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Human Immunodeficiency Virus Hiv Infected Women
1,671 wordsThe number of newborns infected by vertical transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus is increasing as the number of HIV-positive women increases within the United States. It is estimated that while seven thousand of the HIV-positive women become pregnant each year, between one thousand and two thousand of their newborns will be HIV-positive. The transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus from mother to child, the benefits of drugs intervention, and whether or not the HIV-screening ...
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Cigarette Smoking Unborn Babies
1,917 words... se, but long-term smoking may still permanently damage arteries. Studies continue to confirm the dangers of second-hand smoke; one study reported that exposure to second hand smoke is just as dangerous in the workplace as it is at home. Regular exposure to passive smoke is now estimated to increase the risk of heart disease in the nonsmoker by between 25 % and 91 %, causing 30, 000 to 60, 000 deaths each year. According to one report nonsmokers who spend as little as a half-hour in a smoke- ...
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U S Census Bureau Unintended Pregnancies
1,507 wordsOn June 7, 1965, the U. S. Supreme Court, in Griswold v. Connecticut, struck down state laws that had made the use of birth control by married couples illegal. The court's landmark decision - coming five years after oral contraceptives became available to American women and 49 years after Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U. S. - legalized the use of birth control and paved the way for the nearly unanimous acceptance of contraception that now exists in this country. Th...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Central Nervous System
2,024 wordsNow of course with the holidays coming up everyone knows to drink and behave responsibly. Everyone including the young mothers who are carrying children. They know all about the physical and cognitive effects that a drink may have on their fetus. According to health surveys 19 percent of 4 million mothers used some form of alcohol in their prenatal phase, in 1992. And this number is continually increasing, making Fetal Alcohol Syndrome one of the leading causes of birth defects in the United Sta...
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus Hiv Infected Women
1,791 wordsAids and Society The number of newborns infected by vertical transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus is increasing as the prevalence of HIV-positive women increase within the United States. It is estimated that while seven thousand HIV-positive women become pregnant each year, between one thousand and two thousand of their newborns will be HIV-positive. This research paper will concentrate on the transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus from mother to child, the benefits of drug...
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Baby Suggs Critical Analysis
980 wordsErica Baurmeister was the author of the first critical analysis that I read. In her brief review of the book she says that Beloved is no longer the traditional novel. In this book slavery has torn apart ones own heritage and the death of a baby creates such a rage that it literally rocks the house. Bauermeister describes Beloved as being written in bits and pieces then smashed like a mirror on the floor and left for the reader to put together. The stories circle, swim dreamily to the surface, an...
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W B Saunders Amniotic Fluid
1,496 words... eceleration pattern is indicative of a uterine and / or placental blood flow problem. In the case of PIH, the late deceleration types will most likely be the pattern seen due to the compromised utero placental blood flow. Another risk associated with preeclampsia points to the propensity for decreased maternal renal blood flow due to vasoconstriction. Vasospasm, with the resulting decrease in blood flow, leads to a decrease in glomerular filtration rate (GFR), decreased clearance of uric aci...
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Effects Of Maternal On Infant Development
1,639 wordsThe topic of this paper is the debate of whether or not maternal employment has any effect on infant development. Research on this described topic has recently become popular due to the rise of working mothers over the past several decades. Their increasing numbers in the workplace and decreasing numbers as stay at home moms are creating a number of different issues to be studied. The effects of maternal employment are determined by a number of factors that include, the mother's job satisfaction...
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Developmental Psychology Marital Relationship
1,764 words... 1975) or threat to personal identity. For example, although some studies show that a majority of men want to be more involved in child care and domestic activities, Pleck (1983) found that only 42 % of working mothers wanted more help with child care from their husband. Pleck suggested that mothers discourage paternal involvement in domestic and child-care activities because of their traditionally based notions that men are unaccustomed to and careless about performing such tasks. When mothe...
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Mother Figure Human Species
1,531 wordsIn his hypothesis, Bowlby believed that an infant? s failure to attach to a primary caregiver would have long term effects. This essay will attempt to evaluate Bowlby? s deprivation hypothesis. Firstly, the terms? attachment? and? deprivation? will be defined. Following that, a full definition of the hypothesis will be made, and then an attempt will be made to describe and understand the studies and period of history that lead to Bowlby? s ideas and the influence they generated. A full evaluatio...
