The Impacts Of Child Sexual Abuse In Canada

According to AHRQ (2008) care coordination is an associated concept that represents the transition among two particular care settings. It encompasses the collaboration of providers and health plan administrators through a variation of care settings to ensure optimal patient care (p. 6). Therefore, respectable care outcomes are in need of admirable coordinated communication among providers. The lack in connectivity between providers in the health care system has risen to the national consciousness. According to Wolfe (2001), the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report emphasizes that health care quality suffers because of the lack in effective treatments and insufficient health care delivery systems that fail to exploit these treatments. Disjointed

Sexual assault is one of the most challenging issues that must be dealt with within the Canadian legal system. Sexual assault is defined as sexual activity inflicted upon someone without their given consent. In order for a sexual assault to be eligible for that title, a person committing sexual acts must continue to engage without the consent of the other person. Sexual assault is also heavily related to the rape myths that exist within society and these are the decisive factors when resolving a sexual assault case. These rape myths generally target the victim of sexual assault blaming them for the actions that occurred. The first case involving consent and rape myths to ever reach the Supreme Court of Canada to be resolved is the case of

Anything from unwanted touching in a sexual manner to non-consensual sexual intercourse is classified as sexual assault in Canada. Male survivors of sexual assault frequently face unsympathetic attitudes after choosing to report the criminal offence. Unfortunately, despite the similar chances of sexual assault amongst both males and females during their teenage years, with 20% for males and 25% for females, there are fewer researches conducted on male sexual assault in Canada (Statistics Canada 2015). A large proportion (16%) of male victims are sexually assaulted in an institutional setting, which is over two and a half times greater than the percentage of females in the same location (Brennan 2008). The UCR2 (Uniform Crime Reporting Survey)

According to Fallon et al. (2005), the vulnerability of infants under the age of one year is greater than that of all other age groups of children due to their increased need for daily care and their incapability to defend themselves from harm; yet, the infants who become involved in the child welfare system show more signs of developmental delays than their older child counterparts. In Canada, the majority of infants brought to the awareness of the child welfare system are reported by healthcare professional. These infants are at risk for developing cognitive, affective or psychomotor delays. As such, child neglect and maltreatment is a public health issue holding implications for community health nurses regarding the detection, prevention

“Half of all women in Canada have experienced at least one incident of physical or sexual violence since age 16” (CanadianWomen.org). Most cases of sexual assault are not treated as seriously by the law as they should be. Victims of sexual assault often blame for the incident. Sexual assault can have long term effects on a person. Sexual assault is not considered to be a serious offence in todays society.

Introduction / Purpose of paper The mistreatment of children is a very saddening social problem in our American society. Child abuse has a very lengthy history. Children have been abused by their parents since the beginning of time. According to my research, for many centuries throughout most of our human history, laws have failed to protect children from this abuse.

Medieval Kardashians: (A discussion of the effectiveness of Chaucer reaching his intended audience through his use of satire in selected text from Canterbury Tales) There were very few enjoyable aspects of the 1300’s in England. At that time food was terrible, everyone stunk; there was no cure to the plague, and no reality TV to pass the time. Then Chaucer entered the picture and made life a little more bearable. According to Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature Geoffrey Chaucer was born in 1340 in London, England to a family of wine merchants.

Sexual violence is considered to be one of the highest under-reported crimes in Canada, where it is “estimated that only 10% of sexual assaults are reported to police” (Atlantic Collaborative on Injury Prevention, n.d., p. 13). In addition, between 15% to 25% of North American college and university-aged women experience some form of a sexual assault during their academic career (Lichty, Campbell, & Schuiteman, 2008). Consequently, this overwhelming unreported sexual violence acts can have massive ramification for the surviving students, the campus community as a whole and even the perpetrating students (Cantalupo, 2010). According to Senn et al. (2014), “this is particularly concerning given the detrimental physical and mental health consequences resulting from a sexual assault, which can include physical injuries as well as unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, depression, suicide ideation, and post-traumatic stress disorder” (p. 1).

In 2008 the findings of the Public Health Agency of Canada estimated 235,315 investigations of child abuse. This investigation stated that the primary categories of maltreatment includes physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, emotional maltreatment, and exposure to intimate partner violence (Public Health Agency of Canada, 2010). However, sexual maltreatment of children wasn’t truly defined until 1974 when Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act provided us with a legal definition of sexual abuse (Feerick et al., 2006):

There are many things in our society today that unfortunately go overlooked. One such thing that is overlooked is the number of children who are being abused. Unfortunately these children are going through life not knowing whether or not their parents will loose their temper and perhaps kill them. There are many types of child abuse, such as physical, sexual, and emotional. Physical abuse is physical injury as a result of punching, beating, kicking, biting, shaking, throwing, stabbing, choking, hitting, burning, or otherwise harming a child. Such injury is considered abuse regardless of whether the caretaker intended to hurt the child. Sexual abuse includes activities by a parent or caretaker such as fondling a child's genitals,

An article posted by the Australian Institute of Family Studies explains the long-term effects of child abuse and neglect for adult survivors. The article explains that there are many different types of child abuse which falls in the categories of physical, emotional, neglect, sexual and witnessing family violence. Abuse can also intentional or sometimes even unintentional. Also, different sub-types of maltreatment may be related to different negative outcomes. The author

INTRODUCTION: “Child Abuse occurs when a parent or a care taker physically, emotionally, or sexually mistreats or neglects a child resulting in the physical, emotional, or sexual harm or imminent risk of harm or exploitation, or in extreme cases the death of a child,” child abuse is a big deal because in today’s society many children face abuse, there are many effects and reasons as to why a child may be abuse.

Everyone should find a passion that makes getting out of bed every morning so easy. Passion is a strong desire for something. My passion for sports started when I was only six years old. My mom had signed me up to play basketball at the YMCA. I have played basketball every year since. Along with basketball I also do track and competitive cheerleading. Sports is my way to have fun, relieve stress, and to just do what I really love. I love every aspect that sports has to offer. The gym is like another classroom for me. I learn something new every time I walk through the gym doors. Being involved in sports I have learned many life lessons that no book could ever teach me.

Although child abuse has soon become a more discussed issue, it is nothing new in today’s society. Dating back to ancient times, physical child abuse has always attributed to lives of people around the world. Approaching and understanding child mistreatment has changed as societies have modernized and progressed; whereas one thing remains an unalterable issue, child abuse happens constantly and continuously worldwide.

Child abuse in American today is amongst the most saddened topics of mankind. Many children are subjected to neglect and abuse on a daily basis. The sex and age of child makes no difference when it comes to child abuse.. Boys and girls are equally likely to suffer maltreatment. The problem is how often child abuse goes unreported. Millions of children across the world are abused in some way, whether it is verbal, emotional, physical or sexual. Child abuse has been happening all over the world to young children, however many children keep this a secret because of fear of what could happen. Child Abuse consists of any act of commission or omission that endangers or impairs a child’s physical or emotional health and development. It can be