Child Abuse Inaccuracies

Working with children requires us to build positive relationships with them quickly, but also in ways that are professional.

When working with children and young people it is important to know the aims and responsibilities for your setting.

All members of the staff must act as professionals while at work, especially with young children. The administrative and teaching staff must work together to ensure their practices are developmentally appropriate, and share new and/or creative ideas with one another. It is also the responsibility of a teacher to establish an open, trusting relationship with the parents of each children in their care. Thus, parents can freely communicate their thoughts, concerns, and/or suggestions about their child or the program. Parent satisfaction is something that every child care or development center should strive for.

“In the 60s, the Catholic Church in Massachusetts began hearing complaints that Father James Porter was sexually molesting children. Rather than relieving him of his duties, the ecclesiastical authorities simply moved him from one parish to another between 1960 and 1967, actually providing him with a fresh supply of unsuspecting families and innocent children to abuse” (Ericsson 162).

Ensuring children and young people’s safety and welfare in the work setting is an essential part of safeguarding. While children are at school, practitioners act in ‘loco parentis’ while their parents are away. As part of their legal and professional obligations, practitioners hold positions of trust and a duty of care to the children in their school, and therefore should always act in their best interests and ensure their safety – the welfare of the child is paramount (Children Act 1989). The Children Act 2004 came in with the Every Child Matters (ECM) guidelines and greatly impacted the way schools look at the care and welfare of pupils. Children and young people should be helped to learn and thrive and be given the opportunity to

The controversial issue of whether or not Child Protective Services are doing their jobs properly, has grabbed nationwide attention. Child Protective Services is the name of a government agency in many states of the United States whose mission is to respond to reports of child abuse and neglect. Some of these cases may include physical abuse, sexual abuse, and mental abuse (Wikipedia). The child welfare system is corrupted. The parents and guardians who are accused of abuse are automatically labeled as guilty and will have to prove their innocence; instead of being innocent until proven guilty.

Adrian Allen, an Early Childhood Education Student stated that salaries may be a big issue as males are generally socialized to believe they should “provide for and support a family” as “breadwinners” and when looking at careers an ECE sometimes is looking at $12.00 an hour whereas working at an entry level factory job, you could be looking at least $16.00 an hour entry level with no education or previous training required.” This statement leads to discussions regarding how a focus on the fulfillment of a career in Human Services, and the difference you can make in this kind of career should be promoted when recruiting males into the field. It was also discussed how stereotypes of Human Services being “women’s work” may prevent males from feeling comfortable in pursuing a career in this field. Also sadly the stereotype of males who work with children must be “perverted” as a “normal” male would not choose a career working with and teaching children. This statement brought about lots of conversation regarding the safety for employees against false accusations. It is a sad fact that males DO bear the brunt of most false accusations and much exciting discussion occurred regarding how we can begin to develop policies and procedures that protect all employees (male and female!) from false accusations and how we can create a culture of support, education and knowledge within our Centre’s for

I hope to use my law degree to change the lives of mistreated children from all over the world. As a victim of child abuse, serving this community has become a part of my identity. My aspiration to represent mistreated children, albeit vitalized by personal turmoil, has been intensified through professional experience. Through my work with Child Protective Services (CPS), during an internship with a family law attorney, I developed my passion for advocating on behalf of children. While working on CPS cases, I have seen how the lives of children can improve through diligent efforts by authority figures. However, I have also witnessed the shortcoming of the system as well where there is room for improvement. These vulnerable children deserve

Childcare background checks have always been important for those hiring people to work particularly with children. But, the recent rise in child-related crimes in the past decade has made this kind of check even more important, not only to people hiring childcare workers, but for anyone that will be providing care for a child in any way. This includes volunteers working with children in a public daycare center, church daycare center, home daycare center, and even for volunteers at summer camp. Parents have become much more protective over their children, and with good cause (Oliveri, 2008).

When the group of girls were acting strange and got accused of being witches, everyone started pointing fingers. There was the paranoia that any person could be a part of a conspiracy that was created by the devil caused false accusations to be spread around. This paranoia was used to make false accusations on many innocent citizens because people were trying not to take the focus away from themselves. There was research that was done on those that were accused and what it showed was that most of the accusations were against middle-age women who had few or no children and were widowed. The accused witches “were of low social position, and because of some domestic conflicts, they were accused of other crimes and were considered abrasive” (Brinkley, 86). by other people around them. Once a person was accused of being under the influence of the devil, which is a big offence, they would start to be treated differently from the rest. It wasn’t the actual presence of Satan that caused this chaos, but the anxiety and fear of him that did.

On May 6, 1993, three eight year old boys were found savagely murdered in West Memphis Arkansas. The investigation lacks hard evidence and a suspect, and the police automatically turn their focus on Satanism. Unfortunately, three teenage boys became the prime suspects: Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley. Because they wore black and listened to hard rock music, they were outcasts. With nothing but circumstantial evidence mounted upon these teenage boys, the community lets a "Satanic Panic" outweigh the facts. All the while, there is more than just circumstantial evidence that points to one of the victims' stepfather, John Mark Byers. He had the means, motive, and opportunity to commit this heinous crime.

Proctor states that no one ever saw any signs of dealing with the devil from these women. Also a testament is produced with signatures from 91 people. The signatures are from respected, landholding citizens as well.

If we work well as a team in our setting we will definitely enjoy our work more and work more and work more effective and it will benefit children if everyone applies this

“They can say your child is a witch and if you bring the child to the church we can deliver the child but eventually they don't deliver the children…” (Purefoy). They told the parents that they could take the devil out of the child but then they just beat the child to death and say that the devil took over the child and we couldn't set him or she free. “Put more stones” (Miller 1284). They put stones on Corey to get him to confess but then they just crushed him till he died and didn't get anything out of him.They beat the kids so bad it killed them and they also didn't get anything out of them.

Child abuse and maltreatment is not limited to a particular age and can occur in the infant, toddler, preschool, and school-age years. Choose one of the four age groups (infant, toddler, preschool, or school age) and discuss the types of abuse that are most often seen in this age. Discuss warning signs and physical and emotional assessment findings the nurse may see that could indicate child abuse. Discuss cultural variations of health practices that can be misidentified as child abuse. Describe the reporting mechanism in your state and nurse responsibilities related to the reporting of suspected child abuse. Include in-text citations and references for each of the scholarly sources used. Respond to other learners ' posts in a manner that