...of it. International adoption is when a person or family adopt children out of the country. International adoption fakes strong transnational bonds: It establishes parental ties between an individual or a couple and a child who is a citizen of another country. For some adoptive parents, international adoption gives them a way to expand their families. For others, it fulfills a humanitarian impulse to care for a child who might otherwise face a harsh future. 8 months to one and a half years old are the most popular age range of when the children get adopted. Infants are typically about six months old...
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...of the previous generation who are parents now have extremely negative outlook to this issue. Their old-fashioned way of thinking is the main cause of the conflict between children and parents. Also because of the low literacy level in some groups of people, it leads to the fight between LGBT community and the anti-LGBT in VietNam. Lastly, VietNam is a developing country so we still have many problems to handle which is why LGBT marriage issue may not be accepted completely by the...
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...entertainment in which partners can be easily replaced via either a request of a different person, as it is in We or just by a sexual practice with any other person, as it is in the case of Brave New World. Although sex continues to maintain its reproductive function in Zamiatin’s work, the children do not belong to their parents anymore, nor does the concept of “family” exists. In Brave New World the vision of sexuality is carried to the extreme being the normal procreation completely eradicated from the society being replaced by an artificial reproductive technology and...
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...Surrogacy is when another woman carries and gives birth to a child for another individual. Though it can be an emotionally intense and legally complex arrangement, it is growing in popularity among parents as a way of having children. Having another woman bear a child for a couple to raise, usually with the male half of the couple as the genetic father, is referred to in antiquity. Babylonian law and custom allowed this practice and infertile woman could use the practice to avoid a divorce, which would otherwise be inevitable. One well-known example is the Biblical story of Sarah and Abraham, a nomadic Hebrew couple unable to conceive. Sarah offered her Egyptian slave Hagar as a surrogate, but later drove her away from the camp when Hagar became impudent during pregnancy. Hagar fled to Egypt, where an angel told her that her son Ishmael would become a leader amongst the Hebrews; she subsequently returned to Sarah and Abraham. Surrogacy requires a lot of time, money and patience to succeed, whether it's carried out privately or through an agency. But it can bring happiness to all concerned if the medical, legal, financial and emotional aspects are properly considered. Why choose surrogacy Someone may choose surrogacy if one can't carry a pregnancy, perhaps because: * Have had recurrent miscarriages. * Have a health condition which makes pregnancy and birth dangerous. * Uterus (womb) is abnormal or absent, whether since birth or after a hysterectomy. *...
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...Adoption is one of the alternative ways to create a family. Adoption may come to one for many reasons but it is a lifelong commitment emotionally, physically, and spiritually. There are many reasons children are given up for adoptions, it could be a young mother who is not yet ready for the responsibility, the cause of the child’s birth parents being deceased, teenage pregnancy, or a traumatic event such as rape. One has the choice of either adopting domestically or internationally. Domestic adoption is the placing of a child in the same country as the child’s birth. This may be done through the foster care system, a private agency and the state. International adoption is where the person adopting whether it is an individual or a couple would become the legal and permanent parents of the child that was born in another country. Many people could be discouraged by adoption because of the time frame it would take for them to be granted a child. The cost of adoption may vary because there are many different ways to adopt a child in the United States. Due to the cost and waiting period of adoption many children in the United States are not being adopted. The adoption process involves three phases. Phase one is the termination of the parent’s rights. In most cases the termination of parental rights is voluntary although the time frame in which the birth parents may change their minds can change from state to state. Once an adoption has been finalized it is extremely difficult...
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...bringing a new child home is not possible. Adoption gives families the chance to raise and love children of their own even if they are incapable of producing offspring themselves, including my own family. I currently share a home with my nine year-old sister who was adopted from Guatemala when she was only ten months old. Although my dad and stepmother raised her since she was an infant, she is definitely unique from me and my natural brother. He and I tend to shy away from excessive social interaction while my little sister thrives on it. Everyone in the neighborhood knows Alanna. Alanna has given us so much just by being a part of our family. Without our dusky, curly haired girl, our lives would be bleak and boring. Adoption has given my stepmother a chance to raise her own child when she otherwise could not. Having a child was so important to my stepmother and biological father that they spent thousands of dollars and countless hours working with an adoption agency. International adoption was more appealing than adopting within the country because the likelihood a biological parent would try to regain custody in the future was far less likely. My parents decided to adopt from Guatemala using a private agency because the adoption process was much shorter than using a public agency. In addition, children were much healthier and did not suffer from attachment issues. The children up for adoption in Guatemala lived with foster parents instead of orphanages so they received more one on...
