Child marriage is an international problem that has been in existents for many centuries. For some religious groups, child marriage is a tradition; they fail to realize that this practice can be very harmful and life threating.…
The essay will first introduce the historical development of the concept of childhood, demonstrating the overtime evolution of “childhood”. Then, it will give detailed explanation of why discourse of innocence has the power to influence public perceptions about child-related sexual crimes.…
It is undisputable that everybody has a right to become a parent. On the same hand, children have a right to live with their parents and not become separated from them. But children also have a right to living conditions that help them achieve a healthy psychological and physical development in order to fulfill their potential. Therefore, every parent carries an obligation to ensure the realization of those rights by providing children with adequate care. What separates good parenthood from bad is a discussion that needs more space but one thing is certain - children welfare is the most important factor in their upbringing. Although we cannot take away anybody's right to become a parent, that right is not absolute and unconditional. A question arises whether or not we have a right to take away parental care under certain conditions. Considering child's specifics and his position in the community, the responsibility for applying the rights and protection is on every adult person, especially on those who possess knowledge, understanding and possibility of action. In cases when parents are unable to fulfill their parental obligations for certain reasons, state authorities and agencies have an obligation to help them perform their parental functions. Therefore, every parent has not only a natural but also a legal obligation to take care of their children appropriately. When a child's welfare is at risk, the state must protect the child what sometimes include his removal from the family. However, the decision about whether the child should remain in the risk family is one of the most complex that officials of protective services (social welfare and justice) must make. Due to complexity of individual assessments and many factors to be taken into account, it is not easy to standardize it. Such decisions go far beyond of enforcing law because they involve emotional connections of parents and…
Sexual violation of a child is one of the world’s darkest crimes. In most cases the victim’s view of the world and themselves is completely changed. This paper will review several aspects of child sexual abuse and discuss the symptoms victims will have based on a variety of empirical studies. It will also expand the subject from a Christian worldview.…
Sociologist’s theories understand child abuse and divorce as a societal phenomenon having, a largely cultural, social, and economic origin or ties. Sociologists may prefer to focus on the societal conditions that result in a high divorce rate rather than personal reasons for divorce. Whereas child abuse could lead the child growing up which could put people in danger due to the mental trauma the child received. Most children that were abused would grow up doing the same to their children or taking actions into their own hands harming people that remind them of the person who harmed them as a child. The after effects of child abuse could to murder, but is mostly approached as a clinical action. Facing a variety of distinctive life events, personal characteristics, and unique circumstances of the families and children they serve, are not always content with the explanations for the origin of child abuse found in the study.…
Today in humanity, gay parenting and marriage has become publicly accepted by some and rejected by others. Many have come to believe this topic to be immoral and impossible. Society has also realized that the average family has developed into many different forms in the last few years. Gay families have developed and are perceived today that raising kids without both a Mom and Dad, deprives the child from being introduced to both worlds. The approach to this debated topic will be to analyze and to defend the "cons" of gay parenting and marriage.…
In countless cultures, arranged marriages are the way of life. If you get married by personal choice, you are frowned upon. Girls in many cultures have very strong courageous mind sets for allowing an illegal act to be performed, to marry at a young age. “Parents know about the illegality of such marriages, but in West Bengal, considered an intellectually progressive state, only two cases were registered in 2005 under the Child Restraint Act” (Dhar). They do not report the acts of abuse due to the fact that they may go to jail. If the father goes to jail, they are virtually surviving off very little or no income. Comparatively, Nurse reflects on this subject when she recalls in Romeo and Juliet, “I remember it well. / ‘Tis since the earthquake now eleven years; / and she was weaned. (I shall never forget it),” (1.3.27-29). This devastating way of life, traumatizes these women and the unrealistic expectations have harmful effects on the girls.…
According to the World Health Organization child marriage “denies a girl her childhood, disrupts her education, limits her possibilities, and increases her risk of violence and jeopardizes her health” (NCBI, Paragraph 7). Young girls are forced to marry elderly men to help their families pay for basic necessities or pay off a family debt. In many countries, the marriageable age for women is abnormally low due to the fact the government set two different legal ages for men and women; in some countries the legal age of consent for girls is as low as sixteen. The leaders of such countries attempt to justify these legal limits of girls by saying—stating that girls mature faster than boys. However, I believe that girls should be allowed to mature and live with their parents until they are old enough to marry a suitor of their…
Many sessions in this module where interesting, however the session that grabbed my attention was the Forced and Arranged Marriages session, because I never expected that they still existed in the contemporary world. During this lecture we went through a PPT, which mainly included a case…
It is unfortunate during war time in various areas, young girls can become victims of rape and often young girls are used as “Soldiers wives” in various foreign countries (Garbarino, Kostelny & Dubrow 1998), where they are made to live in slavery and care for the soldiers every need, which includes intimate needs. This is why some of these young girls become pregnant and are then often time abandoned while the solider finds a new young female victim. Research has shown that once these young girls have babies, they seen as outcast and cannot return back to their regular family unit, due to most family members have been killed due to war zones. Young female and male children both…
Adoption has been about for a long time, however, just as of late has the subject of gay Adoption raised. There are numerous vagrants on the planet. However, insufficient families or guardians to take them in. There aren't that numerous family who can and will receive youngsters, whether this is because they can't bolster them, they have offspring of their own, or they simply don't need children. The final product is still an excess of stranded youngsters needing an adoring family. There is an answer for this issue Gay adoption. There is a rising measure of open gay person couples all over, and a significant portion of them would love to have children, yet it's still unlawful for gay person couples to receive children in a few territories of…
Many people who are skeptic of the Bible will or skeptic of religion in general, will ask whether or not the Bible is truly accurate after being passed down so many years. To Christians, the Bible is the way we can understand what’s right and what’s wrong, which has been revealed to us by God to help guide us and better do his Will. But are we sure the original text God gave us has been accurately translated and passed down through the ages? According to almost countless amounts of Biblical manuscript evidence, ancient literature directly corroborating the events in the Gospels, and Archaeological evidence of major Old Testament events, it is true that the Bible is indeed God’s word and has been accurately transcribed through the ages.…
“Adoption is not about finding children for families, it’s about finding families for children” (Joyce Maguire Pavao). Same sex marriages have led to controversies on the possibility of efficient parentage of such couples. Successfully and effectively taking care of children by couples of the same sex has always been doubted. To be more specific, most critics strongly fight against adoption of children by same sex partners. The negative perception is further acknowledged by the battles on legitimacy and legal processes in adopting children. Although at present times the adoption of children by same sex couples is legitimate and legal in the law of some countries, this process still faces opposition…
The research proposal I am preparing is going to be addressing violence against women and the challenges they face when children are involved in the household. The aim of the research is to view how these challenges are overcome and give way to women rights and their political rights (nineteenth amendment). In the early 1990’s over half a million American women were raped. In 1994 congress passed the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which forbids the state from interfering with women’s citizenship and political rights. Starting from domestic abuse to rape as a weapon of war, violence against women is a gross violation of their human rights.…
several statistics to show the growing number of fatherless children from the turn of the century until the present, he and then successfully compares it to the alarming amount of growth in the delinquency and scarcity of education in children of the latest generation. The factual information provided with the explanatory details from the author makes his points obvious and clear to the reader. Because of the efficient use of the data and facts, the paper backs itself with rationale and logic which leads the audience to a greater understanding of the science behind the reasoning. For example, Popenoe wrote that only fifty percent of children born from 1970 until 1984 are now living with both parents. The results of this dramatic increase has tripled teen suicide, dropped SAT scores seventy…