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  • My Mother And Some From My Father
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    When two people decide to have a child, either knowingly or unknowingly, they make a vow to raise that child to the best of their abilities. While some parents are wonderful, loving, proud parents some are hurtful, abusive both physically or mentally, or just down right evil the impact they have is immense and will determine many aspects of the child and the way he / she lives out the rest of his / her life. In my life I have both kinds of parents, my mother is the most caring, loving, proud par...
  • Parents And The Children
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    Screaming violently and giving meaningless threats toward a child may make him / her feel uncomfortable; it is a form of abuse. How do we discipline a child In our society, parents don t comprehend the difference between disciplinary and abusive actions. They are not aware of where to draw the line. The difference between child abuse and discipline is like the difference between night and day. The one produces insecure, unhappy and undeveloped children. The other secure, joyful children whose po...
  • Child Protective Services Workers
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    Many children suffer at the hands of adults - often their own parents. They are beaten, kicked, thrown into walls, and / or burned with cigarettes. They have their heads held under the water of toilet bowls, are scalded by hot water or they are forced to stand in freezing showers until they pass out. A child could be stuffed into running washing machines or sexually molested, suffer from neglect in the forms of starvation and lack of medical attention, and still go unnoticed by outsiders. In fac...
  • Victims Of Child Abuse And Maltreatment
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    Child abuse is the intentional omission of care by a parent or guardian that can cause a child to be hurt, maimed, or even killed. Child abuse can be either physical, mental, emotional or sexual. Because of child abuse, Caprice Ried will never do the things that a normal four-year old does. She will never play on a playground, or go to a sleepover, and never go to school. All of this was taken away from her at such a young age, when she died of child abuse. The foster parents, Patricia Coker, an...
  • Act Of Child Maltreatment
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    Portwood, S. The Impact of Individuals Characteristics and Experiences on Their Definitions Of Child Maltreatment. Child Abuse & Neglect Vol. 22, No. 5 (1998): 437-452. This article focused on a study done by Portwood to try and identify and determine what constitutes child abuse and or neglect. The current state of definitions presents a dilemma not only to researchers attempting to elucidate the dynamics of child maltreatment, but also to a variety of professionals involved in the identificati...
  • Hockey Parents
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    Stricter Rules for Hockey Parents The sport of hockey has a long proud history of being one of the best sports in the world. Great excitement for the fans and great fun for the players, but lately there has been too much emphasis on winning in the lower levels. It is very hard for children now days to play hockey for the fun of the game. It is not the children themselves, or even the coaches that put this pressure to win on them. It is the parents of the children who create this pressure. Hockey...
  • Abuse And Maltreatment
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    History of Child Maltreatment Child maltreatment has a vast historical background. What society today considers as child maltreatment is seen as being horrible. Before laws ruling against certain treatments towards children were established, the way children were treated was extremely terrible and would be unthinkable in society today. Before the end of the 19th century, many areas of the Western world looked at infant and child mortality as a normal occurrence. As many as 15-20 per cent of chil...
  • Abuse And Deviant Parents
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    Crime and Deviance from a Sociological and Psychological assessment: The sociology of deviance is the sociological study of deviant behavior, or the recognized violation of cultural norms. Cultural Norms are society's propensity towards certain ideals; their aversion from others; and their standard, ritualistic practices. Essentially the 'norm' is a summation of typical activities and beliefs of group of people. There are various Sociological deviance theories, including Structuralist: why do so...
  • Bad Parents
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    Introduction to Psychology Why kids kill parents BY Kathleen M. Heide Psychology Today Magazine HOW A LEGACY OF CHILD ABUSE LEADS TO HOMICIDE I chose this article because I have always been astonished at how children can do this to their parents and what drove them to the choices they made. Did they have any other choices or did they use all of their chooses up that they had? This article supplied a lot of answers to me. According to this Article: Between 1977 and 1986, more than 300 parents wer...
  • Child By Their Parents
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    "Teens are viloent, cold and unremorseful because their families neiborhoods and society are violent. Teens care so little about others because so little care has been shown them (MacDonald 1 A)". Many children today in society contain hate and bitterness, and because of this do they become a problem. Many argue that children become what they become because they make their own bed for themselves in life. I am in total disagreement with this theory. I stand by the fact that children become what t...
