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Maelani Parker

Poor housing can destroy a child's future, says Lisa Harker | Society | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • News Society Second thoughts Home truths Poor housing can destroy a child's future, says Lisa Harker Share 3 Email Lisa Harker The Guardian, Tuesday 12 September 2006 Britain is hooked on housing. Queues snake round DIY retail parks each weekend, and TV schedules are saturated with home makeover shows. But there is one area where the appetite for all things housing appears to have stopped short.While the government's Every Child Matters programme for child welfare picks out health, safety, economic well-being, making a positive contribution, enjoying and achieving as the critical factors that shape children's lives, there is no explicit recognition of the role that housing plays - despite the fact that more than a million children in Britain are living in poor housing.That figure will come as no surprise to professionals working at the sharp end of the housing crisis, but whether the scale of the problem is grasped by those shaping public policy is far from clear.Earlier this year I was commissioned by Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity, to undertake a comprehensive review of research examining the impact of bad housing on children's future chances. The resulting report, Chance of a Lifetime, published today, documents the powerful influence of poor housing on children's lives and shows how its destabilising impact is felt long into adulthood.
  • Earlier this year I was commissioned by Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity, to undertake a comprehensive review of research examining the impact of bad housing on children's future chances. The resulting report, Chance of a Lifetime, published today, documents the powerful influence of poor housing on children's lives and shows how its destabilising impact is felt long into adulthood.
  • On every aspect of life - mental, physical, emotional, social and economic - living in bad housing can hand children a devastating legacy. Studies show that poor housing can lead to a 25% higher risk of experiencing severe ill-health and disability before they reach middle age. In particular, such children face a greater chance of developing meningitis, infections, asthma or other respiratory problems
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  • It can also have a devastating impact on emotional wellbeing. Research shows that homeless children are three to four times more likely to have mental health problems than other children
  • How can a homeless child flourish when they are two to three times more likely to be absent from school and become used to watching their no more able, but well-housed, contemporaries leapfrog their progress? How can a child develop healthily when their home is cold and damp, their chest hurts when they breathe, and they can't sleep at night, as one girl described her experience of living in a house where the heating does not work?
  • Maelani Parker on 26 Aug 12
     
    Where a child is required to make their home has a lasting effect on their health and their well-being. This carries into society and has an effect there as well.
shawna ford

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  • shawna ford on 19 Feb 14
     
    Music as a health patterning modality for preterm infants in the NICU Neal, Diana Odland . University of Minnesota, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2008. 3330515. Turn on hit highlighting for speaking browsers Hide highlighting Abstract (summary) Translate Abstract Preterm birth is on the rise causing neonatal mortality and is a major determinant of early childhood mortality and morbidity in the United States. Numerous preterm infants suffer from neurological disability including cerebral palsy; visual and hearing impairments; learning difficulties; and, psychological, behavioral, and social problems. This increasing incidence of prematurity, prevalence of significant morbidity, and burden to society, both personal and cost-related, make it imperative to identify developmental care strategies such as music that might reduce this burden . This study integrates the work of music therapy, neuroscience, audiology, and medicine with nursing to address the uncertainty regarding the effect of music as a holistic health patterning modality and discover if preterm infant physiological and neurobehavioral state responses to music and ambient noise are different. The goal of this study was to establish a foundation for further research related to the use of music with preterm infants and to address the issue of safety in providing music as a health patterning modality for this population. Forty-one clinically stable, non-ventilated, appropriate-for-gestational-age (AGA) preterm infants from 32 to 35 weeks gestation in a large, urban Midwest Children's Hospital NICU were included in this study. An interrupted time-series design with repeated measures was used to explore the health patterning responses of preterm infants to an intentionally designed music intervention of recorded piano music. The effect of the music was measured every 30-seconds before, during, and after the sound condition of music or ambient noise by observi
Billy Gerchick

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  • Billy Gerchick on 27 Aug 12
     
