Should drug abuse by pregnant women be considered child abuse? What is drug abuse? Drug abuse is a pattern of use of a substance that is not considered dependant‚ mean using a drug that is not prescribed to you. Abuse of drugs or alcohol by parents and other caregivers can have negative effects on the health‚ safety‚ and well-being of children. People tend to try drugs once and then again and that’s how they become addicted. People that are strained out on drugs usually need a lot of help. The
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Every year more than three million reports of child abuse are made in the United States involving more than six million children.Child abuse is found to be linking to emotional and physical troubles of the offender. Child abuse is a growing concern because the affected children are more likely to commit crimes because it causes long term emotional and physical damage. Most people have noticed that crime rates have seen a significant increase in the past few years; but would you believe that it
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fathers think that after birth‚ alcoholism no longer has an effect on their child’s life. It may be true that abstaining from the use of alcohol during the pregnancy will prevent the child from birth defects and physical harm before the birth. However‚ many alcoholic parents neglect to consider is that their abuse or dependency on alcohol can disrupt their children after delivery. Eiden‚ Edwards and Leonard (2004) report that there is an increase in the "likelihood of early behavior problems among
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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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it that you need a license to drive a car‚ practice law‚ or even fish‚ but anyone with a healthy reproductive system can bring a child into this world? Parenting is a serious undertaking and anyone who has done raised a child can tell you that it’s not an easy task. Parents should be required to pass a minimum competency test and obtain a license before bringing a child into this world. On average there are 3 to 4 million babies born each year in the US. In 2014 264‚746 children entered into foster
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Alcohol & Child Abuse. Retrieved February 02‚ 2016‚ from http://www.livestrong.com/article/240851-alcohol-child-abuse/ Green‚ M. (2015). Alcohol & Child Abuse. Retrieved February 02‚ 2016‚ from http://www.livestrong.com/article/240851-alcohol-child-abuse/ I believe the stressor with the greatest effect on families is children who are living with someone who is abusing alcohol or other drugs. Currently more than 9 million children are living with people who abuse alcohol or
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The abuse‚ especially occurring in early age‚ can affect child’s physical and psychological maturity and lead to attachment disorder‚ delayed development‚ impulsive behavior and dissocializing problems. The dose of abuse‚ the frequency‚ the relation with the abuser are factors to determine the child’s reaction to the abuse and the outcome of the child life. Jenny‚ as a child she need unconditional love‚ security‚ protection‚ etc. In this case Jenny‚ may feel disorientated‚ lose the sense of life
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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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