Children In Society Research Articles

An Empirical Study on the Psychological Consequences of Child Hawking

Hawking is referred to as an occupation engaged by children and young adults which involves selling of items or goods in the street. Despite India's recent economic progress, more than a third of the population still lives in poverty. Any family, society, or nation that does not have a good agenda or adequate plans for its children is inevitably bound to fail to ensure its own survival and continuity. The ability of a society's children and youths to function effectively as members of that society depends on their ability to function effectively socially, politically, economically, and religiously. The quality of a child's connections with his or her primary caregivers has the biggest impact on his or her socio-emotional development . The early nurture, experiences, and interactions that a kid has have a tremendous impact on his or her socio-emotional development. . The main objective of study is based on the psychological consequences of child hawking. The method followed in the study is an empirical research method using a convenient sampling method. The sample size of the total number is 200. The independent variables used in the study are age ,gender, occupation and place of living. The dependent variable used in the study 1. Do you know about child hawking? 2. Agreeability to forcing children to sell things on the street. 3.factors constituting child hawking. 4. Results of child hawking. The Aim the study is that according to people’s view child hawking is to be considered as a serious maltreatment towards children and it completely violates the child’s fundamental rights. It also results bt causing mental stress, lack of education, rape and sexual abuse and lot more.

Priming third-party social exclusion does not elicit children's inclusion of out-group members.

This study investigates how culture and priming 3- to 7-year-old children (N = 186) with third-party social exclusion affects their subsequent inclusion of out-group members. Children in societies that tend to value social independence (Germany, New Zealand) and interdependence (Northern Cyprus) were randomly assigned to minimal groups. Next, they watched video stimuli depicting third-party social exclusion (exclusion condition) or neutral content (control condition). We assessed children's recognition of the social exclusion expressed in the priming videos and their understanding of the emotional consequences thereof. We furthermore assessed children's inclusion behaviour in a ball-tossing game in which participants could include an out-group agent into an in-group interplay. Children across societies detected third-party social exclusion and ascribed lower mood to excluded than non-excluded protagonists. Children from Germany and New Zealand were more likely to include the out-group agent into the in-group interaction than children from Northern Cyprus. Children's social inclusion remained unaffected by their exposure to third-party social exclusion primes. These results suggest that children from diverse societies recognize social exclusion and correctly forecast its negative emotional consequences, but raise doubt on the notion that social exclusion exposure affects subsequent social inclusion.

Comic Books, Dr. Wertham, and the Villains of Forensic Psychiatry.

Comic books have been part of popular culture since the 1930s. Social activists quickly became concerned about the risk that comic books posed for youth, including that their content was a cause of juvenile delinquency. Dr. Fredric Wertham, a forensic psychiatrist, led efforts to protect society's children from comic books, culminating in multiple publications, symposia, and testimony before a Senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency in 1954. During the course of his activities, and quite possibly as a backlash, comics started to represent psychiatrists and particularly forensic psychiatrists as evil, clueless, and narcissistic characters (e.g., Dr. Hugo Strange went from being a mad scientist to a mad psychiatrist). Clinical forensic psychiatrists who were not necessarily evil were often portrayed as inept regarding rehabilitation. There are very few positive portrayals of forensic psychiatrists in the comic book universe, and when they do occur, they often have severe character flaws or a checkered history. These negative characterizations are woven into the fabric of contemporary comic book characters, whether represented in comic books or other media offshoots such as films and television.

Society's Children: A Study of Ressentiment in the Secondary School

Society's Children: A Study of Ressentiment in the Secondary School

社会における子どもの美術教育の展開 : 「美術」の多様性からの考察

社会における子どもの美術教育の展開 : 「美術」の多様性からの考察

Children in Society: Politics, Policies and Interventions

The way we treat our children is a good indicator of how we view our world, whether we engage with compassion or conflict, and whether abundance or austerity form the foundations of our belief. It seems that we are increasingly accepting economic segregation and systemic deprivation as inevitable components of the competitive world we inhabit, and that we take this situation as a given, as something we cannot change.

