The Impact of Parental Substance Abuse Upon Children Leighsa Machus California State University‚ Bakersfield‚ Antelope Valley Abstract Children of substance abusers face tremendous disadvantages. They are exposed and vulnerable to situations that may affect their psychological development in damaging ways (Wolfe‚ 1999). These children are also at risk for a myriad of abuse such as physical‚ emotional‚ sexual abuse and neglect. Research has documented the ways that substance abusing parents
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Parental Responsibility and Smoking Perhaps one of the most explosive public issues‚ with distinct moral dimensions‚ is what parents are responsible for in their children’s behavior‚ including health-impeding ones such as smoking‚ drinking‚ and other matters. Although in some states it is illegal for those under 18 to smoke in public‚ never mind what the parents’ views are on the matter‚ we can consider the issue apart from this fact of the law. Once again the issue is one of context‚ not of categorical
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The Law of Negligence appears relevant in this situation. In (Gerbic and Miller 2010 P.430) the three principles to determine Negligence are: i) Was the plaintiff owed a duty of care? ii) Is the defendant in breach of that duty? iii) Was the loss caused by the breach and was it foreseeable? It will also need to be determined as to whether or not Jenny the owner is vicariously liable for the actions of her employee and if Mr Toxopersona is responsible for a proportion of his own negligence. Mr Toxopersonas
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Negligence Advice Case According to the law of negligence a neighbor is a person that should take reasonable care to avoid acts that can be reasonably foreseen. This can also be seen in the Donoghue v. Stevenson (1932) case‚ “On the 26 August‚ 1928 Donoghue and a friend were at a café in Glasgow. Donoghue’s companion ordered and paid for a bottle of ginger beer for Donoghue. The ginger beer was in an opaque bottle. Donoghue drank some of the contents and her friend lifted the bottle to pour the remainder
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communist victory in April 1975 with the North Vietnamese conquering South Vietnam. Cause of the Vietnam War The Vietnam War occurred from a result of two causes. One cause had to do mainly with the Vietnamese and one cause had mainly to do with the Americans. The causes of the Vietnam War roots back to the end of World War II. The Vietnam War
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Cipla 2011‚ Harvard Business Case‚ March 27‚ 2012 1°) Since AIDS was identified in 1982‚ various entities have been aiming at limiting the expansion of the pandemic. However each of these entities has had a different role and thus different results: * The World Health Organization has had a critical role through the coordination of the different actors involved. It has obtained significant results in terms of treatments coverage in the last few years. Its action has been completed by the UNAIDS
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sufficient money or material possessions for a life of moderate comfort.In some cases it is not only the state of having income that is below the line of poverty but it is also the inability to sustain a specified level of well being. Poverty is the cause of crime: It is in fact that most of the crime that occur are due to poverty‚except for countries where the minimum necessities of life are met.No matter how much moral the person is‚if poerty threatens his or her life then he or she is likely to
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Negligence is defined as the the commission of an act that a prudent person would not have done or the omission of a duty that a prudent person would have fulfilled‚ resulting in injury or harm to another person. In particular‚ in a malpractice suit‚ a professional person is negligent if harm to a client results from such an act or such failure to act‚ but it must be proved that other prudent members of the same profession would ordinarily have acted differently under the same circumstances. Negligence
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Title Understand person centred approaches in adult social care settings Ref 27 Level 2 Credit value 4 Learning outcomes The learner will: Assessment criteria The learner can: 1. Understand person centred approaches for care and support 1.1 Define person-centred values 1.2 Explain why it is important to work in a way that embeds person centred values 2. Understand how to implement a person centred approach in an adult social care setting 2.1 Describe how to find out the history‚ preferences
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Brianna Golez Professor Fraga English 1A 23 July 2012 Parental Separation The parents ’ sole duty is to raise and‚ by definition‚ nurture their children as a whole unit. Compromising on decisions and communication are the factors that contribute to a healthy and comfortable environment for families. But what repercussions surface when endless disagreements and lack of toleration disrupt that peace while the parents are still legally imprisoned in their “marriage”? Unlike divorce‚ the separation
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