...When humans are young, they expect a lot from their parents or caregivers and sometimes they violate these “trust bonds” with their children. They are not just being abused from their caregivers, but they can be abused by their neighbors, relatives or friends. Child abuse, better yet, child maltreatment is defined as a “failure to act on the part of a parent or a caregiver which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation or an act of failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm” (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services). In other words, an inappropriate act to mistreat a child by a close relative or parent by physical or sexual force. Child maltreatment has a negative often impacts...
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...Child abuse and Maltreatment on Delinquency and Arrest Prominent studies of child abuse and maltreatment point to several unfortunate outcomes for victims as they grow up. Adolescents who were victims of sexual assault are three to five times more likely to suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder, be abused again, be dependent on drugs and alcohol, or commit delinquent acts compared with adolescents who were not victimized, according to a nationally representative sample. In addition, girls who witnessed violence are nearly twice as likely as boys to experience posttraumatic stress disorder later in life. . Nonlove This love consists only of intimacy component. Among individuals who experience this kind of love interwoven physical and emotional closeness. However, this kind of love usually only happens in the friendship. Both sides feel there is a close relationship is warm, but not accompanied with deep emotion (passion) and long-term commitment. You certainly do not mind if a friend should continue their studies or changed jobs to another city, right? In love this friendship no attachment that forces each party to always be together. 2. Infatuation Often called love love at first sight. This love is likened to come from the eye and then down to the heart. When he saw the object of love, passion to always arise together. Though maybe you do not actually have the closeness that exists with the object of love. Passion is the only component of love that exist in these...
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...References 10-12 The topic of Child Welfare has a plethora of issues and problems that can be addressed to better serve the victims and families. In the Child Welfare profession, one of the biggest misconceptions is the agency wants to permanently remove children from their families and because of this many times Child Welfare workers receives constant ridicule and backlash for carrying out their job duties. In order to properly protect children, Child Welfare workers require a substantial amount of support from other local agencies, state and federal governments. Often in time, when working with families dealing with maltreatment, the individual committing the maltreatment has no idea that what they did was wrong. It is during the removal of the victim(s) and the court hearings where the perpetrator gains insight on what was wrong. In some situations, maltreating parents and guardians simply need help with learning how to cope differently with what is sometimes determined to be misguided anger. Research shows that if a parent or guardian has maltreated a child in the past they are likely to continue the maltreatment if there is no form of intervention and parents or guardians who were maltreated against as a child are likely to maltreat against a child. In the grand scheme of things, if there were programs geared to help new parents and repeat offenders of maltreatment to gain insight into maltreatment, there may be a reduction in the number of abuse and neglect cases reported....
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...appropriate responses when child maltreatment or abuse is suspected – There are a variety of different responses of which would be considered appropriate when you believe that a child or young person is being abused or facing maltreatment. You can observe the child over a period of time. Any and all information collected should be written or logged and should be considered carefully, for example listening to the child when he/she is at play. You can also observe the child’s relationship with their parents, carers or guardians and look out for any poor interaction between them. Things that may be said by the child: Mummy hit me Daddy touched me Daddy did this to me last night, but he told me not to tell anyone or he will hurt me again My aunt pulled my hair If you suspect that the child is receiving abuse or is being maltreated, (depending on whether the child is of developmental stage), speak to the child along with their parents/guardians in order to seek out some form of explanation. If you are going to speak to the child, make sure that he/she is comfortable. By feeling uncomfortable this may stop the child from disclosing any further information. By setting up various games for the child to play with, you will therefore be able to interact with them and allow you to speak directly to the child. However you must let the child know beforehand that you cannot promise confidentiality. Take the child seriously. If you do not take the child seriously this may...
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...Investigation of Child Abuse Goldie Acosta April 20, 2014 Abstract Our law enforcement officer have many different task in their hands, but all of them are for the safety and protection of our community and our society. Officer often work really hard to promote a climate of security but we all have to help in the process of making a better world. One of the task that police officer have, in the prevention and intervention on child abuse and neglect cases. As wrong as it sounds there are plenty of people abusing of our kids in a day to day basis. This is been done by physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse and neglect, where in cases the child do not received the necessary help on time and we will encounter child death. Throughout our study we are going to see how our police enforcement received the required training to handle such cases, which differ from the traditional cases officer are used to work with. Child abuse consist on the physical, psychological and/or sexual mistreatment of children that affect their physical or emotional health and development. This mistreatment in any intentional physical injury such as hitting, pushing, spanking, beating, burning, and so on. Child abuse a happen to any child and in some cases their parents are the ones responsible for it. In our country, the most predominant of the abuses is neglect, which makes 55 percent of all the cases. This is due to the lack of food, clothes, medical care and supervision of the child. There are...
