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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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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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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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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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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Many children and adolescents spend large amounts of time playing them. ... So the question is; what impact do violent video games hold on children? ... Children waste time they do not have to play violent video games. ... For instance, this year, a south Korean couple let their real baby starve to death because they were spending too much caring for their virtual baby in a role-playing game called Prius Online (Beato). ... When people see a five year old spending most of his day on a violent video game shooting at fictional characters instead of playing in the back yard of bonding with his pa...

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Adults are scared of the children. ... If prisons are supposed to rehabilitate, then why would we sentence our babies to spend their lives there. ... But does Sarah deserve to spend the rest of her life in prison for killing her pimp? ... So why is he spending the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole? ... Another circumstance is the fact that these children are just that "children". ...

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Effects on Kids When Both Parents Are Employed Children who spend a lot of time alone or with other siblings are most likely to have some sort of emotion problems or hatred towards their parents. ... Children acquire their goals, and values based on the way that they view their parents, from the quality and amount of care, love and guidance given to them by parents. Children usually receive a lot of attention when littler because they need a lot of care and love. Most of the time after children are born parents usually go back to their job. ... A child may not have a sibling to spend qua...

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In this situation it may be helpful to try arriving at day care or the babysitters earlier than usual and spend some one-on-one time with them before you leave to ease the separation. Elementary children have fantasies about the reunion of their parents because they struggle with the difference between fantasy and reality. ... Due to the emotional tension divorce creates, parents may unknowingly reduce the amount of time devoted to their children. ... Frequently this is because these children are hurt and confused about the changes taking place in their lives, and are taking their anger out on...

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This means that children are able to soak up new tasks more easily than adults. ... For example, children growing up in a bilingual family can often speak both languages. ... Bilingualism would be the base for a new area of knowledge for children. ... Learning another language by children does not mean that they have to spend an enormous time to memorize a vocabulary or grammar rules. ... Overall, learning a second language can be incredible experience for children. ...

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Demographers predict that by the beginning of the next decade the majority of the youngsters under 18 will spend part of their childhood in single-parent families, many created by divorce. ... As a result children may become less compliant and parent child relationships can be associated with behavior problems in the children. ... Wallerstein calls these children the "overburden child". They accounted for 15 percent of the children in her study. ... On the average children of divorce have somewhat more negative outlook on their world as compared to children in intact families. ...

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Children love violent computer games involving human or fantasy violence. ... Prof Kawashima said that " there is a problem we will have with a new generation of children who play computer games that we have never seen before". ... Children who play violent computer games such as Quake or Doom display more aggressive behavior and actually teach children to kill" (Dr. ... One of her sons "become withdrawn into the computer and seems to have abondoned those friend he made at school (...)He spends all his free time playing computer games and I fear that it is start...

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Being a single parent, you're apt to create a stronger bond with your kids due to the fact you spend more one on one time together. ... These kids learn how to not spend crazy amounts of money on something they may want. ... Children in single parent families tend to learn that marriage is only an option and it's not necessary to be happy. ... I truly think spending quality time and showing them you love them is what they need. ...

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What are the effects of daycare on children? ... Having these many children to watch alone essentially lets the children do whatever they want to, for it is hard for the caregiver to care and interact with the children as they should ( Holcomb 17). ... Approximately thirteen million children under the age of six now spend almost all or part of their days in the care of someone other than their parents. ... The number of hours and days a child spends in daycare is a key factor to the way he/she will be affected. ... Children learn easier in centers where the caregivers interact with the ...

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Asthma is the most common chronic condition in children. ... Children with asthma can play sports and be athletic as long as they monitor their condition." ("Asthma In Children") The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute says that only when a child is "experiencing asthma symptoms or is recovering from an attack" should exercise be temporarily reduced (United States 8). ... In "Asthma: The Mind-Body Connection," Woolston reports, "Studies have found that asthmatic children suffering from psychological distress need higher doses of medication and spend more time in the hospital than other...

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Children and TV Violence Violence on television is harmful and damaging to children's minds. ... Reading practice by children is being replaced by television watching. ... Violence on television affects children who watch it. ... The study warned parents to know that television violence effects children and children pick up aggressive attitudes and behaviors (Shifrin 3). ... Even though video games are more graphic than television, children spend more of their time watching TV ("Media Violence" 1). ...

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"Imagine for a minute what kind of society it is in which some people can spend on a toy what it would cost to feed a family of six or seven,"" says one of the heroes in the end of the story, but she does not utters something new or extraordinary. ... In fact what does really Toni teaches children is prejudices that I believe is remain of the past and not present. ... In fact, children nowadays completely forgot the meaning of the word respect. ... It would unquestionably help children to built a strong base for their future life and to avoid such things as betraying "themselves and their kin...

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Divorce: The Effect on the Children Divorce, once uncommon in our society, is now becoming more and more frequent, disrupting our children's state of well-being. ... A divorce in the family creates a major life change for most children. ... Children often have a hard time adjusting to this new situation. ... The nonresidential parent who supports the children economically through child support also tends to spend more time with the children. ... The children receive support from the nonresident parent. ...

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