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for Popular Government Vol. 41 Issue 4, Spring 1976
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18276
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Throughout history, parental child abuse has been repressed and denied; society assumes that parents will protect their children. The tradition of the law in North Carolina has been that a parent may do anything to his child in the name of discipline without state interference unless the punishment is malicious and inflicts serious bodily injury. Periods of recognition and reform have occurred throughout the state's history, and North Carolina has developed two laws for reporting child abuse--voluntary and mandatory laws that have served to increase public awareness and understanding, as well as reporting of abuse.
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18298
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Even very young children have emotional difficulties that interfere with learning, getting along with others, and behaving in a constructive and socially acceptable way. Against this backdrop, members of the Psychiatry Department at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine believed that the best way to help these children was in a group treatment program that met every day; this new approach was named Project Early Aid.
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18299
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The past seven years have brought about important changes in public attitudes toward educational opportunities for handicapped children. Until seven years ago, handicapped children had virtually no access to education. In response to growing need, the Handicapped Children's Early Assistance Act was passed in 1968, implementing pilot projects. One of these first was located in North Carolina; the Chapel Hill Training-Outreach Project developed teaching methods that have proved successful with a diversity of handicapped children.
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18300
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Turnbull discusses the North Carolina laws concerning voluntary admission and discharge of mentally ill and disabled persons from centers and hospitals for the mentally handicapped. It also raises constitutional questions on the power of a superintendent to declare a person incompetent, and the rights of parents to admit handicapped children to a center.
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18301
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Ross examines North Carolina's law regarding the definition of minors and the consent requirements for medical treatment of minors.
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18302
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The protection of certain legal rights of public school students is now new, but students have acquired major new entitlements in the past decade that focus on racial and sexual discrimination, appearance, and free speech.
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