(Santrock, 2010) The study published by Zill et al in 1993 was not unique; many subsequent studies show that many children from divorced families suffered mal effects as a result of the separation (Santrock, 2010) and studies have shown that children experience substantial distress following divorce (McIntosh, Burke, Dour & Gridley, 2008).The resilience of children is strong however and most children adjust well enough following divorce (McIntosh et al, 2008). ... Children who have an even, easy going temperament and those who respond well to stressful events generally go through a divorce wi...

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According to Hutt et al (1989, p.10) early years emotional and social development depends vitally upon outdoor play. Strickland et al (2003, p.2) states that outdoor play is critical to the social development of early years' children, mainly during 3-4 years and particularly girls in terms of building confidence. This view is supported by Johnson et al (2002) in that young children gain a variety of opportunities during outdoor play to develop their social skills and social competences (such as jumping, running, climbing, hide and seek and explore the natural world unchallenged). ... Al...

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Beckwith et al(1992), Eshel et al(2006) and Landry et al (2008) are some people who have previously worked on a similar problem presented in this paper(Child Development pg.1198-1208). ... Sarah Whittle et al (2013) are another group of people who researched on a similar problem as well. ...

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Macaluso Children that experience maltreatment during early development have been shown to experience a wide range of social, emotional and psychological sequelae (Kaufman et al., 1989). The research from Flynn et al. (2014) focused on the effects of maltreatment throughout early-mid and mid-late adolescence. ...

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These maladaptive behaviors include: "inconsistent enforcement of rules, low amount of time spent with children, low educational aspirations for children, low maternal affection, maternal possessiveness toward their children, maternal use of guilt to control children, loud verbal conflicts between parents, poor control of anger toward children, poor parent-child communication, poor supervision, poor maintenance of the home, regular cigarette smoking in the presence of the child, and verbal abuse directed toward the child" (Johnson et al, 2001). ... It is posited that "relative to nondepres...

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Boys are assigned warfare tasks such as fighting, kidnapping and stealing (Klasen, Fionna, et al). ... The study also showed that boys had higher scores for trauma than girls, but there was not much difference in mental health outcomes (Klasen, Fionna, et al). ...

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Risky play can be defined as play that can pose potential risks or occurrence of injury, with the "involvement of heights, speed, dangerous tools, or near dangerous elements, and where children can get lost" (Brussoni et al., 2012). ...

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Juvenile Reform: On the Right Track? Fifteen people were found dead, and over twenty-three were left wounded. Two gunmen, part of the Trenchcoat Mafia, walked into their school at 11:30 am in Littleton, Colorado and started firing. Although this is not an everyday occurrence, juvenile delinquency...

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Aggressive behavior is commonly defined as behavior that is intended to physically or psychologically hurt another person (or oneself) or to damage or destroy property. Aggressive behavior is a characteristic of an at-risk child. It is argued by some that for a behavior to be termed aggressive the a...

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It is clear that there are indeed possibilities for both positive and negative consequences to arise from early childhood attachments. It most be noted that these consequences can be either short term or long term and that it is possible to reverse certain negative consequences whilst others are likely to be irreversible. A variety of research has suggested that there is a critical period, or sensitive period when forming attachments in early childhood. Bowlby (1969) argued that this critical period ends between around one and three years of age and that after that it would not be possible ...

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On a semi positive note, Fisher et al. (1992) did discover that although ACOAs are generally thought to be classic examples of codependent adults (because during their early childhood development, being parented by one or more alcoholics leads them to develop habits of codependency), in this respect the ACOA group was found to be no worse off than the other groups. ...

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