Reynolds Price discusses Jesus' involvement with establishing how stories promote the act of good works among His followers with, "Leviticus 19:18: 'you shall love neighbor as yourself.' This provides an insistence that no human relation can proceed with any pretense of moral foundation" unless of course, one moves away from God's love.
Purpose of the Study
The purpose of this proposal is to act as a vision in which groundbreaking research can be facilitated. This research will focus on religion as a catalyst for conflict among people who share a parent-child relationship within the foster care framework. Specifically, the dissertation wants to discover what happens between a Christian foster parent (who has bore witness to Christ) and a non-Christian foster child who comes from a background of different faith equal to, less than or no faith at all. What conflict results, if any? What are the chances of violent situation occurring due to religious differences? The purpose of this study is to write a survey, which can presented to a segment of the population who is a part of the foster care system and meet the study requirements. The purpose of this study is to discover if concrete data can exist within the demands of the criteria.
Depending on the outcome of the data collection, another purpose would be for this paper to become the gold standard of religious study within a sociologic framework. Such a groundbreaking work will act a catalyst for change within the foster care system and act as a promoter for social change for people of all faiths. This study will reach across religious barriers and cross cultures as it explores a topic where data is inconclusive, limited and vague. This paper will also act as a motivator for Christians to take action within the church environment and work locally within their communities for social reform. This will promote Christian good works by inspiring other Christians to become foster parents. Still the bottom line, this study will look at a relationship that has had very little focus in the past and as a result bring it to the attention of theological community and the American public.
Study Significance and Implications
It is hoped that through studying such a relationship that much can be learned to aid the future of foster care parenting. It is also hoped that such study will highlight the importance of religion and faith as tools for healing and resolution of conflict. Knowledge is power. By understanding the issues and details of the relationship cannot only aid in understanding what to expect but also how to handle the situation again and again. It also promotes the best intentions for the child. This study is significant because it can teach the public and theologians about cross-cultural understanding. This expands upon the Christian moral of love thy neighbor by promoting a deep belief in love and passion for humanity. This study in the best possible scenario reflects humanity and how people can move beyond conflict to a resolution. By analyzing religion in such great depth, opens up a movement for other studies of factors that could cause conflict within the same parent-child relationship. These factors could include: race, gender, sexual orientation and disabilities.
With any analysis of this nature, the assumed implications of this study are numerous and profound. One can expect both positive and negative responses to result. It is assumed progress will result just attempting such a study. The fact, it is being attempted is a step in the right direction. However, one is hopeful the outcomes will elisit some form of impact upon society. The responses to the proposed method of data collection presented below will influence an outcome of change for the relationship studied. Bearing this in mind, it is important to keep an open mind and learn from any possibility set forth by the study. The data will set the tone for how the public and theologians react to the study. One hopeful impact of the study is that it will promote the Christian faith as one of harmony and love. It is hopeful that foster children exposed to this faith as a result of their foster parent's bearing witness will embrace it as their own as a resolution of conflict. Analysis of the data will allow one to prove if this is possible on some level and present the percentages of such likelihood. It is hope that such impact will create an atmosphere for Americans to return to a concrete value system and re-establish their faith. Of course, it is possible an implication of the study could be that the opposite is found. Only upon completion of the analysis will the implications really be realized.
Relationship to Previous Research
Thousands of books have been published on foster parenting and to the behavior of children in this foster care system. Much negative press...
Figure 1 portrays three of the scenes 20/20 presented March 15, 2010. Figure 1: Heather, Rachel, and Unnamed Girl in 20/20 Program (adapted from Stossel, 2010). Statement of the Problem For any individual, the death of a family member, friend, parent or sibling may often be overwhelming. For adolescents, the death of person close to them may prove much more traumatic as it can disrupt adolescent development. Diana Mahoney (2008), with the
Christian Biotechnology: Not a Contradiction in Terms Presented with the idea of "Bioethics" most people in the scientific community today immediately get the impression of repressive, Luddite forces wishing to stifle research and advancement in the name of morality and God. Unfortunately, this stereotype too often holds true. If one looks over the many independent sites on the Internet regarding bioethics, reads popular magazines and publications, or browses library shelves for
Child Soldiers "The question of children and armed conflict is an integral part of the United Nations' core responsibilities for the maintenance of international peace and security, for the advancement of human rights and for sustainable human development." Secretary-General Kofi Annan in a speech to the Security Council, 26 July 2000 In every part of the world, children more particularly from underdeveloped or developing countries are selected and recruited by various groups, for
16). In comparing a number of literary elements in one story, Smith and Wiese (2006) contend that at times, when attempting to transform an old story into a modern multicultural version, cultural meanings of the original story may be lost. In turn, the literature does not subject the reader to another culture. For instance, in the story about the fisherman, that Smith and Wiese access, the plot remains similar plot,
However, there may be cases when a mild form of corporal punishment such as spanking on buttocks in a reasoned and caring manner, under certain conditions, may have beneficial effects. It is also my opinion -- and for this I am heavily indebted to Cleverley and Phillips -- that no rival model should be rejected outright. All our paradigmatic assumptions must be critically analyzed before we come to a
day care on children. It shows that historically mothers have typically had help raising their children, but that until recent times, that help typically came from close relatives, not programs outside the home designed for profit. The paper looks at the research and concludes that there are important differences between some day care centers and others. The best programs allow children to develop emotionally and behaviorally and produce children
Our semester plans gives you unlimited, unrestricted access to our entire library of resources —writing tools, guides, example essays, tutorials, class notes, and more.
Get Started Now