Social Skills
A social skill is any competence facilitating communication and interaction with others. Social rules and relations are communicated, created, and changed in nonverbal and verbal ways. The process of learning these skills is called socialization. Interpersonal skills to relate to one another are essential…
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Raising Adopted Children
What is adoption? When you adopt a child, you become the child’s legal parent and the child becomes a member of your family. Your adopted child has the same rights as any biological child – for example, he has the…
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Single Motherhood
Single parent families are becoming more common but don’t carry the stigma they once did. You can become a single parent through divorce, separation, the death of a partner or for other reasons. Following divorce or separation, it is often…
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Co-Parenting
Your relationship might have ended, with your former partner, but you’re both still parents to your child. It’s usually in your child’s best interests if your co-parenting arrangements keep you both involved in your child’s life. Creating new parenting arrangements…
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Discrimination
In human social affairs, discrimination is treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person based on the group, class, or category to which the person is perceived to belong rather than on individual…
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What is the GED?
GED stands for the General Educational Development tests. The GED test is your chance to get the job or career you want. These exams are taken by individuals who did not earn a high school diploma and cover four main…
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Environmental Health
Environmental health is the field that studies how substances or other environmental factors have an impact on human health. The presence of naturally occurring and man-made chemicals in the air, water, food, pesticides, cleaning products, furniture, and buildings/homes is relevant…
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