...Running Head: THE EFFECTS OF CHILD ABANDONMENT The Effects of Child Abandonment Shawna Upchurch Liberty University Abstract- This is about children being abandoned not only in Romania but also all over the world. Most of the time it is from birth but sometimes the child could be older. It gives you an idea about what happens to children when they are abandoned mostly in Romania. How they are places and what is being done to prevent this from happing worst then what it already is. Key Terms: Children abandonment, Romania, United States, Vilonia. Child abandonment is a major issue in the world not just in one country or in one year. It can happen at any time of any day in any country around the world. Some would just focus on one city or country like in the research by Rebeca Scorcia Popescu. Her article focuses on children between the ages of 0-3 years old in Romania from the years of 2003-2013. In this article she speaks about what cause abandonment and what is being done about it to decrease the numbers. In the introduction she stated that “in Romania children are abandoned usually by their own parents in different institutions.” (Popescu,(2016) pg. 1) This is true with any children that are abandoning. Most of the time it is by the parents because most are too young or they do not want children. If the parents leave the child after birth somewhere besides a place that can help them, then that child life could be at risk. In Vilonia, Arkansas that was a newborn...
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...Neagle English 111 30 October 2015 A Parents Impact on Their Child’s Religious Beliefs “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Prov.22.6). This is just one of the many verses of the bible that people have fought over its meaning and its application. The big fuss comes about because many people you take away a child's choice and ability to decide for themselves. Oftentimes parents teach their children their religion from an early age so they stick with them for the rest of their lives. Nowadays a lot of children who grew up in the church are falling away from it and going about life on their own. But what exactly do parents do to keep them in the church? The religious beliefs of a parent not only affect their life, but can also change the way they think and what they believe both religiously and not. They call this kind of upbringing brainwashing, because you are raising them to thinking what and sometimes how you think. As a parent you are to train a child in the way they should go through life in regards to their spiritual walk. They are teaching them about their religion at earlier and earlier. According to Wendy Thomas Russell in her PBS article “How young is too young to talk to your kids about religion?” kids between the ages of 4 and 6, are prepared to start exploring spiritual ideas and concepts. Although this is true at the ages of 12 and 13, it may be too late says Ms. Russell. They do this so the child grows up with a...
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...A Long Day's Journey into Night Should “A Long Day’s Journey into Night” be considered an example of Naturalism? Why or why not? Naturalism depicts the realism of events, occasions, life and people. It considers the inescapable force of heredity, social conditions and environment in shaping human character. An intensive analysis of the “A Long Day’s Journey into Night” clearly shows that it is an example of naturalism. This argument is supported by the following facts and discussions. The play has the quality of naturalism evidenced by the unfolding nightmare realities of family life right from the beginning to the end of the play. At act one, Mary, James’ wife is treated from the addiction of morphine and seems to abandon the habit and tries to assume a new life. In some occasions she opted to sleep alone to seek self comfort by avoiding the snoring of her husband. She shows great improvement in health and everybody in the family is happy about her change. Surprisingly, this new life without morphine does not hold long, she is forced by her unhealed addiction and breaks loose into it. The family stress of Edmund bad health, James and Jamie alcoholism may have contributed to her further indulgence into morphine. The fact that one of the family member contracts tuberculosis seems to be anticipated as it is revealed Mary’s father died of it. This case objectively support naturalism, it explains that the disease was passed through...
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...today whose human rights have been violated by female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). This harmful practice not only affects girls and women in Africa and the Middle East, where it is traditionally carried out, but also touches the lives of girls and women living in migrant communities in industrialized countries. Although collaborative advocacy has worked over recent decades has generated widespread commitment to end this practice, success in eliminating FGM/C has been limited, with some significant expectations. This harmful practice is a deeply entrenched social convention: when it is practiced, girls and their families acquire social status and respect. Failure to perform FGM/C brings shame and exclusion. Understanding how and why FGM/C persists is crucial for developing strategies that are most likely to lead to the abandonment of the practice. FGM/C affects far more women than previously thought. Recent analysis reveals that some three million girls and women are cut each year on the African continent (Sub-Saharan Africa, Egypt, and Sudan) (Yoder, 2004). What is female circumcision? Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) includes a range of practices involving the complete or partial removal or alteration of the external genitalia for nonmedical reasons. The procedure may involve the use of unsterilized, makeshift or rudimentary tools. When the practice first came to be known beyond the societies in which it was traditionally carried out, it was generally...
