...Close adoption is detrimental to all parties involve especially the child. Children who are adopted often feel lost and confused, especially if the adoption is/was kept as a secret. Many children often go on the search for their birth parents. They long to fit in and to find their true identities. These children would show signs of harmful behaviors and often need psychological interventions. They feel lost, hopeless and abandoned. These feelings are preventable with the used of open adoption. Open adoption allows all parties to be mutually involved. As a result, the child shows significant growth and happiness. The child is aware of the situation and allowed to make choices regarding his/her life. Birth parents and adopted parents sometimes...
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...or frustrating for me to accomplish. The one instance that stick out to me the most is the case with my birth mother. I was born to a couple that were both lower class, lived in towns of extremely small populations, and both with little education in high school. This gave me little to no grounds to succeed in my life. Through the course of my childhood, my birth mother was either barely or never present, making it hard for me to understand common things a child learns while growing up. My father wasn't living with us for they had separated not long after my birth, giving me no strong male figure present on a day to day basis. This hindered my...
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...what affect you. A mother should not be allowed to use any form of illegal drugs while she is pregnant as this can cause severe problems for the child developing inside of her. Any woman, who consumes illegal drugs while pregnant, should be charged with child neglect and abuse; preventing the woman from being the mother to that child she doesn’t care for. A mother is supposed to protect her child, not harm...
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...Adopting a child can change a family’s life. By adopting, families are helping children feel loved and safe. Adoption can be a struggle, useful for homosexual couples, good to get children out of inadequate countries, and a way to give a child what the birth parents could not. Adopting a child, or more, is both a struggle and exciting. Spending hours upon hours making phone calls and filling out paper work all to make a new addition to your family. The adoption process is where an individual or couple achieves the legal status of being the parent of a child that is not their own (Butler and Kirkby 3). The individual/couple must work with a child’s social worker to be able to adopt that child. Almost everyone is eligible for adoption, although different agencies may hold different requirements. It does not matter whether they are married or single, their age, their income, or their...
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...she choices, and with the right circumstances, abort a pregnancy for any given reason she choices. There are plenty factors that go into why a woman may choose to have an abortion. One reason may be that the woman or young girl was raped and the child was consummated in the act. As a parent, she must bear the memory of being raped as well as carry the child of the rapist. No one would want to have a constant reminder of something as horrific as rape. The mother may never be accepting of this child, and want give it the care it needs. The child would not be wanted nor would it be loved. These women are smart enough to know how they would treat this child. Their hatred for the rapist would transpire onto the child. No child should be brought into this world unloved and upon such a cruel crime. How could you look that child in the face everyday? The "father" of the child would not be around to help raise the child. The mother would be left alone to raise and support the child on her own. Having an abortion would be the only way solution to this problem. A woman may not be able to raise a child financially. Many pregnancies are unplanned and unexpected. In most cases, the women is in young age and is unable to provide for a child and...
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...would rather feed their addiction than to keep their child healthy and it is immensely wrong. It is unbelievable how women are willing to risk the life of their unborn child just to inhale nicotine. There are so many reasons why smoking during pregnancy is wrong, birth defects, miscarriage and stillbirth, and the risk of the baby developing lung problems. With all of these side effects combined, it seems it would be an obvious conclusion for women to not smoke while pregnant. Smoking is a bad choice to make. Cigarettes are addictive and cause cancer. Smoking while pregnant is not just a bad choice for the mother to make, but also a bad choice for her baby. It is one thing for someone to risk their own heath, and another thing to risk the life of an unborn baby. “A woman who smokes while being pregnant is more than 50% more likely to expose her unborn child to an infection within the womb in comparison to a non-smoker, as the smoker’s Absolute Risk Reduction (ARR) is 1.67 compared to the non-smoker.”( Mund, Louwen, Klingelhoefer, & Gerber, 2013). While it is a well-known fact that smoking during pregnancy is a bad idea, recent studies have shown just how bad it is for the baby. Smoking during pregnancy causes birth defects in the fetus. Many babies, born to mothers who did not smoke during their pregnancy, still have a risk of developing birth defects. Smoking increases those chances of developing a birth defect. “Birth Defects are the leading cause of infant deaths and...
