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Hundred Thousand Federal Laws
461 wordsMissing children in the United States are a major problem, but it can be prevented. The majority of abductions of children in the United States are by their parents. Within every hour, more than 200 children, including teenagers, are reported missing, and most of the children will most likely be teenage runaways who will eventually be found. Teenage runaways are usually rejected by their parents and friends. Even though most children are runaways, those who are abducted by strangers range from t...
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Health Care Costs Children Of Alcoholics
1,750 wordsLiving with a non-recovering alcoholic in the family can contribute to stress for all members of the family. Each member may be affected differently and react to this stress in the same or different way. The level of dysfunction or resiliency of the non-alcoholic spouse is usually a key factor in the effects of problems and levels of stress impacting the children. Children raised in alcoholic families have different life experiences than children raised in non-alcoholic families. Children in alc...
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Intrinsic Motivation Corporal Punishment
1,540 wordsRole of Parental Motivational Practices in Childrens Academic Intrinsic Motivation and Achievement (Gottfried) Article Summary I chose to write my journal article research paper on the role of parents in childrens academic motivation and achievement. The article relates the parents role and at home practices, and the effect of these practices on the childs performance and motivation. In the longitudinal study of children ages 9 and 10, two types of motivational practices were assessed: Parental ...
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Dependent Personality Disorder American Psychiatric Association
1,195 wordsOn October 25, 1994, Susan Smith drowned her two sons, Michael and Alex, in the John D. Long Lake in Union County, South Carolina. For nine days she lied about knowing where the boys were. On November 3, she confessed to the killings and would soon go to trial. Susan's defense team hired a psychiatrist to conduct a psychiatric evaluation of her. She was diagnosed as having dependent personality disorder. He described her as a person who feels she cant do anything on her own. She constantly needs...
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Depressive Symptoms Child Support
1,905 wordsCHILD SUPPORT What happens to the children of a dissolving marriage? Their fate is heavily dependent upon what the mother and father decide, although the decision of the parents is subject to approval by the judge before whom the divorce proceeding is brought. Circumstances vary so much that any generalization is likely to be misleading. It probably remains true that a majority of judges with experience in matrimonial cases share the traditional conviction that women should be given legal custod...
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Civil Liberties Union Quot Quot
4,228 wordsAs a professional Internet publisher and avid user of the Internet, I have become concerned with laws like the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) that censor free speech on the Internet. By approving the CDA, Congress has established a precedent which condones censorship regulations for the Internet similar to those that exist for traditional broadcast media. Treating the Internet like broadcast media is a grave mistake because the Internet is unlike any information medium that has been cr...
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Sexually Explicit Material Parents Music Resource Center
858 wordsCensorship in music The first amendment to the Constitution contends that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of the press. In the past ten years especially, music has been under assault by law makers, prosecutors and critics of morality and taste. One attack on this freedom comes from parental advisory stickers. These stickers are used as a form of censorship against an artist and his or her lyric...
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Sexually Explicit Material Langston Hughes
3,344 wordsCensorship of American Media and Music The first amendment to the Constitution contends that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of the press. In the past ten years especially, music has been under assault by lawmakers, prosecutors and critics of morality and taste. One attack on this freedom comes from parental advisory stickers. These stickers are used as a form of censorship against an artist an...
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Department Of Justice Central Authority
2,584 wordsAlthough abductions Child Abduction Introduction Although abductions by nonfamily members receive more public attention, a significant number of child abductions are committed by family members or noncustodial parents commonly called parental kidnapping. Contrary to common belief, a parental kidnapping can have a deeply traumatic effect on the child. They must suffer the consequences of being uprooted from the home, deprived of the other parent, and forced to spend a life on the run. Child abduc...
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Parental Divorce Psychological Bulletin
3,038 wordsThe Affects of Divorce on Children As a child, there are many things that affect a view, memory, opinion, or attitude. Children have many of their own daily struggles to cope with, as peer pressures are an example. As an adult, we sometimes forget what it is like to be a child dealing with some of the childhood pressures. Many parents do not realize how something like divorce could possibly affect their children as much as it does themselves. As the case may be, children are strongly affected by...
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Open Ended Questions Peer Pressure
2,359 wordsEffects Of Parent Smoking Habits On Thier Effects Of Parent Smoking Habits On Thier Childs Smoking Habits Effects of Parent Smoking Habits on their Child? s smoking habits Abstract Parents have an influence on whether or not their children will develop smoking habits. The findings of this study show this to be true. Further research should be conducted to find out whether or not how many children the parents have also has an impact on smoking behaviors. The participants of this study were random...
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Low Self Esteem Wall Street Journal
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Lack Of Attention Outward Appearance
1,667 wordsThe Monster, The True Victim Mary Shelleys, Frankenstein, symbolized a persons necessity for acceptance by society. Society labels everything as good or bad, right or wrong, rich or poor. Although some of these labels may be correct, many are misconceptions. The monster, needed to be accepted by society, but instead was scorned, attacked, and shunned because of his outward appearance. The treatment of the monster was on the assumption that he was actually a monster. The only justification of thi...
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Fruit Flies Fruit Fly
2,615 wordsSoc. 471 The Origins of Human Sexuality Daly &# 038; Wilson Theory: In their book Homicide, Martin Daly and Margo Wilson put forth a theory that challenges human societies common notion of human sexuality. They do this in an attempt to bring about a better understanding of homicide and male aggressiveness. According to Daly and Wilson, males instigate the overwhelming majority of dangerous altercations and they contend that this is due to status competition. Status competition is the idea that m...
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Higher Self Esteem Gender Stereotypes
1,603 wordsThe Development of Gender Roles in Children In a society filled with gender stereotypes and biases, children often adopt gender roles which are not always equal to both males and females. As children move on through childhood and later into adolescence many factors influence their views and behaviors towards gender roles. These attitudes and behaviors are learned initially in the home, and later reinforced by many other outside influences such as their school experiences, friends, teachers, and ...
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Recording Industry Association Wal Mart
1,899 wordsAlbums with explicit lyrics or content started having black and white parental advisories on them in 1994 (web). Are these labels necessary? Is controversial music molding our society and causing teenagers to turn to drugs? Is censorship necessary to protect the youth of our nation. Generally, younger people are against censorship on this issue. Music is an outlet and even an anti-drug for many teens; however, parents and society feel differently. Should parents censor their children or society,...
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Intrinsic Motivation Corporal Punishment
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Air Force Base Divided Into Three
1,632 wordsCigarette smoking is Untitled Abstract Cigarette smoking is of interest to the National Institute on Drug Abuse both because of the public health problems associated with this form of substance abuse and because this behavior represents a prototypic dependence process. In the past few years the government has made every effort to reach the masses, in an attempt to curb the exploitation of tobacco use, and its acceptance among Americas Youngsters. However, cigarette smoking among adolescents is o...
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Romeo And Juliet Love For Rosaline
1,522 wordsIn fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross d lovers take their life; Whole misadventure d piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents strife, The fearful passage of their death-mark d love, And the continuance of their parents rage, Which, but their children s end, nought could remove, Is now the two hours traffic of our stage; The whi...
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Adolescent Suicide Suicide Attempts
712 wordsI wanted to do my third journal entry on parenting styles and as I was searching for an article I found one connecting all three of the last subjects we were talking about in class, suicide, cognition and parenting styles together. Since this article connected so much to class I decided it was too much of a coincidence to pass up and decided to write my journal connecting all three subjects, but concentrate mostly on parenting styles and suicide. This article is about a study that was conducted ...
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