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...structure of the family he lives with. Today, as we speak of a family, it could mean only two things: complete or broken. No matter how ideal a family is in terms of their relationship, there are still hardships and misunderstandings but sometimes, families give up leaving a family broken. Philippines; a Church – Devoted country, is now partially influenced by the western culture regarding the formality, legality, and holiness of marriage. The dissolution of marriage is now accepted and practiced in the society; however, it may be possible to make a marriage void but it is not an easy process because it entails damages to the couple and conflicts to the children. This is why we chose this problem, it is for the purpose that we may be able to know what causes a Filipino family to be broken and its effect to the children involved. It is very important for us to study this...
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...The LGBTQ+ community has been fighting for their equal human rights for years now. The community has made a lot of headway, specifically in the homosexual community. Homosexuals were recently granted the right to marriage equality by the United States Supreme Court. This is a right that in some states, was already granted to the homosexual community. Now, the entire country has to honor, accept, and allow same sex marriage. Even though this is a right that should have been granted to this community a long time ago, there was still a long and tiring fight for it. Now, the same thing is happening but with homosexual parenting. As we all know, two people from the same sex can not create a child. So in homosexual communities, if artificial insemination...
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...about it because I think that it’s about time that we do something about the exploding population in the Philippines because I believe that it is one of the main reason why many Filipinos suffers from poverty. I think that controlling our population will help to ease poverty in our country. I always see parents who have many children and sometime they can’t fully support their family’s needs especially on foods and education. Because of that there are so many children and adults that are malnourished and some don’t have proper shelter so they live on streets and under bridges. there are also many students drops out in school and join gangs and do illegal activities like taking drugs and do petty crimes, some drops out because there parents cant support their education so they married early and make the mistake there parents did. Some of these parents abandon their children or give them away to their relatives because they can’t raise them anymore but they continue on having more children because they don’t know anything about family planning. So I believe that the government should teach them family planning even using artificial method even many religious churches disagree on it. It is also important to educate the youth like me on the reproductive health because there are so many young girl I know that getting pregnant and some of them think that abortion is the solution of their problem, not knowing the danger it will do to them and may lead to their death. There are also many...
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...Legislation mandates that, wherever possible, children with exceptionalities be educated in mainstream education classrooms with other students. As a result, a teacher’s role and responsibilities have become increasingly complex. List some of the common characteristics of gifted students, and specific ways in which a teacher could accommodate the needs of a student who is gifted in the mainstream education classroom. Exceptional Verbal Skills-When a gifted child begins to speak (which often times is early) they possess large vocabularies, use complete sentences and talk incessantly. Incredible Memory- Gifted children soak up learning experiences around them like little sponges and remember things with little practice. Oftentimes, when being read to, they will pick up on it if an adult leaves out a word in a favorite book. Some even have a photographic memory. Insatiable Curiosity- Gifted children constantly ask "why?". Their curiosity knows no bounds and they can be exhausting at times because they never tire of asking questions. Many Interests- Interests for gifted children can be more advanced and cover many different subject matters. Some gifted children may be consumed with learning only one topic. Other gifted children may change interests so often that it frustrates their teachers and parents. Interested in Experimenting-Gifted childrens' inquisitive nature lends itself to taking things apart and trying to understand what makes things 'tick'. They may also mix...
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...idealizing what we do not have, and later realizing that it is not what we had hoped. The story begins when Lourdes, a single mother, decides to leave her children, Enrique and Belky, in Honduras, hoping to make enough money in the United State to support them. Lourdes loves her children and that is why she was willing to miss out on their childhood in order to support them. Although Lourdes understood that her move was more beneficial than detrimental for her...
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...When a baby is born their birth parents keep the new baby. In some cases the birth parents cannot or will not keep their new baby. Some children later in their young lives are without parents. These babies and children can be put in foster care or can be adopted. Adoption is when another family legally becomes their new parents. There are appropriate ways to let a child know they are adopted and to answer their following questions as well as address their feelings. Children can believe they were not wanted because they may have done something bad and her parents did not want them. It is up to the adoptive parents to answer any and all questions. Some children from another country are adopted. The parents have to tell the child...
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...infant. Why does this teenage young woman get pregnant? The answer is, there are many causes of teenage pregnancy. Obviously, the problems of baby dumping will keep arising as the number of teenage pregnancies is on the rise. The teenage pregnancies is the reason why implementing the character-based curriculum which includes sex education in schools and colleges is crucial in helping youth make right choice regarding high-risk behaviour such as having sex before marriage. The mentality of some politicians, parents and teachers who think that sex education will only teach youngsters to get involved in premarital sex should be avoided. The teens should also read good books and articles or surf the internet to get information on the dangers of premarital sex and its consequences. They should also attend character-building, moral uplifting and sex education programmers. They must be knowledgeable so that they will not fall into any plot or trap. In order to occupy the time the teens should join outdoor activities, uniform bodies or take up music classes to stay away from bad hats. Besides, the teenage mother also receives lack of support from their boyfriend and parents. Clearly the teen has to make the decision alone, and they do not have anyone to turn to and the man by then is not there anymore. To them, it is their fault because they are pregnant. If the man still stays and is willing to get married, the possibility of dumping the baby will not happen. Meanwhile, the parents will...