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...and more likely to be criminals Child Abuse $30K – $200K Teen Pregnancy $120K – $138K High School Dropout $250K – $450K Illegal Drug Abuse $250K – $740K Alcohol Abuse $230K – $690K NOTES: The low-end present value figures reflect only tangible costs; the high-end figures add intangible costs. Because each bar includes individual and societal costs that may overlap with others, they cannot be tallied to produce a total. FIGURE 1 The researchers divide the societal costs of each outcome into two categories: tangible, which covers items such as prison beds that are easier to measure and calcuate in dollars; and intangible, which includes consequences like a crime victim’s pain and suffering that clearly have costs but must be estimated using more complex methods. The average per-person tangible costs, as described below, are substantial: Child Abuse: Societal costs for medical and mental health care and services such as foster care total more than $30,000 for a child who is abused. Teen Parenthood: When a teenager has a child, the nation pays $120,000 for expenses including medical care, social assistance programs and efforts to deal with higher rates of abuse and neglect among these young parents. High School Dropout: Adropout costs society $250,000 through lower earnings and benefits. Illegal Drug Abuse: Treatment, medical care and other societal costs caused by a drug abuser amount to $250,000. Alcohol abuse: Societal costs for an alcoholic, such...
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...Child Abuse and Neglect 29 30 Dimensions and Critical Issues of Child Maltreatment in the African American Community: Causation, Consequences, and Prospects Presenter: Respondent: Joyce N. Thomas, R.N., M.P.H. Robert Pierce, Ph.D. Introduction African Americans, the largest minority population in the United States, suffer disproportionately from preventable diseases and deaths—(Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health, 1994). This statement from the Office of Minority Health not only captures the tragic problem of health related issues of African Americans, it also applies to the social welfare problems of these children and their families. Each year over 2,000 children die at the hands of their parents or caretakers (U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect, 1995). Abuse and neglect in the home are considered one of the leading causes of death for children four years of age and younger and the largest number of child abuse fatalities is due to severe head trauma. Homicide statistics are only part of the grim reality, with near–fatal abuse and neglect accounting for more than 18,000 permanently disabled children, and approximately 142,000 serious injuries (Baladerian, 1991). Findings from the report, A Nation’s Shame: Fatal Child Abuse and Neglect in the United States, indicate that African Americans are overrepresented in both fatalities and near–fatal injuries (U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect, 1995). Research shows that...
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...of Children of Addictive Parents Nothing makes a child grow up faster than having a parent who is addicted to drugs. A child of an addicted parent has no choice but to act as an adult. These children are often left alone and when they aren’t alone, their addicted parent is usually passed out in a drug induced stupor; leaving the child to fend for themselves and/or their siblings. Does having a drug addicted parent have an effect on a child’s emotional development? If so, does this form of abuse that is recognized in the category of neglect have a long lasting effect on the child into adulthood? A child of an addict is constantly exposed to risks more so than the average child. The children are placed in harmful situations such as being minimally supervised, extended exposure to secondhand smoke; exposure to HIV infected needles and are placed in situations where they can accidentally ingest the parent’s drugs. There are many different factors that lead to child abuse but poverty, alcohol, and drug use seem to be to main component to the disturbing increase of neglected children. Children raised in an unloving, unresponsive household are emotionally neglected. In addition, neglected children are more likely to come from single parent households. Overall incidents of child abuse cases have fallen, however; abuse of children in single-parent households still holds the overall national trend. Although child abuse and neglect overall are “significantly” down, in single-parent...
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...Child maltreatment is a behavior toward a child that is outside the norms of conduct and obtains substantial risk of causing harm to the child. There are four recognizable types of maltreatment; physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and child neglect. There are millions of alleged child maltreatment reports a year and most of the causes are still not well understood. These forms of abuse vary but most of them are often associated with physical injuries, harsh development and mental instability. When a child is taken in by Child Protective Services, the diagnosis is based off of physical examination of the child, lab testing’s, and recent history. In my opinion child maltreatment is a cowardly, nauseating act based on pure ignorance and insecurity. Children deserve to be safe. Physical abuse involves a caretaker inflicting harm or engaging in actions that inflict harm upon a child. Specific forms include shaking, punching, burning, and dropping. This form of abuse causes serious head injuries to infants and toddlers. Babies are the most vulnerable to maltreatment and also kids that reach their adolescent years. Some signs of physical abuse inflicted on a child would be handprints, bruises, round burn marks often from cigarettes, and long abrasions caused by belt whippings. Sexual abuse cases vary between forms of intercourse, molestation, and subjection that involves no physical contact but exposes the child to genitals or sexual acts. Any action with a child that...
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...January 20, 2013 Mandatory Reporting of Child Maltreatment From this assignment I became aware that all states in the United States have statutes identifying anyone who must report child maltreatment under certain circumstances. I have been a resident of Pennsylvania for 20 years. This assignment really opened my eyes to a subject I have no put much attention towards until now. To compare Pennsylvania’s laws with other states, I chose states close to the area. I chose to also look at New Jersey, Delaware, New York and Maryland as well. In Pennsylvania, professionals who are required to report maltreatment are just about anyone working in a medical related field, such as physicians, nurses, medical examiners, interns, podiatrists, chiropractors, and hospital personal. Also, anyone in a school related field, clergy members, mental health professionals and law enforcement officials must report child maltreatment. Also, any other person that might suspect a child being abused or neglected should report this mistreatment. Pennsylvania’s standards for making a report are that reports are required when a person in the course of employment, occupation, or practice of a profession, comes into contact with a child, and has reasonable cause to suspect that the child is a victim of child abuse. Also, the person making this report does not need to provide their name or any personal information. The next state I looked into was New Jersey. In New Jersey, there are no specific professional...
