... Care and Traditional Foster Care are two distinct programs intended to serve two different populations of children. Treatment Foster Care (TFC) is a foster care system with a twist; it provides foster homes for adolescents with emotional and behavioral disorders rather than sending them to institutions to be treated. TFC is also a parent-training program that works with foster care parents so that ... TFC started out as an idea to move treatment technologies out of institutional settings and into a foster family setting and to then research its" effectiveness. In November 1985 a conferen...

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... from their jobs to care for an ill spouse. Gay and lesbian workers are not entitled to family leave to care for their partners. Nursing homes. Married couples have a legal right to live together in nursing homes. Because they are not legal spouses, elderly gay or lesbian couples do not have the right to spend their last days living together in nursing ... homes. Home protection. Laws protect married seniors from being forced to sell their homes to pay high nursing home bills; gay and lesbian seniors have no such protection. Pensions. After the death of a worker, most pension plans pay ....

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... number is all the more problematic due to the hidden and complex nature of the problem. Older Americans often live in some degree of isolation, whether in their own homes, the homes of adult children or institutions. Detection by people outside the family or the facility is much more unlikely and the occurrence of elder abuse is suspected to be remarkably under ... living arrangements may be worse than the current situation" (pp. 999). It should also be noted that the abuse that takes place of the elderly in nursing facilities and retirement homes must also be noted. Horrifying reports ...

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How is the notion of "Retreating from the global" The Castle: directed by Rob Sitch (1997) In a local community, north of Melbourne, residents struggle to retain their homes with the ever-increasing pressure of globalisation and economic rationalism. Globalisation looms in the form of the airport and the need to extend to make way for bigger, longer and ... "the only one in the Kerrigan family to receive a tertiary education" in having a diploma in hairdressing at Sunshine TAFE. Globalisation is the notion of universal truths, in that they are held simultaneously as local and worldwide (glob...

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... family of the Depression era (132). The last two examples she used to describe extension of family are true examples of community support within the modern society; the single parent homes where the support system of grandparents and neighbors becomes "the rock-bottom definition of family" (133) or the married couples who have "embraced the relief of community" (133) by incorporating ... is an event where the people of the village come bearing gifts and kiss the child to welcome the child into their village life. Forty days later, a community baptism is held where the baby now truly bec...

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... wife almost all women, especially role-oriented women, accept as well as the role of housewife. The deprecatory phrase "I"m just a housewife" typifies the low esteem in which this position is held in our society. The housewife's responsibilities fall under at least twelve occupational titles: nursemaid, housekeeper, seamstress, dietician, cook, dishwasher, laundress, food buyer, chauffer, gardener, practical nurse, and maintenance worker. However ... interpersonal sensitivity and in order to preserve their own invulnerability and yet preserve these characteristics they assign such capab...

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