The closest they would get to see their mom was a Facetime call every now and then. ... Women who work and place their children in child care experience a greater stigma than men in the same position. ... There is also a greater satisfaction with child support amount when negotiated in mediation. ... You should also reduce conflict if possible and speak positively about the other parent in front of the child(ren). ... Allow your child to remain and child and do not always use them as the clutch to get them through. ...

• Word Count: 1993
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A parenting technique that is very effective is "take everything away for a short period of time, we call it TEASPOT". ... However as a parent have you lied and has you child witnessed this? I"m talking about the occasions when someone calls and you tell your child to tell them you"re not home or you"re busy. ... Children do not have the developmental capability to differentiate between what many call "white lies" and just plain lying. ... Counting to your child, "I"ll count to three, then you had better- only teaches your child you don"t mean what you say til three. ...

• Word Count: 1840
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Amy Chua, a mother of two and law professor at Yale, published a best-selling book called Battle Hymm of the Tiger Mother. The book talks about the parenting style of what she calls a "typical Chinese mother". ... In the New York Times article called Amy Chua is a Wimp, David Brooks explains his opinions and concerns about Amy Chua's book. ... Why would a parent want to take away that bliss from a child? ... If a parent is the main source to their children's mental distress, can they really call themselves a successful parent? ...

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This may seem to you as forcing communication, but nevertheless your child needs to know they are loved. ... When a friend of your child rings the household, and you happen to answer this call, before handing the phone over to your child, the role of inquisitor may be assumed. ... This will not only provoke feelings of guilt from your child, but a change of heart may also pursue. ... Another way to sincerely provide your child with good parenting is to daily Model a Good Marriage. ... When your child starts to become somewhat older, around the pre-teen years, it is recommended that you st...

• Word Count: 1460
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• Grade Level: High School

According to these articles, "An Undergraduate Dad" and "I am going to be a dad" they both affirmed that the father of a child would be more than happy to be a part of their child's life. ... In the Rochester City Newspaper an article called "When Boys Become Fathers" written by Tim Macaluso explains to us that what we don't know about teenage fathers hurts them --- and their children because of all the misconceptions society has of them. The biggest misconception about teen fathers is that they don't want to be involved in their child's life, ...

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With factors such as higher divorce rates, single women choosing to keep their child based on un-expectancy, non-marital births, abandonment, or even financial difficulties, a child may not be fortunate to grow up with both of his or her parents. ... The first factor being analyzed is the child's ability to retain and learn in an academic setting. ... The last factor being looked at will be the child's health. ... In one presented study, families were called randomly and interviewed via telephone and either the husband or wife was selected for each call. ... Another participant name...

• Word Count: 1932
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As the child gets older and should have more independence. ... This time in a young adults life is called the "rebellious" stage. ... Helicopter parents are setting their child up for failure by doing this because when the time comes in the child's adult life they will not know how to come back from failing. ... If a helicopter parent does everything for their child then that child never learns how to come up with their own motivation. ... This is something that helicopter parents are prying away from their child. ...

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"Well honey, yes you are adopted, but you are our child so it doesn't matter" she replied. ... "You are our child and you do not need to know anymore.... I called I spoke to an adoption agent and her name is Sharon. ... In the book they wrote, "We love kids, however Brianna is our daughter and she will only be our only child.... Sharon was going to give me a call when they get back to her. ...

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She then gave her maid, to her husband so that she could produce a child for them. ... The author explain how every male donor should be able to have contact with their child, and that the identity of the donor should be given to the child once their older. ... This research was conducted to examine if a child that was born from its biological mother and a child conceived through surrogacy. ... This study examined the impact of surrogacy on mother "child relationships as well as the child's psychological adjustment. ... The purpose for the article called "Surrogate pregnancy " by Rei...

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After the surveys were analyzed and correlated it is clear that there are some connections to certain behaviors (i.e. reading to their child, coming to school functions, having a positive relationship with their child's teacher, and a feeling of responsibility for the academic success of their child) of the parents that translate to the academic success of the child. ... Is there a correlation between their behavior and the academic success of their child? ... Often parents are seen in the school only when they are called in for disciplinary reasons. However, when parents show regular and...

• Word Count: 1544
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I just couldn't believe it that a child who only two years old has such a vocabulary and she was interesting in everything she was running around milkeyway and touching everything that possible and I asked Judy and Mark to tell me about birth of their child. ... "Second time it wasn't that bad it was actually very exciting because you can see your child and you can see how your child look like and Philippa had bound nose" both parents said laughing. ... Also second time when Judy had sonogram it was hard because child inside didn't want to turn they couldn't fid her heart...

• Word Count: 1450
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• Grade Level: High School

Who wants to argue with a child after a long day at the office? ... There needs to be a balance between a parents emotional closeness to their child with setting limits on what the child is expected to do and what they are not. ... Parents are forgetting that every child develops at different rates, and they are not competing with their neighbors for the exceptional child. ... Such as, a young child who is trying to gain her parents attention by banging on the table continually while her parent is on a phone call. ... It is the parents" job to teach the child that there are priorities in l...