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...Child Welfare Heidi Newman Argosy University Abstract I am doing research on child welfare, I am going to talk about how many children are maltreatment, neglect, how many children entering foster care, exiting foster care, the age of children that are in foster care, and how many children live with their grandparents. I am going to show a graph with data from 2002-2012 in New York State and compare it national statistics, about child welfare. I am also going to write up a report about talking about my data and graph. [pic] |Victims of maltreatment in 2012 in New York |compare to national statistics | |Number |68,375 |national |670,340 | | | | | |statistic | | | | |New York 2002 |15,432 |national |299,132 | | | | | |statistics | | | | |New York 2002 |17,970 |national ...
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...victims of child abuse or neglect in 2006 (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2008). While physical injuries may or may not be immediately visible, abuse and neglect can have consequences for children, families, and society that last lifetimes, if not generations. The impact of child abuse and neglect is often discussed in terms of physical, psychological, behavioral, and societal consequences. In reality, however, it is impossible to separate them completely. Physical consequences, such as damage to a child's growing brain, can have psychological implications such as cognitive delays or emotional difficulties. Psychological problems often manifest as high-risk behaviors. Depression and anxiety, for example, may make a person more likely to smoke, abuse alcohol or illicit drugs, or overeat. High-risk behaviors, in turn, can lead to long-term physical health problems such as sexually transmitted diseases, cancer, and obesity. This factsheet provides an overview of some of the most common physical, psychological, behavioral, and societal consequences of child abuse and neglect, while acknowledging that much crossover among categories exists. Factors Affecting the Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect Physical Health Consequences Psychological Consequences Behavioral Consequences Societal Consequences Summary References The Federal Government has made a considerable investment in research regarding the causes and long-term consequences of child abuse and neglect...
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...the following: |Type of Abuse |International Interventions |Implications | | |There are many agencies that promote different programs to stop child labor; legal age to work is 15 |Some implications of child labor are a great need for| |Child labor |years old with strict restrictions. It is illegal to have any minors work without permission. |food and rest, smaller in size and skeleton growth. | | |Social service interventions are formed to protect current slaves, community based interventions focus |There are many implications of slavery such as poor | |Slavery |on outreach and raising awareness. Harm reduction interventions work to improve work, living conditions,|diets, poor hygiene, and low self-esteem. | | |rule of law interventions focus on rescuing slaves, and economic interventions focus on economic growth | | | |and development. | | | |To try to stop child prostitution is to make public...
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...Fatherhood Programming: Factors Affecting Low Income Fathers' Involvement in Child Protection Services and Court-Restricted Access to their Children Fatherhood programs are there to protect against child maltreatment. Child maltreatment is described to be a function of many ecological systems: ontogenetic, microsystems, exosystems, and macrosystems. Ontogenetic factors (individual) refer to fathers with criminal records. It has been documented that over 600,000 men are released from prison every year. Researchers have shown fathers with criminal history can have a positive affect on their child's life. Fathers released from incarceration want involved in their child's development because of the motivation. Studies suggest that parental involvement after incarceration has positive effects for both the parent and the child. Substance use in fathers has been documented to increase the risk of physical abuse and neglect. It was documented that 206 serious chold maltreatment cases have been reported has been involved with substance use. The more drugs the father is indicated to use, the greater the likelihood the reporting of CPS involvement. Child sexual abuse has been described as a long lasting vulnerability risk factor for child maltreatment. In the microsystem factors (family), intimate partner violence or male violence against their female partner is a risk factor for child maltreatment. It is documented that men who engaged in more than one aggressive acts towards...
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...Child Abuse a Lifetime Sentence Jolene Dancliff COM/156 05-6-2010 Dan Price Child Abuse a Lifetime Sentence Once into adulthood, victims of child abuse search for some form of coping mechanisms to forget or mask the trauma and the pain of child abuse. According to Shub & Cabrera (2011) “Every week 60,000 cases of child abuse or neglect are reported in the United States, and 3 million reports of child abuse or neglect are being filed every year” (p.1). Approximately 50% of child victims abuse drugs or alcohol. (Shub & Cabrer, 2011). The abuse often stems from a response to guilt or a negative self-image. Although as serious as child neglect is, physical abuse more often will result in the abuse of drugs or alcohol. Poverty, social inadequacies and lack of academic achievement all lead to the probability of an adult survivor turning to drugs and alcohol as a way to relieve their internal turmoil. Adult survivors that suffered poverty in their childhood struggle financially due to inadequate resources to obtain quality education. They also have a lack of adequate housing or access to nutritional food. These all increase the odds of the survivor turning to substance abuse. People who are abused often are unable to fit comfortably into any social setting. Because of their insecurities and their uneasiness, it is easier for them to cope when they become intoxicated or high. It bolsters confidence and gives them a false sense of confidence. However, for some...
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