• Analyze pressures often faced in adolescence, such as peer pressure, substance use and abuse, dating, sexuality, and changes within family relationships. • Include at least three references. • Format your paper to APA standards. PSY 375 Week 3 DQs 1 , 2 PSY 375 Week 4 Individual Assignment Issue Analysis Individual Assignment Issue Analysis • Resources: Issue Analysis located in Week Four on the student Web site and the Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Lifespan Development text • Read Issue 17: Are Professional Women “Opting Out” of Work by Choice? located in the Taking Sides
In 2006, the proportion of mothers with newborns that were in the workforce was at 57% (“Working Parents”, 2012). That number increased to 61% in 2008 (“Working Parents”, 2012). There are many single working mothers who have not finished High School or received a GED. This leads to problems down the road. Thirty percent of teenage girls who have dropped out of school listed pregnancy or parenthood as the primary reason (“Teen Pregnancy Prevention”, n.d.).
The Effects of Divorce on very young children AMU For my article I chose to do my study on the Effects of Parental Separation and Divorce on Very Young Children. This research study was conducted in 2000 by the American Psychological Association Incorporation K. Alison Clarke-Stewart, Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine; Deborah L. Vandell, Center for Education Research, University of Wisconsin—Madison; Kathleen McCartney, Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire; Margaret T. Owen, School of Human Development, University of Texas at Dallas; Cathryn Booth, Department of Family and Child Nursing, University of Washington. This data was collected and analyzed to see the effects of divorce of marital separation on infants and very young children. There has been tons of research done that shows detrimental effects on school age children and young adolescence. Everyone can see the effects separation and divorce play on older children because they can verbally tell you and it shows in their work performance whether it be in their grades in school or sports or overall negative behavior.
Article Review by Michelle Shipman EDD 9300 Methods of Inquiry Nova Southeastern University February 7, 2011 Review of a Qualitative Research Report Introduction The purpose of the article chosen was to analyze and assess an appropriate tool for reading in elementary students using a response to intervention model. Also, the researcher wanted to investigate and define the reading problems in poor readers specifically those in the fourth grade. A Universal Screening tool called Response to Intervention (RTI) was used to identify the selected students. The screening was done on two hundred and thirty fourth graders. For the period of the study, the researcher wanted to determine if students would need more intensive instruction after implementing the RTI instruction.
The data they use firsthand was obtained from the American Human Association, which, for each victimized child, included demographic facts about the victim and perpetrator, details of the abuse, the relationship between the abuser and the victim, and whether or not the situation had been validated. However, in order to find the age-specific rates of stepchildren that are abused versus others, they had to use surveys, since it allowed their comparisons to be more conservative. According to their calculations, in 1976 a child who lived with one biological parent and one stepparent was roughly seven times more likely than a child who lived with both biological parents to become a validated abuse case in the American Human Association records. After Daly and Wilson reach their conclusions about stepchildren who are abused in the United States, they discuss the factors that could contribute to the number of the validated cases. They say that a bystander who is aware of the stereotype of stepparent cruelty would be more likely to report suspicious activity or bruising to a child protection agency.
Examine the reasons for changes in the divorce rate in the UK since 1969 There is plenty of reasons in which divorces rates have changed since 1969, such as legal changes, the position of women and roles changing in the household. Comparing the past and present to understand why changes have taken place would be necessary. Traditionally the 'nuclear' family, a man, a woman and two children, was the most historically popular. However today divorce is very highly acceptable for half of the couples who get married. Children are now living with one parents (a lone parent family), with another family member or are being adopted.
U.S. divorce rates have been rising since the beginning of the 20th century. More than a quarter of people age 18-44 come from a divorced family. Psychologists have known little about the long term effect this has on kids and are just now coming out with useful information. (“BreakupBacklash”) Researcher Sara Hara Estroff Marano(www.psychology.com) found that effects of divorce depend on what happened in the marriage before the divorce occurred. For example, kids that have lots of high conflict in their family are happier after the divorce occurs.
In 1990, when the divorce rate was 4.7, there were 1,182,000 divorces in the United States (Births, Deaths, Marriages, & Divorces, 2006). This is not only affecting the people involved in the marriage, but it affects their families, children, and friends. Even though during my lifetime the divorce rates have been leveling off it is still a big part of our society. There are multiple social factors that led to the rising rates of divorce during the 1960s and 1970s and there are also ways that we can help lower the divorce rate even more by simply educating the teenage generation. In many divorce cases children are involved.
Advancing Academic Language for All (pair with Word Generation 3.24) Should it be mandatory to get a license to be a parent? GETTING ORIENTED The weekly passage discusses issues about families in the U.S. Here is some information that might be helpful to students less familiar with the issues raised. Child Abuse Family History in the U.S. According to Childhelp, an organization founded in 1959 to help prevent and treat cases of child abuse, 3.3 million reports of child abuse are made in the United States every year.
The topic of marriage and divorce has been discussed and researched for many years. Many reasons are given for why marriages end with divorce. This discussion will begin by looking at the definition of divorce. Webster defines divorce as “the action of legally dissolving a marriage” (Divorce). In order to understand divorce better, a definition of marriage must be discussed.