CAPA Case Analysis

But children are a special case they cannot always stand up for themselves. They therefore need a special set of rights which take in to consideration their vulnerability and which ensures the adults that surround them take responsibly for their welfare, protection and development.

The main legislation in our county that supports the rights of children is Children Act 1989. According to Penny Tassoni, ‘this act is a result of the UK government adopting the United Nations Convention on the rights of the child, new legislation was required. The 1989 Children Act also made it clear that children’s and young people’s views had to be taken into consideration when decisions about their future were being made.’ The key elements to this legislation are:

Raising sons in single-parent households makes the mothers of Wes and Wes very influential on their children. Parenting can give minors a pathway to success or it can be a substantial risk factor for behavior issues: “Lack of parental involvement, poor monitoring and supervision, and harsh and inconsistent discipline, have all been established as strong predictors of antisocial outcomes in children and adolescents” (Hawes). While neither mother is able to adequately supervise their children due to their working statuses, Joy

Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (AFSA) clearly and unequivocally establishes three national goals for children in foster care: safety, permanency, and well-being. ASFA was in part “a response to the fact that more children were entering the foster care system than were exiting.” Five principles underlie the ASFA and apply to professionals working with families through public and private agencies as well as state courts. These principles are:

In recent years our newspapers, televisions, and radios have been inundated with news stories about sexual offenders and sexual predators. Stories such as the kidnapping and murder of Polly Klass, Carlie Brucia, Amber Hagerman, and Jessica Lunsford have shocked the nation. Sex offenders and predators commit despicable acts; however, their acts seem more despicable when they are committed upon the most venerable members of our society, our children. Even with the new Jessica Lunsford legislation in Florida some citizens feel that it is not enough to keep their communities safe. Many cities are now looking at limiting the areas in which sex offenders and predators can live in hopes of protecting children. Many

The united nations convention/the rights of the child- Gives a clear outline of rights for children, they have the right to protect in from abuse, the right to express their views and be listened to, and the

Sex offenders have been a serious problem for our legal system at all levels, not to mention those who have been their victims. There are 43,000 inmates in prison for sexual offenses while each year in this country over 510,000 children are sexually assaulted(Oakes 99). The latter statistic, in its context, does not convey the severity of the situation. Each year 510,000 children have their childhood's destroyed, possibly on more than one occasion, and are faced with dealing with the assault for the rest of their lives. Sadly, many of those assaults are perpetrated by people who have already been through the correctional system only to victimize again. Sex offenders, as a class of criminals, are nine times more likely to repeat their

The number of registered sex offenders have increasingly grew over the years. Every day you see a man or women added to the registry for crimes against women and mostly children. The sex offender registries biggest and main focus is to keep the people in the community in each city and state informed and protected. ”Sex offenders and sex crimes provoke a great deal of anxiety in our society.” Baker, J, Brannon, Y, N., Fortney. , Levenson, J.S. (“Public Perceptions about Sex Offenders and Community Protection”). The sex offender registry is based solely on protecting the public from being a victim

Sullivan released a study on homicide trends stating, “Study after study has shown that children from single-parent families are more likely to be involved in criminal activity, to abuse drugs and alcohol, to suffer ill health, and to be trapped in welfare dependence (Cohen, 2012).” These statements and others led the media to push the story as a reason behind rising homicide rates in the United States. However, as Cohen points out, there are more important factors that contributed to the homicide spike of the early 1990’s.

Help for Sex Offenders by The New Yorker Help for Sex Offenders explores a controversial topic in an utterly unique way, one that as a reader I have never seen before. Unlike most issues and discussions surrounding sex offenders, The New Yorker does not discuss the issues surrounding the crime, the treatment and help for those who have suffered at the hands of sex offenders, or even prison time and proper punishments for sex offenders. Instead, The New Yorker discusses what can be done to help sex offenders. As the writer says, “in many cases they themselves are victims.... of their overwhelming sexual impulses”. Sex offenders are, according to the writer, victims.

I agree with the International New York Times editorial board "Editorial: The Pointless Banishment of Sex Offenders." because the authors show that there truly is unfairness in banishing sex offenders. While I understand that this measure is to ensure that the children are protected from sexual abusive but "Laws around the country restricting where people convicted of sex offenses may live — in many cases, no closer than 2,500 feet from schools, playgrounds, parks or other areas where children gather.", is stated in the article. That being said, a new law should be established,

Divorce and out-of-wedlock childbearing are now epidemic in American society. Both forms of disrupted families are harmful to children and to society. The children of single parents are more likely to do poorly in school, commit crimes, and become single parents themselves. In addition, the increase in single-parent families contributes to such social problems as poverty, crime, and a decline in the quality of public education.

The cause of behavioral and/or emotional problems among our youth could come from being raised in a single parent home. Many children resort to negative acts of behavior because of limited parental supervision within the single parent household. Children are two to three times more likely to have emotional and behavioral problems in single parent homes (Maginnis, 1997).

This essay will seek to explain what is meant by the ‘caretaker’ view of children’s rights, after which it’s strengths and weaknesses will be discussed.

It is difficult to imagine a world where children have no voice in society, and a government that lacks laws endorsing the rights and protection of our future generations. And yet, there are still millions of children around the world who suffer from human rights abuses and other forms of protection. For example, “Children in Nepal, Uganda, and the Congo are used as soldiers on the front lines of armed conflicts. Police in Bulgaria and Guatemala beat and torture homeless street children; disabled children in Romanian orphanages are confined to cribs for life, eating and defecating in their crib. Millions of children around the world, including in developed countries such as England and the United States, are subject to poverty, violence, rape, and cruelty “(Human Rights, 2008). Although it may seem like these issues are primarily outside of the U.S. what about issues that children in our culture struggle with even today? For example, what is easy to miss by someone who has never traveled outside of the U.S., why is it that children around the world die of hunger and thirst, are abandoned, and forced to fend for themselves? Why should governments feel obligated to care and protect children when they don’t have any political rights and are not bringing immediate benefits to the current government or to its economy? An important issue revolves around prioritization of rights when resources are limited or when rights conflict (Khadka, 2013).