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Although sports and religion may seem to have little in common, we have attempted to demonstrate that contemporary sport and religion are related in a variety of ways. For many centuries, Christian church dogma was antithetical to play and sport activities, but over the past century, with the enormous growth of organized sport, churches and religious leaders have welded a link between these two activities by sponsoring sports events under religious auspices and proselytizing athletes to religion and then using them as missionaries to convert new members. While contemporary religion uses sport for the promotion of its causes, sport uses religion, as well. Numerous activities with a religious connotation - ceremonies, rituals, and so forth - are employed in connection with sports contests...

...Perhaps the most direct consequence of homelessness is the separation of children from their parents. Wright suggests that while most homeless families have dependent children, only about half have their children living with them. This is attributed to several factors. Anticipating homelessness, some parents voluntarily place their children in foster care directly prior to their episode of homelessness; other children are removed from families because of abuse and neglect, homelessness often being considered a form of neglect. Homeless facility requirements may also inadvertently contribute to family dissolution. Many family shelters have eligibility requirements; the most frequently cited restriction is the refusal to accept adolescent males, or any males over the age of fourteen, including fathers. One result of these regulations is that many older homeless children leave their families and try to make it on their own. Research on homeless children and families suggests that they appear particularly vulnerable to psychological, emotional, and developmental risk. Housing assistance alone may not be sufficient to guarantee either long-term, independent living, or the healthy child and family development that likely have been compromised by episodes of homelessness...

Anyone who has grown up in our culture knows that exposure to television shows, films, and other mass media presentations depicting danger, injury, bizarre images, and terror-stricken victims can scare an audience. Most of us seem to be able to remember at least one specific program or movie that terrified us when we were a child and that made us nervous, remained in our thoughts, and affected other aspects of our behavior for some time afterwards. Anecdotal evidence abounds, and, although research interest in this topic has been sporadic over the years, studies published in every decade starting with the 1930s have indicated that transitory fright responses to mass media stimuli are quite typical, and that enduring, and sometimes severe, emotional disturbances occur in a substantial proportion of children...

...In his request for aid to Greece and Turkey in March 1947, President