Adoption Essay

Personally, I believe that young adults can be both influenced by their families and their friends equally dependent on the personality of the one who is being influenced. Every young adults’ personalities varies, so those who influence them will vary. Family influences you more when you are home; however, they also influence you on the job, when you’re at school, and they also influence your friends. Friends influence you on whether you are going to participate in drugs, get drunk, who you date…

The water droplets roll down my forehead as I lay in my bed looking at the water damaged ceiling. At twelve years old I slept in a one window attic in a tattered bed, under a leaky roof. I do not have any family nor friends to speak of and no real optimism for the future. School was my only outlet yet it was also beginning to be the root of my humiliation and embarrassment. Leaving school today with tears in my eyes and my teacher’s voice ringing in my head all I could ponder was this can’t be…

Case Study Christopher is a seven-year-old child from Mobile, Alabama. He was born full- term and natural birth to his mother, Karen and her boyfriend, Stephen. When Christopher was two years old, Karen was diagnosed with aggressive cancer and passed away shortly after Christopher’s fourth birthday. Since Karen was the primary caregiver, and a stay at home mom, Christopher was extremely close to her. Stephen noticed the great remorse and took Christopher to multiple psychiatrists. Christopher…

1. What changes have you experienced in how you think about the people you served? For my service project, I was able to work one-on-one with children who are or have been abused or neglected in the county of Tulare. I was also able to work with the people who are involved in making CASA possible such as my supervisor and even the judge and others at the Juvenile Justice Center in Visalia. After completing my service project with CASA, the changes that I experienced in how I think about the…

“You are not old enough yet”. You have probably heard that from your parents at one point when it came to falling in love. Love is something that is hard to understand, for everyone. Being younger, teenagers are still figuring things out, including romance. Love lasting for any meaningful amount of time in teenage years doesn’t happen because they are not ready to understand it, in multiple ways. The first reason teenagers cannot fall in love is due to the lack of experience with it. In Romeo…

Day care, child day care or child care is a place or institution where mothers or fathers drops of their children for the day to trained professionals to be cared for while they’re at work. Chidren need constant supervision from the age of 6 months and up. Some stay at home parents who has 2 and 3 toddlers takes advatage of sending their children to day care just so they can get house work done and some time to rest before they comes back at home. As a parent I did the same although I had one…

Transitional housing seeks to provide a better gateway for people to regain their economic stability. Usually for a period of two years, these programs involve subsidized housing in specific transitional housing developments and a mix of other supportive services and case management. However, programs of this type frequently have an excessive number of qualifications which prevent many of the most at-risk demographics from receiving the help they need (16). The Housing First model evolved in…

“Hardship adds to the strength of the people and artists we become. Michaela is nothing short of a miracle, born to be a ballerina.”-Misty Copeland. The book “Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina,” written by Michaela DePrince is a life changing autobiography. Michaela started out with a rough early childhood and turned it into a life long dream that came true. Throughout this book, readers get to join Michaela DePrince not only grow up has a kid, but as a beautiful, educated dancer…

As I examined the evidence and proposed ideas of Lykken, Westman, and Scarr, I came to the conclusion that I disagree with the idea of licensing parents. This decision did not come clearly to me at first. I had to consider the purpose behind each author’s design before judging their overall stance. Both Lykken and Westman proposed that society should have criteria in place for parents to become parents. The criterion would prevent societal ills such as crime and act as a buffer towards…

On April 27, 1941, a boy by the name of Jennings Michael Burch was born in Manhattan, NY. He at the time had three older brothers, and then a younger brother that was born after him. The oldest brother, Joseph, was a high school dropout, a drunk, and considered the breadwinner of the family. He was harsh with Jennings and it was said that he turned out exactly like his father, an irate alcoholic. The second oldest brother named James was very studious, and the smartest one in the family. He and…