Consequences of Child Abuse Child abuse is the physical‚ emotional‚ or sexual mistreatment of a child by his or her parent or guardian. Many do not realize how many children are abused in their homes every day. According to a publication titled Child Maltreatment 2008‚ children are more likely to be the victim of child abuse and neglect than they are to be the victim of anything else (Speak-Up-Be-Safe). In fact‚ more than one million children in the United States alone are a victim of child abuse (Wisdom
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children and families in situations such as domestic violence‚ abuse. • Work with different organisations e.g. social services‚ police‚ family protection‚ education and health services. • Provide support via telephone line to home-based childcare workers on whether to refer a situation to social services. A Health Visitor’ s roles and responsibilities are: • A health visitor have crucial skills in protecting children from harm and abuse‚ they are one of the first to recognise children who are likely
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Child abuse and neglect is an uncontrolled problem in the United States today. There are different kinds of child abuse and neglect such as sexual abuse‚ emotional abuse‚ and physical abuse. Child abuse often happens when children take all the blame from adults. Usually‚ the child that they are looking after is not their own‚ and often the parents are addicted to alcohol and drugs. An abuser may lie and deny the fact that there is nothing wrong with the abuse. No one has the right to cause pain
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Child Sexual Abuse Unit 6 Project Child sexual abuse is a form of child abuse where an adult or adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation. Child sexual abuse doesn ’t always involve body contact. Exposing a child to sexual situations or material is sexually abusive‚ whether or not touching is involved (Smith 2013). Statistics states that 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 20 boys is a victim of child sexual abuse (Finkelhor 2012). Studies show that 20% of adult females and 5-10% of adult males recall
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Effects of Child Abuse by CHILDREN Neglect of a child is not limited to physical abuse; it encompasses physical‚ emotional‚ sexual abuse. The effects of these types of abuse are not limited to the number of years the child suffers; unfortunately‚ the effects of child abuse last a lifetime. Studies on child abuse have proven the negative effects are more than skin deep‚ and can have permanent physical‚ intellectual‚ and psychological consequences throughout adolescence and adulthood. When children
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2013) True Love is attractive. Attraction and chemistry form the bond that allows people to mate. Without this romantic desire for another individual‚ a relationship is nothing more than lust or infatuation. True Love is attached. Like the mother-child bond‚ attachment comes after the initial attraction. Attachment is the long term love that appears anywhere from one to three years into a romantic relationship (sometimes sooner and very rarely after)‚ and you ’ll know you ’ve found it when you can
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Child abuse is any action by another person adult that involve significant harm to the child.it can be physical‚ sexual‚ emotional or neglect. Emotional abuse Emotional abuse is defining as phycological abuse and can damage the child emotional health and development of child‚ Physical abuse physical injury to a child‚ there are many physical abuse‚ hitting‚ shaking throwing‚ suffocating otherwise cause physical harm to child or family protect child from that harm may also be caused when a parent
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2003 Revealing Child Abuse in "My Papa’s Waltz" In Theodore Roethke’s "My Papa’s Waltz‚" the persona reveals an incidence of child abuse that happened earlier in his life. He divulges the occurrence of abuse through the use of certain words and noting the actions that go on during the "waltz." Through the use of graphic diction‚ Roethke informs the reader that "My Papa’s Waltz" depicts an episode of child abuse. The persona Roethke creates discloses the incidence of child abuse to the reader
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The Long Lasting Effects of Child Abuse Millions of children in the world have dealt with or seen someone they know deal with abuse. There are many different types of abuse. Sexual abuse‚ verbal abuse‚ physical abuse and neglect are all different types of ways a child can be caused harm. In reading of “Breathing Underwater” by Alex Flinn and “A Child Called It” by Dave Pelzer‚ I found that child abuse was a common theme between the two. The main character in each book was abused or harmed in some
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The issue of child abuse relates significantly to race and class because it brings up the following question: “Is it culturally diverse or is it actually abusive?” One of the reasons for such huge number of child abuse cases is because most of those cases are from non white children. America is known for its diversity and even though it is a “free country” America has its own culture which is different from the hispanics‚ asians‚ blacks and many others. But‚ not only race relates to this issues
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