Self-neglect

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…

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…

Globally around 24 million people are refugees or displaced persons fleeing war, conflict and discrimination. Around one third of these are children and adolescents, and 10% are less than 5 years of age. Infants and children are amongst the most vulnerable in situations of war and conflict. Children are both direct and indirect victims of war and conflict and are particularly vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. In order to discuss the issues of recovery from losses and trauma caused by…

Child abduction is one of the biggest fears parents have. Every forty seconds, in the United States, a child is abducted. “Only about one child out of each 10,000 missing children reported to the local police is found alive”(Bilich). Jaycee Lee Dugard was one of the many children who has been abducted. Jaycee’s story shows how someone can live in such terrible conditions for so long and still manage to survive. She was just eleven years old when she was abducted. She was forced to lived with…

Fraudulence of the Human Kind There are countless reasons and explanations for why people may lie. Some may classify lying as excuses or to even protect people from the truth. Lying is something us humans matriculate from a young age, and slowly develop into becoming more sophisticated liars, over our longing years of life. Humans are all dishonest, whether they want to admit it or not, towards co-workers, friends, or even family; Us humans build on the lies, naturally. Lying can cause…

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “For 2014, a nationally estimated 1,580 children died of abuse and neglect at a rate of 2.13 per 100,000 children in the national population” (Greenberg & Lopez, 2014). In my opinion, this statistic is outrageous for a nation that prides itself in being the land of the free. The fatalities that have occurred from child abuse and neglect do not represent freedom at all. There are a number of human services professionals dedicating their careers to…

Is it known to the billions in this world, of the many who are unfairly tortured? Many people, even children, suffer from being roughly ordered around and punished if they do not follow rules. Among these people, are child soldiers. The Middle East, where most children are recruited, is filled with cities of rubble. Children living in this environment cannot go to school, starve and may even be abandoned or separated from their parents. Child soldiers experience awful wars with bloodshed.…