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The Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences on the Future of Our Youth
Full text link22.3 percent.1 This is the percentage of the population of the United States under the age of 18. These three words should come to mind: growth, family, and safety. Unfortunately, just because these words come to mind, does not mean these are a reality for our youth. The Adverse Childhood Experience (ACEs) study explores our youth’s mental, emotional, and social well-being across a wide sample with some disturbing results.
As we de-code what exactly ACEs entails, we can learn to predict, diagnose, and ultimately prevent negative environments our youth are involved in. Prioritizing these prevention efforts can eventually lead to the avoidance altogether of these adverse experiences resulting in a residual rise in positive change for this 22.3 percent. This effort does not stand alone but does begin somewhere, and somewhere is you, YOU being the parents
Dying in Isolation: Public Health Implications of Transportation and Burial of Human Remains During a Pandemic: A Fifty State Survey
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Marketing Research and Children’s Consumer Privacy Rights: A Battle in the Digital Age
Full text linkAdvancements in technology and social media have led to a decreased level of personal data privacy. Companies are now provided with limitless ways to extract information about their customers, even without their knowledge. This is especially concerning when it is the personal information of a child that is being collected, as in the United States, few regulations exist to protect them on social media. Even fewer regulations exist to protect children between the ages of thirteen and seventeen. The purpose of this Note is to discuss the importance between market research practices and children’s consumer privacy rights in the digital age. This Note discusses proposed solutions including adopting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child to better protect children ages thirteen through seventeen, as well as reforming the current Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, and criticism of parental control
State Attorneys General and the Public Nuisance Doctrine: Lessons to Be Derived from State Ex Rel. Attorney General of Oklahoma v. Johnson & Johnson
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Addressing the Disproportionate Adverse Health Effects Among BIPOC Communities as a Result of Environmental Racism
Full text linkThis article examines factors that contribute to the negative health impacts on Black Americans, other minorities, and low-income communities that are living in areas with high levels of air pollution, toxic waste, and environmental hazards. First, this article assesses the role of historical residential redlining on the segregation of BIPOC neighborhoods. Furthermore, the article addresses gaps in both federal and state environmental laws that allow facilities to keep obtaining permits and polluting in BIPOC and primarily low-income neighborhoods. Moreover, the article explains the higher rates of trauma, stress, and stress-related illnesses among BIPOC communities exposed to high levels of environmental hazards. Lastly, the article evaluates disparities among BIPOC individuals’ access to healthcare. Therefore, BIPOC communities experience adverse health effects, including higher COVID-19 rates, as a result of Environmental Racism and related factors
