Sophia enters the house with a blank look on her face and trembling with fear. She hesitantly hands her mother a note from her guidance counselor then steadies herself for the forceful assault. She shields her head with her tiny hands as she agonizingly awaits the beating. Her mother realizes how she is frightening her […]
While it has been known for a while that there is obviously an extremely high importance of maternal care in child development. Some research now suggests that the importance of this may lie partially on its effects on anxiety-like behaviors and the regulation of the stress reaction in the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis, also […]
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Get startedIn 1980, Congress passed the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act (AACWA) in response to the increasing number of children in the foster care system. This legislation required states to make reasonable efforts to avoid removing children from their homes and to reunite families when removal was necessary. Additionally, the AACWA provided financial incentives for […]
What is a social problem and how does one define it? According to author Robert Lauer, a social problem is defined as, a condition or pattern of behavior that contradicts some other condition or pattern of behavior; is defined as incompatible with the deserved quality of life; is caused, facilitated, or prolonged by social factors. […]
Child Abuse is something that happens a lot more than people realize it does. It is actually a huge problem in today’s society and can actually have a lot of detrimental effects on the child’s performance in school. According to the Encyclopedia of Social Work there are more than 3 million reports concerning maltreatment of […]
Introduction Child abuse is an issue that continues to shock humanity repeatedly through the passing years. Child abuse can be defined in many ways, but overall it is physical, emotional, or cognitive neglect from a caregiver. This topic is interesting to learn from because it is devastating to know there is cruel out in the […]
The United States has always prided itself in being a custodian and upholder of international human rights. As a super power, it has set the pace for recognition and protection of human rights by assenting to different legal international instruments and domesticating them. However, its spirit seems to falter when it comes to children rights […]
Abstract: The concept of child abuse can be defined as any action that comes from the person responsible for the child, either by commission or omission, which puts (or can put) at risk the physical, emotional or cognitive integrity of the child. One of the determining aspects that are analyzed to assess the existence or […]
Child abuse is a crucial ethical issue for mental health practitioners to understand and be competent in addressing. According to Childhelp (2018), a nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention and treatment of child abuse, child abuse occurs when a parent or caregiver, whether through action or failing to act, causes injury, death, emotional harm or […]
As adults, we dream of having kids, but we know this comes with responsibilities. One big step we deal with as parents is the task of discipline how we are going to teach our children to do right not wrong. Some parents use moral ethics, values, and love. More parents could benefit from disciplining their […]
Domestic Violence is everywhere around the world, it is hard for victims to talk about the violence that happens to them. Consider how hard it is for children of all ages, try to cope with their parents being abused every day or even going through it. Looking for help can be difficult because they do […]
Child abuse is one of the strong topics that we have in the United States. The foster care rates have gone higher for every child that goes in the states system. Child Protective Services (CPS) has different cases of child abuse that gets reported every ten seconds that they are children getting physically, emotionally abused,sexually […]
The menace of child abuse has haunted the society for the longest time. This is so despite the various legal instruments which have been put in place to curb this menace. As a society, one cannot help but wonder about the resilience of these unpalatable incidents visited upon the young ones. Where something has a […]
Not too long-ago physical discipline was a common practice and seen as normal part of educating children. It was a common accepted belief that parents had the right to educate and discipline their children in the way they considered to be right. Children’s education was considered to be a private matter between parents and their […]
There is a thin line between punishment and child abuse. Whereas approximately 70% of the Americans have approved corporal punishment, the law has candidly described itself on defining what entails an abusive behavior. The indictment of Adrian Peterson, an NFL player, for negligently injuring a child has provided the country with valuable lessons regarding the […]
For years now, child abuse has been a topic that has caught the attention of the nation. It is important to know that children are not only abused by their parents because that seems to be what people think. Children can be abused by their uncles aunts even foster home families. child abuse somewhat seems […]
This article is focusing on the problems nurses face when attempting to report knowing if a child is being abuse and neglected and the reason and what barriers nurses face with. This paper will include information that was covered in the article, explain how the research was conducted, and provide ways to improve in this […]
Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul(Malone). Parents are one of the main reasons why children are being abused. Child abuse is behavior by an adult who harms a child’s physical, mental, or emotional health and development. In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe shows […]
Description of the problem that necessitated the policy From 1990 until 1993 there was a steady increase in the number of child maltreatment cases and victims from ages 0-17. When looking at number of cases that include duplicate victims the numbers rose from 861,000 cases to 1,032,000 cases. The numbers both dropped and rose from […]
Dee Dee Blanchard was an exemplary parent, relentlessly working to provide for her critically ill child, Gypsy. She was her daughter’s full-time caregiver. Gypsy was extremely small and frail and used a wheelchair. On her face donned a large pair of glasses and her skinny frame was often accompanied by an oxygen tank. When asked, […]
The Court has never enumerated punishment as a parental right, a number of state and federal courts have found it to be within the parent’s child rearing prerogative. No rationale supports the forgiveness of harm to society’s most vulnerable members, yet a majority of the states are silent as to the rationale. There is a […]
Every ten seconds, a report of child abuse is made in the United States. State agencies estimated over 700,000 children had fallen victim to maltreatment in 2014 alone; this is enough to fill ten football stadiums (Childhelp 1). From physical abuse to emotional and sexual- children of all different ages, genders, and cultures can face […]
Child abuse refers to the physical, sexual, mental maltreatment of a child who is below 18 years old. The modern society who has witnessed a sudden rise of child abuse and the causes are mostly rooted in the society. The consequences are as impactful as they were in the past. In order to protect the […]
Abstract The uprising in child abuse cases in America is forcing the country to open its eyes and investigate the underlying issue. Psychologist, social workers, law enforcement and researcher are all working hand and hand to combat the dilemma, yet all face the puzzling question Why does this continue happen? And Where does the issue […]
Child abuse is a strong topic that many people in United States have trouble talking about it. The foster care rates have gone higher for every child that goes in the states system. Children does not know right from wrong when it comes to a child that is 10 years old and younger. Child Protective […]
Having successfully established the existence of legal instruments, it is important to analyze the mode of implementing the written laws. Laws do not exist in a vacuum, they exist in a society and the society has forever been known for its resistance to change. Take for example a scenario in which the legislature enacts a […]
There are around 7 billion people living on earth and every single person is different. They have different likes, dislikes, emotions, memories and experiences. However for some people their memories and past experiences are parts of their lives that they wished they could forget. Many of these children were affected by abuse. Many children grow […]
Over the past 10 years,more than 20,000 American Children are believed to have been killed in their own homes by family members. That is nearly four times the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan (Michael Petit, Founder of Every Child Matters). Child Abuse by Allison Krumsiek, explains the tragedy and trauma to […]
