Jean Piaget's theory is well known of the cognitive development which is also called an "ages and stages" theory because he found out the stages that the infant and child go through to develop. ... The child cannot cope with adult logic. ... He is against stages although his principle where learning occurs is called zone of proximal development (ZPD) where adults with more knowledge lead them through it for the child to cope with tasks that are above their abilities. ... Every child is born with the elementary mental function and through social interactions, the child develops the more co...

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The fight against child labor was another area of progressivism that got good response from federal politicians. ... Lewis Hine, a muckraking photographer, took shots of child labor and raised public sympathy for the children working in such awful conditions. ... Spokesmen for the child labor movement similar to these aroused growing discontent of the government's lack of child labor laws and eventually pushed the federal government to restrict child labor. In 1916, during Wilson's presidency, the Child Labor Act was passed, outlawing companies from using children under fourteen yea...

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Neutrality in Child Protection Mediation: An Analysis The research investigated in this study of the child protection services was clearly described. ... Although the issue of neutrality in child protection services has been examined in the past, this study bring about the use of comprehensive interviews with family members and other professionals involved in mediation and other child protection processes. ... These interviews proved to provide essential contributions to the child welfare and mediation literature. Extensive, long-term research into the issue of mediation in child p...

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An early study by Kempe and Kempe (1962) on child battering led to a spate of research to be done with the same focus - child abuse. ... Child abuse is when an adult harms a child or young person. ... Emotional abuse - This includes verbal abuse, being called names, being threatened. ... Child abuse in Sport To date there have been very few research studies into child abuse in sport. ... As with child abuse in society in general, it is hard to establish the frequency of child abuse in sport. ...

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Back in China, for over 30 years, the Chinese government has exercised a policy called "One Child Policy". ... The overall impact of the One Child Policy during the time period of 1980 to 1990 is what I will be primarily looking at. ... Finally in 1979 Chinese government decides to strictly impose One Child Policy. The One Child Policy states that any married couple in china will only be allowed to have one child. ... The One Child Policy has helped China avoid this situation....

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The movement to develop an area of practice called children's law is largely an outgrowth of the development of the child protection or dependency court system. ... This is frequently the role of the child's attorney in child protection like abuse, neglect and dependency cases. ... Second, counsel is a child advocate, working to have the child receive care, treatment, and guidance consistent with his or her best interest. ... Also, the article questions whether either an attorney or a parent can ever adequately determine the best-interest of the child without the child's input a...

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This would make the jury doubt the evidence given by the child. ... For example, Lepore and Sesco (1994) conducted an experiment where four to six year old children played with a man called "Dale". ... Therefore, if the therapist believes that the child has been abused, the child may give information about being abused as the therapy goes one. ... They found that child said little during "free recall" technique. ... In conclusion, the above examples provide good evidence that there are major flaws in the investigations into child abuse cases, in particular the interviewing of the ch...

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The One Child Policy was beneficial to the government. ... These children who are not registered in family register, so-called Haohaizi, are composed of illegally sold or abandoned children. ... Nonetheless, China recently eased the One Child Policy. ... The original One Child Policy allowed for just one child per couple. ... Since the current generation of China is mostly affected by one child policy, it can be said that the one child policy is almost reversed. ...

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The One Child Policy appears to have succeeded in one of its aims "a declining birth rate. ... Demographers estimate that about 100 million people in China have been raised as an only child. Due to this, there is a growing emergence of children with Little Emperor Syndrome (as the Chinese call it). ... The One Child Policy has pressured parents to abort, kill or abandon their only child if it is female. ... So far, one of the most encouraging impacts the One Child Policy has had is on the environment. ...

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Not enough critical attention has been paid to this aspect of the novel, which realistically reflects the state of child welfare in the 19th century. ... The group called themselves the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (SPCC), after the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), which was an organization in England that had existed for about 50 years (Waldfogel 71). ... In situations where control and power are abused, especially when a child is concerned, someone is always taken advantage of. ... In addition to child-based programs, it would have been ...

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As a consequence, the 'one-child policy', formerly called the 'family planning policy' was introduced. ... (See Appendix B) The situation is quite different in rural areas; families are eligible to have a second child if their first child is a daughter or suffers any kind of disability, albeit a second child is subject to birth spacing, which varies from 3 to 4 years. Permits to have a second child in the rural are do not apply if the family migrates to urban centers. ... Families that volunteer to have only one child are awarded a "Certificate of Honor for Single-Child ...

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The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 President Bush signed The No Child Left Behind Act in 2001 as part of his educational reform plan. ... In 1969 congress passed an education reform act called the Elementary and Secondary Educational Act. ... Basically, the group's intent is to define what the No Child Left Behind Act is and identify its implications. ...

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As social workers, one of the most difficult things we'll face when undertaking child abuse assessments is discovering that child neglect or abuse is actually taking place. ... There's no single, identifiable cause of child maltreatment. ... Call the child's home to set up a home visit. ... Sometimes with intervention the primary concern of child welfare has been child protection and safety, sometimes to the exclusion of the child's broader welfare. ... When an intervention is formulated in the best interest of the child it is important to take the child's perspective ...

