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Death and The Child, 2002.
Examines the effect the death of a parent or sibling have on a young child.
1,921 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 61.95
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The paper shows that the death of a parent or sibling can be a wrenching experience for the child left to grieve. Children do not understand the concept of death, and having to face death and its consequences at an early age can lead to considerable psychological turmoil, which in turn may depend on a number of factors such as the age of both parent and child, the closeness of the sibling, the circumstances of the death, the structure of the family and so on. The paper examines literature on the subject and explains different stages of bereavement, the effect of death on different age groups and possible therapy solutions.
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"Harrington & Harrison (1999) note that many of the current assumptions about the impact of bereavement on children are unproven. Existing data does suggest that childhood bereavement is not a major risk factor for mental and behavioral disorder in either childhood or adult life, and some studies indicate that most children cope surprisingly well with this severe form of trauma. This means that in most cases, interventions by professionals will not be required, and in any case, we do not yet know whether these interventions are effective. However, some children and their families will require help. Children with mental or behavioral disorders may well benefit from interventions, and there may also be a case for intervening with some children who are at high risk of psychological disorder but who are currently healthy."
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How A Child Deals With A Parent's Death, 1999.
A comparison of two articles that deal with child development after the death of a parent.
1,210 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 2 sources, $ 41.95
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This paper compares and contrasts two articles that deal with child development after the death of a parent, emphasizing research methods and usefulness.
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"The death of a parent is a very traumatic experience for anyone, but when it occurs in childhood, the effects may be monumental. The world of the child is completely changed and this may take its toll emotionally, physically and psychologically. However, every child is different, thus reactions may vary depending on age, sex and characteristics of the surviving parent. The surviving parent may be very confused on how to best handle the situation. When looking for information, both scholarly journals and more simple web pages can be helpful."
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Death Anxiety, 2005.
This paper is a complete research study evaluating the potential death anxiety caused by confrontation with the death of a child compared with that caused by the death of an adult.
1,075 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 13 sources, APA, $ 37.95
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This paper explains that a growing body of research has indicated that confrontation with another person's death can cause death anxiety, whether the deceased person is known or unknown and especially if the death is that of a child. The author reports that, in the research, a dichotomous Death Anxiety Inventory survey was used to measure anxiety by 10 adult participants self-reading a scenario describing the unexpected death of a female aged 5 years or of a female 85 years. The paper states that there was no significant difference and concludes that this survey was flawed either by lacking internal validity or by failing to evoke true thoughts of death and loss.
Table of Contents
Introduction and Literature Review
Method
Participants
Materials
Procedure
Results
Discussion
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"The present data revealed no significance in death anxiety affected by the death of an unknown child versus death of an unknown adult. Although results were nearly identical for the two groups, statistics indicate that a larger scale study would provide results contradictory to the present hypothesis. Although the margin was very small, it seems that group B (Linda = 85 years) felt more death anxiety than group A (Linda = 5 years). This is contradictory to what was hypothesized based on the literature reviewed."
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Child Abuse And Policy, 2004.
A look at the legal definition of child abuse and child neglect according to California law as well as California's policy on child abuse.
1,130 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 39.95
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This paper looks at the California law regarding child abuse, child abuse statistics, the foster care system, returning children to abusive homes, alternatives, removing children permanently form the home, and the effects in later life of abuse in childhood. The paper also makes a recommendation of how abused children should be treated.
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"Under California law, child abuse or neglect includes physical injury inflicted by other than accidental means upon a child by another person, sexual abuse, neglect, wilful cruelty or unjustifiable punishment, unlawful corporal punishment or injury and is against the law. Neglect means the negligent treatment or the mistreatment of a child by a person responsible for the child's welfare, severe neglect means the negligent failure of a person having the care of custody of a child ,to protect the child from severe malnutrition or medically diagnosed..."
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Child Abuse, 2005.
This paper reviews the literature about detecting and preventing child abuse through child protective services in New York State.
2,795 words (approx. 11.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 83.95
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This paper explains that, although great strides have been made in detecting and preventing child maltreatment, confidentiality and expungement laws are some inadequacies that contribute to the ongoing problems in investigating and convicting perpetrators. The author points out that confidentiality laws mandating silence and expungement laws mandating ignorance leave a system of child protective services, which cannot monitor its own work, which is insulated from outside scrutiny and which is unable to publicly account for its actions. The paper stresses that a child who is abused today is at risk of becoming an abuser or may continue the abuse pattern themselves throughout their lives; maltreatment as a child can have far-reaching consequences including fear of intimacy and low social integration.
