In a "Social Policy Perspective," all of the following were given as reasons for parents to be licensed EXCEPT
A) providing a way to determine parental competence.
B) saving children from neglect and violence.
C) preventing single people from having children.
D) preventing future crime and violence committed by maltreated children.
C) preventing single people from having children. Although a higher percentage of troubled youth come from single-parent rather than two-parent homes, opponents argue that the percentage is not nearly high enough to justify denying licenses to single parents.
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A child who experiences head trauma and brain damage to the left hemisphere may not experience lifelong language deficits because
A) the brain remains flexible or malleable through childhood. B) neural plasticity allows lost functions to be recovered. C) the right hemisphere may take over the work of language specialization. D) all of the above
The germinal period of prenatal development occurs during which trimester(s)?
a. the first trimester b. the second trimester c. the third trimester d. the second and third trimesters