The children protective services (CPS) are aimed at ensuring that the rights of children are respected and well protected within the society. However, there has been a heated debate on to what extent the child protective services should reach. Recently, there has been an intense discussion over the issue whether child protective services have gone too far especially among the black and poor parents. This paper examines the implementation of the child protection services in various populations of
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learned about many different topics that impact families and children. Some of the major topics that we've focused on are poverty, violence and addiction, and abuse and neglect. In every chapter of the book there is information provided on the affects these topics have on children and families, history of cases that occurred and laws that were passed to help and protect children and families, and services that are provided to these children and families struggling with that particular topic within the
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Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB): The LSCB are panels made up of various agencies. There is one in every local area. They role and responsibilities is to set out policies and procedures for child protection in that area. They are also to organise all agencies to come together to agree how they will cooperate with one another to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. The Police: The police have a legal responsibility to safeguard children under the age of 18; they can work with other
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Children and Youth Services Review 29 (2007) 698 – 720 www.elsevier.com/locate/childyouth Family economic well-being following the 1996 welfare reform: Trend data from five non-experimental panel studies Kristen Shook Slack a,⁎, Katherine A. Magnuson a , Lawrence M. Berger a , Joan Yoo b , Rebekah Levine Coley c , Rachel Dunifon d , Amy Dworsky e , Ariel Kalil f , Jean Knab g , Brenda J. Lohman h , Cynthia Osborne i a School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin—Madison, 1350 University
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these youths came from a broken home and some were fugitives on drugs that wanted to change their lives. Many of the youths hated their parents because they felt like alcohol, boyfriends, girlfriends, and drugs are more important than their own children. Some youth came from the streets and no homes, while there were a few who dropped out of school because they were pregnant. This program directly relates to my Cross-Cultural Psychology class because in chapter five, Development and Socialization
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Child Sex Tourism The topic that I thought was interesting to write about is child sex tourism. Child sex tourism is happening on a daily bases all around the world. It is really sad that young children from all nationalities and all ages are used as sexual pleasures to older men. It is very sad that child sex tourism is very hard to get under control. In an article written by ECPAT (End Child Prostitution and trafficking) stated that wealthy Westerners posing as good people often prepared
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Introduction Children are often made to aid their families and friends at all ages, however these small jobs are not harmful to the children and they are not exploited in any way to do this work, for example daily chores. This is ethically and morally wrong, but nevertheless a continuing problem. United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has found that one in six children is involved harmful and exploitative work; this is defined as child labour. These children are ‘engaged
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Child Prostitution Child prostitution refers to children and adolescents receiving money or other items of value in exchange for engaging in sexual acts or allowing sexual acts to be performed on them. Child prostitution is a form of sexual abuse. According to Child Maltreatment, published in 2008, sexual abuse is defined as a type of maltreatment that refers to the involvement of the child in sexual activity to provide sexual benefit or financial benefit to the perpetrator, including contacts
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failed to against human trafficking issues. The main targets are people that have a lack of job opportunities, have been experiencing social discrimination, mentally abused, live in a poor family that caught in debt bondages so their parent sell their children to reduce the burden. The traffickers take advantage by offering and promise them to get a better life, have a new job as a housekeeper, film or in factories. The traffickers offer them money to fulfill their needs, travel invitations and promise
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Improving Academic Performance and Achievement of children and youth in foster care Joanna Bermudez Mercy College Summer 2013 Introduction and Problem Statement Approximately fifty percent of adolescents in this country’s foster care system are graduating from high school each year. In NYS, less than forty-four percent of adolescent’s in the foster care system graduate from high school yearly. The outcomes of youth who leave the foster care system between the ages of 18 and 21 are statistically
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