This study of adults who were abandoned as infants explores three perspectives鈥攖heir concepts of their biological parents who have abandoned them, their concepts of their adoptive parents who have raised them and finally their concepts of themselves as parents on the birth of their own children....
that they can use this information to guide their helping behavior. None of these findings, however, directly address the question of whether young children understand when an agent has taken up a goal and then subsequently abandoned it for a different goal. The current study addressed this ...
When tasked with feeding themselves without any parent providing help, many children often go hungry and become malnourished. Not all children are as fortunate as the girl in Round Rock; many abandoned children are found by adults who wish to mistreat them. In addition to these physical effects...
Children and adults who were 6–30 years old because of oral exposure to Cd and Cr from the facility were significantly at risk noncarcinogenic (Järup and Åkesson, 2009). In Heshen Village, China, farmers were being poisoned by arsenic (As) as a result of an As processing factory ...
Main picture: Ann Becke photographed this week with a picture of some of the children and adults who visited in 2016 Above: Pictures from Pripyat, the abandoned town within the Chernobyl exclusion zone, including a dilapidated fairground ride and the remains of a kindergarten Right: Ann with Che...
The Minnisceongo Creek cuts the grounds in two, delineating areas for the two sexes which were meant never to mingle. Separate living and training facilities for children, able-bodied adults, and the infirm were not to exceed two stories or house over 70 inmates. Until the 1960s,the able-...
Sinister by today’s standards, the “laboratory purpose” was another essential tenet of the Letchworth plan. Unable to give or deny consent,many children became unwitting test subjects—in 1950, the institution gained notoriety as the site of one of the first human trials of a still-experiment...
“Porky the Litter Eater” some in houses, some in mushrooms, and some in brick houses. Porky was a fun addition and popular amongst the children being as he had the ability to quite literally suck the trash right out of your hands. Children would run all over the park to see who ...
Though it doesn’t look abandoned now,this outdoor shopping mallwas made out of the leftover set of an unfinished 1951 Glenn Ford western movie. It still retains the original charm, with the added bonuses of activities for both children and adults, including a Ferris wheel, miniature train,...
Dozens of new cases of abandoned children are reported each day. For JiaJia, time was running out. Chinese law says kids can no longer be adopted once they turn 14. Many who “age out” become permanent wards of the state, spending much of their lives at institutions. Much of China ...