Clinical Applications of L-Line X-Ray Fluorescence To Estimate Bone Lead Values in Lead-Poisoned Young Children and in Children, Teenagers, and Adults From Lead-Exposed and Non-Lead-Exposed Suburban Communities in the United States

Traditional conceptions of civic education for young children in the United States tend to focus on student acquisition of patriotic knowledge, that is, identifying flags and leaders, and practicing basic civic skills like voting as decision-making. The Civic Action and Young Children study sought to look beyond this narrow vision of civic education by observing, documenting, and contextualizing how young children acted on behalf of and with other people in their everyday early childhood settings. In the following paper, we offer examples from three Head Start classrooms to demonstrate multiple ways that young children act civically in everyday ways. When classrooms and teachers afford young children more agency, children’s civic capabilities expand, and they are able to act on behalf of and with their community. Rather than teaching children about democracy and citizenship, we argue for an embodied, lived experience for young children.

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Justifying “Wholesale Slaughter”

Canadian Journal of Philosophy ◽

10.1080/00455091.1975.10716110 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 245-258

Author(s):

Donald VanDeVeer

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Young Children ◽

Late Stage ◽

Homo Sapiens ◽

The United States ◽

Human Being ◽

Recent Trial ◽

The Law

In a recent trial in the United States a physician was convicted of manslaughter during the performance of a hysterotomy on a woman pregnant from twenty to twenty eight weeks. Some members of the jury, in their deliberations, were much impressed by seeing a photograph of a fetus of about the same age. The experience apparently provided some jurors with reason to conclude that the fetus which did die during or immediately after the hysterotomy was a human being or a person or, at least, was so like a child that the killing of it was prohibited by the law of homicide. If being a human being is not the same as being a pre-natal progeny of homo sapiens, it is difficult to understand how one could “tell by looking” whether the fetus is a human being. But the sight of a fetus of twenty weeks or longer does, I think, tempt us to think that from a moral standpoint we ought to extend the same treatment to such fetuses, or virtually the same, as we extend to newborn babies and young children. The visual similarities between middle or late stage fetuses and newborn babies is striking.

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Growing From Grief

OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying ◽

10.1177/0030222815576123 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 73 (3) ◽

pp. 203-230 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Jessica Koblenz

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Clinical Applications ◽

Depression And Anxiety ◽

Symptoms Of Depression ◽

Bereaved Children ◽

Loss Of A Parent

Currently, there are 2.5 million children in the United States who suffered the loss of a parent. Grieving children are more likely to experience symptoms of depression and anxiety compared with their nongrieving peers. Adults ( N = 19) who experienced a loss during childhood were interviewed to assess what was most helpful and most harmful in coping through the years following the death. The qualitative descriptions were coded and analysis of common themes determined. Five theoretical constructs were found: adjustment to catastrophe, support, therapy, continuing a connection with the deceased parent, and reinvestment. The findings have clinical applications for bereaved children, their families, and clinical programs targeting this population. The unique insights provide an emotionally salient expression of their experiences and provide a framework for how best to support this group.

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Neurocysticercosis: Report of Unusual Pediatric Cases

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.98.5.974 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 98 (5) ◽

pp. 974-977

Author(s):

Julie Kim Stamos ◽

Anne H. Rowley ◽

Yoon S. Hahn ◽

Ellen Gould Chadwick ◽

Peter M. Schsntz ◽

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Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Latin America ◽

Young Children ◽

Incubation Period ◽

Endemic Area ◽

Close Contact ◽

The United States ◽

Prolonged Incubation ◽

Endemic Areas ◽

Infants And Young Children

Cysticercosis is widely endemic in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. The incidence of cysticercosis has been increasing in the United States during the last decade.1 Although an infection still seen primarily in immigrants, it has been reported in increasing numbers in individuals who have close contact with persons who have resided in endemic areas.2 Only 6 cases of cysticercosis in children born in the United States have been reported; in 3 of these cases, the parents were from or had traveled to an endemic area and Taenia ova were recovered from the stools of the parent(s).1,3-6 Because of the prolonged incubation period, cases are rarely seen in infants and young children.4

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