I don't know what makes more sense than birth order, to tell you the truth. ... Birth order can be a determinant factor for many things. ... Other factors in life can be attributed to birth order such as choices in romance partners; it is advisable to choose partners that are outside of ones place of birth as they can provide complimentary traits specific to their birth order (Simmonds NP). ... Kevin Leman has wrote three books on the topic of birth order, The Birth Order Book, The New Birth Order Book, and The Birth Order Connection: Finding And Keeping The Love Of Your Life; each book...

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Now, although there are some definite downsides to advancements in the technology of plastic surgeries, there are also a plethora of benefits which aid people with physical deformities which were either caused by birth or by some lifetime trauma (Erhardt). ... Since the medical procedures to remedy the issue of cleft lip and palette have become so common, infants with the condition usually have reconstructive surgery soon after their birth. This allows for the scars that result from surgery to heal before the child has developed enough to be psychologically damaged by the birth defect. ...

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Since the dawn of human kind, women have been giving birth. ... Who can elect to have a natural birth? What are the implications for promoting home/midwife assisted births? ... Births by midwives went from more than 50% of all births prior to the turn of the century, to 11% in 1935, to 3% in 1953 (Sullivan & Weitz, 1998). ... Even though elective c-sections pose more risks than vaginal birth and the pain of a c-section continues after birth, a...

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The One-Child Policy is an excellent case study for analyzing how a change in the population and crude birth rates changes per capita income. ... The crude birth rate was 18.2 and 15.6 births per 1000 people in 1980 and 1999 respectively. Although this number may seem small, if the crude birth rate had instantaneous dropped by 1 birth per thousand in 1980, the decrease in the number of total births would have been around 980,000 births. ... In the 1970's "the Chinese government introduced a national family planning programme that promoted a policy of later birth, longer spacing, and fe...

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According to the Washington Post, 16 and Pregnant led to a 5.7% reduction in teen births (Goldstein). That is a whopping 20,000 fewer teen births a year. ... In 2009, there were 39.1 births per 1000 women between the ages of 15 and 19. This was the mark of an all-time low in teenage birth rates. ... The United States has the highest teen birth rate in the first world. ...

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Stage one: in a pre-industrialized country where birth and death rates both fluctuate hastily. ... Stage three: birth rates decrease hence birth control, and increases in wages. Stage four: birth and death rate both decrease. ... This method aids partners to be able to plan births, and never to be struck by surprise. ... Options other than birth control are tubal ligation. ...

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The Effect of AIDS and Birth Rates are falling but Population is not. ... The percentage of those giving birth to just one child rose from 9 to 15 percent during the same time period" (p17). There could be several reasons why there is an increase of those giving birth to only one child. ... Women sometimes give birth at a later age because they are so busy with their career. ... Single mothers represent the bulk of the adult welfare population; such births can be compared to the condition of the poor in Third World countries. ...

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They found that the earliest age that these events could be recalled was two for the sibling birth and hospitalization and three for the death and move. ... The birth of a sibling is especially relevant for a young child because of all the discussion and anticipation preceding the birth. ... The number of participants who responded positively to the sibling birth questions was few and many were unverified. ... The older sibling was asked "Who looked after you when your mother was in the hospital (giving birth to the younger sibling)?" ... Approximately 75% of the participants who could recall ...

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They found that the earliest age that these events could be recalled was two for the sibling birth and hospitalization and three for the death and move. ... The birth of a sibling is especially relevant for a young child because of all the discussion and anticipation preceding the birth. ... The number of participants who responded positively to the sibling birth questions was few and many were unverified. ... The older sibling was asked "Who looked after you when your mother was in the hospital (giving birth to the younger sibling)?" ... Approximately 75% of the participants who could recall ...

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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...

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Abortion is the ending of pregnancy before birth; it results in the death of an embryo or a fetus. ... These categories are based on birth defects, rape, and economics (financial condition of a family). On the issue of birth defects pro-choice activists believe that since deformities and Down's syndrome can be detected during the early stage of a pregnancy a child should not be born to live a life of suffering. ... Regarding the issue of economics, teen pregnancy is also included under this category; abortion is used as a form of birth control because they are not financial stable. ... ...

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Teratogens are any environmental agent that can cause damage during the time between conception and birth (prenatal period) (Berk, 2013, p. 95). ... The most common non-prescript drug used is aspirin and studies have advocate that the regular use of asprin is related to low birth weight, infant death around the time of birth, poorer motor development, and lower intelligence test scores during early childhood although there is other research that fails to support these findings (Berk, 2013, p. 96). ... Babies who are born to users of cocaine, heroin, or meth are at risk for a variety of probl...