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...the foundations of the adoption system are related to how the world was. The matter in which children are adopted is still based on primitive ideas of the past. Forty years ago, the idea of a single mother was an unthinkable and shameful situation. Women were expected to be proper and wait for marriage before making love to a man. The social opinions were important and life altering at that period. Society has conformed to a less conserivative outlook over the past years. The opinions of other people is not relevant in the twenty first century, people do as they please with no concern of others judgments. Along with the change of how people think, a change in the system should be required. In the past closed adoption was used to protect the birth mother’s name and not bring shame to the baby. In this new time woman, more often give up a baby because of money issues or age, not for the fear of gossip. All adoptions should be performed in an open adoption system. Open adoption provides a solution to the emotion distress involved in adoption and has more good aspects then that of closed adoption. Closed adoption is an impersonal trade-off of a new born from the birth mother to a doctor or lawyer then passed to its new adoptive family. There is no interaction between adoptive parents and birthparents, making the situation cold and worrisome. The birth mother does not know the...
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...of Parental Responsibility Act requires that parents take equal responsibility for the costs of raising their children. The Act begins with a presumption of a fifty/fifty sharing of physical placement of the children between the parents, and neither parent would make support payments to the other. This presumption does not apply if either parent is shown to be unfit. The parties may stipulate to a different placement arrangement under the following guidelines. A per diem cost for raising children, based on the costs of domestic service providers, food, clothing, medical insurance, shelter and entertainment, determined by analysis of actual market costs shall be established by the Department of Health and Human Services. The cost of domestic service providers shall include the cost of day, evening and overnight childcare, doing laundry, food preparation and clean up, chauffeuring children and any other services required when one has children. The parties may stipulate that one parent will pay the other a minimum of 90% of the per diem cost of raising the children, for any days above 183 per year, for which the non paying spouse takes physical placement of the children. Taxes and social security shall be deducted and paid for the portion of this per diem cost which is service related. All divorcing parents will be required to take a parenting class. A. What the Equal Sharing of Parental Responsibility Act will do The Equal Sharing of Parental...
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...single parent home where children often feel abandon, searching, and missing one parent or another and no explanation of what has happened, the diversity in it, is this applies to children in general – no color-disability, or culture can fix this, but a book to let you know you are not alone and you can make the best of your life and future. I love the illustrator of this book the story could be felt in the pictures that were so cleverly done in collogue, with watercolor and the transparency in the pictures showed the multicultural thread. This next book was not on the list because the library I was using did not have but two of the books I was looking for and was suggested by the librarian – TAR BEACH by FAITH RINGGOLD – this book is a CALDECOTT HONOR BOOK and so endearing to me as I was given a story quilt when I was a child, a way to hand down heritage and family air looms with in a quilt that told a story of your family history. Faith Ringgold uses hers in the illustrations of the boarder in each page along with painted pictures, this is used to tell a story of a girl and her family and how she dreams someday of flying to freedom and going anywhere she wants to and buying factories for her father, a dream to be free of prejudice. Faith preludes to this in the book when she mentions her father cannot join the steel workers’ union because he is half black and half native American. The family lives in Harlem and spends many of evening upon the tar roof with her parents and their...
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...medicine and science. Smaller family size. 2. Give 5 reasons why the birth rate has fluctuated since 1901? Over the past 100 years the birth rate has been declining in the uk from 28 per 1000 in 1902 to about 11.3 per 1000 in 2003. Exceptions to this trend is the post war baby boom of 1920 and 1947 as men and women delayed families by separation during the two world wars. Baby boom 1950s-1960’s when the standard of living increased and when there was low unemployment. Welfare state helped families Values and attitudes had changed eg rise of feminism- Women wanted careers instead of having children or delayed having children because of this. Children no longer needed for labour. 3. What does the graph show? The graph shows the fluctuations of birth rates which was at its highest in 1921. Shows the predictions of death an birth rates showing them to be much more similar then they have been in the past. 4. Give 5 reasons why the fertility rate has changed since 1901. Compulsory education- Economic liability and a drain on the recourses of the parent because the children have to be supported through education. Parents have therefore begun to limit the size of there family to secure themselves so their children can have a higher standard of living in child centred society. Changing position of women- Women have gained more equality and now want to focus on having a career, they either don’t have children or delay child birth till a later age....
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