Child Abuse Every year‚ thousands of families welcome a new baby into their home. The upcoming years are spent watching children movies‚ going to parks and zoos‚ buying ice cream from the truck‚ and finger painting with their family while on a picnic. Almost all of the children brought into this world get to experience what it is to have a loving family; however‚ for a small percentage‚ life is not so peachy. They are forced to deal with things that most of us would never imagine in our worst
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problems in the American society‚ child abuse is one of the most devastating issues that result in people‚ and more specifically children‚ with a traumatized past‚ shattered dreams‚ and more often than not‚ fatal consequences. National statistics on child abuse reports just about five deaths a day among neglected and abused children. According to a 2009 statistics‚ there were 1‚770 deaths reported as a consequence of child abuse and neglect. The issue of child abuse and neglect is a crucial one‚ as it
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Chapter Four – Whistle-Blowing What is Whistle-Blowing? Whistle-blowing is the voluntary release of non-public information‚ as a moral protest‚ by a member or former member of an organization to an appropriate audience outside the normal channels of communication regarding illegal and/or immoral conduct in the organization that is opposed to the public interest. The Key Points in this Definition are: 1. A whistle-blower is a member or former member of an organization and not an outsider
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Federal court rules Telephone Consumer Protection Act does not apply to commercial SMS text messages sent to cellular phones. The ruling came a few weeks ago in Satterfield v. Simon & Schuster‚ No. C 06-2893 CW‚ 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 46325 (N.D. Cal. June 26‚ 2007)‚ a case involving the transmission of an SMS text message promoting a popular author’s "mobile club" to a cellular phone used by a seven-year-old child. The defendants‚ the publishing company that contracted for the transmission of
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What is elder abuse? Elder abuse is a single or repeated act or lack of appropriate action‚ occurring within any relationship where there is an expectation of trust‚ which causes harm or distress to an older person. (Wikipedia.org) Elder abuse is occurring more than it is acknowledged. The human life span is growing. People are living longer. People are reaching 85 and older and therefore they require more services. Elder adults go through many changes as they age causing them to rely on people
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Types of Abuse. Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults. What is abuse? Abuse may involve of a single or repeated acts. Abuse may be physical‚ verbal or psychological‚ it may be an act of neglect or an omission to act or it may occur when a vulnerable person is persuaded to enter into financial or sexual actions to which he or she has not consented to or doesn’t understand‚ or cannot consent. Abuse can occur in any relationship and may result in substantial harm to‚ or abuse of‚ the person exposed to it
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The philosophy of protective relaying is to provide protection or isolation to an area of the electric system that has a disturbance as quickly as possible to prevent damage to the power system. Along with this‚ you want to leave as much of the power grid in tact to continue service to the customers. Protective relaying helps protect equipment from damage due to abnormal operating conditions. Protective relaying does not prevent abnormal operating conditions but limits the amount of time these conditions
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Running Head: THE SERIOUSNESS OF ELDER ABUSE 1 The Seriousness of Elder Abuse in Hong Kong Families To let older adults enjoy a sense of security and a sense of belonging is a time-honoured tradition in the Chinese society. Unfortunately‚ elder abuse has risen as a serious social problem in Hong Kong. An organization called “The Against Elderly Abuse of Hong Kong” has received 2212 requests for assistance related to elder abuse in 2011‚ which has doubled the number of requests received
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the Professional Nurse in Health Promotion and Protection in Communities University of Missouri‚ St. Louis Introduction: Health Promotion and Health Protection Defined There are many different definitions of health promotion and protection and all of them sound fairly similar. Pender (2006) describes health promotion as a behavior motivated by the desire to increase well being and actualize human health potential and describes health protection as behavior motivated by the desire to actively
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CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT: OBJECTIVE The consumer protection act was enacted in the year 1986‚ in order to mainly protect the interests of the consumer. There was widespread consumer movement back then. Who is a consumer...? Any individual who buys goods‚ which has been paid or will be paid Hires or avails a service by paying or with credit Goods and services obtained for commercial purposes are not included. Rights of a consumer A consumer has the following rights Right to safety Right to be informed
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