Parental Education for Children′s Rights

Parental Rights and Accountability in Public Education: Special Education and Choice of School

Coping with parental loss because of termination of parental rights.

This article addresses the process by which children and adolescents cope with severe acute stress of parental loss from causes other than divorce or death. Participants were 60 children and adolescents from a residential treatment facility. Most had experienced neglect, physical abuse, and sexual abuse, and their parents had their parential rights terminated. Measures of symptomatology indicat...

Human rights education for nursing students.

This article is based largely on a research study undertaken by the author into the teaching of human rights in nursing courses in the UK on behalf of the national section of the human rights organization Amnesty International. It attempts to provide a baseline estimate of human rights education in nursing curricula in the UK while making suggestions on how the teaching of human rights issues c...

Parental alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, and risk of infant leukemia: a Childrens Cancer Group study.

BACKGROUND Whether parental drinking and smoking during pregnancy are associated with an increased risk of cancer in offspring is controversial. There are some indications that maternal alcohol consumption is associated with an elevated risk of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) appearing in very young children. Evidence for an association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and risk of leukemi...

Who‘s Got Parental Rights? The Intersection Between Infertility, Reproductive Technologies, and Disability Rights Law

It is estimated that ten to twenty percent of couples in the developed world experience infertility.1 Factors such as late childbearing increase the rates of infertility, particularly when race and economic disadvantages are considered.2 Additionally, infertility and the experience of infertility often result in significant emotional and psychological costs to those involved.3 It is thus not su...