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Offers a study about how deployment to combat zones increases the divorce rate. The longer and more often a military service member is deployed, the higher the risk of a divorce. Female military members are at a higher risk. Couples with children facing a lower risk of divorce.

Original: Younger children are also at risk for polio, rubella, and mumps until they are old enough to be vaccinated. Considering that there are about 4,000,000 births a year in the United States, that puts a lot of infants at risk for measles, pertussis, and other vaccine-preventable diseases. For measles, as kids aren't fully protected until they get their second dose of the MMR vaccine when they are about 4-years-old, that means an additional 12,000,000 toddlers and preschoolers are potentially at risk. Paraphrase: Parents who choose not to vaccinate their children are putting other young children who are not old enough to be vaccinated in danger of getting polio, mumps, and rubella. In the United States, there are around four million births every year. Taking this into consideration that means infants everywhere are being put at risk for many vaccine-preventable diseases every day. In addition, twelve million children under the age of four are not completely protected from measles until they get there second MMR immunization at about the age of four years old.

This article talks about an anti-drug campaign that was imposed in 2008 and the risks of people abusing the campaign. When a similar anti-drug campaign was introduced in 2003, people were killed and many of the people that were killed were blacklisted as suspected drug dealers by the authorities.

This piece tells you about different kinds of abortion procedures. It also explains what abortion is and what they do. There are also many risks possible in result of an abortion, this site explains them.

A general information article that talks about bullying. It gives the definition, who is at increased risk , ways to create safe environments, and anti-bullying protections in the state of Arizona.

I feel like bullying has become more and more of an issue over the years. It is sad to see what is going on and I would like to see more schools implement programs to stop it.

Bullying as gotten bigger over the years especially dealing with how big social media is getting. I wish school and adults would help stop this issue because it is always overlooked.

The article studies the relationship between cyberbullying and school bullying. The results show that students who are bullied in cyberspace are at higher risk of being bullied at school as well. Additionally, students who are bullied in cyberspace or in both cyberspace and school are at high risk of low grades, poor concentration, and absenteeism. Bullying has a direct impact on learning whether it occurs in cyberspace or at school.

Bullying does effect a student's ability to learn, whether it is cyber or not. It can lesson their focus in school and in their social life. Cyber bullying is worse because it can come in many forms. The internet is everywhere and anyone can use it against someone.

I think it should be common sense that if someone is spending more time getting cyber bullied on top of getting in school bullied as well, If it was me I would not be doing my work. People just need to stop and think before they post.

This article addresses the issues of free speech and privacy in the digital age. Both areas of personal freedoms that are at risk today. The article goes in detail about ways they are both violated by the digital age and the issues that go along with both topics

This article addresses the issues of free speech and privacy in the digital age. Both areas of personal freedoms that are at risk today. The article goes in detail about ways they are both violated by the digital age and the issues that go along with both topics

Allowing the body to create antibodies naturally from catching a disease has much more severe risks than getting a vaccine. The risk for a potentially dangerous outcome decreases when getting a vaccination rather than acquiring the disease naturally.

Covering recent criticism and pressure on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, this paper lists pros and cons of removing or reforming the section and possible risks that entail. Particularly this section of the act covers liability and legality that affect sites that host content, such as Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook.

Covering recent criticism and pressure on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, this paper lists pros and cons of removing or reforming the section and possible risks that entail. Particularly this section of the act covers liability and legality that affect sites that host content, such as Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook.

"Because of the added risk of misunderstanding or overriding the patient's wishes, there is currently less support for euthanasia than for physician-assisted suicide. Nonetheless, both requests do occur and physicians need to know how to respond to either type of request"

This website is for those conservatives concerned with President Obama's policies and their attack on civil liberties.

There are many risk factors to eating disorder, however they are not what cause the disorder but can contribute to developing an eating disorder. Psychological risk factors are low self-esteem, lack of control on life, anxiety, anger, stress. Some social factors to eating disorder are wanting to obtain the "perfect body", the cultures definition of beauty.

I think a huge impact on a person eating habits is how society views people. People are constantly told to look a certain way, do certain things, and it eventually becomes ove whelming. These factors can lead to person having a eating disorder so that they can feel accepted in society.

When Paul Watson says that he and other members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society risk their lives to save whales, he isn't joking. Every winter, the Sea Shepherd staff and crew set sail to the treacherous Southern Ocean to stop Japanese whalers from catching and killing nature's largest mammals.

I used to love watching their show on discovery channel. I agree they do risk lives every time they go out to stop the Japanese whalers. I do feel that the conservation of whales is important to our environment. I went whale watching in San Diego over the summer and they are magnification animals.

GMO foods were created to protect the crop and increase the plant's resistance ability towards insects and herbicides. On the other side, it also poses a lot of potential risk for us, the consumers. The article discusses the risk for our heath as well as the environment that the crops themselves are in.

Vaccines have made many childhood diseases rare today's day in age. There are some small risks, but the benefits out number the amount of risks. The only time a child should not be vaccinated is if they have a serious disease like cancer or HIV.

Susan Milligan discusses how abortion is a battle between choice and life. Northern Ireleand, a judge discussed human rights, and how abortion is legal if the mother's life is at risk. "The life of a child in the womb should be protected by laws aimed at preserving human rights."

This articles gives descriptions of types of bullying, conclusions of bullying factors and risks. It also gives more facts about statistics of type of bullying, who has been or bullied someone, bullying effects suicide and talks about targeted groups of people.

I'm often lost in thought regarding my young daughter, she is still a ways from attending elementary but it seems that with time the issue of bullying doesn't appear to get better. I hope by the time she is old enough to attend there are better practices in place for schools and students to recognize and stop this behavior.

There are many birth control methods and certain ones may not be worth the risk. Essure may not be as safe as it sounds. The device fails more than 10 percent of the time and has lifelong injuries that come with it.

Most forms of birth control are very risky. Unfortunately, due to various health issues, many women are limited when it comes to birth control options, and the acceptable forms are typically the more risky ones (such as the birth control implant or an IUD). Essure is of the more dangerous forms, as it is experimental, but many others have had similar issues, such as the device coming out of place and roaming through a woman's body. Not every woman on birth control has these issues, but it's important to be very well educated on the potential risks before starting any form of birth control, especially if it involves a foreign object that could become dislodged.

Chlorpyrifos puts children at high risk. The constant use of this pesticide puts young children, infants, fetuses in harms way. The doing away with this pesticide is crucial for the well being of the younger generation.

Covid-19 has had plenty of negative lasting affects on many lives. This article shows a lot of the ways that this pandemic has created havoc in our lives. It has risked jobs and family home have been destroyed. It creates deb that can be hard to pay back.