Abstract This paper examines the New Jersey legislation, "Assistance Act of 1995" for abandoned and medically fragile infants, which was designed to curb the continuously increasing numbers of infants who were either abandoned by parents who are simply incapable of providing proper nurturing environment for their child. It explores the possible social reasons for the abandonment. The paper describes grants and provision of services available and foster families and foster care institutes to better utilize them for the benefit of all those medically fragile infants.
Table of Contents
Review of the Act
Purpose of the Act
Congress Research Findings
Grants for Projects/Services
Priority in Provision of Services
Case Plan With Respect to Foster Care
Administration of Grant
Requirements of Application:
Grants to provide nurturing home environments & family-centered services for medically fragile infants
Evaluations, Studies & Reports by Secretary
Definitions
Abandoned' & Abandonment Dangerous Drugs
Natural Family
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Secretary
Authorization of Appropriations
Recommendations
Works Cited
From the Paper "On March 16, 1995, "In the House of Representatives", Mr. Payne of New Jersey introduced a bill, which was referred to the Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities. The main motive behind this act was to establish a program that would assist abandoned and medically fragile infants. Consequently; the bill was cited as ?Abandoned and Medically Fragile Infants Assistance Act of 1995?".
Abstract The paper notes that abandonment, trial, struggle and triumph are elements which come together to create the familiar monomyth that people have been growing up with for millenia. This paper proves that the archetype of the abandoned child is historically the most predominant genesis for the child hero, and traces the evolution of this theme through children's literature from earliest stories to modern fiction by exploring characters from mythology, fairy tales, and contemporary children's literature.
From the Paper "One last example of the abandoned child archetype in mythology appears in the story of Romulus and Remus, which illustrates that the archetype can apply not only to single orphans but to orphaned siblings, or even close friends as well. Closely following the story of Ion, the twins are a product of Ares rape of a woman, and are left to die of exposure. This time, the outside help came in the form of the god of the Tiber River, Tiberinus, who used its power to bear the twins to safety. However, the twins were first recovered not by man, but by animal, and suckled on a she-wolf until they were rescued, again, by another Shepard. Years passed, and together the twins fought many battles, which culminated in the foundation of Rome."
Abstract This paper argues that financial and other practical factors as opposed to supernatural factors shaped the practice of abandoning infants in the real world of ancient Greece and Rome .
From the Paper "To the modern reader the story of how the infant Oedipus was exposed to die on a hillside at his father's insistence is appalling. While it can be argued that the problem of child abuse and abandonment is still very much ..."
Tags: child exposure/abandonment, Greece, Rome, Oedipus, Ion
Abstract This paper examines business law regarding abandoned property by the federal government.
From the Paper "According to Todd Stimmel, writing in "Business Credit," abandoned property is property of which the owner has intentionally given up possession under circumstances evincing intent to give up ownership. Abandonment means the owner intentionally placed the property out of his possession with the intent to relinquish ownership of it. A finder who takes possession with the intent to claim ownership acquires ownership rights to the property. The owner who abandoned the property has no further rights to it."
Tags:abandoned property, disguard, business law, business, navy, lost, law
Abstract This paper examines how child abandonment continues to represent an enormous challenge for social workers and the healthcare community in the United States. It analyzes the incidence and causes of child abandonment, recent legislation and trends in the law, followed by a summary of the research in the conclusion. It looks at how abandoned infants tend to generate enormous interest and how very little academic or systematic study is available of the psychological state of their mothers and consideration of their fathers.
From the Paper "There is a paucity of academic literature on the phenomenon; the few studies that do exist relate to abandonment in the face of poverty, war or extreme disease. Sherr and Hackman point to Otieno et al. (1999), who compared 82 abandoned babies in Nairobi with mothered babies and reported significant measures of developmental delay or growth stunting (however, no psychosocial measures were taken). Similarly, Maza et al. (1999) described the U.S. "boarder baby syndrome" in which babies who are most often associated with drug use and HIV backgrounds were abandoned within hospital settings. Sherr and Hackman say that infants are at particular risk within the first few hours of birth. ?Abandonment at the time of birth seems more common than abandonment later on and carries with it different psychological explanations and ramifications."
Tags: abortion, legislation, social, workers, healthcare, community
Abstract The paper explains that in "The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust", David Wyman argues that the United States abandoned the Jews because of a combination of anti-Semitism and indifference. In this paper, the writer contends that Wyman ignores the economic distress caused by the Great Depression and the fact that the US rarely makes military interventions for humanitarian purposes. The writer therefore believes that it is an overly simplistic and historically uninformed argument to propose that the US is responsible for the Jews and abandoned them to the Nazis.
