The fathers were again assessed when their children were 21 months old. The Ruttter revised preschool scales served to measure children's emotional and behavioral development. Relevant information was available for 8431 fathers, 11,833 mothers, and 10,024 children. The likelihood of remaining in the study after 42 months was lessened by a high degree of symptomatic depression in mothers but not in fathers. EPDS scores for mothers and fathers correlated to a significant degree.
Single parents make up 7.8 percent of the entire military. (Powers, 2010) Being a single parent in the military does not make you exempt from duties that require you to be gone for long periods. As recent as February of this year, a single mother was discharge from the army because she had no one to care for her son. The military has a program set up called the family care plan, which ensures proper care of your child (ren) or other dependents while you are away on deployment or other duties. As the military continues to deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq, we continue to hear of single parents that failed to deploy because of childcare.
Out of these numbers 2,472 living in emergency shelter funded by the Ma Department of Transitional Assistance. Most of the families are single mothers. These families include 4,413 children and Youth. Of these 2,379 were less than six years old. Reaching its shelter capacity DTA has to place families in motels for periods ranging from a couple weeks to a couple months (McCormick Center for Social Policy, 2000).
During the Navy service member’s first enlistment, which is 4 years, they will go on a deployment every 18 to 24 months and they are usually for 6 months at a time. They also will have mini assignments that could be 10 days long. Since the start of the Iraq/Afghanistan War in 2001, multiple military deployments are becoming more part of the norm for the military family. This makes it harder for the service members who are married with or without children to survive. While there are many military families have not survived the deployments, many military families do survive deployments.
My family history is littered with the typical medical issues as each of my siblings and parents increase in age – and osteoarthritis is simply another notch in our perspective belts. I cannot say that we have brittle bones but my family does seem to have its fair share of joint problems. Although my father and grandfather worked their entire lives neither have undergone the physical transformation that is being a soldier in today’s Army. I believe that this factor alone will play a major role in my not so distant
Reading about this case made me think of the ethical challenges that caring for members of faith who refuse life-saving treatments may pose for the physician – emotional, professional, and legal. Considering the ‘Duties of a Doctor’ outlined by the GMC (2), as a physician it will be my responsibility to preserve life and health by employing all techniques available to me. However, I will also be obligated to respect my patients’ autonomy and rights to make decisions about their own medical care (3) and the refusal of such. And this is where the ethical principles of
The Office of National Statistics, interviewed parents, teachers, and children themselves, and found that many suffer from emotional problems such as depression, anxiety and aggression. Statistics show that over a 3 year period, children whose parents were split up were 4.53 more likely to develop emotional problems than those whose parents were still in one household, and were 2.87 times more likely to demonstrate the start of behavioral disorders. Edmondson, Brad/Waldrop, Judith “Single Parents Statistics” American Demographics, Dec93, Vol. 15 Issue 12, p36, 2p, 2 Charts, 1 Graph. Per the US Census Bureau single parents consist of “other families” which are households of unmarried couples.
He concludes that the stakeholders in research must be correctly represented. Thus, the ethical review committee must represent expertise (science and
In fact, one in 10 grandparents has been the primary support of a grandchild at some time in their lives” (Doucette-Dudman, 2000). Today with challenges in our economy over the past five years, including the housing and foreclosure crisis, and the loss of jobs, 4.9 million children (7 percent) under age 18 live in grandparent-headed households. According to the 2010 United States Census Bureau, “Fifty one percent of grandparents who have grandkids living with them are white (up from 46 percent in 2000); 24 percent are Black/African American (down from 28 percent in 2000); and 19 percent are Hispanic/Latino (down slightly from 20 percent in 2000). For grandparents reporting responsibility for grandchildren 67 percent
Reflective Journal Albert Johann Jacildo February 19, 2015 Critical Thinking for Nurses Ethics is an integral part of the foundation of nursing. According to the CNO, “Understanding and communicating beliefs and values helps nurses to prevent ethical conflicts and to work through them when they do occur”. My thoughts and ideas about nursing ethics has changed, as I gain more experience, it gives me a clearer view of the importance of having a professional code of ethics. Having a code of ethics makes explicit of my primary goals, values, and obligations of my profession. It is really imperative that I must consider the ethical aspects when formulating planning outcomes and goals for each of my clients.