Child Abuse In The Whipping By Robert Hayden

Published case reviews draw special attention on the professionals lack of knowledge and confidence when assessing risk in children coming from various religions and cultural backgrounds. A lack of understanding of these two key components, might put at significant risk the children's welfare, leading professionals to overlook certain situations and to offer inadequate support or lower standards of care (NSPCC, 2017).

Abuse and neglect comes in all different forms and each one of them are as equally as damaging as the next. Others will agree that abuse and neglect are hard to define in some cases, but there are clues and signs that professionals and nonprofessionals can detect in a child if they just pay attention. Being observant isn’t the only key to saving these children, but also being willing to speak up and tell someone what you know and or saw. In “A Child Called It”, David Pelzer is a young boy who goes through horrendous abuse and neglect who might have been able to endure much less pain if one adult would have spoken up, despite the fear of any consequences. There is a disgusting number of examples of abuse and neglect in this book, but there will be three different experiences that will showcase neglect, psychological abuse, and physical abuse discussed in the rest of this text.

In 1995, David Pelzer wrote a book describing his childhood, a book that is highly recommend as a must read. The book starts off with a happy home and quickly turns into his very own nightmare. Pelzer is a survivor of child abuse. This story is so nauseating that while reading it you find found yourself praying that his parents would rot in hell for all eternity.

On 01/29/16 I arrived at 1871 Saturn Lane in reference to a welfare concern. It was asserted that the children at this address were being physically abused. I made contact with the residents, William Dunn 2nd and Christina Weatherly-Dunn and their children, Fiona 10 years old, William 7 years old and Gavin 2 years old. All three children exhibited some type of bruising, sores or scarring. Mrs. Weatherly-Dunn said the children’s sores and injuries are a result of a hereditary disease, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, and not from abuse. Mrs. Weatherly-Dunn provided a pictorial journal documenting some of Gavin’s injuries from the time of his birth indicating Mrs. Weatherly-Dunn’s statements where true. While speaking with the Dunn’s I observed that their residence was extremely

In American society today we fail to address several issues that need to be addressed. Unfortunately, child abuse is one of the major issues that our country is plagued with, yet we neglect to bring this to the attention of the entire nation. It is often over looked because everyone has a different view of what exactly defines child abuse. The International Child Abuse Network (ICAN) uses four basis categories to docunment the child abuse cases. They are: emotional abuse, neglect, physical abuse, and sexual abuse. I will be describing the first three.

Child abuse is something that is very serious, and happens more often than it should in the world today. According to our class notes social policy is principles that help towards ending many issues. Our main goal in this world should be to make sure that everyone’s well-being is safe as long as we can help it. Especially when it comes to children that have little to no say in certain situations it’s our job as a society to make sure that they are safe, and live in a safe environment.

Child abuse and neglect is a national problem which has increased to epidemic proportions in the United States. More than 2.5 million reports of child abuse are made in the United States annually with over hundreds of deaths related to child abuse that has been reported each year. In 2013, an estimation of 1,520 children died from abuse in the United States. In that same year, Children’s Advocacy Centers around the country had served nearly 295,000 child victims of abuse, providing victim with support to these children and their families. Moving to 2014 this number was maxed to over 315,000. An estimation of 679,000 children were victims of abuse. There were 47 out of the 50 states that reported approximately 3.1 million children who received preventative services from Child Protective Services agencies in the United States. In the first year of a child 's life it was the highest rate of victimization of 23.1 per 1,000 children in the national population of the same age. Of the children who experienced abuse, nearly 80% sufficer neglect; 18% suffered physical abuse; and 9% suffered sexual abuse.

Spanking is not evil, nor illegal, but parents need to be wise about how and why they are spanking their children. This past year, I learned that punishing a child must be done with the mindset of improving the child’s behavior, not out frustration because the child is not behaving correctly. Punishing a child too severely can lead to negative effects for the child rather than an improvement on their behavior.

