Running head: RESOLVING ETHICAL DILEMMAS Resolving Ethical Dilemmas in Counseling Minors in School Settings Tiffany Woodward Prairie View A& M University In partial fulfillment of the requirement for JJUS/JPSY 5783 Dr. Harry Adams May 1, 2009 Nicole, a 15-year old high school sophomore, recently discovered she is pregnant by her 16-year old boyfriend, Josh. When she told Josh she was pregnant, he told her not to tell anyone and that he would get the money so she could get an abortion. Nicole was undecided as to whether or not she wanted to terminate her pregnancy and keep it a secret from everyone. Nicole has had a difficult relationship with her mother and has never met her father. Over the past two years, Nicole has developed a close relationship with her high school counselor, Ms. Williams.
The charade was created in order to protect his biological mother from harsh criticism and prejudice of being an unwed mother. At the age of four, Ted and his mother moved to Tacoma, Washington to live with relatives. A year after the move,
Carissa Rumble Mrs. Stamps Senior Honors English 3 October 2012 Blah Throughout history, the relationship that parents have with their children has changed drastically. Two hundred years ago, children were rarely allowed to speak to their elders unless spoken to. However, the relationship between parents and their children has evolved into something much greater since then. One event that changed the father-son relationship forever was the holocaust in the 1940s. The tragic experience forced families to look out for each other and grow closer.
Adrianne Scott Cwv-101 06/14/2015 Valerie De La Torre Benchmark assignment: ethical dilemma Sarah and her husband has been trying to have their first born for 5 years to discover their growing baby has tested positive for tay-sachs disease and down syndrome. Getting the heartbreaking news she started to think about abortion and rather or not it was the right thing to do to go forward with her pregnancy. Sarah and her husband has been trying to conceive for a very long time and there trying has turned into her finally getting her wish. Sarah thought if she aborted her child it would save her child from coming into this sinful world full of hate, pain, hurt and spare her child of suffering. Sarah contacted a close friend of hers to name Diana blue who is a pediatrician and is and atheist to receive some advice on her situation.
Tay Sachs Counseling After several years of marriage, Rita and Peter Trosack began trying to conceive a baby but were unsuccessful for two years. Finally, the news they had been waiting for came and Mrs. Trosack was pregnant. At her initial prenatal visit, the obstetrician recommended chorionic villus sampling (CVS) because of her age. This exciting time changed direction when the CVS results indicated that her fetus was afflicted with Tay-Sachs disease. This long awaited celebratory occasion quickly turned into an emotional nightmare and a high-risk pregnancy.
Konstantina Konstantina was twelve when her father came home one day smiling a smile she hadn’t seen since the day Nickoleta was born. He had finally worked enough to afford to send his three daughters to the America’s to become well educated Greek women. Akantha, Konstantina's older sister was three months pregnant and back to living with her father because her husband died a month earlier from a fishing accident. Their younger sister Nicoletta had just turned 10 and was showing signs of their mother's sickness. Konstantina couldn't understand why their father was sendning them away with her sisters needed constant medical attention.
Tammy Mrs. P Human Sexuality 13 February 2012 Alfred Kinsey Alfred Kinsey is known as an American biologist whom conducted a large research on human sexuality. Kinsey had an impact on his early upbringing with a sexually conservative father. When he married his wife Mac, he and his wife were inexperienced sexually. They both didn’t know what they were doing, and had to ask how to do “it” the right way. The problem would have never occurred if Kinsey was educated on sex as a teenager.
There are 6.4 million pregnancies in the United States, 3 million are unplanned, and 2 million are unwanted. Those 2 million unwanted pregnancies include teenagers or girls that are in their twenties. Alternatives are offered to the mother of the unwanted child such as an abortion or adoption. About 120,000 children are put up for adoption each year and are adopted by strangers which is also called “stranger adoption”, but some babies are also adopted by relatives. Adoption is an opportunity for a child to have parents and a loving and caring family that can give them their needs and wants.
Grace later married a man by the name of Ervin Silliman “Doc” Goddard. He sent Marilyn to the Los Angeles Orphan House. While Marilyn was there, many families became interested in adopting her. Since Gladys didn’t want to sign the adoption papers, the families couldn’t. Two years later, however, Marilyn moved back in with Grace and her husband.
All these couples want is to have the same rights to get married as any heterosexual couples. Over the United States more people have joined (NOW) and are doing campaigns in their own states such as Chicago and Maryland (Gilmore & Kaminski, 2007). (NOW) was established in June 1966 by twenty-six woman and they believed that the gay community should stay in the back and let them handle everything for the gay community, but they were wrong and in October of 1966 over three hundreds gays and lesbians attended their first meeting and five short years later thousands of people from all over the country have joined (NOW) (Gilmore & Kaminski, 2007). People from all over the country now recognize (NOW) as a real group (Gilmore & Kaminski, 2007). Even though it is 2014 there are still thousands upon thousands of gays and lesbians that still