Essays 751 - 780
of such states as Montana (Anonymous, 2005), Rhode Island (Roman, 2006) as well as Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Ne...
or other individual. The goal of child welfare services is to provide an array of prevention and intervention services to children...
Given that serious depression too often leads to suicide, it is a problem that simply cannot be ignored. Numerous factors enter i...
eligibility is determined by age and health status. Implementation difficulties reflect the perpetual absence of adequate funding...
have been abused themselves will inevitably abuse others if in fact they do not get help. Simpson (2000) writes: "In those familie...
of the agencies are broad, there has been criticism waged (Hick, 2002). For example, child protective services do not address issu...
after a period of detoxification passed, the teens began to reconsider this position and reconsider their past lives. From retra...
media campaign and treatment received the least (32 percent), (Drug Policy Foundation [DPF], 2000; ONDCP, 2000). A RAND study indi...
toward personal rights the Warren Court upheld was met with great consternation by conservatives who believed the Supreme Court ju...
drug use, there is good reason to rail against the problem. How can a community organize against drug abuse? First, what is orga...
took place due to the better opportunities for Muslims in the Ottoman bureaucracy (John, 2004). This may have been the first hist...
doctor can be more dangerous than people think. In fact, its drug abuse. And its just as illegal as taking street drugs. Whether ...
to articulate and enforce some type of punitive steroid policy. The current penalties for positive use are as follows: Offense/...
the increased propensity of our nations youth to use drugs can be traced back to the same root reasons as the other problems which...
harm in which a child sustains physical damage and emotional harm in which the charge is endangered psychologically. This harm ca...
two of which occurred while she was incarcerated (Ackerman, 2004). Psychiatric patients are forbidden to engage in sex, "but San...
more quickly than that (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). The most negative aspect of cocaine use is of course the possibility o...
(Nester, 1998). The physical harm a child incurs as a result of child abuse, of course, is inextricably coupled with the...
and poverty has been established for many years, and it may be argued that it is the less well-off social classes children will al...
many motivated families waiting for help; the resistant families will call back when they finally feel the need; there is no need ...
community. This is when inner cities begin to influence public policy to such a point that "efforts to reverse drug prohibition f...
that "as a consequence of their illness they may find themselves living in marginal neighborhoods where drug use prevails" (Hatfie...
an overseeing entity be in place that looks out for the interest of those that cannot look out for themselves....
(physical, sexual, and emotional), neglect (physical, medical, and educational), abandonment, and multiple maltreatments that enco...
fiction? Before examining this issue in greater detail, it should be noted that scientific research oftentimes classifies any ins...
inadequate parenting and emotional abuse? 2. What do studies suggest about the impact of emotional abuse? 3. What are the long t...
myriad of ways. For example, someone might become "street wise" and make sure their pocketbook is held tightly. They can continual...
in the abuse at Abu Ghraib. Although attempts have been made to blame this abuse on "low-level personnel" at the facility rather ...
states, "The queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickl...
behavior. This concept of "mother blaming," then, has influenced the view of low-income families, single-parent families and the ...