However, in the United States, the Establishment Clause has created a wall between church and state, and the morality of church policies cannot impact the laws of the land. While people are free to believe that being gay is immoral or unnatural, the Continue Reading...
Same Sex Adoption Why is the idea of a same sex couple adopting a child an anathema to some conservatives, evangelical Christians, and others that tend to lean to the political right? Is it because they are homophobic and basically believe that gays Continue Reading...
On February 15, 2012, the DOL published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the Federal Register to integrate the changes commanded by the amendment. On June 22, 2010, the DOL in an Administrator's Interpretation clarified the definition of son and d Continue Reading...
Evolution of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 Most Americans regard the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 as the most comprehensive and far-reaching anti-crime bill in the country's history. The Act, whic Continue Reading...
Most of the subjects who took part in the Belmont research were inmates, under privileged children or black people. This research violated these person's rights. By using inmates, the researchers were looking for people who could be easily coerced t Continue Reading...
Until such time, however, same sex couples must be tread lightly and carefully in order to protect their relationship and parental rights. Adam P. Romeo, et al., Census Snapshot: United States, Williams Institute (2007), available at http://www.law Continue Reading...
Normally, efforts must be reasonable and diligent but not futile. The general grounds for termination of parental rights in all states are as follows. Abandonment is a prime case of abandonment can be established after six months of conscious disreg Continue Reading...
Gradually, there are lesser desired adoptive kids as society have come to accept single mother who parent their children compared to earlier. The disgrace of giving birth to a child outside marriage has lowered and hence, the bulk of single moms pre Continue Reading...
Interracial Adoption: Cultural Genocide Adoption between same-race children and parents is a difficult task. Filling the emotional needs of a child who has lost one or both parents presents a multitude of adjustment problems for both the child and a Continue Reading...
International Adoption Adoption, whether national or international, is a legal process in which the rights of the biological parent are terminated. The adoptive parent is then given the rights and responsibilities of a legal parent and the adoptee i Continue Reading...
The ADEA permits employers to favor older workers based on age even when doing so adversely affects a younger worker who is 40 or older" (Facts about age discrimination, 2008, EEOC). The worker was clearly discriminated against for a promotional opp Continue Reading...
Conservatives, on the other hand, have many passions and one of them is a color-blind government. Most of them believe that all policies of discrimination should be discarded. They view these policies as unwise, immoral and unconstitutional. Three c Continue Reading...
The employer has an established protocol for dealing with allegations of sexual harassment, and a sexual harassment complaint triggers protections for the employee. An employee engaging in sexual harassment of any other employees, clients, or busine Continue Reading...
FMLA The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is an addition to the regulations applied to businesses which recognizes the changing nature of the family, and the importance of having a business environment which is supportive of the needs of the fami Continue Reading...
The author of this report will offer a summary of two important laws and regulations when it comes to employment in the United Kingdom. Those two pieces of law will be the Employment Rights Act of 1996, commonly known as ERA 1996, and the Equality Ac Continue Reading...
Affordable Care Act A current law that impacts the delivery of human services is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law by President Barack Obama in March 2010. The legislation (most commonly known as the Affordable Care Act Continue Reading...
Personnel Law and Regulation Workers Compensation Rehabilitation For nearly 100 years, the system of Worker's Compensation has been used in the United States. Worker's Compensation is legislated and administered at the state level. Accordingly, eac Continue Reading...
Green Building Laws Green Building and Green Retrofitting The department of Federal Environmental Executive defines green building like this: Elevating the competence by which the built structures consume energy, equipment and water along with decr Continue Reading...
Cloud Security and Privacy Cloud computing's exponential growth is fueling a corresponding need for greater compliance, governance and regulations to ensure data and knowledge are secured and accessed for intended use. A regulation by definition is Continue Reading...
" Such decisions are made by the courts based on personal values, not empirical data. In 1999, the American Psychologist published one of the first research studies on the topic of adoptive parenting. "Deconstructing the Essential Father" (Silverste Continue Reading...
