obligation to report child abuse to the officials in the area. Mandated reporting laws are not applicable in all states‚ however‚ a federal law governing the country surpasses any policy of state. So while some states‚like Maryland‚ do not have penalties for failure to report crimes against children‚ it is still covered under federal statute. So in all of the states and territories of the U.S have enacted criminal punishment for failure to report the abuse and/or exploitation of a child. Twenty States
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The History of Child Abuse by Lloyd deMause The Journal of Psychohistory 25 (3) Winter 1998 The following speech was given at the National Parenting Conference in Boulder‚ Colorado‚ on September 25‚ 1997. During the past three decades‚ I have spent much of my scholarly life examining primary sources such as diaries‚ autobiographies‚ doctor’s reports‚ ethnographic reports and other documents that document what it must have felt like to have been a child--yesterday and today‚ in the East and the West
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involved and must be considered when attempting to understand and assist the individual or family. According to this theory‚ all systems are interrelated parts constituting an ordered whole and each subsystem influences other parts of the whole. The child abuse case assignment provides an example of how systems theory is applied to understand how interrelated factors contribute to unhealthy actions. In the Family Systems Theory‚ individuals must not be evaluated in isolation‚ but in the context of the
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2017‚ Bronx Child Abuse Squad was notified through an IRT of a (six) week old child with serious injuries‚ not likely who was being medically evaluated at Montefiore Hospital. Investigator’s responded and interviewed medical staff. Doctors indicated the complainant had two skull fractures‚ two broken ribs and possible medical condition. MRI was conducted showing no injuries to the child’s brain‚ no subdural hematoma and no sub arachnoid hemorrhaging. Ophthalmologist examined the child and did not
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Low Funding Equals Low Success Should a child’s wealth determine whether or not he or she can get a quality education? Funding for public schools is an enormous issue that affects many people. A major issue is unequal funding throughout the country. There are various reasons for these differences‚ from the governmental level to the lack of public support. There is a need to re-work the current formula used by states to determine how school funds are disbursed and also to increase public support
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rapid succession as for punishment.” In reality Spanking should not be considered as a child abuse. It should only be considered an abuse based on how it is issued. Parents are not supposed to beat their child on the head or in the face. If that happens‚ it will cause injury to the child‚ which will be termed as an abuse. First of all‚ it is not any parent will to develop hatred towards his or her own child‚ but it is the behavior of the kids that will lure their parents to beating them. There are
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Human Service Child abuse relates closely to human service due to the fact that this is a helping field which involves children and family. Human service works to improve the quality of life and well-being of individual. Human service offer services that works closely with counseling‚ therapy and social justice. As a human service profession you are told to put human being first and always address the most important concerns first. You are told to set aside your personal feeling and don’t place
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LITERATURE REVIEW Every child must be protected against all forms of exploitation‚ indecent or degrading treatment‚ including child labour‚ abduction and sale (UNICEF 2000). According to UNICEF‚ exploiting the labour of a child means employing a person below the age of 15 years and paying him/her less than the minimum standard wage. Olafsen‚ Corwin and Summit (1993) have argued that cycles of awareness followed by suppression have typified society’s response to child sexual abuse. Arguably‚ this has
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expedite the situation because he/she will begin to feel that this is not normal. The victimizer is afraid to stop because as long as he/she know that it is a secret‚ they are safe; since‚ it is lawfully wrong and may cause mental disturbance with the child for life. Father-daughter incest is responsible for 70-90 percent of incestuous relationships‚ yet this may seem like the only type of incest although there are others: Mother-son incest‚ the son wanting to keep the mother happy after a separation
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Increased “Quick-Fix” Fitness Trends a Result of Increased Obesity About one third of adults and one fifth of children and teens are obese (CDC). This rate has increased at alarmingly high rates over the past 25 years. Along with these increased obesity rates‚ people are realizing how unhealthy this particular lifestyle has become‚ and as an effect‚ have grown the fitness industry tremendously. You can’t watch a television show without seeing at least two commercials bragging about the latest
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