In this case, the birth parents maintain legal authority for all decisions regarding medical treatment and education or special education needs of their child. ... The child welfare agency then works with the birth family and makes the legal decisions about the children, including deciding where the children will live. ... In Pennsylvania, depending on the circumstances, birth parents have the option of holding on to legal rights and custody, or may sign over temporary custody to the kin caregivers (childwelfare.org). ... More often than not, these situations involve a closed adoption arrang...

• Word Count: 1849
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the early 1910s, espousing artificial means of birth control remained controversial. ... In 1914, socialist and public-health nurse Margaret Sanger was arrested for publishing The Woman Rebel, a newsletter that contained articles on sexuality and birth control. ... After the charges against her were dropped in 1916, Sanger opened America's first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York. Over the next few years, Sanger and other activists gained national support as they wrote and lectured widely on the issue of birth control. ... With the support of physicians, birth control ca...

• Word Count: 2720
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this article, The Catechism tells about such themes as sexuality, marriage and its purposes, chastity as a virtue, forms of chastity, offenses against chastity,(lust, masturbation, fornication, pornography, prostitution), homosexuality, conjugal fidelity, fecundity of marriage, artificial birth control, rhythm method of birth control, gift of children, offenses against the dignity of marriage, free union, and trial marriages. ...

• Word Count: 615
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In order to investigate the extent to which the conflict affected the status of women, it is necessary to investigate changes in the following factors: the women's role as a housewife, paid employment, sex segregation, consciousness, birth rates and government policy towards women. ... In opposition to this marriage and birth rates peaked after the war, though again this was a short term trend. ...

• Word Count: 2750
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The author was playing the role of an assistant to Monique, who was an excellent midwife in Namposella, a town commonly known for women giving birth on concrete slab and after a few hours, they return to their normal roles. ... This is because the author claims that women give birth on a concrete slab and after some few hours, they resume their normal routines. The rate of infant and maternal mortality is also high in the region because the author claims that one in every twelve women dies when giving birth while one in every five children do not live to celebrate their fifth birthday. ...

• Word Count: 1541
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Her recollections detail her spiritual journey through a life that was anything but ordinary, fraught with business failures, the difficult pregnancy and birth of her first child, bearing thirteen subsequent children while desiring chaste living; enduring temptation, struggling with lustful urges, and a difficult marriage to a demanding husband. ... After the birth of her first child, a nervous breakdown incurs, causing her to see hideous devils around her. ...

• Word Count: 1321
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One cannot possibly imagine a young girl being married off and giving birth as soon as she is able to do so, what sort of unhappy existence must she have, and the worst part is, years and years of watching this practice being implemented has made it a mere normalcy. ...

• Word Count: 614
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After her death in 1818, she stands remembered as both a patriot and First Lady as well as an embodiment of a republican mother who gave birth to a future President. ... Abigail Adams" account stands as a testimony to the birth and political maturation of the U.S while Mary Todd's story gives insight into the more factional nation of Civil War years. ...

• Word Count: 1568
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many governments have tended to overlook the particular problems resulting from child marriage, including obstetric fistulae, premature births, stillbirth, sexually transmitted diseases (including cervical cancer), and malaria. ... This includes absuma (arranged marriages set up between cousins at birth), bride kidnapping and elopement decided on by the children. ...

• Word Count: 1480
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The play Good Thing was characterized by an engaging cast who lends numerous physical and emotional outbursts to the already explosive subject matter. Considering that action is the main contributor to the actor's believability, it is no surprise that the essentially high quality acting done throug...

• Word Count: 811
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Patriarchy: The term patriarchy is old as civilization itself; however its origins are unclear. It is an ancient term in Greek meaning "the rule of the father" (LeGates, 2001: 11). Originally patriarchy was used to describe the herding societies of the Old Testament, in which the authority of the fa...

• Word Count: 701
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The meaning of family and structure of family is different for everyone among different cultures and countries. In general a family can be understood as a group that are related by birth, marriage, adoption, or living together. As for me, my mother, father, younger brother, and younger sister are my...