Moral issues should not come to play. Individuals who are against the adoptions do not care about equality or that research does not support their fears. Nor do these individuals care that the American Academy of Pediatrics, among an entire list of Continue Reading...
In other words, under the FMLA, employees could for instance choose to work 24 weeks on part time basis. Also, an employee could take a weekly leave every month, or any other type of combination he finds most suitable for his condition. The worker i Continue Reading...
Immigration and Asylum Policy in the EU The formation of the European Union was a feat, unprecedented in modern history. This agreement represented feat of political cooperation never before accomplished in the history of the world. Under this agree Continue Reading...
International Energy Law International Energy Arbitration This paper will examine the role of arbitration in the international energy sector over the past 50 years. Discussion is organized around the five decades leading up to the current state of Continue Reading...
Hate Speech Constitutionality of hate-speech laws and legislation College campus hate-speech codes, Fighting words; hate symbols State interest in regulating hate-speech, Arguments for and against such laws and codes, First Amendment protection Continue Reading...
Communication in the criminal justice system The process of communication entails the passage of information between individuals. This flow of communication, however, has its principles. The principles include the need of effective channel of commu Continue Reading...
Communication Memo to Support the Adoption of Active Listening Medical Practice Staff Office Manager Re; Active Listening Active listening may offer a great deal of potential to increase the effectiveness of communication which takes within the Continue Reading...
Catechetical Plan: Understanding Amoris Laetitia1. Topic 9-session program for adults (Summary of Chapter Five of Amoris Laetitia)2. Intended Adult AudienceAt Sacred Heart parish, we developed a program to help couples get more involved in the church Continue Reading...
health law and administrative law, according to Jost (2004), are law domains that are representative of the various approaches to classification. By definition, "health law encompasses law as it affects a particular industry -- the health-care indus Continue Reading...
Labor "Weak protections under U.S. law allow children as young as 12 to work unlimited hours outside of school on tobacco farms of any size, and there is no minimum age for children to work on small farms. Despite the known risks of nicotine poisoni Continue Reading...
Korea Describe how gender and family roles differed from the Kory? To the Late Chos-n dynasties. What brought about these changes? The Choson dynasty was one that was unique for its time. During this period, women's rights were very rare, and in ma Continue Reading...
Considerations Stress and grief can make it hard to reach sensible decisions." The Issue of Arbitration in Family Law Family Law frequently involves the lives of children, and includes requirements that continue after the case decision is made. Continue Reading...
S. COURT SYSTEM FUNCTIONS (http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itdhr/0999/ijde/fine.htm)." The highest tier of this federal system is the United States Supreme Court. This court has nine Supreme Court Justices who are appointed for the term of their li Continue Reading...
Career Possibilities for Women in Philosophy Philosophy is not a hard science requiring that problems be worked out with formulas and centuries-old givens. The American Philosophical Association says that, "Philosophy is a basic field of inquiry. It Continue Reading...
Federal Courts There are three branches of the federal government: the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. The federal courts were established by Congress, which is given the power to establish them in the Constitution. The Constitution Continue Reading...
Adopting Special Needs Children When it comes to adoption, parenting styles for special needs children is really no different. There are hundreds and thousands of children that are currently living in the foster care system that are put into the gro Continue Reading...
These may include the parental workplace, school boards, social service agencies, and planning commissions." (Strengthening the Family: Implications for International Development, nd) Four: The Macro-system Macro-systems are 'blueprints' for inter Continue Reading...
society has accepted the presence of gays and lesbians, still beneath that facade, lies intense prejudice and discrimination. Society has refused to grant them even some most basic rights such as adoption and foster-parenting. Florida and two other Continue Reading...
Indian Child Welfare Act History and context of the policy The Congress enacted the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) in 1978. This Act was a result of a series of deliberations, debates, and hearings to alleviate a terrific crisis of national propor Continue Reading...