Book review: Craig Newnes (ed.) Children in Society: Politics, policies and interventions

Book review: Craig Newnes (ed.) <i>Children in Society: Politics, policies and interventions</i>

A Critical Psy Examination of the Concept of Children in SocietyA Critical Psy Examination of the Concept of Children in Society

A Critical Psy Examination of the Concept of Children in SocietyA Critical Psy Examination of the Concept of Children in Society

The Resilience of Transracial Korean American Adoptees: Cultural Identity Crisis within the Family and the Mediating Effects of Family Conflict and Cohesiveness during Adversity

ABSTRACTThis study used a mixed-methods approach to examine the family practices that are fundamental for fostering resilience among 34 transracially adopted Korean American youths living with White American parents in the United States. The results demonstrate that in addition to experiencing stress related to their education and occupation, Korean American adoptees may encounter cultural identity crises. The negative effects of life stress on adoptees' mental health, however, were diminished once family cohesiveness and conflict were taken into account. Study findings have important implications for various stakeholders who seek to cultivate a healthy living environment for society's children (i.e., orphans).

Childhood obesity-related endothelial dysfunction: an update on pathophysiological mechanisms and diagnostic advancements.

Childhood obesity jeopardizes a healthy future for our society's children as it is associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality later on in life. Endothelial dysfunction, the first step in the development of atherosclerosis, is already present in obese children and may well represent a targetable risk factor. Technological advancements in recent years have facilitated noninvasive measurements of endothelial homeostasis in children. Thereby this topic ultimately starts to get the attention it deserves. In this paper, we aim to summarize the latest insights on endothelial dysfunction in childhood obesity. We discuss methodological advancements in peripheral endothelial function measurement and newly identified diagnostic markers of vascular homeostasis. Finally, future challenges and perspectives are set forth on how to efficiently tackle the catastrophic rise in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality that will be inflicted on obese children if they are not treated optimally.

The Role of Parents in Integrating their Own Children in Society

In accordance with a certain educational mentality specific to the Romanian people, parents direct, support and make material efforts, in order to ensure a high level of education, the aspiration to an university education being unanimously expressed and perceived, as a factor of ultimate self-fulfillment. Parents are often left without possibilities of intervention over their own children. They need to be helped in their efforts to educate and improve in an efficient manner the problems occurred in family life. In this way, the new generations will be able to cope with greater ease the inherent challenges of the development and change brought by society.

Children’s Homes: A Refuge for Vulnerable Children in Society: A Case Study of a Children’s Home in Masvingo Province in Zimbabwe

The purpose of the study was to establish the extent to which children’s homes serve as substitute homes for vulnerable children in society. The study was conducted at a children’s home in Masvingo Province in Zimbabwe. The population comprised administrators, caregivers and the children. Data was collected using in-depth interviews and observations. The study established that children become vulnerable due to abandonment, neglect and juvenile delinquency. It was established that at the home, children are categorized into two groups. Those classified as being ‘at a place of safety’ are children who were kept there temporarily while the whereabouts of their relatives are being established, while the ‘committed’ are those who have no traceable backgrounds and would be kept until they attain the age of majority. The study also established that the home was run as a family, where there are mother figures in each family unit. The major challenge faced by the home is that of shortage of funding. Children need money for school fees and workers need monthly salaries. Generally, the study established that the children’s home plays a crucial role in providing a nurturing environment for vulnerable children. The home provides the children with basic needs and equips them with essential survival skills needed in society. The study recommends total community participation and Government involvement at the home by providing emotional, financial, social, spiritual and material support.

Children’s Homes: A Refuge for Vulnerable Children in Society: A Case Study of a Children’s Home in Masvingo Province in Zimbabwe

Children’s Homes: A Refuge for Vulnerable Children in Society: A Case Study of a Children’s Home in Masvingo Province in Zimbabwe

Update: ARV Dosing Chart for Children and Adolescents, 2012

This edition of the Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine includes a new Antiretroviral Drug Dosing Chart for Children and Adolescents (2012). The chart was updated by the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society's ARV Dosing Committee, a sub-group of the Society's Child and Adolescent Committee, and the National Department of Health (DoH). The purpose of the chart is to provide an accurate and reliable antiretroviral therapy (ART) dosing guide for South African practitioners initiating and managing ART in children and adolescents. The chart is intended for doctors, nurses and pharmacists working in the South African public sector.