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A pregnancy that ends before 37 weeks of gestation resulting in a live-born infant is known as a "premature birth" or a "preterm birth". ... Premature births and stillbirths are generally not considered to be miscarriages although usage of these terms can sometimes overlap. ... IDX is sometimes called "partial-birth abortion," which has been federally banned in the United States. ...

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Introduction Cerebral Palsy is a form of paralysis (a motor function disorder) that is produced through an unending, non-developing prenatal brain deficiency or brain injury occurring before, during, or after birth. ... The symptoms of babies with CP: Physical Symptoms: Defects during birth (curvature of the spine, tiny jawbone, small head) at times occur along with CP. ... This condition may also occur due to an accident suffered during or after birth. ...

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Introduction Cerebral Palsy is a form of paralysis (a motor function disorder) that is produced through an unending, non-developing prenatal brain deficiency or brain injury occurring before, during, or after birth. ... The symptoms of babies with CP: Physical Symptoms: Defects during birth (curvature of the spine, tiny jawbone, small head) at times occur along with CP. ... This condition may also occur due to an accident suffered during or after birth. ...

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Whitehead was given $10,000 and was expected to surrender her own parental rights with the birth of the baby. ... In most cases, it is married couple looking to have a child but cannot do it by "normal" mean since the wife is infertile or has a condition in which she cannot give birth. ...

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An annual survey conducted on prenatal cocaine exposure, has indicated that the usage of cocaine during child birth is extensive. ... The complications from cocaine exposure has exhibited multitudes of defects to the fetus such as low birth weight, deficiency in length, malformation of the fetus, still birth, small head circumference and untimely birth during pregnancy (Schiller, C., & Allen. (2005) ,there is also a high mortality rate from prenatal cocaine exposure or sudden abortion. ... Also a separate study showed that, the language of children six years and nine and a half years language ...

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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. ...

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The work that they were performing can be physically and emotionally draining and they did not want the counselors to burn out. (234-235) In the article Effects of redesigned community postnatal care on womens" health 4 months after birth: a cluster randomised controlled trial, there were not very many qualitative techniques used. ... Quantitative Techniques: In all of the articles except for Effects of redesigned community postnatal care on womens" health 4 months after birth: a cluster randomised controlled trial, there were very few if any quantitative techniques used. ... (Lieberman...

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It is also increases the risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and reduces infant birth weight by as much as 200 grams.1 Women who smoke during pregnancy are at increased risk of spontaneous abortions (miscarriages). ... Tobacco use among pregnant women has declined in recent years, there is still a long way to go to reach the Healthy People 2010 goals to further reduce the prevalence of smoking among pregnant women and of increasing smoking cessation during pregnancy by 30%.3 According to CDC records, in 1999 21% of all U.S. women smoked and 12.3% of women giving birth reported smoki...

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Physical Handicaps: Embryologic abnormalities on environmental conditions operating before or after birth may result in physical defects. ... The most common birth difficulty associated later with disorder like hyperactivity, emotional disturbance and mental retardation is low birth weight. Prenatal condition that can lead to premature birth and to low birth weight include nutritional deficiency, disease, exposure to radiation, drugs, emotional stress, and mother's excessive use of alcohol or tobacco. ...

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A 2012 study in Obstetrics & Gynecology found that women have a much lesser risk of mortality from an abortion, 0.6 in 100,000, while risks of dying from birth total 8.8 in 100,000; around 14 times higher than abortion risks ("Should Abortion Be...... As for the chance of fertility, investigations into post-abortion infertility showed that women who underwent two or more abortion procedures were said to experience future fertility, just as would a woman who had two or more natural births ("The Effect of Induced Abortion"). ... In many cases, fetuses have profound disorders that...

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From birth, children face a number of ready-made roles which they have to apply as they pass through the stages of socialisation. ... The couple here learns their role of a parent at the birth of the child and the child learns its role. ...

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The reader of the novel intuitively waits from the uncompleted and consequently, the imperfect novelistic hero, the acts, which on forces only to the person who has been given birth by the epic condition of the world. That is why the new aesthetic reality, which is giving birth in epic dialogue to the novelistic hero, - is not mutual relation and not symbiosis, but epiko-novelistic quality, endowing with epic weightiness the historically passing novelistic event and problematizing epic integrity. ...

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Mental Disorders Mental disorders make up 15 % of the burden of diseases in established market economies. A mental illness is describe as any disturbance of emotional equilibrium, as manifested in maladaptive behavior and impaired functioning, caused by genetic, physical, chemical, biological, ps...

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