    "Numbers, Facts, and Trends Shaping [our] World." PEW is the most reliable, objective source for macro research I know of; use and feel welcome to cite this source for factual information.
  • Billy Gerchick on 31 Mar 14
     
    "Numbers, Facts, and Trends Shaping [our] World." PEW is the most reliable, objective source for macro research I know of; use and feel welcome to cite this source for factual information.
Maelani Parker

Children's social skills 'eroded by decline of family meals' - Telegraph - 0 views

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  • decline in family dinners had also coincided with increased access to high-fat convenience food.
  • “As a society, we have lost the beneficial effects of sharing a meal around the table.
  • children were healthier and less likely to be overweight in households where families eat together around the dining table.
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  • Separate research has concluded that around one-in-10 adults never eat a meal with their children and another 10 per cent only share dinners once a week
  • “The decline of family meals has led to the erosion of social skills among youngsters, despite the fact that it is increasingly becoming clear for the future that an ability to get on with people and share ideas will be just as vital in the workplace as the ability to master English and maths,” he said
  • “The over-emphasis on material success and, in education, on valuing attainment only, with too little attention paid to establishing a sense of belonging, has meant that some fundamental values have been inverted. "Essentially, our education system and our culture have got things upside down. We've told our children that they will reach a sense of belonging by means of achieving material success, instead of the other way round.”
  • Maelani Parker on 24 Aug 12
     
    This article shows one area of decline in the traditional family structure. Nutrition suffers when the family does not eat together regularly. Also, children grow up with depleted social skills and disadvantage in the workplace. This is relevant to my research project because I want to study nutrition and plan on having a family on my own so this seemed to be a highly relevant article and potential resource for my project.
Francesca Cocchiarella

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  • Francesca Cocchiarella on 24 Aug 12
     
    I get on this website often only because I'm very involved in Relay For Life. I always help every year with this and I not only volunteer but i also participate in it as well.
Maelani Parker

Why Married Parents Are Important for Children « For Your Marriage - 0 views

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  • Society no longer assumes that married parents are the norm. At the same time, social science research has confirmed the wisdom and value of traditional practice. Children do better when raised by their married mother and father.
  • The three most significant reasons children are raised without their married mother and father are unwed pregnancy, cohabitation, and divorce
  • Children raised in intact married families: are more likely to attend college are physically and emotionally healthier are less likely to be physically or sexually abused are less likely to use drugs or alcohol and to commit delinquent behaviors have a decreased risk of divorcing when they get married are less likely to become pregnant/impregnate someone as a teenage
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  • A child whose mother cohabits with a man other than the childís father is 33 times more likely to suffer serious physical child abuse
  • Children receive gender specific support from having a mother and a fathe
  • A child living with a single mother is 14 times more likely to suffer serious physical abuse than is a child living with married biological parents
  • In married families, about one- third of adolescents are sexually active. For teenagers in stepfamilies, cohabiting households, divorced families, and those with single unwed parents, the percentage rises above one-half
  • Children of so- called “good divorces” fare worse emotionally than children who grew up in an unhappy but “low-conflict” marriag
  • Maelani Parker on 09 Sep 12
     
    This article asks questions regarding marital status of the parents and how that relates to the children and the choices they will make.This relates to home environment and divorce and well as education.
williamgreer

Barefoot v. Estelle - 463 U.S. 880 (1983) :: Justia US Supreme Court Center - 1 views

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  • One of the questions submitted to the jury, as required by a Texas statute, was whether there was a probability that the petitioner would commit further criminal acts of violence and would constitute a continuing threat to society. In addition to introducing other evidence, the State called two psychiatrists, who, in response to hypothetical questions, testified that there was such a probability. The jury answered the question, as well as another question as to whether the killing had been deliberate, in the affirmative, thus requiring imposition of the death penalty. On appeal, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rejected petitioner's contention that such use of psychiatric testimony at the sentencing hearing was unconstitutional, and affirmed the conviction and sentence.
  • williamgreer on 05 Mar 14
     
    Information on the Barefoot V. Estelle Supreme Court case of 1983
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