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Households with Dual Incomes and Effects on Children

In five pages this paper presents the argument that while the impact on children of two working parents remains largely unknown th...

Welfare and Making it Work

strategies as a under the auspices of the US Department of Health and Human Services. The report on this evaluation summarizes the...

Family Impact of Divorce

well as younger children. When a specific age range is meant, that will be clarified in the text. * Divorce means that the couple ...

Divorce and Its Impact on Children

that the family is a central, positive institution in every society. It performs two functions: the nurturing and socialization o...

Children and the Threat of Lead Poisoning

still present. Industry Group 80 (2000) provides statistics that support the contention that children from low-income families ar...

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...

Divorce Issues, Effects on Children, and Counseling Considerations

other therapeutic approaches are important as well. Of foremost consideration in treating the impacts of divorce is evaluat...

Parent Alcohol Abuse and Effects on Children

question whether that is the case or not, because that will be all he has ever been exposed to. As he grows to realize it is his ...

Ritalin and the Hazards of its Use

depression and even cancer in mice (Wittmeier 29). Some preschoolers on the drug also can experience severe social withdrawal, inc...

Children, Adolescents, and Divorce Effects

As of 1999, more than 8 million children in America were living with their divorced single parent (Fagan and Rector, 2000). When t...

Character Analysis of Nadine in the Short Story 'Water Child'

her, it is apparent that his "real" life is with his wife and children, and that Nadine is only on the periphery. It is ironic, of...

Child Development and the Theories of Jean Piaget and Sigmund Freud

identified the various stages of childrens mental development and what the childs most important "task" and learning processes wer...

Population Control in China

policy," with the goal of leveling out the population at 1.2 billion by the year 2000, and then bringing it down to 700 million ov...

William Shakespeare's 'Absent' Mothers in Six Plays

"What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see / She is your treasure, she must have a husband; / I must dance bare-foot on her we...

Root Causes Of Recent School Shootings

with an ethical foundation. Out from all the bloodshed and terror of such despicable crimes comes the most obvious of questions: ...

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...

Lead Poisoning

of paint chips. The primary method of exposure is when the child lives in an older homes that have been contaminated by lead paint...

Los Angeles Air Pollution and Healthy People 2010

2008). Further significant improvement is unlikely in the near future, however. Californias Efforts Governor Arnold Schwar...

Smoking in Public Places

health risks. Children: The risk to children comes largely from secondhand smoke, derived from the tobacco products their parents...

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"...

Aspects Of Spanking Children

punishment. Opponents, however, say that any type of hands-on striking of any force serves to send the child the wrong message ab...

Maltreatment: Impact Upon A Child's Cognitive And Physical Development

to the childs mental composition. If left emotionally unattended, infants learn the opposite lessons required for living within a...

Freedom In Childhood And Adulthood: Compare/Contrast

to how much freedom he believes he should have. Inasmuch as the toddler stage is indicative of significant growth, this developme...

Child Development - Observations

book. The reader kept the story interesting for the children. According to Piagets Stages of Cognitive Development, Diane demons...

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...

Montessori Method: Children Develop At Their Own Pace

Each child is unique and develops at his own pace, an important realization adults must understand to keep from imposing undue pre...

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...

Music Therapy as a Pediatric Sedative

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

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...

Abuse in Childhood, Abusers as Adults

raised in an atmosphere of domestic violence. When they see a parent beaten by the spouse, they accept this as normal and may cont...