Parental Substance Abuse and Child Welfare Temple University Harrisburg Introduction Parental substance abuse and the welfare of children have become a growing epidemic in society today. Thousands of families are facing struggles with addiction which can lead to the interruption of cognitive development and mental growth of their young children. It has been found that “more than 8.3 million children younger than 18 years (11.9%) lived with at least one parent who was dependent on or abused
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CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE – A THREAT TO CHILDHOOD (Assignment – Media Research Methods) Aprajita Kalyani Roll No. – 287 Communication Management Batch 2012 Justification Child abuse is the term used when an adult harms a child or a young person under the age of 18‚ either physically‚ sexually or emotionally. Child sexual abuse is any interaction between a child and an adult when the child is being used for the sexual stimulation of the perpetrator or another person who is either significantly
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Numerous studies show that childhood abuse at almost any age can carry many long-term effects throughout the rest of the victim’s life. A child who has been abused may grow up in the home with the abuser or may be one of the lucky few to be taken and put into a more caring and suitable environment to recover from the experiences. Sometimes (but very rarely) the children are returned home once the abuser is either gone from the home or has received help to recover. However‚ this experience is not
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Decreasing Child Abuse with Nurse Partnership Rachel C. Abstract Research has found that the risk for child abuse of children under the age of one year is related to the economic status of their parents. While poverty is not the sole indicator of child abuse‚ the number of such child abuse cases is significant among those who receive Medicaid‚ which indicates the family is living in poverty. A nurse partnership program which partners a registered nurse with expectant mothers on Medicaid increases
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skills are necessary for an ethical action. In this case‚ the best course of action for the APN will be to have a conversation with the boy’s parents to assess their understanding of the situation and risk involved for the boy instead of jumping into conclusion from the ER physician report that because the boy’s parents are practicing Jehovah’s Witnesses‚ they have refused blood transfusion. Furthermore‚ requesting the assistance of the ethics committee and legal counsel of the hospital would be
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Child Abuse and Neglect Roosevelt Neely Senior Seminar October 1‚ 2012 Introduction As her eyes are filled with water‚ LaCrystal Nelson‚ a Case Manager for child protective custody shares numerous stories about her day to day experiences with abused and neglected children. One can easily tell by the amount of tears that she has a deep compassion for the work that she does. She shares stories of infants‚ who are very innocent‚ but beaten like criminals and of pre-teens‚ who are left at home
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Think deep of how abuse can hurt or damage a child mentally and physically. The victim can end up living with a life of long-term suffering consequences. There are many kinds of abuse: physical abuse‚ neglect‚ psychological or emotional and “custodial interference” (CDC‚ 1). Imagine the harmful effects that abuse brings to a child. It has been shown that 1‚770 children from infancy to early child hood have died from physical abuse. Psychological disorders in another study show 80 percent of children
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Child Abuse: Physical One day on a drive in San Jose‚ California‚ a man and his female co-worker heard a moan coming from the back seat. The man then glanced into the back seat and saw nothing. His female co-worker then started to act suspiciously and turned up the volume on her radio trying to disguise the moans coming from the car. Later‚ that day the concerned man called the authorities to report this‚ and his female co-worker was arrested on child endangerment on her two sons‚ after they told
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Sexual Child Abuse There are many types of child abuse. I am going to tell you about sexual child abuse. Sexual abuse is defined as the engage of a child in sexual activities the child does not understand‚ to which the child can’t give informed consent‚ which are developmentally inappropriate and/or which violate the laws of society. In 1986‚ 20% of child abuse cases were sexual abuse. Every child is vulnerable to sexual abuse. Research shows that as many as one out of every four children
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long-term study by Silverman‚ Reinherz‚ & Giaconia (1996) has indicated that “as many as 80 percent of young adults who had been abused met the diagnostic criteria for at least one psychiatric disorder at age 21” (Child Welfare Information Gateway). There are many long-term problems that stem from abuse as children‚ such as depression‚ anxiety‚ eating disorders‚ and attempts at suicide‚ but this Extended Essay will investigate only the three most prominent‚ long-term psychological effects of child abuse
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