From the Paper "In his book, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, David Wyman argues that the political and military leadership of the United States could have saved thousands - even millions - of European Jews by taking early steps of intervention against the Nazis. For Wyman, America's inaction is tantamount to complicity in these horrific crimes against humanity. He argues that the United States abandoned the Jews because of a combination of anti-Semitism and indifference to anything that was not considered to be of strategic importance to the United States. The fact is that the United States of the 1930s and early 1940s was a much different country than the world power it is today. It was an isolationist country that had just struggled through the Great Depression."
Abstract The paper explores the obesity epidemic through a comprehensive analysis of its development, as well as through a literature review pertaining to obesity and its controversial causes. The paper explores issues of self-esteem, abandonment issues, economics and prolonged psychological stress during formative years that can have contributed to the occurrence of obesity in adult women as well as in young girls. The paper then describes the findings of independent research regarding paternal abandonment between the ages of 6-19 and its effects on adult obesity in women. The paper includes the consent form, questionnaire, and raw data used by the study.
Outline:
Abstract Introduction Statement of Problem
Hypothesis
Review of Literature
Methodology
Findings
Conclusion
Limitations
Definitions of Terms
From the Paper "Obesity is a significant and current social and physical issue in the world today. (Anderson & Butcher, 2006, p. 19) It is particularly troubling in developed nations and is currently labeled and epidemic in the United States. Many people seek to find answers to the obesity question within the biological and physical spheres of study, blaming the entire situation of obesity on the poor eating habits and low level of physical activity of those who suffer from it. One area of obesity research that has been neglected is its connection to psychological factors. The psychology of obesity is a significant and demonstrative factor in the behaviors that cause obesity as well as in its manifestation, which has recently become increasingly youthful, with children as young as two-five showing early symptoms of obesity as well as a potential future of obesity into adulthood. (Anderson & Butcher, 2006, p. 19)"
Abstract The author of this paper takes us on a tour of the issues of adoption, both open and closed as well as the issue of abandonment. We are given insight through the use of various examples, news stories and anecdotes about the issues at hand and we can compare the two topics ourselves.
Abstract The paper discusses how in director Orson Welles cinematic masterpiece "Citizen Kane", the character of Charles Foster Kane (Welles) experiences many traumatic events that are linked to an obsession with his mother. It looks at how out of all these events, Kane's marriage to Susan Alexander, played by Dorothy Comingore, is the most disturbing, for it reflects some very dark motives on the part of Kane, the "spoiled rich kid" who inherited a fortune via the Comstock Lode. It shows how Kane's marriage to Susan, who was forced to live in a world that revolved around Kane and his obsessive behavior, collapses and makes her a free woman. It evaluates how Kane used Susan as a scapegoat in order to heal the wound left by his abandonment as a child, and through Susan's abandonment of Kane, his self-image and his massive ego are destroyed.
From the Paper "The ultimate symbol of Kane's obsessive behavior occurs in the scene where Susan finally confronts her husband in the bedroom, where the famous "snowball" glass orb sits on Susan's dressing bureau. After she tells him that their marriage is over and leaves the bedroom, Kane smashes everything in the room--except the glass "snowball" which reminds him of his childhood in Colorado and his mother. This object encapsulates everything Susan stands for--her loneliness, rejection and the abuse thrown upon her by the insane Charles Foster Kane."
Abstract This paper details in great length the reasons why the author has abandoned Christianity. The argument includes principles of Christianity concerning the character of Jesus, fallacies in the Bible and the prophecies as reasons for the author's decision.
From the Paper "There are many reasons why I am not a Christian. In this paper I am going to present my case for not being a Christian and argue for my beliefs. I am sure that I will sound harsh and cruel in parts of this paper, but I ask that you, the reader, do not take it personally and that you understand that I am being so in order to get my point across.For the first eighteen and a half years of my life I was a Christian. I was brought up in a Southern Baptist Church, but I did not consider myself to be a Baptist. I considered myself a Christian. I was never one to like denominations that claimed to worship the same thing, each of course claiming that they where the ones that were correct. So I simply called myself a Christian and let other people bicker and argue about the petty things. But I did consider myself a good Christian, as nearly all Christians believe the same about themselves, I simply was not worried about whether someone should be sprinkled with water or dunked during baptism. I mean do you really think that God would care that much about you being soaked or lightly sprayed? I didn?t think so. To me it was the spiritual aspect that was important. But I think that my dissatisfaction with the factions within Christianity itself, Catholic or Protestant (and if Protestant what denomination), made it easier for me to let go of the religion altogether."
Abstract This essay explores Defoe's preoccupation with the theme of family relationships which is a recurring motif in much of his work. Contains a particular concentration on his two novels 'Moll Flanders' and 'Roxana'.
