Child Sexual Abuse: A Review of the Literature Abstract Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a hidden epidemic of child abuse and neglect. Approximately there are 3 million reports of CSA in the United States every year involving nearly 6 million children. CSA take place across ethnic and cultural lines‚ in all socioeconomic levels‚ all levels of education and within all religions. Numerous adverse effects correlate with CSA some examples include‚ anxiety‚ avoidance depression‚ low self-esteem‚ post-traumatic
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TARGET CHILD ABUSE When people think of child abuse they usually believe that abusers neglect and victimize all of their children equally. This is not always the case. Targeting one child for abuse is actually more common than people would believe. Many parents single out one individual child for their negative attention and abusive treatment. Typically these parents will also pick one child to be their favorite‚ showering that child with attention‚ praise‚ gifts and tolerance. The emotional
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Effects of Non-parental Childcare Non-parental childcare is defined by Berns as “the care given to children by persons other than parents during the parts of the day that parents are absent (2010‚ p.161)”‚ and includes in-home care providers‚ family daycare providers‚ and group care‚ center-based providers. Currently‚ family‚ friends and neighbors are the most common form of non-parental child care used in the United States‚ especially for younger children. Over 60 percent of children under the
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jobs were only reserved for whites. This would lead to the parents of the family getting agitated and begin to fight with one another. Family and abuse go hand in hand when it comes to the Breedlove family. In The Bluest Eye‚ the family are both exploited by the ones they love due to their vulnerability and their weakness. Pecola has heard and seen abuse everyday‚ mainly her parents fight constantly. Each
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Child abuse A statue stands in a shaded place An angel girl with an upturned face A name is written on a polished rock A broken heart that the world forgot” This is a quote by Martina Mcbride and it illustrated that when a person’s life is covered in a blanket of darkness‚ then they will not think themselves as important and they will start to grow hatred for themselves‚ this sometimes results in suicide in later years. Child abuse is when a feeling of anger engulfs a person so much so their
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after only weighing in at twenty- pounds and her doctor is pleading no contest for her death. The little girl’s name was Makalya’s who had cerebral palsy and was suffering abuse by her mother hands. Margaret Edward‚ who was the little girl’s doctor‚ is pleading no contest to three misdemeanors counts of failing to report child abuse and neglect on someone is functionally impaired. Makalya’s could not fight back against her mother‚ but her doctor could have and Makalya’s could be alive right now. The
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The impact of Child Abuse (neglect) on a child Background of the issue Many of you might wonder why many children attend school and do not say a word in your class. Today I am here to talk to you about the reasons why this may occur because many teachers are not aware of these problems that are affecting many of our children today. One of the social issues that I have chosen is Child abuse-neglected children. I chose child abuse because it is a silent killer that tends to have a major effect
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If a parent’s responsibility is to teach a kid how to deal with the real world‚ then that is child abuse. Because that’s not the real world.” As children grow‚ so does their eagerness to win. What about the kids who can’t keep up with the competition? Simple. They quit. An article from CNN states‚ “Seventy percent of children leave organized sports
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Katie Whitmer English 111-N1 Ms. Mary Lanier 21 April 2011 Child Abuse and the Justice System Child abuse is a growing problem in the United States. Three million cases of child abuse were reported in 2009. One of those cases was my niece Leah. Leah endured mental and physical abuse for the first three years of her life. Leah now lives in a safe place with my parents. Although‚ Leah sees a child therapist once a week because of the damage her mother did to her‚ she is thriving in her new home
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Gonzalez has visitation plan. She said that she took her daughter to her Dr office because she believes that Jorge Gonzales had hit her. A CW caseworker already had interviewed her‚ but there is nothing that CW can do since there is no evidence of child abuse. She said that some time ago‚ while she was pregnant (9year ago) she was raped by her ex-husband. She said that she placed charges but the General Attorney dropped it. She placed a restraining order against him. She said that her daughter every
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