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Maggie comes from a very strained family life, living in poverty. She lives in a horrific tenement in the Bowery neighborhood of New York’s Lower East Side, with her two younger brothers, Jimmie and Tommie. Jimmie is hardened against any sympathy due to the years he spent on the streets fighting with gangs and is currently working as a truck driver. Tommie was the infant of the family who passed away at a young age. The tenement is filled with argumentative feelings amongst her parents. Mary Johnson, Maggie’s mother, is an alcoholic and very aggressive. She has been noted for torturing Maggie with hateful words over actions that she has done. Mr. Johnson, the father, was also very aggressive with his children and an alcoholic like his wife, he too passed away. Maggie had a relationship with a friend of

Rock City supports and maintains a zero tolerance policy against child abuse and neglect. In the event a volunteer reasonably suspects any form of abuse or neglect, he/she shall immediately contact a Rock City staff member to request immediate action be taken to ensure the safety of the alleged victim. The volunteer shall not interview the child regarding the suspected abuse; this could be considered leading. The volunteer may also have a duty to report suspected abuse or neglect to law enforcement. Volunteers shall not discuss suspected abuse with other volunteers, parents, etc. All information regarding the child should be kept confidential with Rock City staff and the proper authorities. Definitions of child abuse and neglect include, but are not limited to, the following definitions below:

In the end, it is clear that while the loss of innocence suffered from losing a first love may have played a role in Maggie's descent into prostitution, the effects were exasperated by her abusive childhood. Maggie's home life from a young age was full of violence and alcohol. Her mother was the primary abuser of the children, but Jimmie also got in his share of abuse towards Maggie. This damaged her, making her more gullible and easily manipulated as she sought anyone that seemed even remotely different than the rest of her life. That person, to Maggie, was Pete. Yet, she was simply seeing Pete through the eyes of abuse and of a first love. She didn't truly know who Pete was until she was abandoned by him after running into an old lover.

The Emotionally Abuse Woman by Beverly Engel, a therapist with sixteen years of experience and a victim of emotional abuse herself, is a book geared towards women who are involved with friends, family members, bosses or any one significant in their life who is emotionally abuse towards them. Her goal of those reading who are also in emotional abusive relationships is to share her knowledge and experience of others to educate the abused woman, leaving her with skills on how to cope, move on and avoid future abusive relationships.

     In a typical society the family unit is a refuge from the outside world. Home is a shelter where we receive love and support for others. In the dark world of Maggie home is another battleground where wars over power and dominance rein freely. The characters in the novel fight physical and emotional      battles with each other. Poverty, alcohol abuse, and moral degradation fuel this fighting into great everlasting conflicts that destroy everyone involved. In the second chapter of Maggie we find an example of this horrifying violence. Jimmie has been caught by his father fighting among the other kids and has taken him home. As they walk through the door the mother exhibits the same behavior as her son. Crane writes, “As the father and children filed in she peered at them. ‘Eh, what? Been fightin’ agin, by Gawd!’ She threw herself upon Jimmie'; (Crane 7). In the next paragraph Crane describes the mother’s treatment of the

“Domestic violence can be defined as a pattern of behavior in any relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner.” (Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence). Abuse can range from verbal to physical to mental, etc. Today, an average of one in three women will experience domestic abuse from a partner they are intimate with. On average, one out of every five women were domestically abused by their husband during the nineteenth century according to a study done by the Scottish government, in which they surveyed five thousand homes. However, domestic abuse was not discussed then as it is now. During that time period, it was barely considered a crime, so it is likely that the percentages were even higher then than now. Emily Brontë addresses the prevalent issue of domestic abuse during the nineteenth century through the marriage of Heathcliff and Isabella in her acclaimed novel Wuthering Heights.

