, including divorce, abandonment (foster care children and adoptees), life transitions and death organization of 5 hotlines that provide free, shortterm counseling, crisis intervention, information Children and Youth Area Agency on Aging for North Florida The Area Agency on Aging for North ...

In a randomized controlled trial, we compared abandoned children reared in institutions to abandoned children placed in institutions but then moved to foster care. Young children living in institutions were randomly assigned to continued institutional care or to placement in foster care, and ...

This study examines whether fear of abandonment mediates the prospective relations between divorce stressors and mother-child relationship quality and adjustment problems of children of divorce. Participants were 216 children, ages 8-12, and their primary residential mothers. Children reported ...

We use household survey data and a unique census of institutionalized children to analyze the impact of abortion legalization in Romania. We exploit the lift of the abortion ban in December 1989, when communist dictator Ceausescu and his regime were removed from power, to understand its impact on children's health at birth and during early childhood and ...

This cross-sectional study examined the pattern of growth and development of infants in some of the baby institutions in Nairobi and compared the outcome with that of infants living with their biological mothers. The participating institutions included the Kenyatta National Hospital and 7 children's homes within the city. The study recruited 82 abandoned ...

Abandonment of therapy is one of the most common causes of treatment failure among children with cancer in low-income countries. Our objectives were to describe the prevalence and predictors of abandonment among such children with cancer in El Salvador. We analyzed data on patients younger than 16 years, diagnosed ...

A sample of 68 children from 5 British hospitals were studied in a project designed to provide more information about the extent of the problem of children abandoned in hospitals and to assess the effects of the abandonment on the child. The researchers a...

instead of just effects. I am currently involved with an orphanage that I support in P�tionville. The orphanage's function was to house abandoned street children. Soon, however, we realized that when they reached the age to leave the orphanage, the children would simply return to Haiti's streets. Therefore

ObjectiveTo evaluate the impact on visual acuity of reducing or abandoning patching therapy during the first six years of life after early unilateral cataract surgery.MethodsWe reviewed the medical records of nine children with unilateral congenital cataracts who underwent cataract surgery when ?6 weeks of age. All had good compliance ...

Background to the debate: Current guidelines recommend that all fever episodes in African children be treated presumptively with antimalarial drugs. But declining malarial transmission in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, declining proportions of fevers due to malaria, and the availability of rapid diagnostic tests mean it may be time for this policy to change. This debate examines ...

BackgroundLeaders are struggling to care for the estimated 143,000,000 orphans and millions more abandoned children worldwide. Global policy makers are advocating that institution-living orphans and abandoned children (OAC) be moved as quickly as possible to a residential family setting and that institutional care ...

Objective: To examine the associations between duration of institutionalization, age at abandonment, and mental and physical health outcomes of young institutionalized children in Romania and to examine patterns of associations between placement history, physical growth variables, and psychiatric symptoms. Method: Institutionalized ...

The center, a once abandoned elementary school building in Leadville, Colorado, combines year-round preschool, day care, and before- and afterschool programs for 550 children aged 2.5 to 13. The center also helps the local high school's parenting/child development class and offers onsite family counseling by county social workers. ...

Active and abandoned mines, quarries, and tunnels have claimed the lives of many adults and children over the years. These sites pose potential life-threatening dangers for anyone who ventures near them. People enter abandoned mines and active mine sites ...

of toilet training older children who become resistant to giving up nappies, waste and environmentalAbandonment of potty training in Australian society: Environmental, social and health issues Anna Christie "Abandonment of potty training" for The Restraint Project January 2008 1 The euphemistically named

Important reasons exist for differences among the various genres in children's literature, related to the emotional and intellectual development of the reader. The themes presented in good children's fiction are always the same ones, no matter what the age: the need for love, the importance of close attachments, the fear of ...

Assessment of children's learning and performance in low and middle income countries has been critiqued as lacking a gold standard, an appropriate norm reference group, and demonstrated applicability of assessment tasks to the context. This study was designed to examine the performance of three nonverbal and one adapted verbal measure of children's problem ...

... the three most common forms of child neglect: abandonment ... MILITARY PERSONNEL, *FAMILY MEMBERS, *CHILDREN, *LIVING STANDARDS ...

Fairy tales are not just for children. They can hold important messages for people of all ages, as well as for those with special needs. For example, people who present for therapy reporting such issues as fear of abandonment, sibling rivalry, self-esteem, and lack of meaning in life, among others, can benefit from using fairy tales as ...

OBJECTIVES:: To validate the Child Status Index (CSI) as an instrument that can meaningfully measure the vulnerabilities of orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC), including those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. METHODS:: Two age-specific instruments, comprised of previously validated tools and indicators commonly considered best practice, were ...

