cases of child maltreatment are reported and investigated in the United States annually. That is just the number reported. How many go unreported and unnoticed? A range of factors poverty‚ homelessness‚ alcohol and drug addiction and child abuse and neglect make today’s families more susceptible than ever to splitting apart (Kirst-Ashman‚ 2013). In this chapter there is so much information to try and share. Social workers bring their unique skills to helping two increasingly vulnerable groups: children
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Human Services. CPS supports and maintains the social and economic welfare of children by offering services to children to help protect them from abuse and/or child neglect. The Department of Humans Services in California offers CPS to families. CPS serves as mandated reports as well as an organization to protect children from neglect or abuse within the home‚ from his or her family‚ foster home or anyone responsible for the care of the child. The services of CPS are to provide protection to the
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three children in the United States are murdered by a parent or caretaker. 565‚000 children are seriously injured while 18‚000 are permanently disabled every year due to child abuse. Three million children were reported as victims of child abuse and neglect in 1999 in the United States. Child abuse kills more children in America than does accidental falls‚ choking on food‚ suffocation‚ or fires in the home (Newton). As if these statistics weren’t horrifying enough‚ they are inaccurate in relaying the
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abuse of a child or an elderly individual. These two populations are considered at risk for potential abuse. The Arizona Mandatory Reporting Training states‚ “any person who reasonably believes that a minor is or has been the victim of abuse… or neglect…shall immediately report or cause reports to be made…to a peace officer or to child protective services ("ChildHelpInfoCenter - Free Mandatory Reporting Training‚" n.d.).” The question becomes what is “reasonable belief?” Reasonable Belief is defined
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SPEECH: INFORMATIVE SPEECH TOPIC: Child Abuse Facts for Parents PURPOSE: The purpose of this paper is to reveal the shocking features of child abuse that exposes various factors responsible for physical‚ sexual‚ emotional and neglect abuse of children which haunts and shatters their physical and emotional world. AUDIENCE: PARENTS BODY OF THE PAPER Child abuse is very widespread and familiar happening. In today’s situation‚ it has become a very common
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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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& Social Responsibility Instructor: Russell Tompkins September 12‚ 2011 Should Parenting Require a License? Raising a child is probably the most important thing a person will ever do in life. Yet we constantly hear stories of child abuse and neglect. What makes a good parent? Is it the money you earn? How about fancy schools? In liberal societies many people decide whether or not they wish to become parents. One of the key questions in making this decision is‚ what kind of parent will I be
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Introduction: When talking about child abuse we refer to any forms of harm or breach to a child through: neglect‚ physical‚ emotional and sexual activities. Child Line (N‚ D) summaries neglect as a process where someone is not being cared for properly. Neglect is when you don’t have access to the most basic level of needs introduced by Abraham Maslow. In 1943 Abraham Maslow published a paper on ‘A Theory of Human Motivation’ (Poston; 2009) where he produced the Hierarchy of Needs theory. (Figure
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Lexis Munoz Professor Miller English 5B 23 April 2013 Are Serial Killers Born or Made? Psychologist John B. Watson expressed in his scientific studies of human behavior that emotion is learnt and as humans we are highly social creatures‚ and by integrating those two ideas it signifies how much we‚ as the human race‚ are influenced by others as well as with the environment causing our behavior to be similar to the ones around us. A study conducted by American psychologist Albert Bandura in 1961
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Child abuse and neglect‚ more specifically child molestation is typically analysed through the social prism of the long term physical‚ psychological and behavioral effects. However it is impossible to completely separate the issue from the biological‚ psychosocial and ecological/dynamic factors that ultimately determine the long term effects and the shaping of how the abused individual would be assessed . The case analysis of 7 year old Emma‚ a Euro American ‚ preadolescent female‚ from
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