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Introduction
Critical Evaluation
Supporting Arguments
Conclusion
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"Throughout the history of our nation, child maltreatment has been a part of life. Prior to the 1960's, little was thought about this being a problem. In fact, during the late eighteenth, early nineteenth centuries, there was little focus on sexual and physical abuse. What we consider physical abuse today was actually an acceptable way to discipline your child. And what is now known about sexual abuse, well, it just wasn't talked about. Only the most horrendous abuses were noticed. As in the case of an eight year old adopted child named Mary Ellen who, in 1874 was found chained, beaten, and malnourished. The media attention generated for this little girl led to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in 1875.Since that time there have been hundreds of organizations established to aid abused children."
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Medea and Modern Child Abuse, 2002.
This paper deals with the crime of infanticide, or the killing of one's child as well as child abuse. Euripides? story of Medea, who kills her children, forms the backdrop.
1,510 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper demonstrates that the natural order of life is for a parent to protect the child and that abuse of the child, including murder, is a reflection of an unstable mind and a person who is unable to function effectively within the community. Along with the example of Medea, the author brings some modern day examples of women that have killed there children, such as Susan Smith and Andrea Yates.
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"The killing of a child in real life has no symbolic meaning, no power other than that of an expression of evil and is, therefore, one of the worst acts a human, let alone a parent, can commit. In literature, however, the killing of children is symbolic of a diseased mind or of a diseased culture. Euripides? Medea kills her children, but she is a symbol of Mother Earth, of the Gods, and of nature all of which can exert, with no warning and no necessity of explanation, a death upon any or all of us. That which we are given can be taken away."
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Child Clinical Intervention, 2002.
A two-part paper looking at clinical intervention in the case of child abuse, as well as child disorders.
4,109 words (approx. 16.4 pages), 21 sources, APA, $ 110.95
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Part I of this paper deals with the three most common kinds of child abuse ? physical, sexual and emotional. It discusses clinical issues, behavioral issues, symptoms, signs and tests for these specific kinds of child abuse. Part II of the paper deals with several disorders in children that are not easy to detect and cure, specifically Autism, Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder and Down Syndrome. The paper covers diagnosis, treatment and cure (if applicable).
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"The problem in identifying and dealing with emotional abuse is that at lower levels of intensity, the occurrence of abuse is debatable. For instance mild levels of belittling could be seen as ?kidding?. Another example could be that of criticizing and insulting. Depending on the issue that leads to such abuse, the grown up could actually be convinced that they are doing this to the child for ?his own good?. These mild forms of abusive behavior could actually be seen as ?nurturing?."
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Child-Context Interaction and the Environment, 2002.
This paper discusses the long-term influence parents have on the development of their child, the effect the environment has on this relationship and the consequence this child-context interaction has on the child?s further adjustment to the environment
3,105 words (approx. 12.4 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 90.95
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The paper demonstrates that child-context interaction that begins as bonding at birth and continues through the first four years of a child?s life is a strong factor in the child?s ability to adjust to the environment and will effect the child for the majority of his life. The author presents research showing that if children have close and healthy relationships with their parents, these children will do better in adjusting to different environments including difficult neighborhoods and schools. He shows how the family?s culture and the neighborhood in which they live also can shape child-context interaction.
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"As the mother and child work together to find the missing puzzle piece, their ability to think and problem solve will be developing. Most of the time the way a child interacts with one parent will be different than when both parents are available. The relationship with mothers are usually nurturing while the relationship with the father is more realistic. They want to be strong and not cry when they get hurt when they are with their father. However, if they are with their mother and they fall and hurt their knee, they want to cry and get a band-aid. The child learns ways to interact with others through the interactions between child-father, between child-mother, and between child-both parents."
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Emotional Child Abuse, 2008.
This paper focuses on the problem of emotional child abuse, while looking at the issue of child abuse in general.
2,640 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 12 sources, APA, $ 79.95
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In this article, the writer examines child abuse as a whole, as well as emotional child abuse specifically. Different kinds of emotional abuse are examined, as well as the characteristics of the families that are prone to such abuse. In addition, this paper describes the impact that child abuse has on children and on society at large. Finally, potential treatment and prevention is suggested. The writer concludes that emotional abuse is a serious problem that requires society to further study this form of abuse and find more effective methods for its prevention and treatment.
