The basics concerning how these programs work - and what must be included for a program to be a real "family preservation" program -- are in NCCPR Issue Papers 9 and 10. Issue Paper10 lists studies proving the programs' effectiveness (National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, 1999). ... The National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics is intended to serve as a guide to the everyday professional conduct of social workers. ... Funding for child welfare services is an issue, though, and is still a major concern. ... New models to address child protection issues are badly...

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Social and Psychological Effects of Death I am going to look at the characters from Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" and characters from Robert Frost's poem "Home Burial", and take a look at the emotional struggle that these characters go through from a psychological perspective and the different ways these characters handle death in their own unique but somewhat similar ways. ... The central issue in this poem is the death of a child, and this problem has not been addressed by the parents whose lives are in strange suspension. ... The couple also wishes to remain in a s...

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The issue with this kind of clarification on the other hand, is that it doesn't consider why these laws have changed in any case. ... The two clarifications portrayed above have altogether different ramifications for social strategy, particularly in connection to how the issue of expanding conjugal insecurity may be managed. ... Moreover, the experience of social laborers, working in the region of family welfare proposes that limiting a few's entrance to separate would at times serve just to intensify existing conjugal issues (Johnson, 1981). ... It is hard to know on the other hand,...

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The Family and Divorce The family is one of the foundational social institutions in all societies. ... Throughout history, people have completely change their stances on social issues. ... People of the late 1800's elected a divorce reform league in order to conduct studies on family issues. ... The nation viewed that the problem branched from moral and social problems. ... Families have less connection in the new age, as opposed to when farm land, money issues, and businesses held a family together. ...

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There were certain adverse economic conditions and social issues that affected the dynamics of the family because of the daily pressure and strains that the mom had to endure and as a result the relationship between Essie Mae and her mom suffered. ... In Essie Mae case, the socioemotional effects of racial issues that existed in the immediate setting of her neighborhood had an influence on the relationship between her and her peer group. Essie Mae's ability to cope with issues of race affected the way in which she interacted with white children in her neighborhood. ... In her quest of "tr...

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The long term issues can result long term suffrage of psychiatric disorders. ... (Stiffman) Many adults suffer with long-term issues caused by child abuse everyday. ... These three groups are titled social factors, family factors, and parental factors. Social factors are factors like poverty, alcoholism, drugs, and economical issues. ... (Stiffman) The effects can be mentally devastating and can cause many social problems for adults later in life. ...

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With historical background and throughout the last decade the issue of weather or not feminism had made a positive impact on society had raged. Although the issues are complex , and the opposition argues that feminism does not provide a positive direction for society for the following reasons. First, negative social change andsecondly, the breakdown of family. ... Social changes have also take a significant roll in destroying out society due to feminism. ... They would have had a two parent house holds and been raised out morels and issues as in the 1950's. ...

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Surrogate Motherhood: Potential Conflicts Cannot Be Ignored Anton van Niekerk and Liezl van Zyl aim to address the moral issues of surrogacy by comparing it with prostitution. ... They claim that surrogacy is not similar to prostitution: women's reproductive labor is distinguished from other forms of physical labor because the product is a child, not an object, and it involves social and psychological process of both the surrogate and the commissioning parents in expecting the child (346,347). ... However, since surrogacy is still a controversial issue, we can never overlook potential ...

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I believe that a major contributor to the moral and social decay within American society is the breakup of the family unit. ... "Such effects include depression, withdrawal, poor social competence, various health problems, and poor academic performance" (Gottman 4). ... Divorce is a nationwide social issue that should be regulated more closely by government officials and agencies. ... The couple independently, "may be coming into marriage with assumptions on some minor issues, but when two people disagree about an issue, it can cause problems and hurt feelings" (Cherlin 52). ... The magnit...

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In a country heated by the debate of just who should be elected as our president or our government officials, tension rises among parties giving us a look into the way different parties work and how they align themselves according to different political issues. ... Libertarians believe in balancing their conservative views with liberal ideas in social matters. ... Although personally I side with a majority of these issues I find that there are a number of issues that are not addressed in this typology. ... The other political issue that comes up today is the national debt and lack of jobs. ....

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So needless to say, travel is not an issue. ... Social media has allowed families, regardless of where they live in connection with each other, to stay in touch and socialize in ways that only happened on special occasions. ... I can communicate with relatives across the country daily if I choose to or vice versa, whereas it may have been six to twelve months between conversations prior to social media. ... We have several people in my family that don't see "eye to eye" on certain issues but out of respect for my mother, those members try not to let their differences interfe...

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And take moral and social responsibility for your own life. ... Quite often, the failure to separate family issues from business issues causes conflict that can threaten the future, or even the survival, of the family-owned business. ... Or the two parents might unite against the children on a particular issue. ... Or the latest "soap" social issue - alcoholism, sexual abuse, teenage pregnancy - might be in many people's minds and conversations. ... Also having a parent with a secret or socially disapproved of difficulty such as mental health pr...