Social marginalisation and other challenges facing HIV-positive pregnant women in Ukraine may put them at increased risk of relinquishing their infants to the state. We described rates of infant abandonment (exclusive non-parental care to most recent follow-up, censored at two years of age) and investigated associated factors using logistic regression ...

Piaget noted that young children cannot think in a logical fashion, objectively, or about hypothetical situations. These limitations of preoperational thinking render the young child dependent upon or bound by perceptions. Overreliance upon perceptions results in children's inability to distinguish fantasy from reality. Young ...

The current study examined the effects of institutionalization on the discrimination of facial expressions of emotion in three groups of 42-month-old children. One group consisted of children abandoned at birth who were randomly assigned to Care-as-Usual (institutional care) following a baseline assessment. Another group consisted of ...

Almost 2 million of Manila's 2.5 million children younger than 15 years old live on or below the poverty line. 75,000 of these children live on the streets after having run away from home or being abandoned. They beg, steal, scavenge for food, and sell newspapers, cigarettes, and leis. About 20,000 of the street ...

Since Demirjian's system of estimating dental maturity was first described, many researchers from different countries have tested its accuracy among diverse populations. Some of these studies have pointed out a need to determine population-specific standards. In Brazil, the Northeast region is the one that most suffers the negative impact of exodus, specially related to the increase of ...

The value of route, sedation and local anesthetic was studied in 582 children aged 50 days to 12 years who were subjected to flexible fibreoptic bronchoscopy (FFBS) at the Institutes of Child Health, Madras, during January 1989 to July 1993. Pentax 3.5 mm and Olympus 4.9 mm bronchoscopes were used. Bronchoscopy was performed with sedation and/or local ...

Oct 28, 2009 ... What are the age(s) that children are considered dependants? A child under the age of 21, however, dependant child's eligibility for travel ...

This study presents a meta-analysis of a collective dataset describing the succession from abandoned fields to semi-natural grassland and heathland vegetation over the past century. The study objectives were to develop a method for statistical discrimination between abandoned fields and semi-natural habitats and to analyze the probability that an ...

Over the last two decades there has been a noticeable increase in the activities of quarry-mining companies in the Ishiagu area of south-eastern Nigeria. These activities have produced an ever-growing number of abandoned quarry pits that usually quickly fill with water and appear to become suitable habitats for the freshwater snails that may act as intermediate hosts of ...

...OFFENSES AND LAW AND ORDER CODE Children's Court § 11.900 Definitions...sections pertaining to the children's court: (a) Abandon...leaving of a minor without communication or failing to support a...proceedings are commenced in the children's court prior to his...

To care for HIV/AIDS orphans will put health and social services in South Africa before a major challenge. Published clinical information on South and Southern African HIV-positive children is limited to hospitalized children. A cross-sectional, prospective study was conducted on a convenience sample of HIV-positive children, living in ...

... family. Get Started Children and sports: Choices for all ages Children's sports promote fitness and prevent obesity, but not all children thrive in formal leagues. Help your child ...

the age since abandonment to be 30 yr. We deter- mined the distance to forest (open or dense) at time to be a major threat to tropical biodiversity, abandonment of agri- cultural land in Puerto Rico provides cover increased to 62% due to widespread abandonment of agriculture. To examine the effect of historic

In the early 1990s, war erupted in Bosnia and Herzegovina, forcing large numbers of people to flee their homes and country, abandoning their culture and all that was familiar to them. For the children, often described as war's "innocent victims," the conflict and subsequent uprooting represented a dramatic end to their peaceful lives. Although many were ...

The volume contains a series of lectures which generalize data on the metal development of preschool and school-age children. The individual age periods are characterized and the psychological peculiarities of children of these ages are considered with re...

than 2 ha, while in the Recent Bronze age, within a general increase in the density of sites, several by a civilisation which settled the centre of the Po plain since the Middle Bronze age, were abruptly abandoned at the end of the Recent Bronze age. The reason for this abandonment is still a ...

Jun 16, 2011 ... Description: Active red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis) colonies in the Piedmont of Georgia are mature pine stands (mean age = 87 ...

Jun 16, 2011... as the earth's biota evolves and adjusts to environmental change. ... richness and structural features as native stands of similar age. ...

demolition this fall. Abandoned since. 1979, the AWT and Propulsion Systems. Labs 1 and 2 are among many aging facili- ties which are being eliminated as ...

Objective: The objective of this study is twofold. The first objective is to explore the extent of family maltreatment experiences of children in protective care in South Korea. The second objective is to analyze the circumstances around the maltreatment and to obtain a better understanding of how maltreated children deal with the experience. Methods: ...