- Identify a teratogen, describe how it affects prenatal development, and include short- or long-term consequences (e.g., miscarriage or effects after birth) 2. Bianca's parents are accomplished musicians. At age 4, Bianca began taking piano lessons. By age 10, she was accompanying the school choir. At age 14, she asked to attend a special music high school. Explain how gene-environment correlation promoted Bianca's talent 3. Amy, two months pregnant, wonders how the embryo is being fed and what parts of the body have formed. "I don't look pregnant yet, so does that mean not much development has taken place?" she asks. How would you respond to Amy? 4. Government support for children and families has been more difficult to realize in the United States than in other industrialized nations. For example, affordable child care is in short supply, and much of it is substandard in quality. The United States remains the only industrialized nation in the world without a universal, publicly-funded health-care system. Approximately 10 percent of U.S. children, most in low-income families, have no health insurance. For older people, Medicare mainly covers acute care services and requires participants to pay part of those costs, too. This leaves about half of elderly health spending to be covered by supplemental private insurance, government health insurance for the poor, or out-of-pocket payments. You are to interview two (or three) friends, family members, or acquaintances. Ask them to what extent tax dollars should be devoted to child-rearing issues or the elderly. Should government support serve as a safety net for families in dire need or should policies be applied more broadly? Present results from your interview and include your position on the matter with rationale.
- Although the United States is one of the wealthiest nations in the world, it does not rank among the top countries on any measure of children's health and well-being. " Head to the Child Trends website: www.childtrends.org. " Position your mouse over Databank and click on Indicators by Topic Area in the drop-down menu. Choose Child Maltreatment-Welfare, scroll down and narrow results by clicking All Life stages, Infants and young children, and update. " select an article to review.
Briefly summarize the article. What child or adolescent indicator was highlighted in the article? What trends were revealed? For example, were there any significant state-to-state trends? Did the article include past research? If so, how does the current research compare? Is there any cultural or ethnic data reported? Does the article include implications of the research?
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