MS. Spring 2008‚ Vol. 18‚ No. 2‚ pp. 42-45 Copyright © Liberty Media for Women Spring 2008. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission. Too Poor to Parent? By Gaylynn Burroughs • Black children are twice as likely as white children to enter U.S. foster care. The culprit: Our inattention to poverty. When a recurrent plumbing problem in an upstairs unit caused raw sewage to seep into her New York City apartment‚ 22-year-old Lisa (not her real name) called social services
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Are Professional Athletes paid too much? Healthcare workers save lives on a daily basis for sixty thousand dollars a year‚ while professional athletes receive millions of dollars merely to entertain. Athletes should be paid well because they must train harder physically than other people‚ they must work even when they are not working‚ and their chosen profession sometimes entails great physical risks. Society believes that once a person is athletic they automatically qualify to become
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IS IT OK TO SPY ON YOUR KIDS? Is spying on your kids ok? Whatever you want to call it‚ spying on your children is an interesting discussion. I do not believe that it is ok First‚ spying is “an invasion of privacy and a violation of trust.” (23) Educational psychologist and mother of a daughter in graduate school said that to describe spying. (22) I think a psychologist/mom would know what’s best. Can’t beat experience and knowledge. Children want privacy. Parents want privacy. Everyone
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Kids Fashion Week The article written by “The Daily Beast” Tom Sykes‚ focused on the effects of London’s “Kids Fashion Week”‚ on children. Sykes started with his own experience as a child. His mother happens to specialize in hand-made clothes‚ using materials like cotton‚ silk‚ and wool. She’s been doing so for over 50 years and does work for all ages‚ especially for young children. He talks about his experience posing for his mothers adverts in the “British Vogue”. He states that the
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Kids shows play a major role in a child’s behavior‚ personality‚ as well as their perception of life. Children can often have an insatiable need for entertainment. Therefore‚ many important factors go into a kids show and make is appealing to the children. Without these certain qualities‚ kids could be uninterested in the show and the show will be regressive. Many things go into a children’s show but there are certain qualities that make the show stand out. One factor of a good children’s show is
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As a British tax-collecting Loyalist living in the colonies‚ it would be an understatement to say I do not feel safe in my own home. After the Parliament approved the Stamp Act on March 22‚ 1765 a measure that imposed a tax on all printed materials for commercial and legal use—including papers that ranged from wills and deeds to playing cards—as a means to pay for the deep debt Great Britain had incurred protecting the American colonies from French and Native American forces during the war‚ which
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between parents and kids can harm their relationships with each other. Many parents don’t realize that their relationship with their kids is really important‚ especially strict parents. Strict parents believe in tough love but that can really harm the relationship between their children and them. This allows kids with strict parents to believe that family can hurt us as much as a stranger can. Both the article Are strict Chinese mothers the best? and Study:’Tiger Parenting’ Tough on Kids talks about strict
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like they should‚ due to the severity of these injuries that happen to their children. In reality‚ the real problems are how parents encourage their children to be extremely competitive on the field and play aggressively‚ the amount of traumatic injuries that occur on the field‚ and how it is affecting the futures of young athletes. These are the reasons why youth sports are becoming too violent to be safe for children. According to Buzz Bissinger‚ “What matters most is the vicarious thrill dad
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Wood frog-protects its organs by freezing solid. Ice wine-frozen grapes-the shrunken nature of the grapes is due to water loss-the less water in grapes‚ the fewer ice crystals there are to damage the delicate membranes of the fruit. Sugar is a natural antifreeze- this is probably why people developed diabetes during ice age (younger dryas) and people nowadays are more frequently diagnosed with diabetes from November to Freburary‚ when it is colder. Natural selection survival rule-LOSE THE FINGER
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SOCIAL ISSUE: PAMPERED KIDS Worksheet Related video (Are You Spoiling Your Kids?): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VKpNlgsk7U (RTHK VIDEO)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjAF6qwShxc INTRODUCTION Definition of Pampered Kids The Phrase ‘Pampered kids’ is same as” (1) _______ ________ “that exhibits behavioral problems from overindulgence by his or her parents. Therefore‚ it should be attributed to the (2) ________ of parents .However what are the causes? The main reason is that nowadays the
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