Reasons for children to move away from their home and spend their life in the street may differ from every individual. ... Solving the problem of street children helps to control crime rate in street, child abuse and drug issues among those street children. Furthermore, children are the wealth of the nation. ... Children are the future of the nation. ... Solving the problem of street children helps to reduce the crime rate, use of drugs and protects children not to get abused in the street. ...

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It is amazing to see how easily a child can manipulate their parent to spend money for them. ... Advertising can expose children to so many different products. ... Annually, adults spend 700 billion dollars on children and the number is astronomically growing (Barbaro and Earp). ... Over time the economy has changed, and now parents are spending more money on their children than ever in history. ... Today, advertising is putting kids in danger because it's making them want to spend loads of their parent's money on unnecessary products. ...

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Children no longer spend time talking to their parents instead they look to social media and television for answers they should ask their parents. ... It seems that the media is limiting the amount of time children have for other activities, like playing, exercise, studying and most important spending time with their parent. Not only are children spending time watching television and movies, there has been an increase in the use of portable devices such as cell phones, tablets and laptops in addition to time spent playing video games. ... Each year, children spend about 1,500 hours in front ...

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Children today are faced with numerous opportunities to be led to the sickly couch potato way of living. ... American children are our future. ... Even in high school, children around the country are expected to participate in this activity. ... Dietary factors play a huge role in children and young adults lives. ... If the government wanted to improve health, they would spend a little more money on quality food on which individuals will thrive. ...

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This would be done by incorporating $894 billion in spending cuts by 2002, with a projected 7 year tax cut of $245 billion. ... As of current fiscal years budget, the United States government spends $1.64 trillion yearly. $500 billion of that, or 1/3 of the total, is for discretionary spending (Rau M-1). This discretionary spending is the target for most cuts, and seems to be the easiest to make cuts in. ... Such cuts had already been partially implemented with the GOP cutting overall spending by 9.1% in 1996 alone. ... This would entail placing a cap on the programs sp...

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The Children's Party Company, established in January 2010, sells two party packages: Party Package Basic and Party Package Broad. ... The two packages differ in price and features, and are based on booking a party with a maximum of ten children. ... Since this company is a small local company targeting a small group of people (parents of children age 5-10) I expect there will be a lot of word of mouth communication between consumers and potential new consumers about our company. ...

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Child abuse is very widespread in America and many helpless children live their lives based on abuse and confusion. ... "Statistics indicate that African-American children have the highest rate of victimization (19.5 percent), compared to White children (10.8), or Hispanic children (10.7)" (Henderson, 2008, p. 141). ... When a mother goes through a stage of depression it plays a major role in child delinquency, alcohol problems in children, academic difficulty, and interpersonal conflict that children have with others (Lindsey et al., 2008). "Researchers have found that childr...

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Parents these days give children too much freedom of choice where television is concerned because as television morals drop, so do the morals of the children. ... Also, the amount of time that they are permitted to spend in front of the television set can be just as crucial. ... The role model should be a character that teaches and encourages children to grow up and be strong. ... I think it's not so much the amount of time children spend in front of the televison, it's the types of shows they end up watching. ... Children should not keep watching the plane crash into the t...

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There are no children playing outside. ... In 2012, the Alliance for Childhood, a nonprofit advocacy group, complained that, Compared to the 1970s, children now spend 50 percent less time in unstructured outdoor activities. Children ages 10 to 16 now spend, on average, only 12.6 minutes per day in vigorous physical activity. Yet they spend an average of 10.4 waking hours each day relatively motionless (Marlys Harris). ... Regardless the children suffer inside. ...

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Approximately 8 million school-aged children under the age of fifteen are left home alone or on the streets after school. ... These children represent the future of this country. ... These are the hours when children are most likely to commit or be the victim of crime. How do kids spend their time after school hours? ... Unsupervised children fill their time in a variety of ways. ...

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I feel that children who spend time on the computer, are replacing what could be great time used for school work with surfing and gaming. ... Children in general are spending more and more time on the computer, outweighing the time they spend watching television. ... This violence can have a strong effect on young children. ... Children are so easily pulled into things that they aren't aware are dangerous. ... Sites like Facebook allow children to gang up on a person in massive numbers. ...

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Advertisements have a negative effect on children behavior. ... " Advertisers spend billions a year to promote food products and restaurants. ... According to "TV advertising and its effect on children" McDonalds roughly spends $570 million a year on advertising. ... The flashy advertisements children see on television often generate impulse shopping in children. ... The National Association for the Education of Young children feels that an increase of violence that children see in the media effects their stable mentality. ...