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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Smoking During Pregnancy
3,954 wordsSudden Infant Death Syndrome Sudden infant death syndrome, better known as S. I. D. S. , is one of the leading causes for the inflated infant mortality rate in this country today. It is often misunderstood or unrecognizable. For the most part, the causes of SIDS are unknown to the general public. This is changing, however, as public awareness is ever increasing. Thus, the purpose of this paper will be to explain sudden infant death syndrome and its known or suggested causes. Also, the history of...
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Percent Of The Population Opposing Viewpoints
2,652 wordsHomosexuality- The Major Cause of Homosexuality The origins of human sexuality and homosexuality in particular have puzzled philosophers, theologians and ordinary people for thousands of years. In scatter cultures, homosexuals have been regarded as a normal part of life, however, same sex attraction to most cultures have been treated as an unforgivable sin or a terrible crime. Many psychologists and psychiatrist had attempted to? treat and counsel? the homosexuals. In our social norm, male attra...
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D H Lawrence Sons And Lovers
985 wordsAs a twentieth century novelist, essayist, and poet, David Herbert Lawrence brought the subjects of sex, psychology, and religion to the forefront of literature. One of the most widely read novels of the twentieth century, Sons and Lovers, which Lawrence wrote in 1913, produces a sense of Bildungsroman 1, where the novelist re-creates his own personal experiences through the protagonist in (Niven 115). Lawrence uses Paul Morel, the protagonist in Sons and Lovers, for this form of fiction. With h...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Urinary Tract
1,742 wordsMany pregnant women are not aware of the complications that are involved with pregnancy. The greater majority of young women see pregnancy as a way of bringing a life into the world but do not use precaution in their dietary habits to prevent the destruction or inhibition of such a life. Most pregnant women continue on their drinking and drug abuse binge right throughout their pregnancy. They do not think ahead to the inexplicable damage that it could do to their fetus. What they do not know is ...
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Violence Against Women Liberal Feminists
4,119 wordsSECTION ONE: Liberal vs. Marxist Feminism Liberal feminists believe that oppression and inequality must be justified. In other words, any inequality between genders must be explained and justified, in order for it to be accepted by the liberal feminists. According to our textbook, the liberal feminism originated from the social contract theories. Such theories state that all forms of social domination or authority must be justified, according to the textbook. Liberal feminists hold a view that e...
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U S Census Bureau Depo Provera
3,001 wordsGriswold v. Connecticut On June 7, 1965, the U. S. Supreme Court, in Griswold v. Connecticut, struck down state laws that had made the use of birth control by married couples illegal. The courts landmark decision coming five years after oral contraceptives became available to American women and 49 years after Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U. S. legalized the use of birth control and paved the way for the nearly unanimous acceptance of contraception that now exists ...
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Smoking During Pregnancy Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
1,213 wordsTobacco is one of the leading preventable causes of death in the United States. Nicotine, which is an alkaloid derived from the tobacco plant, is a potent chemical that has powerful effects on the human body, especially when administered rapidly or at high doses. Prenatal exposure to nicotine is associated with adverse reproductive outcomes, including altered neural structure and functioning, cognitive deficits, and behavior problems in the offspring (9). At least 20 % 30 % of pregnant women are...
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Quot Bird Witted Quot Quot Bird Witted Moore
1,047 wordsIt On " Bird-Witted" Margaret Holly It is against this backdrop of ambiguous beauty that Moore constructs her far more frequent positive portraits of feminine figures. One of the strongest of these is, not surprisingly, the mothers, almost all of them in animal form, who appear in Moores poems of the thirties and forties after her early interest in the male artists as subjects had abated. Moore lived with her mother all her life until Mrs. Moores death in 1947, and this was a mother of...
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Social Groups Power Relationships
488 wordsI. Satndpoint Theory Standpoint Theory I. Introduction A) Dating back to 1800 s Standpoint theory claims that social groups within which we are located powerfully shape what we experience and know as well as how we understand and communicate with ourselves, others and the world. II. Locations in Cultural Life A) Recall that symbolic interaction claims that we are socialized into cultural meanings and values that pre-exist any individual. B) Mead noted that there is a common social world, and his...
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Smoking During Pregnancy Social Learning Theory
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