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The amount of time child and parent spend together are equally important, including conversations and identification that may exist between parent and child. ... Parental imprisonment results in the absence of a significant figure in a childs life. ... Regardless a child is more prone to delinquent behavior if the parental influences are divorced. ... Wadsworths study called, Roots of Delinquincy, presented longitudinal studies of homes broken by divorce, desertion, or separation. ... Adoption has been seen as the best solution to three problems: a biological mother who cannot, will not, or i...

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Role modeling is an important aspect to raise a child. ... The general standard for custody of a child is "the best interests of the child" (Katsh 199). ... The best interest of the child is going to the parent who will provide most for the child. ... Malina, the couple's daughter, said that she calls Will her "Daddy," and Marcellin her "Papa." ... The child grew up to be a heterosexual. ...

• Word Count: 2000
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• Grade Level: High School

Parents are very influential in the way their child views his or her surroundings. ... Raising a child is sometimes a difficult task. ... Treating a child this way has the potential of influencing a child in a negative direction. ... A child growing up in a neighborhood full of poverty is often going to have a different outlook on life than a child growing up in an upscale neighborhood. ... Esperanza also calls people outside of her neighborhood stupid. ...

• Word Count: 1635
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A parent's bond with her child should be strong and unbreakable. This shows the child that the parent loves and cares for her, so that the child feels safe. ... The bonding process between a mother of father and their child should be consistent and stable throughout the child's lifetime. ... I would go to my room and pretend to be asleep so I wouldn't have to talk to the cold hearted man my mother made me call "dad.... A broken, destroyed matrix is like death to a child; it delivers nothing but fear. ...

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Both of this quotes show the constant moving that lead to the children not being able to recall every place in which they called "home". ... These responsibilities are also needed to care for a child's basic needs. ... In the end parenting does not have to determine a child's future. Good or bad parenting does not determine which child will succeed and which child will fail. It is all determine by the child him or herself....

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Attachment Styles of Incarcerated Parents Most research analyzing parent–child contact amid a guardian's imprisonment has centered around the observations and disposition of detained folks (Tuerk & Loper, 2006) as opposed to on kids' encounters. ... Discoveries from likelihood tests of detainees in the United States have discovered that few detained folks get standard visits from their youngsters, despite the fact that letters and phone calls happen all the more often (Glaze & Maruschak, 2008; Mumola, 2000). Keeping up contact can be troublesome for some reasons, including area...

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I called my mom and told her. ... Then she said that I could give the child up for adoption but I refused that option also. ... I worried over how I was going to tell my father, he would probably beat the child out of me and I wasn't looking forward to telling him. ... The next morning my mom called and talked to my father. ... I called my mom at work and asked he what those pains were and she told me that the baby was coming. ...

• Word Count: 2423
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As a child, Maya was sent away to her Grandmother in Arkansas because her mother was having marital problems. ... She started to feel like she didn't belong because her father nor her mother wrote to her or called to see how they were doing. ... When she enters the house, he calls her close. ... She was now a person who adores her child, unlike her parents did and she looked at life differently. ... She is taunted by her peers and the white race, sexually abused by a man who should have cared for her as his child, neglected by a selfish father, and deserted by her mother. ...

• Word Count: 1681
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According to the book "The Development of Children," the cost associated with raising a child in 1999 from birth to the age of 17 was $157,000. ... It helped that my father would call and write to us on a regular basis, but the intangibility of his presence superceded his efforts to assist my mother with the responsibility of raising two young children and an infant. To deal with the tiresome and stressing situations that accompany child care my mom would engage us in games to keep us preoccupied. One such game was the "quiet game" in which the objective was to see which child could stay qu...

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The expectations, and pressure put on a child can be rough, especially when they are coming from their own parent. ... This piece is about a father's threat to his child if the child does not go to college. ... She eventually stopped coming home and the only contact I would have with her were drunken, suicidal calls or text messages at two in the morning. ...

• Word Count: 1286
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• Grade Level: High School

When a child is young, he looks to his parents for help in identifying his role in society as a man. As the child grows older, he looks to his parents for guidance as to what course he should take in life. ... Controlling one child's actions or future can cause some very serious psychological abuse. ... Todd is obviously a very shy child, who would do anything to keep his parents happy. ... For example, Nwanda pulls the "phone call from God" trick in order to gain attention. ...

• Word Count: 1967
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My mother was very happy too because deep inside her heart, she wanted to have another child. ... After nine months, we're just getting to the hospital called "Promater" on a sunny day with a lot of wind, typically weather for my city, almost a perfect day. ... We arrived early to the hospital and waited for almost one hour to get my mother in preparation to be called to a room. ... We stayed there for almost an hour, having conversations about my brother that would be called Luigi, something that we had already set when we discover that it was a boy. ... After a long time, few families m...

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The drunken Ab Sadovsky has violent tendencies and would beat his daughter regularly when she was a child: " when her father slapped her years ago, sent her flying across the room and against the sharp edge of the table." ... After he is wounded in a knife fight, he begs Steve to stay, against the wishes of Steve's parents, to keep him company: Legs forms a gang called Foxfire with her four close girlfriends to whom she devotes her life. ... Legs forms Foxfire because it mimics the structure of a family, of which she was never a part of as a child. ...

• Word Count: 1475
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• Grade Level: High School