  • Situation Of Abuse
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    Protection From Abuse and Neglect I have recently been elected in a new statewide project in Minnesota to create and provide leadership in a small scale voluntary association for children. The focus of the small scale association is based on the United Nations General Assembly that adopted a Convention on the rights of the Child. It is a program to provide information and knowledge on the substantive right for "Protection from abuse and neglect" designed specifically for children. The right stat...
  • Parents Of Serial Killers
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    Creating Monsters and Getting Away With It. Analyzing the data available on numerous, infamous serial killers, it appears that childhood abuse, neglect and in many cases torture, is the one common thread linking all murderers labeled: serial killers. Among the hundreds of reports and studies available, no one will find the parents of serial killers having been jailed or punished in any way for the monsters they have created. Even though the facts disclose many acts of brutality perpetrated on th...
  • Parents Spank Their Children
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    Does Spanking Lead Child Abuse? Were you spanked as a child? Do you think spanking effected you? Every parent has been in a situation where a good spanking seems like the only way to put an end to little Junior's temper tantrum. Parents use a number to reasons, some you may have heard, to use spanking as a form of discipline. They may say "Spare the rod and spoil the child". Or "I was spanked and I turned out okey". Even "Kids need spanking to show them who's boss". The issue I wish to present i...
  • Parental Abuse
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    The prevention of juvenile delinquency is important part of crime prevention program in the country. The rage of our youth, which is caused by several reasons, is the main explanation for the development of criminal behavior. In order to prevent the development of antisocial conduct among adolescents, society should make efforts to ensure the harmonious nurturing of children. Child maltreatment is one of the main reasons for aggressive attitudes that are developed by adolescents, especially by m...
  • Victims Of Some Form Of Child Abuse
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    Historically society has not been troubled by the maltreatment of children. Where children were not wanted, mortality ran high. In nineteenth-century England, for example, 80% of the illegitimate children who were put out to nurse died; nurses collected their fees and then promptly did away with the babies. When a profit could be made, adults sometimes sold children into slavery or used them as a source of cheap labor. This is not to say that individual parents did not care about their children;...
  • Sexual Abuse During The Person's Childhood
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    Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) is a dissociative disorder. Dissociation is the separation of an idea or thought process from the individual's ongoing consciousness or awareness (Merit Students 576). MPD is the most extreme type of dissociative disorder. It is defined as existence within a person of two or more separate and distinct personalities, each having it's own behavior patterns, social relationships, and life history. The personality that is dominant at a particular time determines t...
  • Children Of Abusive Parents
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    Problems in Juvenile Delinquency The post world-war II era saw an unprecedented rate of growth for America. The birth of Corporate America gave people an opportunity to move out of the cities and into kinder, more picturesque suburbs. Women were entering the workforce in greater numbers. With two income families, Americans had more money to spend on luxuries such as boats, vacations and hobbies as they never had before. This was the beginning of a time when living was good, the quality of life w...
  • Fifty Eight Percent Of Physical Abuse Cases
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    An eight-year-old male, named B.J., had a six-year-old sister and a four-year-old brother. He is currently hospitalized due to anxiety and hyper vigilant protective activity with his younger siblings. He was also regularly masturbating in public, and suffered from developmental delays, speech and learning difficulties, suicidal threats and poor interpersonal skills. He has suffered moving from state to state, been kidnapped by his non-custodial parent, and been in two foster homes all during a b...
  • Americas Parents
    580 words
    Child Abuse Every day another innocent American youth is abused by a mother, father, or abusive relative. The figures themselves are startling and can in no way be compromised with any reasoning for them. It seems that Americas parents are amongst the least qualified to be having chilredn than anyone else in the entire world. For instance a case in Denver CO, a mother killed her son saying "I didn't want to hurt him, but I didn't want him to hurt me". . The Boy was two years old and he weighed t...
  • Pain In Some Cases
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    "Stolen" is a play which outlines the physical, emotional and mental results that occurred when aboriginal children were taken from their biological families. The play revolves around five main characters own personal experiences from the time they were obtained by welfare, and how this particular change affected them in the future. Each character has a different story to tell, yet all have a certain amount of pain attached to them. Anger, abuse and violence are some of the themes which are pres...

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