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  • Sexual Abusers After Stepfathers And Grandfathers
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    Sexual abuse has been defined as sexual exploitation or sexual activities of children. It is not simply a clinical problem or a legal problem, but a social problem, which affects thousands of Canadian children every year. In fact, one in four girls and one in seven boys are sexually abused before the age of 18. (looksmart. com) One form of sexual abuse includes incest, which is any sexual activity between blood relatives. (yahoo. com) This can range from a child's parents, siblings, grandparents...
  • Known Cases Of Child Abuse In History
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    Child abuse is a social problem that affects millions of children each year. Not only does child abuse have multiple societal repercussions, but also individual repercussions that produce lifelong scars. There are many forms of child abuse; sexual, physical, verbal, and emotional. Some of the facts presented in this paper will be painful to absorb. That does not change the fact that these problems must be addressed. It has been reported that one out of three girls, and one out of seven boys are ...
  • 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...
  • Effects Of Child Abuse On Victims
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    Lesson 5 project By: Terri Tipton p. 2 Child abuse, Does anyone even care about this? unless it happened in your life the ans were is no. Child abuse is like a disease, it will attack the host and alter it physical and mental. It self-replicates. 'Infection' creates a downward spiral through generations, each victim will most likely infect more and more victims. In order to fully understand the effects child abuse has on children one must know when mistreatment becomes abuse. The meaning of abus...
  • Child Abuse
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    "Child Abuse" Child abuse is a very serious and controversial issue that is escalating in today's society. As we look back to the 1940's and 1950's, it was almost unheard of to let anyone outside of your immediate family know anything about your personal life. Every family was thought to be, or shown to the general public to be, the "perfect family". Some schools had the authority to punish a child by either spanking them with a paddle or hitting their knuckles with a ruler. Child abuse is one o...
  • Sexual Abuse Of A Child
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    "The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act" states' that "child abuse is the leading cause of death in children under the age of eighteen". Child abuse occurs when adults inflict violence and cruelty upon children. Abuse is any willful act that results in physical, mental, or sexual injury that causes or is likely to cause the child to be physically, mental, or emotionally impaired. Abuse happens to children of any age, sex, race, religion, and social status. There are many different types of...
  • Parents Of Abused Children
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    Child Abuse The safety and security of home are comforts we all wish for no matter what age we are. Though some of us get our wish roughly three million children don't (United States Department of Health web ). Children who are battered and bruised, beaten, and in some causes sexually assaulted are constantly looking for an escape from the torture brought upon them by none other than their own parents. These children who average in age at only four years old (Jones, Smothers F 8) endure more pai...
  • Abusive Parents
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    Each year in the USA there are approximately one million reports of child maltreatment, about 25% relate to physical abuse and about 1000 children die of maltreatment each year (US Department of Health and Human Services 1999). During the past few decades, researchers have aimed at detecting the children, who are at high risk of becoming victims of abuse, so that appropriate interventions can be undertaken. The risk factors that have been emphasized include characteristics of the child, family, ...
  • Children From Sexual Abuse
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    Prof. Dunn Matt Blyden burgh Jam 425 12/18/1998 Sexual Abuse of Children One out of three girls, and one out of seven boys, are sexually abused by the time they reach the age of eighteen". The definition of incest is sexual intercourse between blood relatives: it is illegal to marry because of such a close relationship. There is now a discrepancy in the definition of incest that takes into consideration the betrayal of trust and the imbalance of power in a one-sided relationship. One such defini...
  • 296000 Reports Of Child Abuse
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    Neglect in the Nation The neglect of children is a serious problem in California as well as in the nation and we the people, should not embrace what is happening in this state. Based on the information I have acquired; I will show that neglect, though not physical, can seriously damage a child's well-being. When a child is neglected there is often a irrational motive on the parent (s) part. People may not think there is but there actually is a considerable figure of children being neglected. As ...