• Word Count: 729
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Around the world, same-sex marriage is slowly gaining a foothold. To date, five countries including: The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Norway, and Sweden allow the marriage of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Civil unions, registered partnerships, and domestic partnerships are availabl...

• Word Count: 2402
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

By not legalizing same-sex couple's marriages we as a society are withholding the constitutional rights that every American citizen is "guaranteed" from birth, such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ...

• Word Count: 1321
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The subject of same-sex marriages and civil unions is a highly controversial subject, yet the only answer, without a doubt, is that they should be legalized. Same-sex marriages are the right for homosexual couples to marry and receive all of the benefits that heterosexual couples receive. There a...

• Word Count: 1442
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As a teenager, Rosa gave birth to her only daughter, an illegitimate child of a married man with five other children, as she tired of waiting for the man to join her in New York, she decided to take a job in a factory, and became very close to yet another man. ...

• Word Count: 1045
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They would range from easy transition to cohabitation, managing budgets, birth control methods and prevention of sexual transmitted diseases, the changes within a woman during and after pregnancy, managing anger and other types of emotions, and raising children, just to list a few. ...

• Word Count: 1245
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Does the equal protection clause in the fourteenth amendment guarantee same-sex couples the right to marry? If same-sex marriage were to be federally legalized would the sturdy backbone of our culture be broken? Is it not morally wrong to deny the citizens of the United States of America the basic human right to marry? Is it governments place to define marriage and love? The United States of America is desperately striving to answer these intense questions but it seems that everyone has a different opinion on what is moral and what is lawful. ...

• Word Count: 2296
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The birth of the Social Security legislation in 1935 provided retirement benefits only to those who contributed to the system through covered employment. ... Shifting back to the topic of Social Security, as stated earlier, the goals of Social Security during its birth were to replace an individual's earnings, allow for retirement, and support the elderly. ...

• Word Count: 2482
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

India's nation-state is widely inhomogeneous throughout history between both male and female social status in society. In order to fathom the extent of gender inequalities, a chronological view over three distinct phases ensues. The Women's Movements; Nineteenth Century Social Reform Movement, Twentieth Century Freedom Movement and Women's Rights Movement in post 1975 period, have brought to the forefront a wide range of gender relations. The focused Nationalist Movement was a step forward for women through infinite policies, however it is evident that positive change can only...

• Word Count: 2806
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A Cross Cultural Perspective of polygyny As an institution, polygyny, the social arrangement that permits a man to have more than one wife at the same time, exists in all parts of the world. From our present knowledge, there are very few primitive tribes in which a man is not allowed to enter into more than one union. In fact, ethnologists now believe that only one to two percent of all species may be monogamous (Tucker 1985). None of the simian species are strictly monogamous; our closest relatives, the chimpanzees, practice a form of group marriage. Among the 849 human societies examined b...

• Word Count: 3116
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Other studies have shown that children of divorced families are more likely to use alcohol, cigarettes and drugs, more likely to begin sexual activity earlier, to give birth to a child as a teenager, and to have more pregnancies outside marriage than children of non-divorced parents (McIntosh et al, 2008). ...

• Word Count: 1376
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In many of our societies, we see our relationship with others, such as close family that bond by blood and those around us who care a lot about as, who contribute towards our lives as a depend and categories them as a kin Martin explains that gendering start early childhood when girls are forced to wear pink and boys blue, since your birth parents, care takers, nurses will immediate as coming out of the mother womb dress the babies in pink and blue reflecting what gender they are. ...

• Word Count: 1494
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many female characters in 19th Century texts are caught between a need for independence through working, and a need for security, through marriage and the taking on of domestic duties as a housewife. They must choose between the uncertain prospect of setting out on their own and the extensive limita...

• Word Count: 1558
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Recently homosexuals have been trying to change the proper and current meaning of marriage into one of their own, allowing people of the same sex to get married. Currently there is no federal mandate allowing same sex marriage, however 17 states have already given in to the demand for same sex marri...

• Word Count: 1757
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate