On the other hand, if the children came from a poor family, where their parents could not support them , the state could remove the child, or children, from their family and contract them (by agreement) as an indentured servant. ... While the colonies are educating its younger people with strict rules and regulations, the Quakers had developed a type of family life that echoes John Locke's ideas on child rearing. The Quakers believed in a peaceful and purified household environments, voluntary love marriages, financially independent conjugal households, and tender child rearing. ......

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These families differ from those of today in the areas of family structure, family cycle which includes mate selection, marriage institution, family member roles, child rearing, and later life, family controls and censures. ... When a child was born, it was first laid at the feet of its father. If the father picked the child up, it was then known that the father accepted the child as his own, and admitted it to the rights and privileges of the family. If the father was to refuse the child as his own, the child would become an outcast, and would be put by the r...

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As a future teacher I think that it is important for parents to be invovled in their child's education. Are schools responsible for making sure that parents are involved in their child's education? ... A few examples are: Schools assist families worth parenting and child-rearing skills. ...

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Hence, this puts pressure on her ability to raise her own child. ... The play "Living Out" touched based on race, class, immigration law and child rearing with two families with different cultural backgrounds. ...

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Motherhood was no longer seen as every woman's maternal instinct and was claimed to be not sufficient enough for child rearing. ... The issue of combining child rearing and career also arose. ... If a woman can bring a child into this world, it should also be her choice not to bring a child into this world as well. ...

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This must be done before the child support payments are over two weeks late. ... Arresting dead beats dads will certainly put an end to non payment of child support. ... This program would include the importance of a father figure in a child's life, financial support and benefits to the child. ... No food, automobiles, or clothing for the father or the child will be provided. ... With this extreme approach, fathers will have a much better understanding of child rearing. ...

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Great decrease in the proportion of women favoring large family, both husbands and wives should be able to work, have roughly similar opportunities, and share household responsibilities and child rearing. ... Another type of couple that need not be married is the young couple with the pregnant single mother who are just getting married because an un-expecting child is on the way. There are other options other than just getting married, having the child, fighting disrespectfully in front of the child and then getting a divorce. I feel they are just doing more damage to the child than if they we...

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When children are young,a large population of parents display consistent favoritism toward one child over another which leads to negative responses in their teenage years. ... In some instances "the eldest child says,'It's only fair that you give me a later bedtime than my younger brother because I'm older!' ... One of the first places in which jealousy can rear it's ugly head is in the sibling relationship. ... In the family, when parents have a favorite child it can create a lasting impact on less favored children and on the favorite child as well. ... Again th...

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When children are young,a large population of parents display consistent favoritism toward one child over another which leads to negative responses in their teenage years. ... In some instances "the eldest child says,'It's only fair that you give me a later bedtime than my younger brother because I'm older!' ... One of the first places in which jealousy can rear it's ugly head is in the sibling relationship. ... In the family, when parents have a favorite child it can create a lasting impact on less favored children and on the favorite child as well. ... Again th...

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Justin is the second oldest child with one older sister, as well as a younger brother and younger sister. Sarah is the oldest child, with two younger brothers and one younger sister. ... Our first child was born less than a year into our marriage, and she wasn't even a year old when we found out we were expecting again. ... After each child was born, her employer would decrease Sarah's hours without asking because she felt Sarah needed to be at home with the children, not because Sarah wanted fewer hours. ... Of the delineated tasks required of this stage, Justin and Sarah have foun...

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Plato's plan seems to rest upon the notion that by implementing communal child rearing and by treating the entire city as one family, he can have the benefits of the private family, namely the unity it creates amongst family members, without the injustice it creates.  ...

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Everybody's parents reared them in many different ways. ... The leadership portrayed by parents paints a long-lasting picture in the child's mind, therefore making a better mold for his character to develop in. ... If a parent rewarded his child each time he done well, the child would see that it pays to do well and follow rules. Parental support makes a huge difference in how the child develops. ... The religious beliefs taught to a child can and will make a monster affect on them. ...

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People should vote and file a petition to change the system of our government that married couples should be prepared and do some kind of community services regarding child-rearing, or propose a town meeting that will discuss a healthy relationship that will benefit their role as parent and as husband and wife as well. ... The importance of having two parents in a child's life has a great impact on their behavior and personality. ... Our current welfare system encourages the formation of "the mother-state-child family" and Uncle Sam has become a marriage partner and "father" as a last res...

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When she was a very small child of "toddling age." ... After adopting her, they lovingly reared her. ... The Valmonde adopted and reared her. ... Madame is surprised at how the child, a boy, has grown. ... Come with your child." ...

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Johnson was the middle child, fourth from the oldest out of all her brothers and sisters. ... Families actively play a role in gender-role-socialization by the ways in which they organize the environment for the child. ... Research has shown that a mother's child rearing style as well as her own beliefs on gender roles has a major influence on daughters. ... They had one child, her youngest son out of this union. ...

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This literature put the home at the center of a woman's life with child rearing the most important aspect of home. ... There was also the feeling for some that they were failing in child rearing. They were being told that the "most primary and inviolable of human ties was the one between mother and child" (Gilder 81). ...

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Each child is unique, so the short and long term functioning of the children after divorce varies widely. ... This can be associated with a child's disturbed eating, sleeping, play and toileting, (Wallerstein & Blakeslee). ... In a study done by Judith Wallerstein, she tracked 131 children of divorced parents 10 and 15 years after the divorce, she found that diminished parenting continued permanently, disrupting the child-rearing functions of the family. The role of the child becomes one of warding off the serious depression that threatens the parents and holding the parent together. Wall...

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In truth, studies show that marital satisfaction decreases for one or both spouses during the child rearing years. One or both parents claim this for reasons such as no time and energy for their relationship and having a child adds financial restraints. Marital status does, in fact, increase when the child or children grow up and leave home. ...

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It is fair to say that Cathy Earnshaw really was a handful as a young child. To keep a child of this vitality in order is a challenge in itself, however Mr Earnshaw's case he has to raise young Cathy as a single parent. ... Further on page 43 we read that in response to Cathy's plea for love Mr Earnshaw says, "I doubt thy mother and I must rue the day we ever reared thee!... Go, say thy prayers, child, . ask God's pardon.... The speaker, who is said to be the child DH Lawrence, distances himself from his parents by calling them merely "two voices" not 'moth...

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After an eight-hour drive, I arrive at home for a well-deserved vacation. I spend a little time with my family before going to my old bedroom and lie down. Lying there in my old bedroom brought back many memories from my childhood. I will never forget that old bed that was handed down through the...

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When the parent(s) of the child do not assume the necessary role that a parent must fill for a child they will emotionally damage the child. ... Once Clara became pregnant with Lecon's child, the family fell apart and the family lost respect for both Lecon and Clara. ... During Clara's pregnancy both girls were sent away to a convent to have the child. ... Once the child was born, Ida returned with Christine, but Clara did not. ... There was not enough time for the necessary child rearing to be done by her parents. ...

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I. INTRODUCTION - BACKGROUND Weight loss, a problem that has been haunting many people, is a billion dollar industry. Unfortunately, the industry is fueled by our society's portrayal of how the average American should look. Think about it, how often do you see a truly average looking American i...

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