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...Russia has never been a happy place. Since the 12th Century it has been bogged down in poverty, horrific living conditions, and an extremely separated class system. It took many years for the workers and slaves of Russian life to finally organize themselves and revolt against the causes of such hardship; many years of pain, suffering, and oppression that were brought on by the czars. It was this stagnant suffering that would finally begin to lift, and eventually bring power to the Bolsheviks and communism to Russia. Many revolutionaries encouraged killing, robbery, and used terror to advance their effort. However, there were other kinds of revolutionaries, some violent, some not. Gorky, Dostoevsky, and Turgenev all contributed to the progress of the revolution by communicating through literature. All four books were intended to identify critical issues of life, to instigate social and political changes throughout Russia, and to wholly improve Russian life. Gorky’s My Childhood explains the terrible conditions Russia peasants faced. Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons represents the struggle between two ideologies, romanticism and liberalism. Gorky’s next book Mother is the idea of insurgency cells and how a group with no distinct leader can be effective. Finally, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Possessed shows how violence can be a major tool in fuelling a rebellion, although it also shows how extreme nihilism is self-destructive. Simply listing the problems with Russia up to the 19th and early...
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...The Dying Bear Russia's Demographic Disaster By Nicholas Eberstadt November/December 2011 December marks the 20th anniversary of the end of the Soviet dictatorship and the beginning of Russia's post communist transition. For Russians, the intervening years have been full of elation and promise but also unexpected trouble and disappointment. Perhaps of all the painful developments in Russian society since the Soviet collapse, the most surprising -- and dismaying -- is the country's demographic decline. Over the past two decades, Russia has been caught in the grip of a devastating and highly anomalous peacetime population crisis. The country's population has been shrinking, its mortality levels are nothing short of catastrophic, and its human resources appear to be dangerously eroding. Indeed, the troubles caused by Russia's population trends -- in health, education, family formation, and other spheres -- represent a previously unprecedented phenomenon for an urbanized, literate society not at war. Such demographic problems are far outside the norm for both developed and less developed countries today; what is more, their causes are not entirely understood. There is also little evidence that Russia's political leadership has been able to enact policies that have any long-term hope of correcting this slide. This peacetime population crisis threatens Russia's economic outlook, its ambitions to modernize and develop, and quite possibly its security. In other...
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...Garret Hogan IDT I African Dance 20 November 2012 My Background Memories of pain and sorrow often times come to mind in my family when asked about our heritage. Being of Russian decent, the women in my family were not treated with the respect that people would think. In fact, it was quite common for families to disown infant girls because they were only interested on raising men to carry on the family name. Having a daughter only meant that they would have to give up what they owned someday in a dowry to another family. Such was the case with my great-grandmother, Betty Veska. Betty is not her real first name. As a child when she learned of the situation she was in, being abandoned, she decided from then on she would continue on with a different name. So Betty Veska was reborn. Unfortunately I could not get her to tell me her original birth given name, perhaps she did not even have one, or maybe no one except herself and the orphanage in which she grew up knows. At any rate the stories she shared of the orphanage and her time out of it were truly remarkable. Growing up in an orphanage can be tough to begin with. Growing up in an orphanage in the heart of an area of what is now known as Bulgaria during the Great Depression was even worse. Many believe that the Great Depression was only affecting the United States. This was false. Though it may be true the Depression affected the U.S more than any other country that is not to say other countries were not hit hard...
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...2010 Summary of “Suddenly Teen Pregnancy Is Cool?” When a celebrity teen gets pregnant, people wonder how a nice and conscientious teen gets pregnant out of wedlock. In Cathy Gulli’s article “Suddenly Teen Pregnancy Is Cool?” from Maclean’s Magazine published in Canada, Gulli shows the rise in pregnancies of teenage girls from fifteen to seventeen years old. With the movies and television displaying under aged teens getting pregnant makes yesterday’s stigma on teen mothers a “no big deal”. Statistics from both the United Sates and the United Kingdom shows a jump of underage teens getting pregnant in the last three years. With the rise in numbers, more “feminist motherhood movement” supports the efforts of these young teens. From new family structures and society views on greater issues makes these new motherhood teens capable on having both adolescents and motherhood. With all of these factors and many more ways of avoiding getting pregnant there seems to be no real reason for this to be happening. Today’s movies and television shows display teen pregnancy is a part of everyday culture and is not seen as a real issue. As more teens are getting pregnant, it becomes more socially acceptable and the media depicts it as not a big deal. But statistical data is showing a big rise for the first time in fifteen years. The two countries with the highest jump are both the United States and the United Kingdom. In a time, when there are many ways not to get pregnant the numbers...