Outline:
Definition of Child Abuse
Different Kinds of Emotional Child Abuse
Identifying Emotional Child Abuse
The Impact of Child Abuse
Prevention
Treatment
Conclusion
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"One thing that makes child abuse difficult to treat or to prevent is that it is usually a recurring event. Given its prevalence across societal boundaries, it is also apparent that child abuse has few factors that assist in predicting the homes in which it will occur. That is, child abuse is equally prevalent in all economic, ethnic, and racial groups, which makes identification of abusive households difficult. However, domestic violence and child abuse are often paired; it is in such households that emotional abuse is the side effect of spousal physical or emotional abuse. For this reason, it is safe to conclude that parents are often the emotional abusers, which may differentiate emotional abuse somewhat from physical or sexual abuse. However, if a child tells a parent of abuse that has occurred, or if a parent becomes aware of abuse occurring in other environments, then he or she has a legal obligation to report the incident(s) to the proper authorities."
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Psychological Implications of Child Abuse, 2006.
An overview of child abuse and the implications it has for a child's psychological and emotional development.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper examines the psychological implications of child abuse. It attempts to explain the problem of child abuse, identify factors that generate child abuse and explore the effects of child abuse on development. The paper reports that the United States Department of Health and Human Services contends that a variety of signs may be evident in a child that lives in an abusive environment. For the educator key signs of abuse may include injuries that are reported to the parent but that are left untreated for no apparent reason (Recognizing sec. 2). The child might display a sudden lack of interest in school coupled with the inability to complete assignments or provide homework in a customary fashion.
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"Child abuse has many terrible implications on a child's development. Several explanations of human development have been given through history to understand human behavior. Inside these diverse development concepts, psychology plays an outstanding part. These explanations recognize and explain the processes by which human beings, from a biological base, will undertake a road that will be good for them to reach maturity. Specific Objectives: * To explain the problem of child abuse * To identify the factors that generate child abuse. * To explore the effects of child abuse on development. A child needs to interact with his environment and in this way to establish a good quality of life, that is to say, the necessary conditions so the human being can reach a state that allows him to mature and adapt in a natural way and in reciprocity with his environment. For that reason when the conditions of the quality of..."
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Child Abuse, 2004.
This paper reviews the history of child abuse, tracing the changes in the 16th, 18th and 20th centuries, and discusses the challenges that are faced today by the child protection system.
2,530 words (approx. 10.1 pages), 12 sources, APA, $ 76.95
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This paper explains that the history of child abuse and neglect in the United States is characterized by a conflict between two missions: a child rescue orientation, emphasizing the removal of children from unfit homes; and the family support approach, focusing on improving the social and environmental factors that lead to parental stress and child maltreatment. The author points out that, until the Middle Ages, there was no concept of childhood in the minds of most adults in the West; until children were age six or seven, they were considered infants and non-persons who were often uncared for and unwanted. This paper states that, at the dawn of the 21st century, children are no longer adequately cared for, and there are strong indications of a general devaluation of children and child-rearing; children are once again living under conditions that threaten their emotional and physical health because of society?s perception of children as non-persons.
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Introduction
A Historical Overview
Child Sexual Abuse
Differences in Perception of Childhood
Child Abuse throughout History
Conclusion
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"Societies basically ignored child sexual abuse until after the ?re-discovery? of child abuse in the early 1960s by Kempe and his colleagues. Kempe's construction of the ?battered child syndrome? has been greatly expanded over the past three decades to include sexual abuse, emotional abuse and neglect. The increased growth of concern about child sexual abuse is greatly attributed to child advocates and the feminist movement."
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Infant Child Care and Attachment, 2004.
This paper discusses that infant child care affects a child?s emotional attachment to his parents and shapes his future behavioral profile.
2,610 words (approx. 10.4 pages), 17 sources, MLA, $ 78.95
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This paper explains that a child?s attachment to its caregivers is assessed in terms of security because a secure attachment to caregivers engenders confidence in a child, facilitating and promoting his exploration of the world around him, ensuring that, in the event of anxiety or discomfort, the child will return to the security of the foundation provided by those caregivers. The author points out that a study has established that time spent in daycare, regardless of the quality of that daycare, correlates directly with the predictable problem profile of projected child behaviors. The paper concludes that a division of roles between parent and alternative caregiver, ?shared care?, provides a better sense of attachment, meaning security for the child and making better emotional and developmental opportunities for the child.
