Essays on Dependent Children

Throughout the nature of all beings, parents are those who raise their children and have the responsibility for them as well as the right to raise them in the way they see appropriate. Since only the human beings developed its literacy they were the only ones who codified this right of having and raising children. In the United States, the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution comprised a statement that “no state [shall] deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process.” (U. S. C., 14th Amendment, 2016, Web) In Mayer v. Nebraska (1923), the Supreme Court of ...

English

Introduction The case study method and the phenomenological study are two prominent methods of qualitative research design. The case study method involves an attempt to understand an issue or a problem using a case as an illustrative instance to elucidate features of a larger class of similar phenomena (Gerring, 2004). In contrast, a phenomenological study is used to describe particular phenomena, or the appearance of things, as a ‘lived in experience’ (Penner & McClemont, 2008). A phenomenological study is not aimed at explaining or discovering causes. Instead, its main aim is to arrive at the rich essence of experience lived ...

“Poor single mother on welfare tell me how you did it?” rings the famous lyric of the late Rapper-Activist Tupac Amaru Shakur. The son of a former Black Panther, this ode to his mother provides a glimpse into the conundrum of surviving in the wake of being poor and black on public assistance. What Shakur unknowingly reveals is the image of welfare in a more empathetic and realistic way that illuminates instead of ignoring the lived realities of its recipients. While Shakur’s lyric is compassionate in it’s depiction, conservative lawmakers are less considerate in their elucidation of ...

Health Insurance in the United States was implemented as a means to help individuals as well as families to cope up with the rising medical expenses. The annual report by has stated that the number of individuals seeking health insurance coverage (public) has seen substantial increases since 2010. This finding is in line with the assumption that the rising medical assistance costs have been putting a tremendous amount of pressure on people. They have been finding health insurance as the only viable solution to meet their medical expenses. But paying for insurance is not a relieving matter either (especially ...

Introduction

The United States is one of the countries that is best known for its comprehensive and outstanding social services programs. There are numerous departments and government-related agencies and organizations that have been given the task to direct and regulate the different social programs that the government has put in place for its citizens and other qualified candidates. In terms of healthcare, for example, thanks to the latest healthcare reforms, a considerably larger percentage of the total U.S. population ...

For your assigned country collect the following Data/other information:

- Social Security Expenditures: A historical perspective and a graph for it. The first laws regarding social welfare in Poland were passed in the 18th century that gave each citizen the right to social security. In the late 1980s, the country spent almost 20% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on welfare. After the fall of communism in 1990 and the transition of the People’s Republic of Poland to the current Third Polish Republic, the social security spending in Poland rose. This led to the growth of the welfare state because of large public expectations on social need. ...

Did the Welfare System Cause the Dissolution of the Black Family?

Introduction

In 1965 when the civil rights movements was experiencing an explosion, Daniel Patrick Moynihan penned a report to President Johnson claiming that one of the major reasons for poverty amongst black Americans was the fact that a quarter of black families were being headed by women. While that report caused a lot of uproar for the then White House aide, today we still see that many African American homes are manned by single women as many black babies seem to be born outside of wedlock. This is a problem that looks to ...

Introduction

France has a broad social security system, which covers injuries at work, healthcare, old age pensions, death benefits and unemployment insurance. The scheme, which was introduced in 1945 was projected to cover the whole population. In the EU, France has been ranked top among other countries in its expenditure on welfare. France spends about E200 billion every year on social security, which is higher than what the country produces. Employee contributions are made by the employee themselves while employers also pay a certain percentage for their employees. However, for the self employed, they pay their contributions in full. The French social ...

Structural Components

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), which in 1996, replaced standard welfare’s food stamp portion of in-kind benefits, is a program that is designed to give temporary assistance to families who find financial hardship until they are able to improve their circumstances (Hirschl & Rank, 1999). The stigma of receiving benefits has decreased in the first five to seven years, since the beginning of the recession. With unemployment escalating, and many people running out of unemployment benefits before finding new employment, the stigma that had been attached to receiving food stamps is lessening. Food stamps are becoming acceptable as a ...

This paper aims at explaining the insight gained from watching Plaid Avengers Videos about the relationship between geography and economics. It combines the new knowledge and what was already known about politics, demographics, and globalization and how their geographical aspects affect economics. These discussions reflect the new perspective gained from the videos concerning how these aspects affect economics. This in turn affects the environment in which traders make their decisions. For instance, a political leader like the president may decide that nationalization will be the new policy in the country. This will affect the decisions of the local and ...

Discrimination against women is a subject that has been discussed for many years now. Since the Suffragette movement in the early twentieth century, equality between the sexes has been getting closer. However, there are still many areas of life in which women are discriminated against. Two examples of these are in economic institutions and in education. These two areas are interlinked and influence each other. It seems that if women are to reach a time when they are paid as highly as men, and are accepted into as many highly skilled professions as men, subtle discriminations need to be eradicated, from ...