The readings for week was filled with great resourceful information, however it was disheartening that after many years of reported and unreported cases of child abuse and neglect being central to human rights issues child abuse laws and policies still aren’t standard or regulated throughout the world not even within the United States of America as a country. What was really mind boggling is that Animal Abuse Advocates were fighting for animal rights long before there were human rights advocates, however the case that acknowledged there was problem with neglect & child or human abuse was the case of Mary Ellen Wilson in 1864 a very compassionate animal rights advocate and president of the American Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
