Children Youth and Environments Journal

Should Students Have Armed Teachers? On April 20th, 1999, two armed students walked into Columbine High School, shooting and killing thirteen people and injuring many more. On December 12th, 2012, an armed adult walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, shooting and killing over twenty people. On February 14th, 2018, an armed adult walked into a high school located in Florida, killing seventeen and injuring seventeen more. With today’s uprising in school shootings, and other…

Mary Smolnisky Period 2 American Lit 26 February 2018 Should Gay Adoption be allowed Many people argue if it’s right to let gay couples adopt children because of religious reasons. Gay adoption means having two homosexuals take care of and add a child to their growing families. Gay adoption is legal but some people still deny the gay couples the right of adopting a child. Consider that there are roughly 400,000 orphans in the U.S alone. People could really lower that amount if…

control on teenagers’ relationships. Some have found that up to 59% of young women would stop using contraceptives if parental consent were needed.” (Tamara El- Rahi) In Georgia, there is a family planning service named Title X Funding that allows youth under eighteen years of age to use family planning services without parental consent. Without Title X, Georgia would have approximately 50,000 unplanned births (Roman Espejo). Teenagers should not have to have a parent's consent for birth control…

early age or better known as the stone age, where there is no books, internet, journals, newspapers or even the news to refer as a reference, people tense to use their senses as an act of learning to survive. Our ancestors uses their observations to hunt, identifies and reacts into different kind of situation. Our experience at an early age in life define us who would we become in the near future. Healthier environment leads to a healthy life. To relate the terms observations with the human eye,…

found not to be as effective because there is no responsibility in these types of children. These children have no free choice in anything which can make it difficult for them especially when they are confronted with tough choices of their own. Permissive parenting is just as ineffective as autocratic parenting because of the children doing what they want when they want. There is no level of control and these children are also more inclined to experimenting with drugs, sex and alcohol. We…

homework. Hopefully, at the end of the night each teenager will arrive home to sleep until the day will repeat itself over and over. Schedules are crazy between school, friends, work, and family which parents are aware of but many don’t know that children are taking part in illegal acts throughout the day. Drug use surrounds society in many age groups, even those you do not directly see. Despite previous attempts to eliminate abuse while warning users and potential users of the dangers,…

rich and the poor. Hillary Clinton has experience and wisdom and that's exactly what our country needs in a leader. As a leader, she will take action on gun control, healthcare insurance and education. Every American will be able to live in a safe environment and practice their beliefs. I stand with Hillary Clinton because she has a plan to move America forward to prosperity and that is exactly what our country…

Every year, about 300,000 children are placed into out-of-home care due to abuse and neglect (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). Many of these children already have siblings in the system. Sibling separation in foster care is a dilemma that many families go through when being placed into foster care. Brothers and sisters who have relied on each other for comfort and support through tough circumstances in their lives are forced to leave one another’s side for many reasons. Although…

Personal Pedagogy Introduction High school is the last tier of stepping up toward adulthood, and if the experience isn’t designed to be worthwhile, many of our youth will unfortunately fall into the category of “blank stares and lost hope.” Many students are at risk of dropping out of high school because they believe that no one actually cares to believe in them. The role of an educator is a person willing to commit to understanding the role of education in the life of adolescents. It takes a…

particular gender role (Ibid). Some authors have come to perceive teenage pregnancy as resulting from female gender role (Parekh & De La Rey, 1997). Adolescent pregnancy should be understood in a social context in which it occurs. Society socialises its youth through institutions, family, peers and media (Galambos, 2004), and thus the adolescent will clarify for himself or herself the gender role as constructed by the society that he or she belongs to. According to Bierie & Bingham (1994),…