Hemispatial neglect

half of 133 million deaths in children are due to malnutrition,” (Child maltreatment in Puerto Rico: Findings from the 2010 National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System, 2013). Studies in Pakistan show that around 31.3% of children under 5 years of age are underweight, 40.9% are stunted, 16.8% are severely wasted, and 62% are anaemic. Nutritional neglect along with all other forms of child maltreatment can cause many short-term and long-term…

Everyday millions of children under the age of 15 are being abused mentally, emotionally, and or physically and many are in situations that they can not escape. Did you know there is a whole month devoted to child abuse? It is April but is one month enough for those kids who are hanging in there everyday. In America there is a lack of awareness about child abuse and child abuse prevention. It is not an easy thing to talk about nor do people want to talk about it but if nothing is ever said or…

In an era in which the amount of media coverage of child maltreatment and neglect has risen considerably, it is time for communication scholars to examine the character of that coverage. The media have played an important role as an active agent of information in the historical transformation of the problem of child abuse and neglect. From the very beginning of the social recognition of the existence of “cruelty to children” as a social problem in the late nineteenth century, the media,…

Matters Child Abuse Prevention Center Family Matters Inc. is a non-profit organization that has been created to prevent child abuse and neglect among children and youth in the state of Maryland. The mission of Family Matters is dedicated to improve communities by providing families with solution base interventions and resources to prevent child abuse and neglect (The Family Tree, 2014). Founded in 1972, Family Matters provides services such as parent education, parent support groups, supervised,…

Home Visiting Programs Effects on Prevention of Rapid Repeat Births and Child Maltreatment Rapid Repeat Births (RRBs) and Teen Repeat Births (TRB) are one of the main concerns home visiting programs focus on (Ownbey, Ownbey & Cullen, 2011). Previous research has concluded that RRBs in teens or adults have many negative side effects on the mother and the children. Research has shown that mothers who have another child within three years of their previous child were more likely to be emotionally…

Abandonment and neglect can have damaging effects as early as infancy. Infants that are abandoned and neglected develop physical abnormalities such as poor muscle growth and the inability to support their own body weight. For example, “if the infant lies unattended for long periods, hair is rubbed off the back of the head, and the back of the head may become flattened.” (Crosson-Tower, 1999, page 72). On the social development side, infants develop low confidence and are “unwilling to make eye…

” (Crawford and Bradley, 2016, p. 223) David Pelzer was a child who miraculously made it through his childhood, the life he lived with his mother was not pleasant however, the struggles made him strive and make a change in the life he lived. The neglect a child receives can often reflect their development and the way they live their life. The case I researched into was the David Pelzer case. I have read his books in the past and I found them very intriguing. When I saw this case offered for the…

from neglect. “Childhood Obesity:…

The universal refugee experience is a term that colloquially describes the pain and hardships that all refugees endure. This term often includes persecution, oppression, and fear of attack or even murder as they flee. The universal refugee experience is something that child refugees experience more severely than adult ones. They face poverty, attack, and ostracization from their country of asylum, all without an adult understanding of why all these bad things are happening to them. Ha…

The Child and Family Service formally part of the HSE is now a separate legal entity since the 1st of January 2014. It consists of a range of services specifically for children and their families such as Children & Family Services, Family Support Agency the National Educational Welfare Board and services such as psychological services and a range of services responding to domestic, sexual and gender based violence which relate to children and their families. Tusla employ over 4000 staff to…