A Growing Concern: Child Maltreatment It is said by Naughton that, “for every child in the child protection program there are another eight ‘hidden’ children being maltreated,” (Preventing a child maltreatment epidemic, 2014). Child maltreatment is an ever growing problem across the globe. There are several variations of maltreatment, including physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, and negligence. Physical abuse is broadly defined as any act that causes or has a potential to cause physical harm.…
Child maltreatment has been a concern for years. It has always been a questions as in what to do for the child involved and how to handle the situation. Child maltreatment varies based on a court jurisdiction on what they feel is child maltreatment. Child maltreatment is and can be physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, in addition to neglect (NIJ 2011). Whereas neglect is specified as in a failure in the parent responsibility to provide for a child 's development when in a financial position to do so (NIJ 2011).…
3. Identify and summarise 3 key points or arguments made by your chosen article. The main point of this journal article (Davidson and Omar, 2014) is to summarise relevant studies on the long-term consequences of childhood sexual abuse found in females and to then identify the major consequences pre-pubertal sexual abuse has on women in their later stages of life. …
Childhood Versus Adulthood Child abuse in the United States is heinously common. Over 600,000 American children are thought to be the victims of some form of neglect or maltreatment each year. While cases of their abuse are frequently the focus of large media attention, their stories often go unheeded as the years progress. By the time these child victims become survivors, many have been forgotten.…
Literature Review Several large sex trafficking cases have occurred in Minnesota over the past several years. One case that occurred in 2010 consisted of investigators from three states, who determined that Minneapolis was the home base of a large domestic sex trafficking ring that comprised of three generations of one Minnesota family (Women’s Foundation of Minnesota, n.d.). This sex trafficking ring was known for trafficking mostly young girls throughout the U.S. (Women’s Foundation of Minnesota, n.d.). Another case was an FBI led operation and 72-hour sting during the summer, which rescued 105 children and netted 152 pimps, or traffickers, in 76 cities nationwide, including four alleged pimps in the Twin Cities (Women’s Foundation of Minnesota,…
Introduction: I am writing my Decision-Making Report over the need of the importance in learning to be able see the early signs of neglected or abused and what do at a child care facility or in a school. My main audience is the State of Texas Education. The reason I will write to this group of audience is because every school, day care facility should know and understand why it’s important to know the symptoms and know what should be done if a child is being neglected or abuse. While convincing the State of Texas Education about the problem with neglect and abuse, I will also talk about 3 possibilities there are for addressing/solving this problem. Audience questions: Neglect and abuse is something that increases every day in life.…
Something I never really understood in my life until an important moment of clarity was violence. When I was younger, violence to me was getting punched or pushed or shoved around. Violence, to an extent, is exactly that. At that point in my life, I did not understand what the true limits of violence, if they existed, were. I wasn’t intuitive in the depth of violence.…
Lastly, children’s future occupational income and prestige trajectories are effected by peer victimization. According to “Effect of Childhood Victimization on Occupational Prestige and Income Trajectories”, childhood victimization has long-term consequences on economic well-being. The authors hypothesized that young adults who experienced more childhood victimizations would have lower jobs and incomes compared to those with no victimization history. A sample of 8,901 young adults aged 18–28 surveyed between 1999–2009 from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY) were analyzed. Victimization effects were tested for moderation by sex, race, and ethnicity in the multivariate models.…
Image taken from (HAVOCA) One of the most important questions a victim of childhood sexual abuse, their family, friends and society in general faces when dealing with the aftermath of child sexual abuse is: whether the victim is doomed to be maladjusted and grow up to be an adult sexual offender? , it is a fact that at least 30% of adult sex offenders were sexually abused as children and/or teens, (Myths and Facts about Sex Offenders). Most sexual offenders have no history of being sexually victimized as a child, which is good news, which means the prevalence for sexual deviancy does not originate solely from victims of childhood sexual abuse. “Most victims of childhood sexual abuse do not go on to become child molesters. However, sexual…
My Social Issue: My social issue is about child abuse in Indian River County Florida. Child abuse is the maltreatment of a child under the age of 18 by a parent, guardian, someone living in their home or someone who works with children. Abuse of a child is anything that causes harm or puts the child in danger of physical injury. Child abuse can be physical, sexual, or emotional.…
Youth violence is harmful behavior that can start in early childhood and continue through adulthood. Now YV is a little more dangerous than it used to be. In modern times it consists of fist fights at school, murder, serious injuries and shootings. In 2014 there was an average of twelve victims a day, all being ten to twenty-four years old. In 2015 kids in grades nine to twelve, 7.8 percent reported being in a physical fight twelve months prior to the survey.…
The Psychological and Behavioral Effects of Child Abuse Child abuse is essentially any kind of physical, verbal maltreatment or even sexual molestation of a child. It affects the psychological thinking of children, which can lead to their bad behavior. 3.6 million referrals are made to child protection agencies that involve more than 6.6 million children. Children who have suffered abuse or neglect may present extreme behavior problems including emotional instability, depression, and aggression with others. Bad behaviors may continue even after the abusive or neglectful environment has changed.…
Hi guys. I know it has been a while since I have put anything up and I am sorry for that. I was in college, I just graduated and now have more free time on my hands. There is a topic I have wanted to talk about for a while now. I am still not sure how it will go over…
The early stages of an individual 's life are often very essential to the development of an individual 's character. Ordinarily a person proceeds through their infancy and childhood years, then enters their adolescent years and begin to assemble their own characteristics to become their true self. However, there are multiple factors that many adolescents face that can interrupt their development. One pivotal factor that some children face is some type of child abuse. A particular form of child abuse is sexual child abuse.…
Introduction When someone thinks of child molesters or rapists, the first thought is to lock them up because there is no help for them, they are sick. How can anyone be attracted to a child? How can anyone rape someone? How can anyone turn out this way? Normally people don’t consider the back stories of these perpetrators, because they have committed awful acts.…