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As a child interacts, he or she must learn to interpret a wide variety of complex cues and requirements. Problems arise when separate requirements conflict with one another or with the child's own perceived needs and, at times, it is difficult for the child to understand that these requirements even exist! ... Finally, the child must also learn the appropriate ways to meet his or her own needs. ... In some way, each of their theories assumes that moral development follows a pattern in which the child progresses from fulfilling the needs of the self to fulfilling the needs of the whole....

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It is this relationship which is essential for the child's security, and it is breaks in this relationship which Bowlby believes leads to psychological disorder. ... A young child may be separated from one or both caregivers for a variety of reasons, including divorce, death or hospitalisation. When the separation involves the loss of the primary attachment figure and consequent bond disruption, it is called deprivation. Bowlby's maternal deprivation hypothesis states that if the child experiences prolonged periods of separation such as those already stated, then the child will be at...

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The passage of this bill ensures access to child care by prioritizing foster youth who are parents for subsidized child care. ... One key reason for this is a lack of reliable, affordable child care. ... We call these systems of care "deficit-driven." ... Second, Senator Yee's legislation puts into place a voluntary, specialized case conference, where the pregnant youth, together with their social worker, extended family member and others knowledgeable in the area of maternal and child health, develop a plan for the birth of the child and related issues, such as how the birth of the child...

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The birth of a sibling is especially relevant for a young child because of all the discussion and anticipation preceding the birth. This event usually includes many changes in the everyday life for the child and is therefore more likely to be remembered. In comparison, a death is not well understood by a young child and usually will not be as easy to remember. ... One group was asked to use their memories as well as their family knowledge to answer the questions (called the report group), whereas the other was instructed to only use actual memories in their responses (recall group). ...

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A study in behavior and development in relation to child G, aged 2 years, 8 months. ... The so-called Little Albert Experiment; where Watson used conditioning methods with an eleven-month-old boy to show fear when confronted in controlled conditions with a white rat, using sound association to invoke fear; visually demonstrated that it is possible. ... In Bronfenbrenna's ecological model, place the child at the center and assess the influences radiating outward in importance to the child's development. ... Child G's father was physically abusive to her mother and at times child...

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Berk's ninth edition Child Development text book last published in 2013. ... Some health problems are delayed and may not show up for decades and then there are also psychological consequences such as others' reactions to the child and the child's ability to explore the environment (Berk, 2013, p. 96). After the child is born and entering infancy, they begin to move around more to which parents should have realistic expectations of what their child can accomplish involving the child's motor development and that it will take time for the child to perfect it. ... Adults tend...

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The practitioner told the parents that the child was being healed, after 2 weeks he told the parents that he believed that the child may have had a broken bone. ... In the Swan case the parents left the church shortly after their son's death and formed a child advocacy group called CHILD ("Victims", 2000). ... However, a child who can not make there own decisions, or a child that is unconscious, can be treated against the parents request under a doctrine called "parens patriae" which says that the state will not allow a child's health to be seriously jeopardized because of the parent...

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There are roughly over 10,000 cases, within San Diego County, that deal with some kind of child neglect and/or abuse. ... There are three different locations and facilities associated with Casa; Child Development Center (CDC), Residential Services (RS), and New Directions Transitional Housing (NDTH). ... The staff member, who has been there a shorter amount of time than myself, called in the another staff member where they discovered the wrong sheet was up and continued to tell the girls that they would still be level dropped if they decided to eat the food that was now cooked. ... Casa along...

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A team from the University of Michigan did find in studies that every TV show a child sees increases slightly the likelihood of a child to become more aggressive. ... The popular violent military focused game, Call of Duty, is credited to be one of the most brutal games out there. ... Call of Duty and a large portion of the violent video games are losing sales which show they are not as popular as they once were (Guarino 2). Though I do agree that Call of Duty is a violent video game, I disagree that it should be avoided because it is informative and has benefits. ...

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The Solution: After reviewing the child's enrollment information, the principal called the mother and described the situation to her. ... I will call my attorney here in town." ... The mother's attorney then called the principal and informed her that he was on his way to the school with the child's mother. ... The sheriff called, and the principal placed his call on a speaker phone so all could hear his report on the research he had done on the out-of-state custody paper that the father had presented upon his arrival. ... She knew the sheriff on a first-name basis, and he k...

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Bowlby (1990) described attachment as one aspect of relationship between caregiver and child, which is involved in making the child secure, protected and safe. ... Third pattern which is called anxious avoidant attachment in which the individual does not feel assured that when he will seek for help and/or care that his caregiver will respond helpfully and instead of that the individual is expecting to be rebuffed. ... Throughout the years there has been some remarkable proof such as John Bowlby's research called 'Forty-Four Juvenile Thieves' which is a clear evidence that patt...

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The other technique is called mainstreaming. ... As the term discribes there are many reason why a child is tagged as a learning disability child. ... This technique doesn't leave the exceptional child in the dark; it helps the child learn in a regular classroom, where that child can meet new friends. ... When the schools use mainstreaming in preschool it reduces the rejection and alienation that compound the burden of the handicapped person or learning disability child is to recognize that all children are different, that each child is unique, and to bring to bring together in natural se...

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