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- 181: Abortion and the Mentally Handicapped
- ... the Mentally Handicapped Ms. Smith, We of the Ethics Committee have reviewed your case for an extended period of time. We took into consideration, for our decision, the yearn of any female to experience childbearing, child birth, and the joy of raising young. Being a mother is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and once you become a mother you are a mother for life. There is a tremendous amount of responsibility and work that goes along with having children. We understand your desire to continue the pregnancy, and to keep the child, but due to your legal status, mental health, and the baby's well being, the decision to terminate the pregnancy has been reached and voted for unanimously. Your mother has proper legal custody, and as you know, wants the abortion to take place. We agree with her concern for your well-being. Child birth is an extremely stressful situation. The trauma of the pregnancy could intensify your paranoid schizophrenia, or cause some other mental disorder. Mrs. Smith has informed us that she herself is not capable of ...
- 182: Effects Of Divorce On Children
- Effects of Divorce on Children A child of any age can be hurt by a divorce. Divorce can cause feelings of guilt, sadness, uncertainty, chagrin, and insecurity. The effects of the divorce vary by the age group of the children at the time of the divorce. There are five groups. The parents may feel better and be happier after divorcing but they need to make the child feel secure throughout the entire ordeal. The first group are "infants" (DeBord, 1997). This group cannot grasp the concept of friction but can detect changes in their parents behaviors. The infant may react in a ... are not stupid. They can sense bad feelings between people and will act on those observations. It is best to not argue or fight around the infant. Parents should also be aware to allow the child to have a desired object that will provide them with security. Parents should also not be afraid to ask for help from "family and friends" (DeBord, 1997). When the child naps, it is best ...
- 183: ABORTION
- ... society is that of abortion. The complexity of this dilemma has caused controversy throughout the nation. It has raised many fundamental questions such as who has the right to make the decision to abort a child, the female or the male? It has also raised many moral questions, questions that differ among society. Societies' view on abortion has been greatly influenced by factors beyond ones control. Dealing mainly with circumstances that ... In modern society, abortion has become the number one birth control pill. Women who become pregnant often consider abortion as their first option. If they are not ready to take the responsibility of raising a child, they choose to have an abortion. Today, women believe that if one becomes pregnant, an abortion is the answer. This is how abortion has become known as an effective birth control pill. In 1986, in ... The circumstances surrounding the unwanted pregnancy plays a key factor in the decision of having an abortion. If a woman becomes pregnant as a result of rape or incest, she will most probably have the child aborted. The woman will not want a constant reminder of how the child was conceived. This reminder is too painful. In such cases, the woman often takes into consideration the child's feelings. The ...
- 184: Education And Egalitarianism In America
- ... hard-won wisdom and their aspirations for a better world. This process begins shortly after birth, as parents seek to train the infant to behave as their culture demands. They soon, for instance, teach the child how to turn babbling sounds into language and, through example and precept, they try to instill in the child the attitudes, values, skills, and knowledge that will govern their offspring's behavior throughout later life. Schooling, or formal education, consists of experiences that are deliberately planned and utilized to help young people learn what ... though, that the educational practices of prehistoric times were probably like those of primitive tribes in the 20th century, such as the Australian aborigines and the Aleuts. Formal instruction was probably given just before the child's initiation into adulthood -- the puberty rite -- and involved tribal customs and beliefs too complicated to be learned by direct experience. Children learned most of the skills, duties, customs, and beliefs of the tribe ...
- 185: Alcohol And Drug Control
- Alcohol and Drug Prevention and Control Program ADAPCP The Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Program (ADAPCP) is a substance abuse treatment program used in the Armed Forces. The DA's policy on alcohol is that "abuse or excessive use of alcohol will not be condoned or accepted as part of any military tradition, ceremony, or event." This program is mandated by the public law 92-129, which is a law ...
- 186: Step-parenting
- An Adult Step-Child s Understanding of Stepparenting I was a stepchild, I can tell you from first hand experience, that step relationships can be some of the most trying we face as social animals. Often times, children enter ... feel that they are unworthy of their parent s love. Many children assume that they are responsible for the absence of their parent. Many children believe that their misbehavior may have been the reason. The child s subsequent lack of feeling worthy, can cause children to behave or misbehave, in different ways. They may withdraw from activities with friends and family, they may even think things like, "How can anyone love me, my own parent didn't even love me?" Children may misbehave because they are angry with themselves. One method of helping the child deal with his or her feeling of guilt is, for the adults (parents) to visit with the children right away. Discuss the changes and how they may affect everyday life, and provide them with ...
- 187: Adolescent Drug Abuse
- Adolescent Drug Abuse I.) Introduction: "Crack, booze, pot, crystal- from the inner city to the suburbs to small towns, the world of the adolescent is permeated by drugs. When 'a little harmless experimentation' becomes addiction, parents, teachers, and clinicians are often at a loss. For this age group (roughly ages 13 to 23), traditional substance abuse programs simply are not enough" (Nowinski, inside cover). Today's society provides many challenges for adolescents that our parents never had to face. Pre-marital sex and pregnancy, alcohol abuse, and drug addiction have always been around but they have never been more available to adolescents than they are now. Adolescents are more on their own to take care of themselves with more and ...
- 188: The Neurosis Of Passion
- The Neurosis of passion Breaking Patterns of Sterility and Breaking Patterns of Abuse. Charles Dickens novel, Great Expectations, attempts to delve into the Victorian gender construction. Incorporated within this persona is the struggle to break away from the cycles of generations of abuse and patterns of sterility. Through the eyes of his young protagonist, Dickens arranges an immediate gender conflict through absent mothers and deficient mother substitutes as the pivotal female characters in the beginning of the novel ... bread knife transforming it into a deadly dagger. Mrs. Joe consistently reminds Pip that she brought him up "by hand" giving herself rationale for her poor mothering of the boy, with punishments, beatings and verbal abuse. This aspect of Mrs. Joe s character is dramatized in the Christmas dinner scene where she bitterly discusses the trials and tribulations of bringing an unappreciative Pip. She only gives Pip the most unsavory ...
- 189: Seal
- ... most closely to the little information that was given in Seal's biography would have to be Karen Horney. Due to the fact that she focused on the social relationship between a parent and a child, and believed that early relationships in life, particularly ones between parent and child, have a strong effect on the way a person's personality develops. This could be true in regards to Seal because his experiences with his parents, growing up as a child were in no way good. For example, for reasons never explained to him, he was sent to live with a white foster family until he was four. When his mother unexpectedly reentered his life ...
- 190: Lafollettes-licensing Of Paren
- ... a car, in which everyone could legally perform surgery, prescribe medications, dispense drugs, or offer legal advice. Such a world would hardly be desirable (LaFollette 522). So why, asks LaFollette, should the parenting of a child be any different? If two incompetent people decide to have a baby, doesn t that baby stand a risk of being harmed by the parents incompetence? Parenting, according to LaFollette, falls under the same licensing ... like a bad driver who shouldn t be operating a motor vehicle has a greater chance of harming or killing an innocent person, an incompetent parent runs a greater risk of abusing or damaging their child. A good example of the injury that can be done to a child is explained by LaFollette while he is discussing the general licensing criteria used to license most things under regulation. He states the fact that parenting can be harmful to children if it is done ...
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