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...Birth order is defined as a person's rank by age among his or her siblings. Birth order is often believed to have a profound affect on ones distinctive character, behavior and intelligence. For our culminating task I chose the topic of birth order because it birth order has a direct relation with the family and is vary relatable topic to everyone. I thought it would be interesting research and learn more about this theory; because it gives insight on to why people the way they are. The research question I sought to find out was: Does birth order effect the combination of characteristics and qualities that form an individual's personality, behavior and intelligence and if so, how does it affect a person's distinctive character? To begin my research I first formed a hypothesis based on my general knowledge and inquiry on the subject. My hypothesis was that the chronological placement of siblings within a family would affect the combination of characteristics and qualities that form an individual's distinctive character, behavior and intelligence. My thinking was that in General, parents are excited and anticipated about their first child and hence, tend to be overly protective and pay more attention, investment, as well as expectation on this child. However, parents’ attention, investment, and expectation vary across children. As the second child arrives in the family, the firstborn may experience dethronement and the same happens to the second born once a third child arrives...
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... and most teenagers can’t take care of the baby and themselves. The U.S. teen pregnancy rate dropped six percent between 2008 and 2009. About 750,000 teens get pregnant in the United States each year. Nevada has the highest teen birth rate; 113 out of every 1,000 teens will get pregnant. About 1 in 3 women become pregnant at least once before they're 20. A sexually active teen that does not use contraceptives has a 90% chance of becoming pregnant within a year. It affects education - only a third of teen mothers earn their high school diploma. And only 1.5% has a college degree by age 30. It also affects their kids - girls born to teen mothers are more likely to be teen mothers themselves. Boys born to teen moms are more likely to end up in prison. 75% of girls and over half of boys report that girls who have sex do so because their boyfriends want them to. 8 in 10 girls and 6 in 10 boys say they wish they had waited until they were older to have sex. Most teens (6 in 10) and adults (3 in 4) believe that teen boys often receive the message that they are “expected to have sex.” Diapers are expensive, but it's nothing compared to the $9 billion that teen pregnancy costs the United States each year. This includes increased spending in child welfare costs and public sector health care. While pregnant, teen mothers usually cannot afford the many doctor visits, vitamins, ultrasounds and other aspects of prenatal care unless they get public assistance or are covered by...
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...Did you know that the boy to girl ratio in China is skewed? (source 3) In China boys are more favorable than girls due to they can do more and carry the family name. This is from the one child policy in China. In china you can only have one child under this policy with a few exceptions depending on your race and your location. One child policy is a violation of human rights because it defies multiple guaranteed rights from the UN Declaration of Human rights, including Articles 1, 3, and 5. They are violated because you should be able to pursue your happiness and if that means having more than one child then so be it. Before the one child policy in 1955 Officials in China tried to launch a campaign to promote birth control (source 5). Unfortunately...
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...the Healthymagination goal rendered the TEEMax, UltraLipo, and HepEcho unfit for launch. We’ve outlined justification for this decision in (Figure 1.), but we believe the Omega system provides the greatest opportunity for meeting Healthymagination standards with the best chance of obtaining definitive evidence to support the certification. The midwives in Indonesia play a central role in Indonesian’s strategy to improve material and child health planning services. 54% of midwives are permanent civil servants (PNS) serving rural areas. Given the significantly lower cost of a midwife assisted birth compared to in a hospital setting with an OB/GYN, a 2010 reported that a midwife would deliver a mean of 64 child births/year. In 2000, the UN initiated the Millennium Development Goals for several countries which included Indonesia. One of the major goals for this initiative was to reduce infant mortality and defects in these countries. Indonesia ranks 100 out of 175 countries, and has an estimated infant mortality rate of 22.4 deaths/1000 live births (United States has 5.87.) The case outlined how midwifes in the region were frustrated by the lack of tools to assist in monitoring pregnancy. This creates a unique opportunity for the GE and the Omega System. The system could help alleviate this need, along with providing the metrics more easily than the other options to demonstrate its direct impact. From a financial standpoint, this choice still makes sense given the low cost with...
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...June 15,2014 Birth Control Pros and Cons The controversy revolving around birth control has been an ongoing and long debated topic, bringing strong convictions from both sides of the debate. When starting the research for this paper, I found many statistics to support both sides and many opinions based on religious beliefs, moral views and personal convictions. For: 1) The world population is growing at a rapid speed and while America may not yet feel the impact of the earth’s overpopulation, many other countries are losing resources and lack basic needs (Gonsalves, J 2005). The world is now home to seven billion people. Not only would birth control help to slow the population growth rate, but it can also help to prevent the high rate for infant deaths (Miller et al 2012). Less than 5 percent of people in most countries in Africa use contraceptives (Rengel, M 2000). If this number was higher and more people were aware of the benefits of birth control, and it was accessible to them, it would help everyone and the planet overall (Rengel, M 2000). 2) It is only reasonable to accept that birth control is not merely a matter of morals, but also of ethics (Steinbock, B 2011). It may be immoral to prevent conception, but it is unethical to willingly allow ourselves to cause unwanted pregnancies that will result in more destitution. 3) As a counterpoint to the second anti-birth control argument, developing a market for contraceptives may in fact reduce the number of women...