The rediscovery of child abuse can be largely contributed to the news media for highlighting the inhumane treatment of children by parents and guardians. Many children were being viciously punished by parents and guardians as a form of corrective training. The harsh punishment and beating would have resulted in severe injuries to the child and their wellbeing. The disturbing circumstances reported by the media drew strong condemnation from people and organization around the nation. The highlighted problem by the media helped mobilize a very strong social movement to deal with the problems and issues relating to child abuse. The movement then quickly highlighted some very important aspect of child abuse such as sexual exploitation, incest, gross

There's a growing trend of domestic abuse in the United States, and large cities like New York can see more than their fair share of abuse cases. There are people who desperately need to leave their current abusive situations, but unfortunately, many cases are being brought before the courts that are not real abuse cases.

The maltreatment of children occurs at extraordinarily increasing proportions and is becoming a significant health risk to the children it is happening to. One of the major public health concerns should be identifying the risk factors associated with the maltreatment of these children and the just how much resistance these children really have against this abuse. Regardless of how much elasticity the general public in a whole may think these children have against maltreatment, they are still at a major risk of having diminished or compromised psychological and physical health later in life as an adult and are also are at extreme risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Children who were not subject to maltreatment are still

Traumatic stress symptoms in children of battered women by Sandra A. Graham Bermann and Alytia A. Levendosky, is the article I read. After reading this article it arose memories that I had suppressed since I was child. I tried to recollect as much I could from when I was child if the article was relatable to my experience. I asked myself was I a child with behavioral problems? I can honestly say I feared my mother and never wanted to disappoint her so I was always on my best behavior. However, I did suppress the thought and feelings of the traumatic event. Which in the article states it as traumatic avoidance. I don’t ever remember taking a survey or being asked in school asking about domestic violence, sexual abuse, physical abuse, nor sibling abuse. Which I feel vital. Many children face traumatic events in their homes and are scared, but may not have any one to reach out to. Some children may also not know that what’s going on within their home is wrong. Also, in many

An estimated 39 million survivors of childhood sexual abuse exist in America today (Darness2Light, 2009a ). This figure continues to grow daily as perpetrators of this crime continue in this destructive path. The definition of child sexual abuse is the force, coercion, or cajoling of children into sexual activities by a dominant adult or adolescent. Sexual abuse of children includes touching (physical) sexually including: fondling; penetration (vaginal or anal using fingers, foreign objects or offenders organs; oral sex, or non-physical contact including: sexual comments; indecent exposures; masturbating in a child’s presence; child prostitution or child pornography (Child Welfare, 2009a).

During the lowest point in Maggie life, she becomes a prostitute. Whenever she walks around the town, even in the poorer districts, people try their hardest to avoid helping or even looking at her. The characters think that they are too repeatable to even be on the same side of the street as her. These characters are hypocrites because they think poorly of Maggie and think highly of themselves, but the opposite is true. If they were indeed repeatable, they would see that Maggie is a poor child that needs help. They should be willing to help her not trying their hardest to avoid her.

n many cases it is known that the perpetrators is someone close to the child. It is proven that ninety-three percent of the victims know who their perpetrators are. While no child is immune, there are child and family characteristics that significantly heighten or lower the risk of sexual abuse. Family structure is the number one factor on sexual abuse. Children that live with both biological parents have a low risk of being sexually abused. The risk increases when children live with step parents or single parents . As do children living under foster care without either parent have the high risk of being sexually abused. Children that live with single parents that have a live-in partner are highest risk : they are twenty more times more likely

Maggie is born into an Irish family. Maggie was the girl who mostly took care of her younger brother Tommie and was the odd one out of the Bowery kids. “She grew to be a most rare and wonderful production of a tenement district . . . the philosophers up stairs, down stairs and on the same floor puzzled over it” (Crane 18). As an adult, Maggie dealt with many problems like her job as a seamstress, and her relationship with Pete. As a result of her hardships and no one forgiving her

When it comes to child development the parents have the most influence on the child mainly as their primary caregivers on how well the child is taken care of and how well it needs are being met. In a typical family it consists of two parents a mother figure and a father figure and a child or multiple children which is seen as what is normal and best for the child, having interactions and care coming from both the parents. But in a household where there is only one parent in most cases the single parent some problems can arise from having only one parent in the household, some problems that can be seen are; stress within the house hold, issues with abuse, not being able to cope with having to raise a child alone, and socioeconomic issues.