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...AMERICAN HISTORY POST CIVIL WAR American History Post Civil War Test 2 Growth Of Education In The United States In Nineteen Century Education in the United States has faced great changes toward development in the past hundreds of years. A society that was coming to depend increasingly on specialized skills and scientific knowledge was, of course a society with a high demand for education. The late nineteenth century, therefore, was a time of rapid expansion and reform of American school and universities. One example was the spread of free public primary and secondary education. In 1860, there were only 100 public high schools in the entire United States. By 1900, the number had reached 6,000, and by 1914 over 12,000. By 1900, compulsory school attendance laws were in effect in thirty-one states and territories. But education was still far from universal. Rural areas lagged far behind urban-industrial ones in funding public education. Also, in the south, many blacks had access to no schools at all. The post-Civil War era saw, too, an important expansion of educational opportunities for women. In the years after the war, many of the land-grant colleges and universities in the Midwest and such private universities as Cornell and Wesleyan began to admit women along with men. The female college was part of an important phenomenon in the history of modern American women; likewise, the anthropologists, sought to provide educational opportunities for the Indian tribes...
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...hot topic as of late, and for good reason. The issues surrounding the wage gap include less pay for women, the lack of opportunity for employment and promotion for women, and the gendering of certain jobs that a demised more suitable for women or men. But, there are some steps being taken to counter this. While many parents, including Professor Stehle, are using forms of gender-neutral parenting, there are also efforts being made on larger scales.Engineering is generally considered a man’s job, but The Women and Minority in Engineering (WME) program at OSU is providing outreach to women and minorities in order to broaden recruitment and the interest in engineering. Women Engineering Their Future, Saturday...
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...benefit policies as well as legislation such as the relating to divorce and marriage. Sociologists have different views on the impact of these policies and laws on families. For example, feminists argue that social policies assume that the ideal family is a patriarchal nuclear family, and that government policies and laws therefore favour this sort of family. On the other hand, the New Right argue that the benefit system undermines traditional nuclear families by actively encouraging lone parents. Using item 2B and elsewhere, access sociological views of the impact of government policies and laws on family life. Social policy is where the government creates plans and actions to either benefit or detrimental the society. It has direct effects and indirect effects on the family. E.g. child benefits would have a direct effect on the family. Social policy, also called social execution when pertaining to executive government policy, primarily refers to guidelines, principles, legislation and activities that affect the living conditions conducive to human welfare. There are extreme policies, which have mostly been abandoned now which were the Chinas one child policy, Nazi Germany policy and abolishing the family act in Russia. Chinas one child policy was where all women in China were only allowed one child per family. This way they would get even more benefits and money. If the women had more than one baby, if the government didn’t realize she would get less money if any at all...
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...the American culture, visiting Florida, having a preferably native-born girlfriend, and eating McDonald’s, which are three typical symbols of Americanized character; however, his parents were too traditional to get assimilated as he tried to do that they stuck with their habitual behavior of Russian which stopped them from getting Americanized. During the process of adapting and blending himself in the new culture, he desired to be like a real American boy, to speak to girls, to eat McDonald’s which is typical American food. He considered his identity as an real American, and obviously he left his original culture and heritage behind which helped him a lot on searching for Americanism. He went to McDonald’s to get the sixty-nine cents hamburger, trying to make his family fit into the American culture as well. Nevertheless, when his family brought their own traditional Russian food to the McDonald’s instead of buying the food there like what normal Americans would do, he “felt coldness, not the air-conditioned chill of southern Georgia but the coldness of a body understand the ramifications of its own demise, the pointlessness of it all”(Shteyngart 43), and that was also what felt like “at odds” for him....
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...ORIGINAL COMMUNICATION Obesity, diet, and poverty: trends in the Russian transition to market economy L Jahns1, A Baturin2 and BM Popkin1* 1Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; and 2Institute of Nutrition, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia Objective: To examine trends in macronutrient intake, overweight, and obesity. Design: Cross-sectional samplesFcollected nine times between 1992 and 2000Ffrom the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey provide interviewer-administered 24-h diet recalls and measured height and weight, together with detailed information regarding income and expenditures. Setting: The Russian Federation. Subjects: Women and men, aged 19–55y. Interventions: None. Methods: A nationally representative sample of working-age Russian adults was stratified by gender and income (per cent of regional poverty level). Secular trends in mean energy and macronutrient intake, as well as prevalence of overweight and obesity in the population are described over the first 8y of the Russian Federation. Results: Overall, energy intake increased slightly. Fat, as a percentage of energy (E%), decreased from 39.6 to 31.6% and protein, as a per cent of energy, decreased from 14.3 to 12.5%. Overweight (determined by body mass index (BMI) Z25kg/ m2) prevalence remained relatively stable at about 50% and obesity (BMI Z30kg/m2) prevalence increased from 13.3 to 16.0% of the adult population. Women consumed less...
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