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...Client Education on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Losing a child at any time can be a traumatic event for a family. Approximately 3,500 infants die each year from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in the United States (C, 2016). SIDS, also referred to as “crib death”, is marked by the unpredictable, sudden mortality of an infant. Conversely, demise will remain unexplained even after a thorough investigation, autopsy, a review of the circumstances of death, and the clinical history (Ball, Binkler, Cowen, 2015). SIDS is associated with cardiac dysrhythmias, abnormalities associated with the neurotransmitter serotonin in the medulla oblongata, and sleeping in the prone position. Nurses are responsible for identifying the risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome, then providing teaching about preventing it, as well as proving total support to the family after it occurs. This paper will outline the risk factors, assessment, and client education correlated with sudden infant death syndrome....
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...would always put others needs and wants before my own. In the same regard it didn’t mean love because I couldn’t care less if everyone disappeared, cause in the end I don’t really care for people as a whole all that much. So all I was left with was the death scenario, I knew once I found someone whom I could bear losing that I had found my ability to love. I applied that theory to my parents, sibling, extended family, friends, and lovers throughout my life and the answer always left me not really loving anyone. I would tell those people I loved them because it gave them happiness, but for me it was an empty word because it held no meaning, and it always gave me a sad feeling to know I was essentially lying to them. I couldn’t very well just tell them I really cared for them but I didn’t care if they disappeared from my life all together, because that would be putting my feelings before their own and for some reason I don’t operate that way. When my son was finally released from my wife’s baby motel, I felt in an instant that I couldn’t bear losing him. Being how I am, his needs and wants would always come before my own, so that was a give in. It was the fear of losing him that made me realize I could...
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...ANALYSIS “Before the Birth of Her Children,” by Anne Bradstreet tells of mothers’ maternal fears that are accompanied by love. Bradstreet makes her writing personable for the reader by reminding them of their mother’s love to show that a mother’s love is like no other. Though the poem embodies a mother’s love for her child, mothers’ fears reveal a dark side that takes away the comforting feeling of love and places attention on death. By using words like “irrevocable”, Bradstreet emphasizes the inevitability of death to her child, while giving the audience a sense of just how grave a mother’s fears are, as they are even thinking of how the child will cope with death. The mother-child relationship can be viewed as a symbol of its own; one that represents a one-of-a-kind love, yet also many worries. The poem characterizes mothers as valuable individuals that place their trust and legacy in the hands of their children, hoping they will prosper. In “My Dear and Loving Husband,” Anne Bradstreet displays her love for her husband. Considering the time period, in which women did not have the rights they do in contemporary society, to be able to say “If ever man were loved by wife, then thee,” and that her husband’s love cannot be repaid, comes to show that the contemporary perception love has existed before. Bradstreet characterized her husband as a caring man, whom unlike convention, does not appear to flaunt his superiority and degrade his wife. Her husband’s characterization reaffirms...
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...2002 she wrote an article for the Washington Monthly called Designer Babies. Brownlee explains the birth of cytoplasmic transfer in the in vitro fertilization (IVF) process and the technical advances from this process that is making designer babies possible. Summary How is the creation of designer babies even possible? Well the process began with the creation of IVF and then in the 1990s embryologist Jacques Cohen created the process called cytoplasmic transfer. This process gave women who did not have success with normal IVF hope by placing cytoplasm from a fertile egg into the infertile women’s eggs. The first baby born from this process was in 1997 and at first was deemed a huge success and advancement in technology. Then 4 years later Cohen admitted to adding mitochondrial DNA to the embryo what in essence gave the child three parents, the mother, father and the mitochondrial DNA donor. This was the first form of human genetic modification and the long term ramifications are still unknown. One of the children born with the mitochondrial DNA has developed a mild form of autism but it has not been determined if it is because of the genetic modification. Technical advances in the IVF process have made it possible for parents to choose the sex of their child and for embryos to be test for diseases. Fertility doctors are now being asked if they can ensure their child won’t be hyperactive or gay. The only thing that stands in the way of this, practicing eugenics is...
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