Contributing factors include: family problems, throwaways, homeless families, residential instability, foster care and other residential programs, institutional contact, and socioeconomic pressures. ... A homeless youth can be defined as on "who is in the need of services and is without a place of shelter where supervision and care are unavailable" (Caton p. 21-22). These definitions imply that a runaway child has somewhere to go where he or she would be cared for, and that a homeless child does not have this luxury. ... Studies report that many respondents have extensive histories of conta...

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One health consequence of poverty includes a child being obese. ... Children may develop many physical health consequences. ... These health conditions are due to poverty but are also linked with inadequate housing. ... Regarding low birth weight, a woman who is pregnant and not taking care of herself during her pregnancy is harming her child and herself as well. The newborn may not have the birth weight required because the woman did not take proper care of herself. ...

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According to federal guidelines, benefits may be disbursed in one of the following ways, or in a combination of any of the following: cash benefits, food stamps, medical assistance, job training, day-care assistance, transportation assistance and/or housing assistance (housing allowance is provided only once in a lifetime). ... The other 50% (fifty percent) is used for job training and placement, education and day-care assistance for women (or men) who return to work" (Finsterbusch 229). ... Department of Health and Human Services, a family of three making less than $15,260.00 in one year is ...

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How Overpopulation Causes Social Problems How Overpopulation Causes Social Problems Introduction The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how overpopulation causes social problems. To do so you must take many things into consideration, such as different views of racial problems and conflicting definitions of a social problem. Social problems can be defined in many different ways. They effect everyone and some of us encounter problems everyday as a result of our race, religion, gender, or low income. Others experience problems from technological change or declining neighborhoods, others a...

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As a result of their employment and housing situation, Morris suggests that they are more like to have health condition and be subject to violence. ... " The women work long, enduring hours as live-in caregivers and/or nannies caring for other people's children and home. ... Most significantly, 19% of women work part-time to provide care for children or to take care of other personal or family responsibilities, compared with 2% of men. ...

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We as a concerned and caring nation need to combat these unjust labels and help those who need it, not just those who qualify. ... They were severely mentally ill, for instance, or end-of-the-line substance abusers-people incapable of caring for themselves, unable to keep themselves housed, and newly visible because of drastic changes in policies that had previously kept them institutionalized in hospitals or jails. ... Families that qualify for AFDC also automatically receive Medicaid for coverage of their health care costs. ... Specifically, recipients participate in training programs in ex...

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Moreover, female education has a disproportionate impact on fertility rates, levels of public health and social progress. ... Improve maternal health 6. ... Better health for women and their families. ... This will dramatically lower infant mortality and morbidity leading to much improved general health for the new generation. 3. ... Educated mothers are far more likely to drive their children to attend school and to receive health care. ...

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Social Mobility in the United States? Abstract: The focus of this paper will be social mobility in America. My expected findings were that upward social mobility is declining in America, social mobility depends on race, income, mother and father occupation, and ethnicity. The method of research that I used was literature review. I found that 1) upward social mobility is more likely for a white individual than a black individual 2) upward social mobility among the lower classes is decreasing and downward social mobility is increasing 3) upward social mobility does increase the higher the person...

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Under the care of Mrs. ... Even though the health problems at Lowood were common there; the outbreak of typhus brought Lowood into the public eye where the living conditions at Lowood were found unacceptable. ...

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Bhutan is a small landlord country nestled in between China in the north and India in the south.The nation is well known to the rest of the world due to the philosophy of Gross National Happiness which was introduced by His Majesty the 4th Druk Gyalpo King Jigme Singye Wangchuck in the year 1972 wit...

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