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The show, while warm and humorous, confronted delicate social issues, such as sensitivity due to the Second World War. ... In 1974, a series developed by Garry Marshal entitled Happy Days issued popularity to this era. ... The show became the first notable series to address racial, ethnic, and social issues within the home. ... The Bill Cosby Show confronted the social issues that pertained to a black upper class family. Both programs represented conservative issues that the majority of American families faced at this time. ...

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The relevant and controversial ideas and issues highlighted throughout, allows for an understanding upon society's values and racial tension of the time. Consequently, Gibbons cleverly emphasises that through family values and social attitudes, individuals can gain knowledge upon how distant larger families struggle to convey sanction and responsibility for their own, unless for their own social gain. ... Through and exploration upon family and social life of the set time of Ellen Foster, the audience gains an understanding upon human experiences of the time. ... Throughout "Ellen ...

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Jeannette is particularly interested in social acceptance and she feels that it would be impossible for someone like her mother or her father to be socially accepted while continuing to display such socially inacceptable behaviors. ... As a social worker, Jeannette's family would be a tremendous challenge due to her parents currently falling into the motivational interviewing definition of "pre-contemplation.... Since Rex and Mary Rose remain in this pre-contemplative state throughout the duration of Jeannette's memoir, it is difficult to put an exact social work approach togeth...

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According to the book Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action, a social problem is be defined as "a social condition that has negative consequences for individuals, our social world, or our physical world" (Leon-Guerrero, 2015). ... Poverty is just one of those social problems that some people may not view as an issue anymore. Poverty is a social problem alone, but poverty may also be connected to many other social or health problems and consequences for a family. ... Even though poverty is a huge problem alone, many other issues come with it. ... Some of these health i...

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Up to the middle of the year my group of friends and I would laugh at the other students who looked weird or make fun of the students who were socially awkward. ... One boy who was a junior in high school as well, but had some developmental issues, was subject to bullying. ... My beliefs about social status' and popularity disappeared and I realized that diversity is a good thing. Children who are looked at as different or weird, may have social anxiety or developmental issues, but they all have a story and are very friendly and caring people....

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Men's social status and power are much higher and bigger than women. ... Modern parents now share this responsibility together because of social and work constraints. ... In modern society, the social emphasis and degree of concern for women has been an unprecedented increase. Along with the development of social process, it will develop towards in a good direction in the future. Third points, the issue of child labor are existing all the time, not only in traditional society, but also in modern society. ...

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The problem is that children who are at-risk and their families are distressed, isolated from the community and have a lack of social skills and support. ... Some developmental issues that exist revolve around both social and cognitive development. Based on Erickson's psychosocial model during the ages 5-12 issues regarding industry versus inferiority evolve. ... This can be a real danger because they may start to feel like social worth is more imp...

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This social fact of her life, as well as the others I will point, reflect C. ... To do so, he said, one must have knowledge of the social and historical context in which people lived (Andersen and Taylor, 5). ... My grandma explained that she usually deferred to her husband unless the issue was of great importance to her. One which was very important was her husband's "rage" in response to issues which she considered to be insignificant. She did not consider this rage to be an issue of gender inequality, rather to her and James" increasingly differentiating political and religious views. ...

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Even now this is still a social norm. ... Studies have shown that although the crime rate as well as automobile accidents are low, the number of DWIs issued is outrageous. ... Whatever the case maybe, wives should not have to pay the price for a social norm. that they did not ask for, but instead were born into. ...

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Relationships are the most important things in life. And marriage is one of the most important relationships. Having said that, it becomes even more important who arranges the marriage, whether its ourselves or someone else like our parents or friends. Th e issue has taken the place of an im...

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Social Control Theories take a sort of opposite approach from other theories in criminology. ... It is these four bonds that make up Hirschi's Social Control Theory. ... One's acceptance of social norms and the development of social conscious depend on attachment for other human beings. ... Hirschi argued that people who live in common social setting share similar human values. ... They also have more difficulty in school, both academically and socially (Stone 1972). ...

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When someone is not accepted by their classmates during their elementary school days, the child often begins to develop trust issues and has a hard time trusting others because they develop the idea that no one will accept them. Other environmental factors include a family member being so overprotective that they forbid their kids to participate in social situations. ... Another example of my mom forbidding me to participate in social situations was when I was a kid; I could recall that a lot of my adult family members such as aunts, uncles, grandparents etc. would come to our house to visit m...

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All the members of the Kahn family have some form of issue that is relative to the dictatorial way the family is ruled, and the fact that the dictator will not tolerate intermarriage between Pakistanis and anyone else. ... He is distraught when members of his social circle ask his sons if they speak Urdu, and they answer no, to the point where he has to explain himself for his sons" inability to speak it. ... Social change is made to seem immanent, and to be caused by conflict between differing beliefs; in this movie, said conflicts are religiously based. ... One such example is the social e...

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