Child abuse

Tips On How to Protect Your Child In terms of child’s protection, the palpable protection most of the time comes after the abuse has occurred, with the different bodies and agencies that can be contacted in order to provide the appropriate measures to ensure the child’s safety and protection. Other than that, parents can help prevent abuse by educating their children a little bit more about what abuse is as well as the profile of potential abusers. Educate Your Child About Sexual Predators. It…

Substance Abuse and Dependence Differ as a Function of Exposure to Child Maltreatment, is a passage, published in the Journal or Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse written by six different researchers experienced in the field of substance abuse. In this particular article, Carla Danielson and her colleagues, discuss how maltreatment as a child affects drug usage later on. To begin with, the researchers identify the different types of maltreatment someone could experience. They studied child…

charges of child abuse after a family physician reported the injuries to child protective services. Adrian Peterson admitted hitting his son with a switch, or tree branch, however, Peterson denied that his actions were abuse and insisted he was merely disciplining his son. Although Peterson did not attempt to hide the injuries and was truthful about the incident when questioned, his guilt in committing an act which is harmful to a child is obvious as seen by photos of injuries on the child 's…

In this section, previous research will be reviewed to help support my hypotheses. A number of factors may influence crime occurrence. One such factor includes demographics. Cohen and Harvey (2006) examine the misconceptions of gender: sex, masculinity and the measurement of crime. The misconception of gender and crime is that males commit more crime than females in the meaning of sex. To get the results required for this research Cohen and Harvey conducted a survey. The purpose of the study was…

at the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (CYF) in the past as a caseworker and I realized quite quickly that I was judging her while she was explaining her past experiences and current issues with CYF when she was being investigated for abuse on her children. Once I realized this bias I became more mindful of this bias as to ensure that I stayed in my professional role and continued to work with her through a lens of a Certified Peer Support. Secondly, my inexperience of working with…

reporter, they must report all suspected cases of child abuse and neglect and are required by law to do so. Failure to report suspected child abuse could result in criminal liability. They must be able to recognize the signs of child maltreatment and be knowledgeable of the state laws as well as the school policies and procedures relating to child abuse and neglect (Hirschy & Wilkinson, 2010, p. 60). When reporting child abuse and neglect to Child Protective Services (CPS), documentation must…

Introduction: The child welfare system is a corrupt system. Many suspected cases of neglect (GRTEP defines this as “parents should have done something for the child but failed to do so,” such as denying medical care or not feeding them) or abuse (GRTEP defines this as “Abuse means that you did something to hurt your child,” such as molesting them or hitting them hard enough to break bones) are going unreported or uninvestigated, children are living in miserable conditions (even after DCS…

The horror of a child being taken away from their parent is something that no parent ever wants. Protecting the children is the most important thing we can do as they are our future. When a child is taken away from their family and placed in a foster care home, broken away from their family. While there have been success stories of foster homes and adoptions. There are plenty stories of abuse of all kind (emotional, physical, and sexual). The removal of a child from their family is one of the…

notice signs of abuse, they will not be getting in any trouble for reporting it. This means they can’t get sued for reporting signs of child abuse (McCoy & Keen, 2014). This also applies to a permissive reporter. Many health care works, teachers, nurses and doctors wouldn’t want to report because they were scared of the consequences (McCoy & Keen, 2014). Now they don’t have to worry about that. This could apply to me as a mandated reporter because I could make a claim that a child is being…

the Government has the responsibility to intervene, depending on the situation. In severe child obesity cases, government required, legal intervention, might be necessary. Federal laws have set guidelines and definitions for child abuse. Seven states (California, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Texas, New York, New Mexico and Indiana) have set…