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"Structural features were found in the National Day Care Study. and had considerable effects on the manifest well-being of the infants in the day care settings that formed part of the sample. Dynamic features, the quality and frequency of interactions between the care-givers and the children, were seen to have a profound effect on self-esteem, physical and cognitive abilities. It was seen, however, that contextual features are perhaps the most potent at work in the definition of quality childcare: Child outcomes depend less on the form of care than on characteristics of the setting."
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Sites Promoting an End to Child Sex Exploitation, 2008.
A review and comparison of three websites promoting an end to child pornography, prostitution and child-sex tourism.
1,018 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper looks at websites that further the dissemination of information regarding child exploitation. The paper examines three such websites, from End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes (ECPAT) and from the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) of the United States Department of Justice Criminal Division, and ChildSafe Cambodia.
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"In contrast to ECPAT-USA's and ChildSafe Cambodia's websites, the CEOS section of the U.S. Department of Justice site provides news and updates primarily related to U.S. government activities in the war against Child Pornography, Prostitution, and Trafficking. Speeches from government representatives are available, along with information related to the passage of new laws, including Congressional testimony, aimed at supporting these activities (United States Department of Justice, Criminal Division). These first two websites, ECPAT-USA and CEOS, focus primarily on the United States, as opposed to the last focus of this paper, ChildSafe Cambodia."
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Child Center Care Vs. Care by Family, 2007.
This paper discusses child care options and looks at the development of children who attended child care centers compared with those in family care.
3,054 words (approx. 12.2 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 89.95
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In this article, the writer notes that the question over who should care for children is once again being debated throughout North America, with many advocating that very young children be raised with either their mothers or a close member of the family instead of attending child care centers. The writer discusses research indicating that the poor quality of care given in existing centers throughout the United States is the reason for problems within the classroom, as children who attend these care centers are believed to have both development and social problems. The writer concludes that the important point of the debate over child care should be how to ensure quality care for children whose parents have to work, or have chosen to work, through understanding and enabling effective and positive child development and growth within center-based childcare.
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Introduction
An Overview of Child Care in the United States
Contemporary Childcare in the United States
Towards an Effective Child Care System
Conclusion
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"The changes in society over the past few decades have completely transformed the contemporary world, mainly through the consequences of warfare and the recent advancements in technology, which has also changed the lives of women. Accounting for almost half of the nation's workforce, a vast majority of them either are already mothers or will be, which means that something needs to be done about the childcare situation in America. Although center-based childcare is not, perhaps, the ideal situation for mothers and their children, most parents have little choice."
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Child Care Today, 2005.
This paper researches the different types of child care today. It also goes into the needs for child care in our changing society.
2,187 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 68.95
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Fifty years ago it was common to find the American family consisting of a mother, father, and two children. The father went to work, while the mother performed her motherly duties throughout the day. This paper explains how, over the last few decades, however, the work of the woman has shifted dramatically. Women are entering the work force at a higher rate, and with this, their motherly duties are shifting. It shows how some women are now perform these duties after their shift at work outside the home, and while they are at work, their children are placed in child care. Only after understanding the history of child care, the types of child care, and the government involvement in child care is it possible to know how the changing of family dynamics has resulted in the need for child care.
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"Once women began to enter the workforce, more and more mothers decided to join with other women and go to work. This caused these mothers to take on twice the responsibility as other people because they now had two full time jobs. "Working mothers still do twice as much housework as their husbands, and more than half of all women questioned expressed at least some dissatisfaction with the amount of help their husbands provide around the house" (Morin and Rosenfeld 1998 A1). This responsibility of raising children while working is not limited to women though, increasingly men are becoming the caretaker of children and they face the same struggles. The continuation of women in the workplace, while extremely stressful, is a result of the feeling of satisfaction that comes with a job. According to Clarke-Stewart (1993), "They get more satisfaction from outside work than nonworking women do from housework. They feel better about themselves as individuals and as competent achievers. They feel healthier, more independent, and in control of their lives" (2). However, with this sense of independence comes a feeling of overwhelming responsibility."
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