“Jings! Crivens! Help Ma Boab!” – It's a Scottish Picturebook

A nation's literature has traditionally been seen as a reflection of the values, tensions, myths, and psychology that identify national character. In the construction of culture and identity there are many shared values that can be discerned and revealed through story and literature. But no literary genre teaches us more about a culture and its values than the literature published for a society's children. In Britain the concept of a literary national identity is further complicated because the United Kingdom is made up of four separate nations and each constituent part claims its own distinctive identity. Within children's literature the picturebook “genre” presents an extremely rich context for the exposition of national identity, using as it does both written text and images. This article suggests that Scottish picturebooks are distinctive and challenge young readers, especially Scottish readers, to discover and recognize who they are in the face of mass market globalization in children's book publishing and thus presents particular opportunities to examine issues of identity in both the cultural and educational environment.

Persian websites for children and teenagers in Iran

PurposeThe Internet has attracted many of society's children and teens and it has become important for parents to be aware of reputable websites and the criteria for studying these. The purpose of this paper is to examine the condition of Persian websites for children and teenagers in terms of site support, design, contents, and promotion, and also examine the differences in websites which are supported by the government.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology was based on the criteria of the American Library Association's Association for Library Services to Children's “Great websites for kids.” In total, 18 Persian websites were examined, which were found in the first ten pages of a Google search, by different kinds of search.FindingsThe obtained results indicated that there was a lack of standards in designing children's websites, demonstrating that it is necessary to ask children, librarians, computer specialists, child psychologists, and teachers to improve websites geared to children and teenagers.Originality/valueThe paper shows that it is important to focus on standard solutions for website designs that take into account the special needs of children.

Kids Allowance: Building the Society to Bring Up Children of Society, Socially

Kids Allowance: Building the Society to Bring Up Children of Society, Socially

Parents who misuse substances: implications for parenting practices and treatment seeking behaviour

This paper considers parents who misuse substances. The potential impacts of their substance misuse on their ability to parent effectively and safely (parenting capacity) are explored, as are some of the barriers many parents face when attempting to seek treatment for problematic substance misuse. The terms ‘use’ and ‘misuse’ are used interchangeably in this paper and ‘substances’ refers to alcohol, illicit drugs and overuse of prescribed medicines. It is important to make the distinction between parents whose use of substances does not constitute dependency and might be best described as ‘recreational or hazardous’. Such individuals might not seek treatment and estimates of prevalence rates of use among this cohort are difficult as they remain hidden from services. Parents who might already be in treatment services or who might be seeking treatment might be described as ‘problematic or dependent’ although presentation at services is neither necessary nor sufficient to assume that the individual's misuse of substances is problematic or indicative of a dependency. The use of substances is associated with numerous harms to the individual: psychologically, socially, interpersonally and physically, and is a risk factor towards negative parenting practices. The use of substances in itself is not an indication of neglectful or harmful parenting, as many parents who use substances have adequate parenting skills, however, it is more frequently associated as a risk rather than a protective factor when considering potential harms. Most of the research refers to mothers although we are aware that some fathers may have sole parenting responsibility for their children. Parents, in particular mothers, face many barriers when trying to access substance misuse treatment services. When they are in treatment, services often lack the skills and experiences to be able to balance managing child protection issues and engaging the parent in treatment. A full review of the issues associated with parenting and substance misuse is beyond the scope of this paper and the reader is referred to Fowler (2003), Cleaver et al (1999), Velleman and Templeton (2007) and Day and George (2005) and the British Psychological Society's Child Protection Portfolio (2007) for further discussion.

Children of a new world: society, culture, and globalization

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Children in Society, Culture, and the WorldPart I: Children in SocietyIntroduction to Part I 1 Immigration and Education in the United States 2 The IQ: A Cultural and Historical Framework 3 Creating New Identities: Youth and Ethnicity in New York City High Schools in the 1930s and 1940sPart II: Children in CultureIntroduction to Part II 4 Making and Remaking an Event: The Leopold and Loeb Case in American Culture5 A Sign of Family Disorder? Changing Representations of Parental Kidnapping6 Bringing It Home: Children, Technology, and Family in the Post-World War II WorldPart III: Children of a New Global WorldIntroduction to Part III 7 Children and Globalization 8 Children in Global Migrations 9 Children of a New World Index About the Author

Book Review: Children in Society: Contemporary Theory, Policy and Practice

Book Review: Children in Society: Contemporary Theory, Policy and Practice