Child abuse and neglect is, unfortunately, an ever-present issue in society. Those who strive for a dystopia will always be thwarted by the reality that perfection does not exist and that abuse and neglect will always exist in some form. Fortunately, those who fall to such treatment can often find opportunities to escape. The Cure by Peter Horton portrays this very situation in his moving film. We are confronted by a moody, mischievous young boy named Erik facing abuse from his mother. Erik because of his abuse and neglect experiences changes to make him more calm, caring and mature.

“This world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing” - Albert Einstein. Child abuse is when children of all ages are physically or emotionally mistreated. All over the world, kids are being abused and can do nothing about. But now, more and more control is being made over this social illness.

Hardman is indeed one of those lads who doesn 't realise just how far they push things inappropriately. If this isn 't addressed, then the lad will end up in some serious trouble. Staff Wilding knows that he needs to steer the lad back onto the straight and narrow and that the only way to do this, is to administer a very serious dose of pain.​ With game, hard lads like young Hardman, the only real solution is to make sure every dose of Corporal Punishment the lad gets is so severe that the amount and intensity of pain that is administered to his buttocks makes the lad toe the line, for fear of how bad it will be if he needs another dose. Lads like young Hardman will always present a challenge to any man that has to lay this on and the

In this paper, childhood psychological abuse will be referred to as acts of commission or omission towards a child by the primary caregiver which involves risk of causing potential harm or substantial harm to the child’s health, survival or development (Child Family Community Australia (CFCA), 2015 & WHO, 2017). More specifically physical abuse is an act of violence with the use of intentional physical force resulting in a non-accidental injury or physical trauma (Department of Communities, Child Safety & Disability, 2017 and NSPCC, 2017). Physical abuse occurs in a variety of forms including; hitting, shaking, throwing objects, burning, biting, slapping, kicking, punching and strangling (NPCC, 2017) causing severe injury and long-lasting implications (NSPCC,2017).

Poetry is a from of lyrical art in which people express their feeling. The feelings do not have to be good, they can be bad, sad or angry. In "The Whipping" by Robert Hayden the context starts off telling us about a boy being whipped and then in the middle it brings up memories of the narrator being whipped themselves. "Who hurt you so" by Edna St. Vincent Millay is about the narrator trying to figure out who hurt the person they were talking to and how they hurt them in such a way. While some differences between "The Whipping" and "Who hurt you so" are evident, the similarities between their attitude, shift, and connotation are striking. They are both about the pain that was suffered from bad experiences in their pasts.

Day after day, the most common problem we hear and been shown through news on television and on newspaper is a child being victim of child abuse. In the novel Flowers For Algernon, written by Daniel Keyes, when a young child was 6 year old with mental disability name Charlie Gordon, meanwhile he hasn’t been a troublemaker but getting abuse without any explanation from his mother Rose, yet her explanation was that she only wanted her son to be normal like others at his age. Believe or not, years before, a relative of mine had been mistreated from its own parent and taken to a foster home. The main points is if you suspect a child being harmed, then how society think about child abuse, finally what’s the correct thing to do. When the abuse becomes harmful then it’s being investigate to improve the truth and the lie between a child and an adult.

In today’s society, child abuse is widespread and has an affect on everyone who comes across it. The act of child abuse happens everyday to a variety of kids who are typically younger and scared to tell anyone. All children are born with the right to be able to develop, grow, live and love according to their needs and feelings. For a child 's development they need protection and reassurance from adults who love them and help them acquire the skills to be a successful adult. However, some children are neglected and hurt by adults that they trust. The abuse a child receives makes them feel bad about themselves, and it is much worse when it occurs within a family because it makes them feel unloved and alone causing them to have problems. “Abuse of all types was more frequent in those from disturbed and disrupted family backgrounds. Logistic regressions indicated that some, though not all, of the apparent associations between abuse and adult problems was accounted for by this matrix of childhood disadvantage from which abuse so often emerged. Numerous studies have investigated the psychological sequelae of childhood trauma, including posttraumatic stress disorder(PTSD), dissociation, personality disorder, and substance abuse ”(“New Retrospective Measure of Child Abuse and Neglect” by David P. Bernstein). The act of child abuse causes kids to have one or more mental problems. Additionally, since people do not recognize the abuse while it is occurring, it causes these problems to