According to statistics, the average complication risk during an abortion is under 1%. The death rate is, on average, about 7 per each million procedures. ... There is also the issue of families on welfare and victims of physical abuse. ... Women of families on welfare might also choose abortion. ... If a family feels strongly that at that point in their lives they could not care for a child then the option of abortion should be given to them. ...

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Many batterers learned violent behavior growing up in an abusive family (Walker 1980). An estimated 3.3 million children are exposed to violence against their mothers or female caretakers by family members (American Psychological Association 1996). ... Males who witness family violence are more likely to batter their female partners as adults than are boys raised in non-violent homes (Georgia Department of Human Resources 1992). ... Children living in family violence are often themselves victims of abuse by the batterer, the battered, or both (Walton 2003). ... Children in homes where domes...

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According to IAGD.Net, the average American watches over 4 hours of TV a day. ... Shows that portray the perfect family, such as "Leave It To Beaver" and "The Brady Bunch," leave viewers with a feeling emptiness if their own family does not meet the standards of the make-believe "Hi honey, I"m home" families of television. These shows falsely represent how the normal American family should look, act, and be like. ... Brady resolves each problem within the family by the end of each 30-minute episode. ...

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From the "Media and the Family" web site, I found a very scary statistic. It said that by the time an average child, who watches two to four hours of TV per day, finishes elementary school, they will have witnessed 8000 murders and over 100 000 other acts of violence on TV. ...

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As the number of TV sets in a household has increased, family viewing has declined, and individual program selection and solitary viewing have increased. The average weekly viewing time has increased annually in American households, from 43 hours in the early seventies to 50 hours in the mid-nineties (Buchanan). ... General advice to families should include that there be no television sets in children's rooms where parents cannot see what shows their children are watching. ... An appropriate strategy includes having all family members decide on how much television will be viewed and activ...

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The Comparison of Sexual and Violent Offenders There are very evident differences between the average sexual offender and the average violent offender, but there are also several similarities between the two. ... Journal of Family Violence, 9, 357-369. ...

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Programs containing violence are shown throughout an average day. ... "Children who view shows in which violence is very realistic, frequently repeated or left unpunished, are more likely to imitate what they see." (1) The effect of T.V. violence may show immediately in a child's behavior or may become known years later, and youth can be affected even when the family environment doesn't display violence. ...

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On average, young children watch about 100,000 acts of violence before they are through with their schools. ... The impact of T.V violence may be immediately evident in a child's behavior or may surface years later and young people can even be affected when the family atmosphere shoes no tendency towards violence. ...

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" The National Institute on Media and Family conducted a study on fifth graders, ten year old girls and boys told researchers they were dissatisfied with their own bodies after watching a music video by Britney Spears or a clip from the television show "Friends" (Gentile 168).Adolescent's mental perception of what they look like can become distorted, leading them to engage in risky behaviors when they feel they don't measure up to the impossible goal set in front of them. ... Also, parents should ensure that all family members are getting a nutritionally balanced meals...

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While some children go home to loving parents, others must deal with families who are violent, neglectful or abusive. ... These children have to overcome various obstacles in life that the average child does not. ...

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This is why most families prefer to not publicize their events, in caution of the court records or news media getting ahold of what's going on and release it. ... The negative occurrences are the ones that get the largest amount of attention from the media; they broadcast time for these events on average air longer than they top plays that are performed during the games. ...

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Media surrounds us, more than ever in the 21st century. To the point where we as a society can agree that it influences us if consumed on a regular basis. Most of the time we do consume it, consistently, whether it be audibly or visually. Media outlets, such as music, movies, video games, television...

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In the United States children watch an average of three to four hours of television daily (Cantor & Wilson, 28). ... While visiting family in California, my two nephews kicked me as I walked in to the living room where they had been watching television, and they just laughed about it. ...

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