The moral of 'Moll Flanders' is that abandoning children has hidden long term consequences, some of which are not only harrowing but life threatening, and that these consequences have an effect not only on the individual, but on society as a whole. The moral of 'Roxana' is If the "unsufferable" behaviour of servants is not curbed then the natural order of society will become undermined by the corrupting influence of those "less morally endowed".
From the Paper "In Moll Flanders and Roxana, by Daniel Defoe, the theme of family relationships, relationships between parents and children, husbands and wives, and masters and servants, is a recurring motif. This theme is not only a feature of these two novels, it was also a preoccupation of the author?s, and is a subject of some his earlier works, in particular his treatise, The Family Instructor (1715), which was published in three parts. It is difficult, if not impossible, to separate Defoe from his themes. But for Defoe the family was of primary importance, as David Blewett asserts in Defoe's Art of Fiction: Moll as Whore and Thief:"
Abstract "This study will examine the theme of the harshness of black life in the South, focusing on the experiences of Maya Angelou in her autobiographical I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Angelou suffered poverty, racism, child abuse, rape, abandonment, and a self-hatred born of a society dominated by white images of beauty and worth.
From the Paper "This study will examine the theme of the harshness of black life in the South, focusing on the experiences of Maya Angelou in her autobiographical I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Angelou suffered poverty, racism, child abuse, rape, abandonment, and a self-hatred born of a society dominated by white images of beauty and worth. Angelou eventually learns her own worth as a black woman, as a creative speaker and writer, and as an individual human being, but, unfortunately, those beautiful and redemptive truths comes only after a youth full of suffering.
As McPherson notes, "Angelou's initial crisis" involves "her acceptance of herself as an outcast (because of her rejection by her parents" (McPherson 16). Angelou returns to this crisis as the crux of her predicament and that of blacks in the South: "Why did they send us away, and What did we do so wrong? So Wrong?""
This book assesses David Wyman's "The Abandonment of the Jews", which looks at charges that U.S. officials had prior knowledge of the Holocaust, and willfully and wantonly ignored the situation.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, 1984, $ 39.95
From the Paper David Wyman in his book "The Abandonment of the Jews" discusses one of the more shameful issues for Americans of World War II. This is the degree to which the American government knew about the Holocaust before and during the war and the way Americans failed to do the very least that could be expected and failed to make public the knowledge of what was taking place. The period covered is from 1941 to 1945, the years of the war. The government did not know about the Holocaust for certain until 1942, and it did little with that knowledge until much later.
At the outset, Wyman sets out the findings he considers most significant about the story he will tell, and these are indeed the conclusions that he reaches and shape the story as he tells it. He finds first that the U.S. State Department and the British Foreign Office had no intention of rescuing large numbers of ... "
Abstract This paper examines the social problems of children of divorced parents and looks at possible solutions to these problems. This paper reviews research that examines the social and emotional problems of these children but concludes that more research is needed. The author believes that the most important thing is that children get help from their parents to make the transition of the divorce as smooth and painless as possible.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Children and Trust
Adolescent Well-Being
Children's Success and Family Structures
The Fear of Abandonment Lasting Effects?
Conclusions
From the Paper "Children of divorced parents often have concerns about abandonment, feeling that the other parent may abandon them as well, especially if the parent who left the marriage and the home is not around very often to see the children or speak with them. They also can have trouble as they grow into adolescents, because they really need the love and support of both parents to get through this difficult period of growing up. Adolescence is an extremely difficult and vulnerable time for children, and they desperately need the support of both of their parents, even if they don't live in the same house anymore."
Abstract A major issue in animal protection is how we care for the animals we have domesticated for our own companionship. The existence of animal shelters all over the country, for the purpose of rescuing deserted, unwanted or abused animals, is evidence that the world faces serious ethical issues on many levels when it comes to the ethical and humane treatment of animals. This paper looks at the difficulties (both financially and ethically) faced by animal shelters. It discusses the process of euthanasia and alternative forms of saving abandoned animals.
From the Paper "Because of these problems, some organizations have formed to rescue animals the shelters can no longer keep. One example is the animal rescue organization called ?Home at Last.? This organization recognizes that many municipal shelters are overwhelmed by the number of animals they receive. Rather than see the animals euthanized for lack of space and resources to care for the animals, "Home at Last" takes the animals and puts them in foster homes until permanent owners can be found for them. "Home at Last" is located in Berkley, California, and has a website with pictures of animals available for adoption.Their mobile adoption program brings animals out into the community.They also have a lost and found section on their website so owners and pets can be reunited."
Tags: Humane, Society, Home, at, Last, Milo, Foundation