  • Emotional Abuse
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    be found separately, they often occur in combination. The examples provided below are for general informational purposes only. Not all States' definitions will include all of the examples listed below, and individual States' definitions may cover additional situations not mentioned here. Neglect is failure to provide for a child's basic needs. Neglect may be: Physical (e. g., failure to provide necessary food or shelter, or lack of appropriate supervision) Medical (e. g., failure to provide nece...
  • Our Next Form Of Child Abuse
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    Child Abuse: An Exposition By Dominic E bacher Imagine for one moment that you are not yourself any longer. Visualize instead that you are a young girl; old enough to know right from wrong yet still young enough to be terrified by the dark shadows in your room. It is a cool autumn night and your parents have opted to attend a party which you are not allowed at. "It will be fine", they say. Although you already know what is to come. Your uncle comes over to watch you for the evening, and your par...
  • Main Concern Of Inter Observer Reliability
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    The study of inter observer reliability tested the level of agreement among child welfare workers on the presence or absence of emotional abuse and several other forms of neglect and child abuse. Contrary to expectations, soaring levels of accurate identification and agreement was attained. Regardless of the high level of inter observer reliability, the validity of the notion is questioned. Training for the sample used in the study is evidently effective. Inter observer reliability is one of the...
  • Child Abuse
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    Its natural for children to be raised in a warm and loving home and growing up in a nice environment, but in today's society that is not what our children get to experience. On Feb. 14th, Albany police removed three unattended children from a home on Sheridan Ave... Conditions in the apartment included rats and mice running around. Feces clogged the bathtub and squalor throughout the apartment and endangered the safety of the children. The children were taken and removed quickly from the apartme...
  • 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;...
  • Child Abuse Incidents
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    Imagine yourself a little girl, your mom just got remarried, and you " re trying to adjust to a new stepfather, house, and sharing your mom. Your mom leaves to go to the store and leaves you home alone for the first time with HIM. You accidentally break a glass and he goes off the wall yelling at you, calling you worthless. Then, he starts to hit you. While your trying to shield yourself, your mom comes in. Later you tell her what happened and she just tells you that you need to learn to respect...
  • Child Molestation In Corpus Christi Child Molestation
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    Child Molestation in Corpus Christi Child molestation is a problem that occurs to often in a smaller city like Corpus Christi, and can be caused by the abuser having an abusive childhood, a chemical imbalance, or drug related abuse as a child. Child molestation is the sexual or physical abuse of a child, and all of the factors above play a role in this form of mistreatment. First of all, if a person grows up with an abusive childhood then they are likely to abuse their own children. Having a tra...
  • Virginia For Touching Sexual Abuse The Offender
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    The clearinghouse on child abuse and neglect information reports that One in four girls will be sexually abused before they turn 14 and one in three will be sexually abused before they turn 18. Boys arent in the clear either. They also reported that One in seven boys will be sexually abused before they turn 18. You ask How could this be happening This is happening because child molesters are being let off too easy! In this speech I am going to convince you that we need tougher penalties on child...
  • Suspected Child Abuse
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    Child abuse is a term that generally refers to the mistreatment of a child by a parent or any other adult. Section 69 of the Family Services Act states "a Person having a child in his charge shall not ill treat, neglect, abandon, or expose him in a manner likely to cause him unnecessary suffering or to injure his physical or metal health Child abuse can be arranged in four main categories, they are physical abuse, with indicators such as unexplained injuries and behavioural problems, emotional a...
  • Thoughts Of An Abused Victim
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    Impact of Abuse The impact of sexual abuse reaches all levels of a childs emotions. These emotions and the effects are listed below: Confusion: This is usually the initial reaction of the child. They will usually question, "What is going on?' and ' Is this right or wrong?'. For a young child these types of questions can be an eme nse burden on their physiological development. Once the abuse begins the victim experience a tremnedous conflict with their emotions. They feel pleasant due to the atte...

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