Part one of term paper
“ “Child”: means a boy or a girl apparently or effectively aged less than eighteen years” (Van Stolk 146). “Rich kids, middle-class kids, poor kids - all deal with risk and neglect on a scale unimagined in previous generations” (Hewitt 11). There are problems of poverty, absentee parents, divorce, violenc ...

Part two of term paper
... popular. Something else that contributes to child neglect is a fast rate of family breakdown. This is an effect of divorce and rapid increase in single parent pregnancies. Couples marrying today face an even higher chance of divorcing at some point during their lives together. “A family’s deterioration can come about in ways other than separation” (Wilson 50). Staying together, in certain conditions and situations may increase further economical or psychological problems th ...