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Advertisements have a negative effect on children behavior. ... " Advertisers spend billions a year to promote food products and restaurants. ... According to "TV advertising and its effect on children" McDonalds roughly spends $570 million a year on advertising. ... The flashy advertisements children see on television often generate impulse shopping in children. ... The National Association for the Education of Young children feels that an increase of violence that children see in the media effects their stable mentality. ...

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Also, cartoons, which appeal mainly to young children, may use large amounts of violence in order to keep children's interest. ... Violence on television also hinders children's sleep. ... Kids from families that have the TV on a lot spend less time reading and being read to, and are less likely to be able to read2. ... In my opinion, the amount of time children spend watching TV should be limited by parents. ... Parents should limit the amount of devices their children have as well as the time they spend using these devices to watch TV programs. ...

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Children consumed fast food without giving it much thought. ... The marketing of fast food to children should be limited because children are easily influenced and the corporation only care about making profits.fast food marketing targets children with false advertising. Because children are easily influenced by advertising, the marketing of fast food to children should be limited. ... A typical American child spends about twenty-one hours a week watching television. Outside of school, they spend more time watching television than any other activities. ...

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Children in the United States spend more time watching television that they spend on all other daily activities besides sleeping. ... Children should not be lied to. ... They are looking up to a fictional character and spending their money to be like her. ... If children are spending more time with the television than parents, it is highly likely that the advertisements are posing more of an influence than parents on their development. ... Children are being misled by the media. ...

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Children take the place of adult soldiers killed in war. ... Governments that spend more money on their militaries as well as authoritarian governments are more likely to recruit child soldiers (Early and Tyne). ... The social effects of war on children are so longstanding that they prevent children from returning to their families and schools. ... Some children receive care from other adults or are taken to an orphanage, but some are unaccompanied children (Barbara). ... However, millions of children are still being recruited in war and children are still left as refugees without any care or ...

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The issue I have chosen to discuss is the danger of obesity among children. ... Obese children are ridiculed and teased by their peers. ... There are many different arguments with the issue of obesity in children. ... These kids need to spend more time doing what they do best: running around and playing. ... It is imperative children are taught at an early age how to eat right. ...

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To many parents, television is an educational device for their children. ... Television has been proven to educate many children. ... It is said that children spend between six and seven hours watching television each day. ... Although parents continue to believe that this all may be un-healthy for their children, they allow it because their children are "happy". ... Children learn many bad habits or violent acts by this. ...

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Over the past two decades there has been an irregular rising rate of obesity in children and today, year 2014 it still continues. Moglia and Kenneth define obesity as "Having a body mass index (BMI) above the normal range for age and sex in children ". ... Between working a full time job and having to care for a family, it is much easier to spend a little money for a diverse of instantly ready foods. ... Other than that one semester, they will spend half the day sitting down in a classroom, as well as lunch time. Furthermore, they will then come home and in between eating, spend the remainder...

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The first negative effect that a computer has on children is that children are usually entranced with pc-games, and they will forget their studies. ... Additionally, another negative effect that a computer has on children is that children unconsciously receive the unhealthy information on the Internet. ... And finally, if children spend several hours a day or more at a computer, it always affect children's bodies; especially their eyes. ... Children are growing and their health is very important. ... In a word, parents should keep an eye one their children; on how many hours they spent i...

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Peer groups are children of similar ages, which are also part of secondary socialization. ... Children who attend day care, school and after school activities tend to spend a lot of time with their peers. ... Children get older and move out and retirement removes us from our peer group at work. ... As we age from children to senior citizens we experience the process of socialization. All humans adjust to behaviors, values, and norms we have observed as young children. ...

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The first is funding, how much money as a nation are we spending on defense and education? ... The American Government spends a great deal of time creating a budget for the finances of this great nation each fiscal year. ... In a statement made February thirteenth 2013 President Obama stated "I propose working with States to make high-quality preschool available to every child in Americaand make sure none of our children start the race of life already behind."4 The preschool for all ideal is mainly targeted at children who are from low income areas. The thought process is that if childre...

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School Choice: Logical spending? ... Jeanne Allen believes in equal opportunities for all children and supports the idea of vouchers because they are constantly "delivering education and providing the most options," for children from less fortunate families. ... Allen starts off by stating that the percentage of Hispanic children dropping out these days is astounding. She goes on to say how programs would benefit the children where schools have failed to provide a good education for them. ... American parents need that power to ensure that education serves their children successfully".( Allen...

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Family trips at least once a month, cookouts, movie night, and whatever else you would think that a family would do to spend time together. ... Some even said the parents would spend time arguing throughout the night and sometimes in front of the children. ​... The children started to notice the change in their family. ... The nights dad was not home were the nights they had to spend with either their grandparents or their godparents. ​... Parents, who have given the children life, are perceived by the children as very competent people with supernatural abilities to meet the needs of the...

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