Vaccine

billion a year in sales (Maurer, 2007). Gardasil, however, is at the center of considerable controversy as many in our society ob...

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...

Junior Kindergarten To Kindergarten

will move on to whichever grade level is developmentally appropriate for them (Hawaii DOE, 2006). This suggests some children coul...

Poe/Annabel Lee

a child and she was a child/In this kingdom by the sea" (lines 7-8). These lines, as do the opening lines of the poem, establish a...

No Child Left Behind - Illinois

black-white achievement gap in fifth-grade mathematics narrowed by seven percentage points" among others (NCLB making a difference...

The Vicious Circle of Child Abuse, Juvenile Delinquency, and Future Abuse

windows. Those windows include the children themselves but they also include society as a whole. Child abuse can be either...

Government Intervention in Private Affairs

yet typically American: it reduces families "to mere aggregations of individuals [but] it also enhances personal autonomy, a value...

Piaget/Elementary & Middle-School

symbols, such as numbers in more complex ways; however, their thinking is, as yet, not entirely logical. The full development of c...

Media and its Influence on Children

true that if the parents do their part, in a very active way, the media can prove far less damaging. However, there is ultimately ...

Dickens/Utilitarianism & Hard Times

he is absolute appalled that Sissy does not know the scientific definition for "horse," and that his own children have been tempte...

Sensory Training in the Montessori Method

Montessori (1870-1952) was an Italian physician (the first female physician in Italy) and a renowned educator. The pedagogy she de...

Children, TV, and Ethics

It can seriously affect all aspects of their behavioral health. For example, "Exposure to and the influence of media violence dire...

Child Development Theory of Lev Vygotsky 's Leading Activity/Child Development

grades. Each period is characterized by its own specific leading activity and developmental goals. Infancy The leading activity ...