Aging Baby Boomers -- can America pay for their retirement? Social Security Administration officials are now reporting that as Baby Boomers leave the work force‚ America is facing the lowest ratio of persons working per retiree in the history of the program. Boomers‚ like much of the current working American population‚ have paid into Social Security for most‚ if not all‚ of their working lives. This being the case‚ what’s all the fuss about? Is there a crisis concerning the retirement of Baby
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Designer Babies Picture a young couple in a waiting room looking through a catalogue together. This catalogue is a little different from what you might expect. In this catalogue‚ specific traits for babies are being sold to couples to help them create the "perfect baby." This may seem like a bizarre scenario‚ but it may not be too far off in the future. Designing babies using genetic enhancement is an issue that is gaining more and more attention in the news. This controversial issue‚ once thought
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as it truly is‚ there are hundreds of thousands of newborns that are being born with active drug addictions. Unheard of by many‚ the reality of newborn addictions is something that has been on the rise for quite some time. In fact‚ the number of babies being born with drugs in their systems has increased by about a quarter between 2010 and today. This epidemic is a problem that people need to build awareness behind. Although some would prefer that this remain an invisible secret‚ tucked away in
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Shaken baby syndrome is a serious medical condition that results from a severe form of child abuse. Shaken baby syndrome (SBS) can also be called abusive head trauma (AHT)‚ inflicted traumatic brain injury (ITBI)‚ whiplash syndrome‚ and lastly‚ shaken impact syndrome. Regardless of which name is used to refer to it‚ shaken baby syndrome is one hundred percent avoidable. A British pediatric neurosurgeon Norman Guthkelch‚ was credited with developing the medical theory in 1971 that laid the ground
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Ecology Global Network (2011) stated that approximately‚ 131 million babies are born per year in the whole world. From that amount‚ .28 percent are born as drug-addicted infants. In other words‚ around 375‚000 babies are born each year with this disease. How is this created? It all comes‚ sadly‚ from the mother and the way she treats and cares of herself during the pregnancy process. Once you are addicted‚ to almost anything‚ is very hard to control yourself or to make the choice to stop completely
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Chopin’s "Desiree’s Baby" is a timeless portrayal of one woman’s startling descent into hysteria and the societal pressures that bring on rapid and uninhibited panic. Desiree unknowingly becomes the victim of her husband’s hierarchical cover-up- he puts the blame for the child’s condemned skin color on Desiree when he is in fact of black descent. This forceful allegation‚ compounded with other accusations of not being white that presumably take place outside of the home‚ in effect drive Desiree and
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E1-Summarise the factors which may influence the health and -development of babies in the first year of their lives There are many factors that affect health and development such as environmental factors‚ for example‚ a lack of space in the garden or outside play area will limit their gross motor and fine motor skills. "Generally‚ people with a high level of earnings enjoy a better lifestyle‚ with better housing‚ better food‚ warm clothes and own transport." Meggit 2001 page 9 Genetics are also
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The Blur of Having a Premature Baby In the United States‚ there are one in ten babies is born premature. It is important to know the complications of premature babies and how to try prevent having a preemie. “A premature birth is when a baby is born before 37 completed weeks of pregnancy. A full-term pregnancy is 40 weeks” ("Premature Babies." MedlinePlus.). Knowing a person that has had a premature baby makes knowing the possible affects interesting. Things that are good to know are health
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“Mom! Why was I not a designer baby?” “Well‚ sweetie‚ your father and I did not have the money to design our own child like all of our friends were doing at the time.” “I’m not as smart as all of the other kids in my class. I cannot run as fast as they can‚ and I cannot play an instrument like all of them can. I’m stupid! And it is because you did not design me to be any of those things‚ so now I am not good at anything!” Sadly‚ this is probably what the world’s new generation of children would
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Designer babies are genetically engineered babies. According to the dictionary‚ it is “a baby developing from an embryo created by in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and selected because it had or lacked particular genes‚ the genetic make-up often having been modified by genetically engineering.” (Designer baby‚ n.d.). IVF is the process whereby an egg is being fertilised outside the body by a sperm cell. The choosing of embryos brings to the cutting edge a large moral issue with designer babies. Many embryos
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