2303 18 June 2013 Child Abuse Introduction I. The National Child Abuse Statistics stated that every six hours a child dies in the United States due to abuse or neglect. Child abuse is one of our nation ’s most serious public health problems. II. No‚ I was not abused nor have I witnessed abuse‚ but scientific studies show a link between child abuse and neglect of children and a wide range of medical‚ emotional‚ and behavioral disorders such as depression‚ alcohol abuse‚ drug addiction and
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Welcome Speech ‘At Home or Outside: How Safe is my Child? 23/1/13‚ ICG A very good morning to all of you and a warm welcome to this seminar on ‘At Home or Outside: How Safe is my Child?” Thank you for sparing your valuable time to be here to discuss and deliberate on an issue that is slowly making our society hollow and will cause a major collapse of all value systems if timely action is not taken. It can be very difficult to talk about child abuse or more specifically child sexual abuse‚ which
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Child abduction or kidnapping can be a parent’s worst nightmare. As much as we try to teach our children about strangers and always being aware of their surroundings‚ the possibility of them being abducted/kidnapped cannot be ruled out completely. As legally defined in the state of NJ‚ abduction is "when someone uses deceit or force in order to take a person or a child away from their home or relatives... [the perpetrator often] knows or has some sort of relation with the abductor" (US Legal n.p
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your age. Suddenly a commander walks up to you and says‚ “Take this.” He hands you a couple of pills. You do what you were told and take the pills. The next thing you know...you just shot‚ and killed‚ the rest of your family. This is the life of a child soldier. History shows us that the issue with children soldiers is not new. Since the 1980’s‚ Liberia‚ Uganda‚ and Renamo Forces have had over 13‚900 children soldiers. All over the world today‚ there are still‚ approximately
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out of 601.4 children were victims of child abuse‚ 2.34 children out of one hundred thousand die from injuries relating to their abuse‚ a third of all girls and a sixth of all boys are sexually abused before age 17‚ every ten seconds a child is abused‚ killed or raped in the United States‚ today up to five children will die from abuse or neglect‚ today six children will commit suicide (Unites States Children Bureau‚ 2010). There are various types of child abuse that come with different affects‚ signs
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Imagine holding an AK- 47 on the front lines of war. 300‚000 children worldwide experience this daily according to human right watch. Child soldier refers to any person under the age of 18 placed in the face of war. This issue discusses the rights of children and how they shouldn’t be involved in death‚ murder or fighting‚ but instead‚ experience the innocence of being a child. Children are abducted from their homes and schools are forced to work as spies‚ cooks or guards. Girls are subjected to rape and
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overweight or has child obesity? Child obesity means that a child is well above their normal weight for their age and height. Many kids are obese because they eat too much unhealthy food‚ don’t have enough exercise or spend too much time on electronics instead of playing outside. But fortunately‚ there are many ways to prevent this or to stop this. Some include‚ daily mandatory gym class‚ limiting electronics and getting outdoors and making healthy food choices. Child obesity has become
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Child abuse has many definitions in our world today‚ but only one definition in the dictionary. Child abuse is the infliction of injury on a person under the age of eighteen by a parent or legally responsible care taker. Although the legal definitions of child abuse and neglect vary from state to state‚ to put the definition simply‚ it is when a parent purposely harms a child. This type of maltreatment has become a leading cause of death for young children outstripping deaths caused by car accidents
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factories because they need more money to live. This is wrong and needs to be stopped. Children under 10 shouldn’t be working no matter the reason. They work because they have to but they don’t spend as much time in school as they should for a child their age. They live off $1.25 a day. Which when you think about it Bolivia should really have international help so that they can live normal lives and not having their youth working. When they work they’ve made it to where it doesn’t
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Child abuse He grabbed her hair and threw her against the wall‚ still clutching a fist full of her hair‚ her long curly brown hair. The tears ran down her face as he walked towards her screaming about something she didn’t say and accusing her of doing something that never happened. This wasn’t her worst nightmare‚ this was real life‚ this was every day and this is what she thought was normal. The worst type of normal she didn’t want to be apart of. He stood above her‚ his shadow taking away the
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